Check Out Whitney Frost’s Story

This accident caused me to start having 50-60 seizures a day that were incredibly difficult to diagnose and manage; resulting in my grades dropping and my attendance in school being less than stellar which would make it incredibly difficult to follow my dreams of going to medical school.

After 2 and a half years of struggling with constant seizures and no relief, I got to the right doctor who truly saved my life. I had brain surgery in 2008, which ultimately cured my seizures and gave me my life back. A year after my surgery, I was invited to a board meeting at Children’s Hospital Colorado where I was invited to mentor children and teens navigating the same experiences that I had once faced and overcome. This experience opened my eyes to my new life calling; counseling.

At this point, I had already graduated high school 2 years early, due to my high school being overwhelmingly unaccommodating to my needs, and started college courses. I started exploring classes in Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology and found my heart naturally being pulled in this direction.

In 2011, I graduated with my Bachelor’s in Psychology at the age of 20. I was told that I was “too young” to start graduate school at this point so I returned to complete my Bachelor in Family Studies the following year while beginning work as a Social Worker at a local skilled nursing and rehab facility. In May of 2012, I started graduate school for Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regis University in Denver.

In 2016 I graduated with my Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I had already been offered a job at the community mental health center that I had previously interned at during my master’s program so it seemed like the right progression for my career. I didn’t get to define what type of therapist I was or my niche population, I worked with anyone and everyone. This job provided me with fantastic training and experience that I still find useful in my practice today.

After spending 3 years with this center, I decided to take the jump into private practice, which was necessary for me as a therapist to be able to grow and develop, while also terrifying to not have someone to reassure me. I had a vision of providing quality mental health services to the women of my community without cost being a barrier.

In 2019, I did just that! I opened Peaceful Journies Counseling which served women struggling with Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and women navigating pregnancy, infertility, pregnancy loss, and the postpartum journey. I provided care to women on a sliding scale rate, pro bono, and accepted commercial and government insurance plans.

It was a slow start but by the time I celebrated my first anniversary, I had a thriving practice. I began writing books, being interviewed on podcasts, and owning my niche. The COVID-19 pandemic elevated my practice in ways I never knew possible and showed me the need to bring folx and their families in a whole new light.

As a mother who has struggled with postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, I have always dreamed of creating a place that incorporated everything that birthing folx and their families would need as they faced pregnancy, pregnancy loss, infertility, and the postpartum journey but I didn’t know how, where, or who. In May of 2023, I realized that I was the person to create this place and the time was now. Maternal mortality is at its highest in the US and birthing folx alongside their families their families need access to this type of care now!

I launched the Rylie Center for Hope and Healing on June 1, 2023, with the help of 30 amazingly talented practitioners. We launched the Rylie Center virtually as a means of being able to support moms anywhere in Colorado and some specialties outside of Colorado. In September, we opened a physical location in the Highlands neighborhood of Denver and as of January 2024, we are the largest perinatal collective in Colorado.

The Rylie Center offers individual therapy, couples counseling, psychiatric medication management, group therapy, birth and postpartum doulas, lactation support, sleep support, childbirth and postpartum classes, music therapy, occupational therapy, feeding therapy, pelvic floor therapy, midwifery, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic healing, acupuncture, fertility support, and prenatal yoga.