Ali Cooper (she/her)

Transpersonal

My training in Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa grounds my work in honoring the interconnected dimensions of mind, body, and spirit. I support clients in exploring patterns and challenges alongside deeper questions of meaning, identity, creativity, and spirituality. My experience in psychedelic-assisted therapy and cross-cultural learning further informs an approach that makes space for transformation, spiritual development, and expanded ways of understanding the self.

Gestalt

Gestalt therapy resonates deeply with my relational and experiential style. I invite clients into present-moment awareness, exploring patterns as they emerge through thoughts, emotions, relationships, and the body. Through dialogue, embodiment, and creative experiments, we can deepen awareness of how clients make contact with themselves and others while exploring new possibilities for choice, authentic expression, and integration.

Relational 

I understand healing as deeply relational. Our ways of connecting, protecting ourselves, expressing needs, and navigating vulnerability are shaped through relationship and can also transform through relationship. I bring presence, curiosity, and authenticity to the therapeutic relationship, creating space to explore patterns as they emerge while supporting greater capacity for connection with oneself and others.

Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

I incorporate somatic awareness to explore how emotions, relational patterns, and lived experiences are expressed through the body. By bringing curiosity to sensation, movement, tension, and other embodied experiences alongside thoughts and emotions, we can access dimensions of experience that may not emerge through words alone and develop greater awareness, choice, and connection with the body.

Attachment Theory

I draw from attachment theory to explore how early and ongoing relational experiences shape the ways we connect, protect ourselves, express needs, and navigate intimacy. Rather than viewing attachment patterns as fixed, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, developing awareness of how they show up in present relationships while cultivating greater choice, security, and capacity for authentic connection.

Personal Growth

Therapy can be a space not only for addressing what is difficult, but for exploring who we are becoming. I work with clients navigating periods of growth, transition, and self-discovery who want to deepen their relationship with themselves and live with greater awareness and authenticity. Together, we explore emerging aspects of identity, values, relationships, and ways of being that support continued development and meaningful change.

Relationship / Marriage Issues

I work with individuals and couples exploring patterns of connection, conflict, attachment, intimacy, and vulnerability. Together, we bring curiosity to the ways each person has learned to relate, protect themselves, and express their needs while creating space for greater awareness, authentic communication, and more intentional ways of being in relationship.

Spirituality

I support clients navigating spiritual development, emergence, and experiences that may deepen or challenge their understanding of themselves and the world. Therapy can offer a grounded space to explore questions of meaning, identity, purpose, and transformation while integrating spiritual experiences into everyday life in ways that honor each person’s unique worldview and inner knowing.