Nava Narayani(She/Her/Hers)

Nava Narayani is a licensed psychotherapist offering individual, relationship, and group therapy in-person in Wheat Ridge, CO and online. Nava specializes in sexual trauma recovery and healing attachment injuries. Her work is affirming of diverse backgrounds including LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC, mystics, sex workers, psychedelic use, kink, and all spiritual beliefs. Additionally, she takes into consideration systemic, ancestral, and cultural influences in client's overall wellbeing. She offers a collaborative approach, working together to set goals and the pacing of the therapeutic work.

Nava's therapeutic approach includes the following:

Somatic work to guide clients in interpreting their body's signals and bringing friendliness & safety in the body.

Contemplative psychotherapy to help clients clarify and accept their authentic selves so that healing comes from their innate wisdom. This approach encourages soft resiliency and courageous vulnerability.

Emotionally Focused Therapy to build emotional skillfulness, improve communication patterns in relationships, and heal attachment wounds.

Additionally, art therapy, Reiki, Internal Family Systems, and Gottman Method.

Nava received her degree in Clinical Mental Health with a focus in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University. She became fascinated by relationship theory and intensely pursued education in that area. She graduated with a certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Denver Family Institute and has completed professional education in Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, and Psychobiological Approach to Couple's Therapy (PACT). She integrates these modalities into polyamory theory as well. Before graduate school, Nava comes from a background in dance, circus arts, bodywork, sex work, and worldly explorations in alternative healing modalities outside of the USA culture.

As a therapist, Nava is also highly influenced by her own journey in recovery from sexual trauma and is passionate about guiding others to be free from the binds of trauma.