701 E. Hampden Ave. Suite 225
Englewood, Colorado 80113
303-788-9399
Therapies
Our complementary and progressive therapies are designed to heal and strengthen the mind, body, spirit and emotions of individuals who are living with neurological disorders, chronic illnesses or other day-to-day challenges. Personalized treatment plans are developed for each individual, based on their particular health needs, challenges and goals, as well as the recommendations of referring physicians. All services and treatments are provided by experienced, qualified practitioners, who work together to monitor each individual's progress and to refine treatment plans as needed to ensure the best possible outcome and results. With our clients' consent, information and progress reports are shared with referring physicians.
All therapies are administered by experienced practitioners, who have been carefully selected by the Center based on specific criteria and qualifications, which include:
- Minimum five years experience in professional discipline
- Relevant state and local licenses or certifications (where relevant)
- Professional liability insurance
- Current CPR certification
Comprehensive Therapies
Click on the following links for more information about the various treatments and therapies offered at the Center. (You can also schedule an appointment online with our practitioners; specific session times are provided.)
Acupuncture
This comprehensive medical system is over 4,000 years old and is based on the movement of Qi (energy) throughout the body. For various reasons, the flow and distribution of Qi can become unbalanced. Through these sessions, our experienced acupuncturists can help determine underlying causes and patterns of disharmony and then help restore balance by "needling" particular points throughout the body. FAQ about Acupuncture and READ MORE about our Integrative Approach with Acupuncture.
Sessions: 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Craniosacral Therapy
Rooted in osteopathic medicine, Craniosacral Therapy is based on the theory that cerebrospinal fluid ebbs and flows within the membrane around the brain and spinal cord, increasing or decreasing pressure on the cranium in the process. For some individuals, whether through illness or injury, the cranio-sacral rhythmic flow may be disrupted or impeded, resulting in chronic pain, discomfort or ailments such as recurring ear and sinus infections. Through this gentle therapy, our therapists apply very light movements to the skull to mobilize the cranio-sacral rhythmic flow of fluid. By doing so, they can help increase relaxation and improve circulation in order to promote positive healing effects throughout your body.
Sessions: 60 - 90 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Emotional Counseling
The mind, body, emotions and spirit are integrated and work together. When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, it is challenging not only physically but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Emotional Counseling has proven to be beneficial in meeting those challenges.
A session in Emotional Counseling is, basically, both free-form and guided sharing of thoughts, feelings and impressions.
Jeannie Smith is the Emotional Counselor here at Progressive Health Center. Jeannie assists clients to understand how the mind, body, emotions and spirit work together and helps empower clients to make choices to heal on all levels. Clients can gain deeper insights into themselves and a broader perspective on what is happening in their life. This supports and works in parallel with the physical healing. Often family members also benefit from this type of support to cope with the illness and healing process of a loved one. Progressive Health Center offers a free 20 minute consultation with Jeannie and all calls are completely confidential. Please call us at 303-788-9399.
Health Coaching
Many of us have some area of our lives that doesn’t work as well as other areas, or some life-style behavior that is working against us, not for us. In the past we may have tried to improve our health or quality of life but found it difficult to stick with the change we wanted. Coaching is an intervention that can assist. Coaching has been shown to significantly increase the success rate for making health and life changes. It is a service in which a collaborative rather than prescriptive relationship is established between coach and client. It enables the client to identify and clearly define a goal they want to work on, a reasonable plan for achieving it and a pace that feels right to them. The coach facilitates not only action planning and achievement for the client but also self –discovery, so learning can carry through to other areas of the client’s life. Coaching has helped individuals stop smoking, lose weight, follow medically prescribed regimens, improve relationships, change careers, and much more. When you are ready to make a change – coaching can help you make the commitment and stay on track.
Hypnotherapy
A good deal of suffering is the consequences of “negative” thoughts and impulses invading one’s mind from subconscious recesses. Unfortunately, past experiences, guilt feelings, and repudiated impulses and desires are incessantly pushing themselves into awareness, directly or in disguised forms sabotaging one’s happiness, health and efficiency. By the time one has reached adulthood, he has built up “negative” modes of thinking, feeling, and acting which persist like bad habits. And like any habits they are hard to break.
In hypnosis, we attempt to replace these “negative” with “positive” ones. However, it takes time to disintegrate old habit patterns. Even though there may be no apparent alterations on the surface, a restructuring is going on underneath. An analogy may make this clear. If you hold a batch of white blotters above the level of your eyes so that you only see the bottom blotter, and if you dribble drops of ink onto the top blotter, you will observe nothing different for a while until sufficient ink has been poured to soak through the entire thickness. Eventually the ink will come down.
During this period while nothing seemingly was happening, penetrations were occurring. Had the process been stopped before enough ink had been poured, we would be tempted to consider the process a failure.
Suggestions in hypnosis are like ink poured on layers of resistance; one must keep repeating them before they come through to influence old destructive patterns.
Laughter Yoga
The unique concept of Laughter Yoga and Laughter Club is the brain child of Dr. Madan Kataria, a physician from Mumbai, India. It is now a worldwide movement with over 5000 clubs globally. Laughter Yoga allows anyone to laugh in a group for 15-20 minutes without depending upon a sense of humor, jokes, or feeling happy. Laughter Yoga combines simple laughter exercises, clapping, and gentle yoga breathing, which turns into real laughter when practiced in a group. Laughter Yoga sessions are offered for free at the Center. You may also schedule offsite laughter yoga sessions for your organization or group of 5 or more for a reasonable fee. More about the benefits of Laughter Yoga (Laughter Therapy).
Sessions: 30 - 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Life Energy Flow Tai Yi®
Life Energy Flow Tai Yi ® is Supreme Movement of Life. According to this ancient Chinese practice, Life is Flowing Energy and maintaining that flow is essential to good health and a more balanced life. Through this precise, hands-on approach, our experienced therapists are able to identify and open precise grid points throughout the body in order to send Tai Yi energy. History of Tai YI. This practice releases stagnate energies, helping create balanced movement throughout each client's human energy system. Refer to Life Energy Flow Tai Yi for more information. This promotes healing on the physical, mental, emotional, and spirit levels. Learn more how Tai Yi can help.
Sessions: 30 - 360 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Meditation
This profoundly effective meditation is simple to learn and easy to do. Though use of focus, breath, and guided imagery, we become more present with our body, mind and feelings. From this heightened state of awareness we can improve our health by reducing stress and tension and increasing our experience of well being and positive emotions.
Sessions: 60 or 90 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Movement Therapy
Steeped in therapeutic yoga is a movement class for everyone. Whatever level of ability you bring, this session is designed to allow you to connect with your body and breathe to release stress, improve circulation and stretch your body in a way that will nourish you.
Sessions: 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Music Therapy
We utilize musical and non-musical activities to help clients realize their highest potential and reach their therapeutic goals. Musical activities can include active music making (on drums and other easily accessible instruments—regardless of musical ability), creating songs and song lyrics, listening to music, and analyzing/discussing song lyrics. Non-musical activities allow clients to talk about whatever is on their mind, in order to heal emotional wounds, resolve problems, and access their innate healing potential. Through my active listening, empathy and unconditional positive regard, clients are empowered to develop and bring greater awareness to their own strengths, resources and life direction/purpose. Our services include individual music therapy and psychotherapy, and group music therapy.
Goals/Symptoms that Music Therapy Can Best Address (All research-based)
--alleviate depression, anxiety and other forms of emotional distress (emotional)
--help people regain/reform a sense of their own identity and life purpose (mental/emotional/spiritual)
--improve immune system functioning, lower cortisol levels, and activate “the relaxation response” (physical)
--help connect/re-connect people to their spiritual belief systems/sense of spirituality/spiritual power (spiritual)
--help people activate/access their creativity and problem-solving abilities (mental)
--help people lower their heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure and perception of pain (physical)
--accomplish other goals related to an individual’s particular needs, preferences and condition/illness (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual)
Nutrition Counseling
Food can affect aspects of well-being. It is truly a key cornerstone of health. An imbalance in food and nutrition is associated with: upset stomach, heartburn, headaches, weight loss or gain, heart disease and cancer risk, blood pressure, allergies, body aches and pain, congestion, fatigue, immune function, GI distress, emotional state, and stress. Our experienced dieticians will work with you to develop a personalized nutrition plan based on your individual needs, effectively addressing your symptoms and medical circumstances. Your plan will also address the connections between food, eating and emotions. We provide materials and resources to help you incorporate healthy eating seamlessly into your lifestyle including: recipes, menus and meal plans, dietary herbs and supplements strategies, tips on label reading and dietary strategies for determining food sensitivities.
Sessions: 30 - 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Reflexology
A compression massage applied to the feet and hands, in order to engage & activate reflexes that correspond to all parts of the body. It is based on the Chinese method of Zone Therapy. Stimulation of these reflex zones can help restore the body's normal physiological functioning, reduce tension, alleviate the effects of stress, and assist in bringing greater balance to the body & mind.
Sessions: 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Stress Management
Stress has become an everyday reality in most people's lives. And while some stress can actually be good for you, other stress can contribute to reduced health and chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. In these informative sessions, clients learn the difference between good and bad stress, how each affects the body and how they can learn to manage both in their lives.
Sessions: 30 or 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Therapeutic Massage
Therapeutic massage is a broad term that encompasses an assortment of specific techniques that involve the targeted manipulation of the body's soft tissue through coordinated pressure and movement. All of these "touch therapies" integrate specific strokes and practices to facilitate change in the body. Our experienced massage therapists may recommend including one or more of the following techniques in a session, based on each client's particular needs and goals.
- Learn breathing and meditation skills
- Achieve greater balance of mind and body
- Enjoy reduced stress and increased relaxation
- Swedish Massage
- Reflexology
- Myofascial Release
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Lymph Drainage Therapy
- Sports Massage Therapy
- Applied Kinesiology
- Oncology Massage
- Neuromuscular Therapy
- Subtle Energy Techniques (Reiki, Healing Touch, Polarity Therapy)
- Hot Stone Massage
Sessions: 15 - 90 minutes. Schedule an appointment
Yoga and Yoga Therapy
Yoga and yoga therapy integrate mindful breathing, conscious relaxation, focused body-awareness and deliberate movements to encourage the release of stress to achieve equilibrium and restoration. Each practice is personalized to accommodate the unique needs and capabilities of our clients, allowing them to progress at their own pace and comfort levels. Over time, these therapeutic sessions can help improve one's overall health and self-awareness, while reducing tension, enhancing vitality and strengthening the body-mind connection--all of which provide the basis for self-healing a more balanced life.
In the coming months, the Center will offer a variety of group yoga classes as well as one-on-one training sessions with our yoga specialists. Please check the web site schedule for class times or call to set up a specific consultation with one of our yoga specialists.
Sessions: 60 minutes. Schedule an appointment