Catt Smiley

Catt Smiley

CO Therapist

Licensed in: CO

License: LPC

(She/Her/Hers) is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado. Catt graduated from Salve Regina University with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and attended University of Rhode Island where she completed her undergraduate studies, double majoring in Psychology and Human Development & Family Studies. Catt has 4 years of experience working with a wide range of individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, feeling stuck, and general life transitions. Catt is a queer-identifying therapist, also having a special interest and experience in working with the LGBTQIA+ population. Catt loves walking alongside clients, working to unearth innate coping strategies and collaboratively develop new ways of seeing themselves, the world, and their place within it. Catt uses client-centered therapy and holistic methods in her practice and believes it is necessary to integrate mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional forms of well-being to help clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves on all of these levels. Catt strives to create an environment of safety, acceptance, validation, humor, and empathic understanding.

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Erin Wesley

Erin Wesley

CO Therapist

Licensed in: CO

License: LPC

Erin is Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of CO. She has over 10 years of experience working with youth, adults, and families. She understands how the family system impacts, both positively and negatively, individual values, beliefs, and perspectives. Erin has had significant experience helping people understand how their own childhood trauma can morph into eating disorders, addiction, or environments that make healing feel completely overwhelming. She believes in harnassing self-awareness, self-confidence, and our own strength-based abilities to heal. Erin uses a trauma-informed, person-centered approach, with elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Erin places great emphasis on therapeutic rapport because connecting professionally is the catalyst to change.

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Hiroko Hirata

Hiroko Hirata

CO Therapist

Licensed in: CO

License: LPCC

Hiroko is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) in the State of Colorado. She has two master’s degrees to include Clinical Mental Health Counseling From Regis University and a Master of Divinity from Naropa University. Hiroko has been in the mental health field for about 7 years. Originally providing spiritual care to clients going through grief and loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, health complications, crisis, and addiction, she eventually added mindfulness, body-centered, somatic techniques, and holistic well-being to her evidence-based approach. Hiroko was born and raised in Japan and identifies as an Asian immigrant, so she has personal experience in using a diverse lens while helping people transform from a state of reactivity to a state of creativity, growth, and even playfulness.

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Hope Sauer

Hope Sauer

CO Therapist

Licensed in: CO

License: LPCC

Hope is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) in the state of CO. Soon, she will also have her Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) in the state of AZ as well. She graduated from the University of Arizona with her bachelors in family studies and human development. She went on to complete her masters in clinical mental health counseling. Hope brings 7 years of experience to BLBT. Her background includes many different age groups, but primarily teens, young adults, and adults. Hope specializes in anxiety, depression, and relationships. She is client-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based, solutions-focused, and values-based. Hope understands that being a cisgender White woman is a very different experience than a lot of other people experience and she wants to make sure to hold space for equity, justice, diversity, inclusion as it relates to the clients she services. She’s hoping that clients will see therapy as a car ride. The client is in the driver’s seat all the while receiving gentle guidance, motivation, and empathy along the way.

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Jennifer Valenzuela-Sliger

Jennifer Valenzuela-Sliger

CO Therapist

Licensed in: CO

License: LPC

Jennifer Valenzuela-Sliger is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado. Jennifer graduated with her undergraduate and graduate degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. Jennifer obtained her counseling degree from Adams State University in 2017. Jennifer brings 12 years of experience working with adolescents and families to the Better Lives Building Tribes community. She is eclectic in that she uses client-centered approaches to meet her client’s needs. She is proficient in motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed practices, but she also knows that clients are their own best asset. Jennifer is bilingual and thrives in her ability to provide services to clients of all different backgrounds.

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