Psychotherapy
Do you have professional or personal goals that you are excited about pursuing but some part of you seems to be holding you back? Are you successful in some areas of life while feeling blocked in others? Does fear or some belief about yourself prevent you from taking the next steps that are necessary to achieve that “next level”?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful form of therapy that can help you move through those blocks and “update” your system so that you are ready to take action and make those dreams a reality. Are you ready? We are here to partner with you to take your life to the next level.
Have you ever felt as though issues from your past continue to negatively impact your life, no matter how much insight you have into them or how much you try to work through them on your own or with the help of a counselor? Do you find yourself returning to old self-destructive habits or entering into relationships that you know are not healthy, even though you want something better?
Often, we need more than talk therapy or insight to heal from past trauma, difficult early life experiences, or previous relationship injuries. EMDR is a type of treatment that may help you (or your child) to become “unstuck” from those issues that have not completely healed, so that you can feel more empowered and create the life that you want.
Are you and your partner feeling disconnected from one another or repeatedly stuck in the same arguments? Do you find yourself becoming reactive or defensive with your partner even though your relationship is built on respect and love? Do you become avoidant and withdraw for fear of doing or saying the wrong thing and disappointing your partner?
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based approach to couples therapy that is grounded in attachment theory. It facilitates deep emotional connection, increases intimacy and security within relationships, and heals relationship injuries.
Meet the Clinical Team
Welcome! We’re looking forward to meeting with you and helping you toward greater meaning, connection, richness, joy, healing, and peace in your life.
Each of our clinicians provide both In Person and Virtual Sessions. The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center is composed of Elizabeth Legg, PhD, LPC, NCC, Abigail Prince, MA, LPC, James Nee, LCSW, and Laura Van Wyk, LCSW.
Abigail Prince, James Nee, and Laura Van Wyk are independent contract therapists, contracted with
The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center.
Elizabeth Legg, PhD, LPC, NCC
Hi! My name is Elizabeth (Liz) Legg (she/her/hers). I’m a Licensed Psychologist and have worked within the mental health field for over 20 years, as a Psychologist since 2013, as a Professional Counselor since 2003, and in various roles within the social services since 1993. Originally from Ottawa, Canada, and the daughter of a Canadian father and an American mother, I hold dual citizenship as both Canadian and American, and have been in Colorado since 1999. Always a deep feeler, intuitive, and empathetic, I felt the pain, loneliness, turmoil and internal conflict within many members of my family from an early age. As is true for so many children, I didn’t have the words to express what I was observing and feeling, but I wanted desperately to help them come together, heal, and find peace, both for their sake and for mine so they could provide me with the presence, love, support, encouragement, and protection that I deeply craved. As I witnessed what I now understand to be their own unprocessed trauma, pain, fear, and confusion, I came to believe that I was not important. Though I struggled for a few years as an adolescent and young adult, I was fortunate to have deep and meaningful bonds with dear friends and I had a drive to better understand my family and myself, and to help the world to heal and have more peace. That drive motivated me to move out of my home town to pursue an education in psychology. I was passionate to work with those who were trying to navigate through intergenerational trauma and oppressive systems to connect with their core selves. Through my own experience and the hundreds of clients I have had the privilege of working with over the years, I am clearer than ever that the courageous road of leaning into our wounds and to our drive to heal and thrive is the greatest investment we can make for ourselves, our partners and children, and to our world. Please join me in healing and thriving.
In my clinical role at The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, I provide individual, couples and group therapy to adults. I am a Certified EMDR Therapist, EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Consultant and EMDRIA-Approved Training Provider. I specialize in working with individuals with a history of trauma and grief/loss. I also specialize in couples therapy (including LGBTQ populations) from an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) approach to help couples increase their connection and strengthen security within the relationship. I also co-facilitate an Interpersonal Process Group with a colleague, Miles Meason, PsyD (www.drmilesmeason.com) to help individuals explore issues related to relationships, intimacy, and trust within a safe setting with others who have similar goals. I have several years of training and supervision in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and work within a relational and attachment-oriented approach in each of my professional roles. I also provide supervision and consultation to other mental health clinicians and, as an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Training Provider, I offer both in person and virtual trainings in EMDR therapy (EMDR Basic Training and EMDR Refresher).
Beyond my professional roles, I’m also a wife, daughter and step-daughter, sister, step-mom, grandma, friend, and in my newest role, adoptive mother of my dear 3 year old granddaughter. I’m incredibly lucky to be surrounded by loving, complex, kind, and courageous friends and family, both near and far. I’m a lover of nature, travel, animals, reading and home projects. I can truly say that I love my life and my work.
I obtained my PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado in 2013. In 2003, I completed my Master of Arts (MA) in Community Counseling at the University of Northern Colorado. I obtained my Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Honours Psychology, Co-op from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1998. I became a National Certified Counselor (NCC) in 2003, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in 2005, and a Licensed Psychologist in 2014. I completed my EMDR training in 2007-2008, became a Certified EMDR Therapist in 2011 and a Certified EMDR Consultant in 2016. I have provided individual and group consultation in EMDR Therapy since 2013 and I worked as a facilitator and consultant for EMDR Basic Trainings with Julie Greene (www.awakemind.org) for four years from 2013 to 2017, until becoming an EMDRIA-Approved Training Provider myself in 2017 (thanks to her support and encouragement). I completed the Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) Externship in 2013 and all five EFT Core Skills Plus weekend trainings in 2013-2014. I am also trained in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), having completed the AEDP Immersion course with Diana Fosha in 2017, Core Training in 2019-2020 and many advanced AEDP trainings/workshops as well as group supervision since that time. I am a lifelong learner and enjoy my many roles as therapist, colleague, mentor, consultant, supervisor, and trainer.
In 2009, I opened my private practice, The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center. I work with adults (individuals and couples) with a variety of mental health, relationship, and life transition issues. I also co-facilitate an Interpersonal Process Group, provide supervision and consultation to mental health clinicians, and offer EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Training. I specialize in trauma work (including EMDR) and couples therapy from a relational, attachment-oriented, and experiential perspective. In 2013, after completing my PhD, I founded Denver Collaborative Health Center (DCHC). Denver Collaborative Health Center is a network of highly skilled independent professionals dedicated to providing quality health care services. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, safe, and inclusive atmosphere for a diverse population. Our collaborative providers support and empower individuals through the whole continuum of care. We recognize the power of treating body, mind, and spirit, and have come together to share our complementary training and experience to treat the whole person. All professionals at Denver Collaborative Health Center, LLC (DCHC) are independent health providers with their own private practices. Prior to beginning private practice work and returning to graduate school to obtain my PhD, I worked in a local residential treatment center for children and adolescents with trauma and mental health issues for four years, providing individual, family, and group counseling to children and adolescents in residential, day treatment, and outpatient settings. I also provided EMDR treatment to these children. Prior to that position, I worked at another residential treatment center in the Denver area for adolescents with significant behavioral and mental health issues, many of whom were in the legal and social services systems. There, I provided individual, family, and group counseling, as well as case management. I conducted anger management, restorative justice, process, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and substance abuse groups. Before working in residential treatment, I worked at an Emergency Psychiatric Services office of a local mental health center, where I provided crisis counseling for chronically mentally ill children and adult clients and those in situational crisis. I also conducted emergency psychiatric evaluations and interventions, provided psychiatric consultations for hospital patients, and offered referrals and resources to clients. Prior to completing my Master’s program, I worked as a Professional Research Assistant at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder for three years, where I conducted interviews for behavioral genetic research. I also worked as a Youth Advocate and a Mental Health Worker through a local mental health center with children in day treatment. Before moving to Colorado, I worked as a Recreation Therapist at a maximum security, young offender center in my native country of Canada, where I developed and led recreation programs. I also worked at a camp for inner-city children and their parents, and at a center for dually diagnosed adults with developmental disabilities and sexual offense histories.
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Beyond the clinical and training practice that I’m engaged in through The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, I also founded Denver Collaborative Health Center (DCHC) in 2013. DCHC is a network of skilled independent professionals dedicated to providing quality health care services to treat the whole person. Our community is composed of a Rolfer, a Yoga Therapist, a Massage Therapist and Craniosacral Practitioner, an Integrative Healer/Neuromuscular Therapist/Reflexologist/Womxns' Circle Facilitator and Revelation Breathwork Facilitator/Curandera, and a Full Spectrum Doula/Herbalist/Ancestral Medicine Practitioner, a Reiki practitioner, and a somatic therapist who specializes in pelvic health in addition to providing ketamine assisted psychotherapy. My impetus for creating the collaborative was that as a Psychologist specializing in working with trauma, I was seeing how much our bodies hold trauma and how important it is to support clients from the bottom up, including body, mind, heart and spirit. Given that no single person can support clients in all spheres, I wanted to bring together a community of skilled and trusted practitioners, who are invested in community, collaboration, inclusivity, integrity, professionalism, and holistic work. That way, we can better support our clients’ whole selves as well as support one another as practitioners.
Abigail Prince, LPC
My name is Abigail Prince, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2012, specializing in trauma therapy. I have a background in working with complex and long standing trauma. I am EMDR Certified and I have found EMDR to be far and away the most effective trauma therapy. It has been almost magical to see how clients transform with EMDR. I am driven by the passion to heal trauma. It is the way that I believe I can have the greatest positive impact on the world around me. I believe that overcoming trauma is the most liberating action any one person can take for themselves. Helping people change the way they think, act, and feel, especially in relation to something that has been interfering with their every day lives, is endlessly rewarding. Currently I work with trauma on an individual basis, with adolescents and adults. Abigail is an independent contract therapist, contracted with The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, PLLC
EMDR Certified since 2018
James Nee Hundley, LCSW
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in working with attachment and trauma. I am Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), as well as an EMDR Consultant-in-Training, and trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I utilize both models to help you build a better awareness and understanding of yourself and empower you to make the change you want to see. I am trained to offer Conjoint EMDR for relationships that are struggling. Incorporating the framework from EFT with the 8 phases of EMDR, this approach can help you and your partner or relative move through past injuries creating negative cycles in the relationship. I’ve been a social worker my entire adult life. Wanting to better understand the world, myself, and other people is what initially led me on the path. I have worked as a social worker and therapist in several different capacities over the years. I have seen many different sides of the world we live in and have found the healing that can come from sitting with people in their darkest moments and hardest realizations. The process is very vulnerable, which is why my focus is to help create a safe and trusting partnership with you as we navigate the past, present, and future stressors holding you back from living the life you want. A free 30-minute consultation is available, upon phone or email request, to discuss if I am a good fit for you. James is an independent contract therapist, contracted with The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, PLLC
Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment, Neuro-Diversity, LGBTQIA+, Gender Identity, Survivors of Assault or Abuse, Mass Traumatic Events, Grief and Loss, Neuro-Divergent Relationships, LGTQIA+ Relationships, Polyamorous/Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
60 and 90 minute EMDR sessions 60 and 90 minute Conjoint EMDR Sessions EMDR Intensives Conjoint EMDR Intensives EMDR Consultation (Participant of the EMDRIA Foundation's Racial Equity Support Initiative)
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Laura Van Wyk, LCSW
My name is Laura Van Wyk and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I am trained in EMDR and specialize in complex trauma both in individuals and couples. I work with individuals, partners, couples, and polycules on a variety of issues related to love, sex and relationships. I am a clinical sexologist who practices with a trauma-informed and sex-positive approach. In addition, I find that an integrative model of drawing on all of the various types of therapies, uniquely mixed together to assist each of my clients in meeting them where they are, is how I am most effective in helping clients reach the therapeutic goals that they have identified. It also allows me to build on the existing strengths of my clients and create a therapeutic relationship and space where my client's may explore their agency and capacity to change to engage in the world the way they would choose to rather than repeating past patterns. I believe in the ethos of “helping others help themselves”; as a therapist, this is still my greatest strength as well as the cornerstone that has shaped my practice today.
My specializations lie in treating those who are exploring their sex lives, whether it be individually or with a partner(s). In particular, I work with individuals who have experienced sex being used in a way that has caused trauma to them or have been traumatized as they have explored their sexual orientation and/or identity. Working through sexual trauma through EMDR is just part of the process. I believe an integral part of the trauma-healing process also includes working with my clients to identify and develop the relationship they would like and choose with their sexuality whether it be around orientation, gender identity, or finding the way that they want to relate to their sexuality.
60 and 90 minute therapy sessions 60 and 90 minute EMDR sessions
Kelli Charbonneau
Retired Healthcare Administrator, recent work/life balance enthusiast, former EMDR client. All of these experiences have made The Road Less Traveled Counseling a great fit for her. Kelli has a Masters’ degree in Management and a Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration. In her spare time, she loves to learn, travel and explore the outdoors with her husband and dogs.
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Emilie Allen
Emilie is a graduate student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Regis University. She holds a B.A. in Strategic and Corporate Communication from Chapman University, along with a diverse background in brand strategy and content marketing. She is excited to join The Road Less Traveled team and use her knack for communication to expand the impact of EMDR amongst the world’s mental health clinicians and their clients. Emilie is passionate about all things holistic wellness and is fascinated by the mind-body connection. She feels most at home in nature and can often be found in the mountains hiking, camping, paddleboarding, or skiing!
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EMDR
Therapy
At The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, our therapists specialize in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a powerful method of psychotherapy that was developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s. It has been studied extensively for over 35 years and is a well-supported treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for both adults and children. Among other issues, it has also been found to be effective in the treatment of:
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panic attacks
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complicated grief
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dissociation
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upsetting memories
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phobias
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pain disorders
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eating disorders
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addictions
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history of physical or sexual abuse
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personality disorders
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performance anxiety
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body dysmorphic disorders
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stress
EFT Couples
Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short term (8 to 20 sessions) structured approach, originally developed for couple therapy and based on attachment science, formulated in the 1980’s. It helps couples expand and re-organize their emotional responses and, in the process, the organization of self, creating positive shifts within the interactional patterns in relationships, and fostering the creation of a secure bond between partners. EFT has a substantial body of research demonstrating its effectiveness and the stability of those results over time. Preliminary research exists for couples dealing with depression, with anxiety resulting from trauma, with medical illness and with forgiveness dilemmas. EFT is used with varied cultural groups and educational levels across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and Asia. EFT can be effective with LGTQIA+ Relationships, Polyamorous/Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships, as well as heterosexual couples.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you taking new clients?
Abigail Prince, James Nee, and Laura VanWyk are taking new clients as their schedules allow. You can contact them direct by emailing or calling them direct, or by clicking on the "Schedule Now" link below. Elizabeth Legg is currently not taking new clients.
What type of therapy do you specialize in?
At the Road Less Traveled Counseling Center, we specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). For more information about these therapies, scroll to the top of this page.
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a powerful method of psychotherapy that was developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s. It has been studied extensively for over 35 years and is a well-supported treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for both adults and children. Among other issues, it has also been found to be effective in the treatment of: · panic attacks · complicated grief · dissociation · upsetting memories · phobias · pain disorders · eating disorders · addictions · history of physical or sexual abuse · personality disorders · performance anxiety · body dysmorphic disorders · stress For more information about EMDR, visit https://www.emdria.org
What is EFT?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short term (8 to 20 sessions) structured approach, originally developed for couple therapy and based on attachment science, formulated in the 1980’s. It helps couples expand and re-organize their emotional responses and, in the process, the organization of self, creating positive shifts within the interactional patterns in relationships, and fostering the creation of a secure bond between partners. EFT has a substantial body of research demonstrating its effectiveness and the stability of those results over time. Preliminary research exists for couples dealing with depression, with anxiety resulting from trauma, with medical illness and with forgiveness dilemmas. EFT is used with varied cultural groups and educational levels across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and Asia. EFT can be effective with LGTQIA+ Relationships, Polyamorous/Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships, as well as heterosexual couples.
Do you take insurance?
Our Therapists are not in-network providers with any insurance companies but we are happy to provide invoices for you to submit to your insurance company to request reimbursement. Many of our clients submit invoices that we provide and receive reimbursement for a portion of the session fee, after they meet a deductible; however, we would suggest reaching out to your insurance company to find out what your out-of-network benefits are. Be aware that generally, a diagnosis is required in order to receive reimbursement from your insurance company.
How do I schedule my first session?
Abigail Prince, James Nee, and Laura Van Wyk are taking new clients as their schedules allow. You can contact them direct by either emailing or calling them direct, or by clicking on the "Schedule Now" section below. Elizabeth Legg is currently not taking new clients.
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