Nancy Anderson, MA, CMHC, EMDR certified therapist, EMDRIA approved consultant, IFS level 1 trained therapist
Nancy received her graduate education at the University of Minnesota, completing her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology in 1989. She completed training to work with survivors of sexual assault, mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and panic, and eating disorders. During this time, she worked professionally at a women’s center, a sexual assault center, a walk in counseling center, a medical setting, and at the University of Minnesota. She learned to teach meditation, self-hypnosis, breathing, and other mind and body self-calming mechanisms in her client work.
In 1996, she responded to a personal call to bring her work into deeper territory, weaving the realm of the spiritual, the ceremonial, and the transpersonal into her counseling approach. She moved to Telluride, CO to begin studying with a Shamanic healer. For over 10 intensive years, she studied Shamanism as a spiritual path, philosophy and healing art. She trained in the perspective of the medicine wheel and learned ceremonial work such as cord cutting, soul retrieval, and meeting one’s power animal. She includes being present with un-integrated aspects of the self (e.g. shadow, inner child) into traditional talk therapy. She doesn’t shy away from strong feelings, seeking to meet these aspects, rather than try to banish them. She can be a strong and positive companion and guide during a “dark night of the soul”. She cares passionately about whole human beings, with their vibrantly creative and healthy aspects, their wounding, and their yearning for healing and meaning. She brings humor, deep respect, and tenderness to helping clients with the journey of self-discovery. Clients do not need to see themselves as “spiritual” in order to work with Nancy. She meets everyone where they are, and helps with the goals and the perspective that each individual brings to therapy.
In the last several years, she made another transition. A personal relationship brought her to Moab and she has now lived and practiced here full time since 2014. She has received additional training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), and specializes in recovery from trauma. She is an EMDR certified therapist, an EMDRIA approved consultant and has received IFS level 1 training. She works individually with adults and offers groups and workshops, as well as consultation in EMDR for other professionals. She is the owner of Nancy Anderson Counseling.
Pippa Thomas, MS, ACMHC
Pippa came to counseling from a background in group facilitation and personal-growth education in interpersonal, parenting, and resiliency-development skills for adolescents and adults. She also studied and practiced various modalities of therapeutic bodywork for about 10 years, informing her understanding of the mind-body connection in our health and well-being.
She continues to use holistic and integrative methods in what is known as a mindsight approach to personal transformation and well-being. Mindsight refers specifically to our ability to focus our attention on the internal world, both our own and that of another - in a way that enables us to monitor, modify and integrate the function and structure of our own brain and nervous system. This approach comes from the field of interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) which Pippa integrates with other complimentary, somatic, cognitive, and energy modalities to help clients create lasting change and develop life-long tools and strategies for continued growth. She received her Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2020 and is a licensed Associate Clinical Mental Health Counselor.