Guiding individuals and couples toward profound healing and relationship growth through PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) and Psychodynamic methods.
What is Living Better?
Many people seem to be leading good lives on the surface, but in my counseling experience, I often see a different story beneath. Behind the exterior of effort and goodwill, there are often unspoken worries and fears about oneself, life, and relationships. I work with people who feel held back by self-doubt, struggle with self-sabotaging behaviors, or lack the self-worth to create the life they truly want. Many find themselves repeating painful patterns in relationships, struggling with loneliness, or feeling disconnected despite their best efforts.
By bringing awareness to core beliefs and developing a stronger sense of self, you can make meaningful, lasting changes in your relationships and life.
Explore the patterns that hinder your ability to fully and creatively express your authentic self and build genuine emotional closeness to yourself and others.
Cultivate security, trust, and mutual respect to create a securely functioning relationship that supports long-term happiness and success.
Living better starts with self-discovery. In therapy, we work to remove the barriers that keep you from knowing, building, and embracing your true self. You deserve to feel whole, safe, and fully alive—to live better means finding real closeness with yourself and others.
If you’re ready for a deeper approach and lasting results, schedule a call to explore how we can work together.
Your path to healing is as unique as you are. I use proven relationship and self-development models to address the root of your concerns and foster meaningful, lasting change.
You deserve resilience, greater capacity for connection, and the freedom to be authentically yourself.
Wherever you are in life, you deserve genuine connection, confidence, and a sense of purpose. Therapy can help you get there.
Unhealed trauma affects not just us, but also our families, communities, and the world around us. Healing ourselves is how we transform our lives and our legacy.
I have had the pleasure of working for and being trained by Dr. McGuffin over the past five years. Her skills as a therapist, and commitment to learning, and teaching, is inspiring and innovative. Her work in Neurotherapy gives her a deeper understanding of the brain and physiology, to create healing and success in tough cases where people did not know where to get help. I can’t speak highly enough about Dr. McGuffin’s skills, outcomes, warmth, and her as a person.
It can be challenging to self-soothe, and many turn to addictions as a way to cope. Self-sabotaging behaviors may arise, and regulating emotions can feel overwhelming.
It can be hard to focus or stay present. Dissociation may occur as a way to feel safe, and you may struggle with memory or feel disconnected from your body.
Developing a clear and authentic self-image is foundational to personal growth.
You may feel hopeless about finding someone who truly understands and accepts you.
You may find yourself overly focused on physical symptoms like pain, weakness, or shortness of breath, with excessive thoughts and feelings related to these sensations.
Trusting others and forming genuine closeness may feel difficult. You might find yourself either clinging to others or avoiding connection, using self-regulation to feel safe in relationships.
“It may come as a surprise that living life in a full and expanded way is one of the most difficult challenges we face as human beings.”
Dr. Nicole McGuffin is a licensed therapist who specializes in relationships and trauma. She is accomplished in neurofeedback and therapy with more than 15 years of expertise in psychology, neurophysiology, and psychobiology. Dr. McGuffin empowers people to create real healing and transformation.
Individual Psychotherapy, PACT Couples & Relationship Counseling
1082 The Blvd, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
