Psychotherapist
Cheaven Lyon, MA, CHT, LPC
Seeking psychotherapy is a meaningful decision to make. You are taking a step towards reclaiming your joy, health, and wellbeing. Therapy offers the potential for real and lasting change. I am here to offer guidance and insight along your journey inward. Virtual & in-person therapy available.
Therapeutic Services and Approach
Individual
I am a relational therapist. This means that I believe that we are all wired for connection and it is through safe relationships that emotional healing can occur. By cultivating authentic connection, in a safe and confidential space we are able to explore the unattended or bottled-up parts of you that may be laced with shame, confusion and self-judgment.
My method of therapy is one of guided self-discovery and understanding through experiential and mindfulness-based approaches. This method allows for the unique possibility of mind-body integration that leads to lasting healing and continual growth. My work is heavily influenced by interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, and attachment theory.
LGBTQ+
The LGBTQ+ community face unique challenges, pain and injury and I offer a space where these harms are deeply understood and held. Despite the once growing appearance of cultural acceptance of diverse sexual, romantic and gender identifications, systemic discrimination and oppression persist and LGBTQ+ individuals continue to be at a much higher risk of than their cis-hetero peers.
Whether you are seeking more freedom and support associated with your sexual, romantic, or gender identity or for concerns related to your mental health and wellbeing, I offer a therapeutic environment that is not dictated by heteronomativity. I support the most authentic version of all aspects of you and help all parts of you feel seen, supported and cared for.
Couples
You are not alone if you are finding relationships difficult. Being in partnership is not an easy path. We all get stuck in destructive cycles with our loves that we just can’t quite understand or shift. I am here to help identify, shift and replace these unhealthy cycles so that all partners have new ways of being and communicating, therefore new ways to being seen, heard and understood. I am here for you if you are just beginning a relationship and have a desire to begin on a strong foundation, if you are years into a relationship and getting tired of the same disconnection happening over and over again, or if there is healing and repair needed after a major attachment injury has occurred in your relationship.
Group Mindfulness and Somatic Therapy
Research increasingly suggests that mindful movement such as yoga is not only physically beneficial but it also helps to rebuild healthy neuropathways in our brain that have been affected by trauma.
I intermittently offer somatic group therapy where we can begin exploring how belief systems and traumas are held in the body, below the level of conscious awareness, through movement and a felt sense of the body.
If you are interested in joining the waitlist for a future Somatic group please email me at hello@cheavenjade.com.
Coming this Fall:
EMBODIED CONSENT: an eight week experiential and somatic processing group to increase awareness and the ability to give a full embodied “yes” and to build the courage to say “No.”
Areas of Treatment
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Burn-out
- Anxiety/ worry/ stress
- Divorce
- LGBTQ+ and gender exploration
- Self-worth/ insecurity
- Life transitions
- Body image issues
- Trauma and PTSD
- Health issues
- Vicarious trauma
- Childhood abuse and neglect
- Sexual abuse / harassment
- Loneliness
- Grief and loss
- Spiritual exploration
Theoretical Orientation
Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy
Mindfulness-based interventions are therapeutic approaches grounded in focusing attention on the present moment with a non-judgmental attitude. Increasing our capacity for mindfulness helps us to become better able to separate ourselves from negative thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations before they become too overwhelming, helping to further psychological insight and emotional healing, over time.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy
- Hakomi Psychotherapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gestalt Psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Somatic Psychotherapy
- Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy
- Transpersonal Psychotherapy
- Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy
- Attachment-informed Psychotherapy
About Me
Hello, time to get a little more personal. Below you will find more about my education and training, however I also want you to know more about who I am. Therapy, Buddhism, and yoga were all integral practices that guided me to pursue and build the loving, safe, Queer life I have today and is a primary reason I now sit in the seat of a therapist.
Ten years ago I was about to finish my first year at Naropa University and was beginning my journey to become a Counseling Psychologist. This career path did not come to me in a linear or clear way. It was only a couple years prior to stepping into my graduate program that I was a traveling performer, nanny, preschool teacher, waiting tables and completing my first yoga teaching training. I felt confused and lost about who I am or what direction I wanted to take.
I would not have even dared imagine the joyful life I have now due to the paralyzing amount of confusion, self-doubt, and fear that encapsulated me. The privilege to go to therapy, practice yoga and meditate freed me from internal blockages and I can now say I have a career that I love, and most importantly a wife and a child that I adore in a home where we deeply protect our safety, love and connection.
I would not ask my clients to face the scariest parts of themselves or their pasts if I hadn’t done so myself and it was on the meditation cushion, on the sofas of my several therapists and varies other healing programs that I looked and felt deeply into these painful places. Once I began facing my fears, feelings of worthlessness and childhood wounds I began to find and trust my inherent worth and love myself.
It is my deepest mission to help guide others to their sense of worth and self-love and therefore the freedom to pursue an authentic, loving, joyful and meaningful life.
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Contact Information
Virtual or In-Person Sessions Available
Phone:
512-483-1068
Email:
hello@cheavenjade.com
Address:
2949 Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80211
(inside Nurture – A Wellness Marketplace)