About Tristen
A practice built from the inside out.
Chara, Greek for joy and light, is the practice Tristen once needed. Today it's a soft, clinically excellent landing place for women, teens and couples in Lakewood and across Colorado.
"For when we bring light to another human heart, we have brought kindness."
HELEN STEINER RICE
Meet Tristen
Licensed therapist. Yoga therapist. Author. Fellow human.
Tristen is a Licensed Professional Counselor, EMDR-certified clinician, Registered Yoga Therapist and Approved Clinical Supervisor. She works at the intersection of evidence-based therapy and the slower wisdom of yoga and contemplative practice.
Sessions with her are warm and collaborative. You won't be handed a worksheet on day one. You'll be met, exactly as you are, and the work will unfold from there.
LPC
Licensed Counselor
EMDR
EMDRIA Certified
RYT
Registered Yoga Therapist
ACS
Clinical Supervisor
Author
Inner Gold
10years
Expirience
The story
A path that began in her own healing.
THEN
A quiet unraveling
Years before Chara, Tristen was the high-functioning woman everyone counted on, and quietly running on empty. Burnout, grief and the weight of holding it all together became the doorway in.
THE TURN
Therapy, EMDR & the mat
Through her own work in therapy, EMDR, yoga and contemplative practice, she found a slower, more honest, more embodied way of living, and a calling to hold that space for others.
THE BOOK
Unearthing Inner Gold
A tender memoir-meets-guidebook for women in the middle of a becoming, born from her own remembering that she was always whole.
TODAY
Chara — Joy & Light
A trauma-informed, integrative practice in Denver serving women, teens and couples, clinically rigorous, deeply human, faith-friendly.
PHYLOSOPHY
Soft in tone. Rigorous in care.
Four quiet commitments that shape every session, every retreat, every conversation at Chara.
01
Trauma-informed
Safety, choice and pacing are not techniques, they are the foundation of every session.
02
Clinically grounded
EMDR, parts work and somatic approaches, used with discernment, never as a script.
03
Whole-person
Mind, body, nervous system and spirit. The body is invited in. Faith is welcomed when it matters to you.
04
Unhurried
We move at the pace of your nervous system. There is no rushing the work of becoming.
