About Betsy
I have definitely had my own share of career- and job-related angst: initial cluelessness about what I wanted to do after college, followed by some drifting, a lot of temp work in a variety of companies, a few jobs that were lousy matches for my interests and preferred work style, a stint in a very badly managed company, and, finally, “settling down,” so to speak, as an educator, writer, and counselor.
I now work as a career counselor, helping people find more meaning and balance in their lives and find work that truly feeds their souls and matches their values. Since I hear so many stories about difficult work environments, I have developed a personal mission to support strategies that improve the workplace and make people actually want to go to work.
I combine my unique professional and educational background into my work with clients:
- Private practice career counselor/psychotherapist
- Clinical training in career counseling at the University of Colorado at Boulder
- Master’s degree in counseling from Regis University in Denver
- Meditation instructor at Naropa University and for individuals and small groups in the Denver area
- Professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santorelli of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
- Professional training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based psychotherapy
- Coursework in ecopsychology at Naropa University in Boulder
- Master’s degree in cultural geography at UCLA, focusing on people’s attitudes toward and relationships with their culture and environment
- Travel to six continents and throughout the United States
- Personal history interviews since 2004 (Everyone Has A Story)
- 12 years facilitating adult education courses, including meditation and mindfulness classes
- 12 years developing innovative curriculum materials for adult and K-12 classes, including participation in a mindfulness curriculum for the Impact Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to reintroducing mindfulness and contemplation into the mainstream
