Inspiring Conversations with Heather Reynolds, LPC of Denver Rapid Resolution Therapy

Today we’d like to introduce you to Heather Reynolds, LPC.

Hi Heather, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Like many, I graduated from college not knowing what I wanted to do with my life. Reading a book a friend had recommended and attending my own therapy to address some longer term issues led me down a winding path to becoming a counselor myself. Before applying to graduate school, I volunteered at the Safehouse in Boulder to see if I wanted to do human service work and then went to school. Now, over twenty years later, I work as a trauma specialist both in my own private practice and at CU Denver.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Being a counselor was much more challenging in so many ways than I had imagined it would be and working through traditional talk therapy methods took its toll. I had started out with so much passion and excitement to truly help people, but what they taught me in school was limited and I often found myself struggling right along with my clients, wanting to help them but wondering if what we were doing was making any difference. Within 10 years I was feeling burned out and starting to shift into doing more mentoring and training type work with new counselors and providing less direct service myself. Then one year I received a Rapid Trauma Resolution training flyer in the mail, it looked intriguing but I didn’t feel like I could afford it. Then, the next year I got the flyer again and decided I definitely wanted to figure out how to make it happen. Little did I know how that simple decision would change so much. Following that weekend training, I just wanted more because I could see so clearly how well it worked. From there, I was all in on training and practicing Rapid Resolution Therapy and it truly changed my life! It combines traditional talk therapy, traditional hypnotherapy, and useful research coming out of neuroscience that’s showing us what keeps things stuck processing in the same way versus what gets them shifting and moving. I felt renewed and like I was finally able to help people in the way I had always wanted. And I still feel that way over 13 years later!

We’ve been impressed with Denver Rapid Resolution Therapy, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Unlike most therapy providers, I don’t plan to meet with clients for an hour a week for months or longer. I utilize Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) to clear significantly challenging issues and clients usually see me 2-5 times and then come back if there’s something else to address in the future. After more than 12 years of working with clients who were struggling to come to terms with their difficult and painful experiences, I was feeling burned out and as hopeless as some of my clients. I was doing all the things that I had been taught were supposed to help but change felt so hard and like it took such a long time.
As I started training in and practicing Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) it was clear to me that there is a much faster, more effective, and largely painless way of working through challenges. RRT is like an interesting intersection of traditional talk therapy, traditional hypnotherapy and useful research coming out of neuroscience. RRT utilizes “multi-level communication” meaning addressing both your conscious and subconscious minds and applying the science of memory reconsolidation to address painful memories and stuck beliefs. You DON’T have to feel worse <i>BEFORE</i> feeling better! You DON’T have to re-experience past traumas. You DON’T have to examine every detail of every experience along the way. When you work with how the mind works, you can more quickly and effectively shift what’s been stuck and update how the mind has been processing. My clients are often surprised at how quickly even long term challenges and stuckness can be resolved and how light the process can actually be.
Sometimes people reach out to me and say “I’m not as bad as the people on your website, can you still help me?” My answer is chances are I can, I liken it to how it is much easier to treat a cold than pneumonia. If we can deal with something sooner rather than later we’re likely to be able to create even more benefit in a short period of time.
While no one therapeutic methodology is the right fit for everyone, I have found that RRT can be helpful for many issues and challenges like a variety of traumas, anxiety, panic attacks, grief, depression, stuck beliefs as well as any of those things from the past that still impacts or emotionally activates you now.

Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
The most beneficial networking relationships I have had over the years, developed out of my interest and practice of showing up to do the best healing work I could do. I didn’t know it at the time, but a graduate student in counseling had heard about RRT from one of his professors, his wife was struggling so asked for a recommendation and he was referred to me. I worked with his wife who had done other trauma therapies with limited benefit but had a great outcome and significant benefit from RRT.
He reached out and asked me to meet for lunch to discuss RRT which then turned into his inviting me to speak at a networking group’s lunch and learn (twice). There I met another person, worked with her and she’s referred countless folks and connected me with a foundation that offers grants for clients seeking addiction and/or trauma treatment.
Naturally I’m an introvert so I’m intentional about how and with whom I spend my time in the interest of protecting my energy but, thankfully, I trusted the opportunities that were presented, gave them a chance, showed up with my real and sincere self and it’s made an enormous difference!

Pricing:

• First 2/2.5 hour session of RRT is $400
• Follow up 45-90 minute sessions are $250

Contact Info:

• Website: https://denverrapidresolutiontherapy.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.reynolds.923724