Relational, Somatic Therapy in Colorado

 

Hi, I’m Bre Smith (she/they). I’m really glad you’re here!

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I’m a queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill white woman/femme from the South, shaped by working-class life. I understand class as relational and systemic—not a personal failing or achievement—and as something that deeply impacts nervous systems, access to care, exhaustion, and our capacity for connection. This perspective informs my commitment to sliding-scale options and to approaching care with transparency, flexibility, and respect.

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I grew up in a large fundamentalist Christian family in rural Georgia as the oldest daughter of a homemaker and homeschool mom and a Southern Baptist preacher. Leaving that world—and later coming out to my conservative religious family—deeply shaped how I understand identity, spirituality, rupture, repair, and belonging. It’s a journey I often accompany clients through.

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My path into this work is shaped by lived experience—mental health diagnoses, PTSD and CPTSD, chronic illness, divorce, trauma recovery, and spiritual injury—alongside a deep relationship with place, both ecological and social. Time spent traveling cross-culturally and moving through the world on foot and by backpack—including 100km French Camino, sections of the Appalachian Trail, and time backpacking in northern India—has shaped how I listen, hold complexity, and meet others with humility and curiosity.​​

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I’m a working artist, musician, therapist, and educator entering my fourth year teaching Psychology 101 at Chattanooga State Community College. As a lover of learning, I’m currently deepening my practice in herbalism, bread baking, and the mandolin. Creative practice, meaningful community, and time in wild places keep me grounded. I currently live in my tiny house in what is now called the Rocky Mountains, oriented toward simplicity, connection, creativity, and attunement to the land, seasons, and cycles.

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What It’s Like to Work With Me

Therapeutic Approach & Philosophy

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Wild Alchemy Counseling is named, in part, after a line from Mary Oliver’s poetry that has long guided my life and work. Her writing speaks to belonging, wildness, and remembering our place in the living world—values that deeply inform how I practice therapy. I believe healing is less about fixing what’s wrong and more about remembering what is alive, resilient, and worthy within you.

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I work one-on-one with adults navigating the tender, complex parts of being human—especially around trauma, identity, spirituality, sexuality, creativity, recovery, and life transitions. Many of the people I support are thoughtful, sensitive individuals who have learned to survive in systems that did not make room for them.

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My therapeutic style is relational and grounded in the belief that you are not broken. I approach therapy with curiosity and humility, drawing from somatic and parts-oriented frameworks to support deeper attunement to your inner world. Rather than fixing or pathologizing, I walk alongside you at your pace, honoring your agency, consent, and lived experience.

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My work is informed by humanistic, existential, transpersonal, and trauma-informed approaches, as well as an ecofeminist, decolonial lens that understands healing as inseparable from relationship—with body, community, land, and the more-than-human world. Sessions may include somatic practices, parts work, mindfulness, expressive arts, and nature-based approaches, offered responsively and in consent-based ways.

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I’m deeply committed to 2SLGBTQIA+-affirming care and social justice. I hold particular care for religious trauma, identity exploration, and healing from systemic harm. I also bring a background in yoga and Reiki, weaving embodied and intuitive practices into therapy in grounded, consent-based, client-led ways.

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It’s an honor to accompany people through both the depths and the mountaintops. I’m glad to meet you where you are.

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

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Is This Therapy a Good Fit?

A Good Fit If You’re…

 --- Seeking a relational, somatic, and trauma-informed approach to therapy

 --- Curious about parts work, nervous system support, and embodied healing

 --- Exploring identity, sexuality, spirituality, creativity, recovery, or life transitions

 ---- Processing religious trauma or leaving high-control belief systems

 --- LGBTQIA+ or questioning and looking for affirming care

 --- Interested in therapy that honors both personal experience and systemic context

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May Not Be the Best Fit If You’re…

 --- Looking for a highly directive or manualized approach

 ---- Wanting a purely CBT-based or skills-only treatment model

 ---- Seeking quick fixes without space for relational or embodied work

 --- Not interested in exploring internal experience, body awareness, or meaning-making

 

If you’re unsure, I’m always happy to help you discern whether working together feels like a good fit.

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Clinician Referral — Currently Accepting Clients

Bre Smith (she/they), LPCC, offers individual adult relational, somatic therapy for navigating trauma, identity exploration, sexuality, spirituality, religious trauma, and life transitions. 2SLGBTQIA+-affirming and currently accepting clients. My email is bresmith@wildalchemycounseling.com.

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