jayson gaddis, MA, CGT, LPC, founder, director

Born and raised in Utah, Jayson has lived in Colorado since 2002.
Currently, Jayson is coach and psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado. He is a facilitator with the Authentic Man Program and is a certified meditation instructor. Since 2001 he has created and led over 15 wilderness rites-of-passage trips with men. He currently co-leads a teen support group.  He works with individual clients over the phone and in his office in Boulder.
Jayson received his BA from the University of Utah in Environmental Geography in 1995. He received his master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Counseling from Naropa University in May 2005. He is a certified Gestalt therapist and has his Level 1 EMDR certification. Jayson has worked in a variety of therapeutic and milieu settings that have influenced his approach to working with people.

From 2005-06 Jayson was a family therapist at the Monarch Center for Family Healing in Georgetown Colorado where he worked with adolescents in the field and led half-day and day-long family intensives. He also ran many groups in the field and supported and trained staff in therapeutic interventions with students.

Prior to this position Jayson worked for Boulder County Mental Health for three years. Two of these years were spent working for the emergency crisis team. During this time, Jayson became adept at diagnosing and working with a variety of clients with mild to severe mental illness. Much of this work involved traveling to local hospitals, jails, senior centers and residential treatment facilities, assessing, diagnosing and making recommendations for placement. The third year he served as a child and family therapist. Jayson worked with kids aged 4-18. He also ran several groups including one with perpetrators of domestic violence, a youth Hispanic group, an anger awareness group and a middle school boys group. Jayson currently runs a therapeutic group at the Family Wellness Center in Broomfield, Colorado.

Jayson has worked with adolescents since 1992 with a focus on at-risk youth. He spent three years working with teens for Outward Bound in Maine. There he worked with teenagers, adults, Vietnam veterans, and corporate clients. He helped start the Mexico Outward Bound School. He was a field staff with Second Nature Wilderness Program in Utah. Jayson ran the outdoor education program at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah. Over the years he received certifications to teach rock climbing, back-packing, trail-building, wilderness first aid, and nature skills to participants. Seasonally, he coached ski racing and ran the developmental ski team at Snowbird Utah for four years. Jayson worked for the National Ability Center in Park City Utah whose mission is to serve the developmentally disabled population.

Jayson believes that in order to become fully who we are, we must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves in the mirror and take responsibility for our life. He does this in his own life through therapy, his men’s group, wilderness work and spiritual practice. Since meditatioin is the center of his life, Jayson leaves on retreat twice a year for one month in the summer and 2-3 weeks in the winter.
Jayson is proficient in Spanish and is a certified wilderness first responder.

contact jayson 303.818.8411 (jay@innernature.org)

keith kurlander, MA, LPC, therapist

Keith earned a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts. He has done additional psychotherapeutic training at the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies. Keith has extensive training and certification in yoga and meditation instruction from the Amrit Yoga Institute. He has also studied and received a certificate in massage and bodywork from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

Keith has worked as a psychotherapist in a variety of settings. He was a crisis clinician for the Emergency Psychiatric Service of Boulder, Colorado providing assessment and intervention services for clients in acute and chronic states of severe psychological distress. He was an outpatient therapist at the Longmont Mental Health Center working with adults, teens, children, and families both individually and in groups. Keith has run adolescent groups focused on anger awareness, drug recovery, and peer issues. He was a lead therapist and field supervisor at SUWS, a wilderness therapy program intervening with at-risk youth and their families. He has also worked as a massage therapist and is currently a Yoga Instructor.

The therapeutic relationship is an encounter of unlimited potential that includes growth, challenge, risk, healing, transformation, connection, love, and support. It is an avenue to explore and experiment with freeing internal dynamics that are controlled, manufactured, limited, and pushed away. Keith utilizes many different approaches when facilitating this process.
Keith’s approach to therapy has been heavily influenced by his training, work, and life experience. He uses gestalt, existential, body centered, psychodynamic, cognitive, relational, and contemplative interventions. He strongly believes that the client must discover their own innate healing potential in order to bring advances from therapy into everyday living. He can be very direct when necessary, as well as caring, nurturing, and supportive. Keith works well with teenagers, adults, couples, and families. He has focused on a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, social inhibitions, drug abuse, loss, mood fluctuation, relationship, adolescence, sexuality, and spiritual crisis and growth.

contact keith 303.358.6259 (keith@innernature.org)