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Licensed Social Worker, LSWYou may also self-schedule your free initial 15-minute consultation through my website.
Bergen works collaboratively clients, as they are the experts on their lives. Work in sessions may explore the mind-body connection, examine coping habits, uncover relationship patterns, and honor parts of self. Clients might work to set boundaries, shift dynamics, and let go of things that no longer serve them.
Using brain-based approaches--both bottom-up and top-down--to leverage neuroplasticity, deeply held beliefs about self are noticed and implicitly remembered traumatic experiences are integrated.
The therapeutic relationship is used as a safe space to process clients' experiences—with particular attention paid to the regulating potential of the autonomic nervous system. Bergen's goal is for clients to feel safely embodied and to create an authentic life.
Bergen takes a person-in-environment perspective, listening closely for how societal systems and historical forces shape lived experience. She is strengths-based, compassionate, trauma-informed, and direct.
As a Lyme literate therapist, Bergen offers support to individuals affected by Lyme disease and co-infections. A comprehensive support system is essential in managing these illnesses. As a therapist, Bergen will help clients process their diagnosis, identify mental health symptoms, develop coping skills, and find hope.
Bergen offers teletherapy sessions for individuals and online scheduling.
Chronic illness - Receiving a diagnosis; adjusting to lifestyle and medication changes; coping with related changes in mood, emotions, and relationships; managing symptoms and stress
Lyme disease - I will help you process your diagnosis, identify mental health symptoms, develop coping skills, and find hope. If requested, I will consult with your medical provider.
Mind-body connection - If comfortable/tolerable, practicing mindfulness to draw together how the body feels physically and how the mind feels mentally; healing both physically and mentally. An important component of trauma work.
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) - Recovering from the impact of long-term, repeated traumatic events, such as emotional abuse and neglect
Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes; learning self-care to better manage resulting stress
Climate anxiety - Coping with the unique stress created by climate change, including managing any overwhelming feelings of impending disaster and finding outlets for advocacy
Bergen Pierson is not in-network with any insurances.
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This provider can support you in getting reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement. Here are the out-of-network billing options they provide:
Frequency of sessions this provider offers to see clients once you are an established client.
I am currently unable to accept insurance, but if cost is a barrier, please contact me to discuss sliding scale options. I see Open Path members for $40-70/session.
You can view and edit your securely saved payment methods and billing documents through the client portal once established as a client.
Years of Experience: 2 years
Private Practice, 2022 - Present
Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Master of Social Work, 2021
Institute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Certificate in Human-Animal-Environment Interactions in Social Work, 2021
Barnard College, Columbia University, Bachelor of Arts, 2011
Colorado: LSW.0009923965
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