About  Dr.Peters

Dr. Peters is a licensed counseling psychologist in private practice in Fort Collins, Colorado with over fifteen years of clinical experience at the doctoral level. She received her Masters in Counseling Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1985 and provided counseling services at the masters level from 1985 until 1990 when she received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University, a program accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship in an APA accredited program at Shasta Community Mental Health Center in Redding, California.

Dr. Peters received the 2005 Lambert Award in recognition of her consistently good outcome measures in her work with clients. She is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapists, the Association of Contextual Behavior Science and the American Psychological Association. She is also a certified Level II EMDR clinician.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Behavior Therapy are the therapeutic approaches Dr. Peters most often utilizes in treatment. More recently she has been training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which combines elements of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and mindfulness approaches.

Dr. Peters has a keen interest in mindfulness meditation and its application in treating anxiety, stress, depression, and chronic illness. In 2005, she trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and she frequently uses the principles of MBSR and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in her work with clients.

As a certified Level II EMDR clinician, Dr. Peters is qualified to use EMDR in treating people who have experienced emotional and/or physical trauma. Although she does not specialize in Life Coaching, she has trained as a Life Coach with the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) and frequently integrates the principles of life coaching in her work with clients.

Prior to starting her private practice in 1998, Dr. Peters served as the staff psychologist at a rural community mental health center in Show Low, Arizona, a tri-ethnic community in Northern Arizona. Upon re-locating to Fort Collins in 1993, she became the clinical manager of an intensive outpatient mental health center where she developed treatment programs and provided clinical supervision and training to staff therapists. Dr. Peters was in private practice with Stress Management Family Counseling Center from 1999 until the summer of 2006 when she relocated her private practice to its current location.

Treatment Philosophy and Orientation

Dr. Peters is a believer in positive psychology and focuses on helping her clients tune into that part of themselves that is inherently wise and healthy. She has a strong interest in mindfulness based psychotherapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Her therapeutic interventions are based on sound research in the fields of mind/body medicine, behavior therapy and cognitive therapy.

Dr. Peters experiences the benefits of mindfulness in her own life and is passionately committed to teaching her clients the practices which lead to a more fulfilling and creative life. She has a special interest in the role the creative process plays in restoring and maintaining psychological health. Her background in theater arts, writing, and more recently, painting, accounts for her deep interest in creativity and psychology. She strives to bring that creative spirit to her work as a therapist.

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