Seth Hardy, JD, MA, LPC, MFTC

I truly enjoy helping my clients identify their challenges, develop plans for meaningful change, and set them in motion. This often involves generating awareness and insight into attachment patterns, social dynamics, and adverse childhood experiences. Exploring "why we are the way we are" empowers us with hope to grow beyond our struggles.

My therapeutic background is in trauma-informed, attachment-based, experiential treatment. As a former attorney, I find value in supplementing this approach with lenses focusing on problem — solving, advocacy, and the pervasive impacts of the legal, political, and governmental systems on our mental health and relationships. I truly enjoy helping my clients identify their challenges, develop plans for meaningful change, and set them in motion. This often involves generating awareness and insight into attachment patterns, social dynamics, and adverse childhood experiences. Exploring “why we are the way we are” empowers us with hope to grow beyond our struggles.

We address the symptoms of those struggles — often anxious and depressive symptoms — with coping strategies and developing resources to help reinforce and support our new growth patterns. I love working with people intent on challenging generations of maladaptive family patterns and taking different, healthier paths in their relationships. Because these dynamics arise from relational dynamics, individual and couples’ therapy focused on enacting change in a relational context is particularly rewarding. Witnessing a client “rewriting the script” of their childhood attachment trauma — whether solo or with a safe and trusted partner – and heal the emotional wounds of their innermost selves is my therapeutic calling.

On trauma, and healing

We all have scars. While the physical ones are more obvious, the emotional scars left by traumatic experiences can be far more painful and impactful. When trauma is left unhealed, the ripple-effect on our lives is undeniable. On an individual level, we may blame ourselves, live in the past, and suffer from PTSD, depression, and self-medication. At the relational level, we may “act out” old trauma patterns with romantic partners or family members in a subconscious effort to rewrite the past and finally “be okay.”

Trauma touches every aspect of our lives, but for all its reach, it is extremely difficult to confront and resolve without help. That’s where I come in. My therapeutic calling is trauma work and all the various ways trauma can impact our lives. Collaborating with individuals and couples, I and my clients develop coping strategies to help manage the symptoms and behaviors that stem from the trauma-wound (anxiety, depression, and other challenges) while also gaining insight into unhealed trauma wounds to help facilitate long term change, acceptance, and resolution. While facing trauma can be emotionally difficult, my emphasis on therapeutic warmth, trust, and safety creates a safe harbor of support as clients explore their pasts and reclaim them.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) in the State of Colorado. Prior to this I was an attorney, also licensed in Colorado. Though I no longer practice, I am surprised at how useful those experiences have been as I work with my therapy clients on everything from goal setting, to problem-solving, to advocacy. It gives me a deep sense of joy and gratitude to be able to turn these skills to the healing benefit of my clients.

Specialties

Modalities I draw on

My core approach is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and experiential. Depending on your goals, I integrate from a range of evidence-based approaches:

What to expect

Credentials: JD, MA, LPC, MFTC. Licensed Professional Counselor and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) in the State of Colorado; former Colorado-licensed attorney.