Boulder Emotional Wellness

06/18/2024

Welcome our 2024-2025 clinical interns! (All Naropa class of 2025)

(May starts)
Rachel Kelley
Calvin Lodge
Joe Faulkner
Caroline Oakley

(August starts)
Maxine Sharrah
John Arnold
Jonathan Wagner
Julia Glosserman

04/02/2023

Welcome the Class of '24 Boulder Emotional Wellness interns (all from Naropa)

Jillian Tosta
Lissa Treger
Claire Bailey
Carlie Price
Sarah Coffey
Efsun Elci
Dean Gestal
Oliver Franklin

12/12/2022

Alec Farbman (Naropa '20) breaks ground at Boulder Emotional Wellness as BEW's first fully licensed counselor. Congrats Alec.

Alec Farbman, Licensed Professional Counselor, Boulder, CO, 80302, These are especially challenging times we are living through and many can feel overwhelmed, stuck or have a sense that something is missing in their lives. You may be struggling to manage the stress, anxiety and worry that life cause...

01/01/2022

FEMA assistance

06/05/2020

[antiracism] Justice in June project. Even if you aren't antiracist (the other ways are 'segregationist' and 'integrationist') you may want to know what the terms and concepts are in case your clients/supervisees etc are talking about these issues.

How is racism both interpersonal and systemic? How is 'white' a political,cultural, and economic idea rather than a racial identity? How did the Irish become 'white'? What did 'white' people do with their national and cultural identities? What's the cost of 'whiteness'? What's it mean to be white-passing? What's white fragility? What are white tears? Who is 'karen'? Why do police routinely kill Black people? What's segregation, integration, and anti-racist? What's "colorism"? What is 'racial hierarchy'? Where did the idea that 'white' is 'better' come from? How have anti-Black ideas and memes been spread through the last 400 years? What's "redlining"? What's white privilege? What's a "school to prison" pipeline? What's white guilt and what to do about it?

These curricula for self-study (or make a group) are organized around 'amount of time to study'. Choose to study 10 minutes a day or 25 minutes a day or 45 minutes a day, or pick and choose. Project credits are in the doc.

Justice in June Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community. On this document are links to the learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day. Click on the following to jump directly to that info: 10 minu...

01/03/2020

! contact State Senate Majority Leader Stephen Fenberg at 303-866-4872
Anthem cut Medicaid provider reimbursement 20% : Jan 2, 2020 see https://www.coloradocounselingassociation.org/cca/medicaid.asp
contact Andrew Rose LPC, 303 532 6780

Dear Editors,

We, the undersigned, are Medicaid mental health clinic directors serving some of the over 300,000 Medicaid members in the regions managed by CCHA/Anthem, including Colorado Springs, Golden, and Boulder areas. Our addiction counselors, psychotherapists, and social workers provide mental health care for children and low-income Coloradans, who face a myriad of mental health struggles like addiction, depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

Now, as people struggle to find mental health care, Anthem, paid by Colorado’s Health Care Policy and Finance (HCPF) department to manage behavioral health care, has announced a 20% cut in provider reimbursement starting January 1.

This cut means Anthem, a for-profit corporation, takes Colorado Medicaid money, allocated for treatment, and gives it to out-of-state shareholders, marketing expenses, and executive salaries. This follows for-profit UnitedHealthcare's acquisition of Rocky Mountain Health Plan.
Colorado is getting ripped off. This is only the beginning as Anthem has bid to purchase Beacon Healthcare for undisclosed billions and will then control all of Medicaid except for Denver's Colorado Access, a nonprofit.

Coloradans must mobilize to protect our mental health safety net. Medicaid members have little time to organize in their defense. Providers are prohibited from collective bargaining. The State, through legislature and HCPF, is the only safeguard against corporate profit skimming.

Legislators could rein that in. HCPF has an extensive process to set reimbursement rates, which currently Anthem can legally ignore. The people must ask our legislature and governor to prohibit Anthem from reducing the State set rates.

Anthem’s record of at-will reductions in provider reimbursement exposes the vulnerability of Medicaid members to long wait lists at large facilities. Small facility contractors have decided that the paperwork, liability, and complex cases are not worth low rates and stopped taking Medicaid work already. We mental health providers cannot afford to maintain our
practices in light of Anthem's rate cuts - our costs go up, yet our reimbursement rates are going
down. The economics simply do not work.

To be plain, this is a crisis. The availability of qualified mental health care, particularly for low-income families, is abysmal and arbitrary rate cuts must stop. We call on readers to contact State Senate Majority Leader Stephen Fenberg at 303-866-4872 and advocate for predictable rates for providers.

Kelly Bianucci
Executive Director, The Child and Family Therapy Center of Denver

Andrew Rose
Director, Boulder Emotional Wellness

Joy Redstone
Director, Naropa Community Counseling

Colorado Counseling Association (CCA)

07/07/2019

Public art benefit : Please support!

The Royal Players' Guild is excited to partner with Boulder Emotional Wellness in a collaborative effort to raise $10,000 to spread awareness and take direct action towards assisting those with mental health and wellness needs. A portion of the funds raised ($5,000) is to establish a scholarship...

01/28/2019

Our Director of Client Services, Sarah Rose, here educating next generation trauma therapists. Go Sarah!

08/19/2018

Neurofeedback Referral [Boulder] neurofeedback-boulder.com -

Neurofeedback Boulder is now open in the Centennial Creek building at 2975 Valmont Rd. Suite 200. Visit Neurofeedback Boulder Below is text from the website.   

03/23/2018

This bill would require the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to apply for a waiver from the federal government to allow Colorado to make changes to the state Medicaid program to (1) impose work requirements for Medicaid clients, (2) require monthly verification of income eligibility, a...

02/22/2017

Womens Circle group registration open, meets Fridays in March.
Call soon, 303 225 2708 x107

01/01/2017

What happens when you live in the shadow of a narcissistic parent?