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Hello!

I'm Rebecca West (she/her), Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern. You've become an expert at getting through the day, but that doesn't mean you're okay. If you're carrying the invisible weight of illness, caregiving, or caring for others professionally, you don't have to keep doing it alone. You deserve to thrive!

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My Approach to Therapy

My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and practical. I believe therapy should be a place where you feel genuinely understood not only for what you're going through emotionally, but for the real-life challenges that come with chronic illness, caregiving, reproductive health concerns, healthcare burnout, and major medical life changes. I like to focus on resilience, practical skills and individual values with clients. I believe in a holistic person centered approach.


What makes me unique is my background in healthcare. Alongside my counseling training, I still work as a Certified Nursing Assistant and previously worked as a cesarean-section scrub technician, caring for patients and families through surgery, birth, hospice, and chronic illness. I understand the language, culture, and emotional realities of healthcare from the inside. Whether you're navigating your own diagnosis, caring for someone you love, or experiencing burnout as a healthcare professional, my goal is to help you feel seen, supported, and empowered as you move forward.

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The Concerns I Specialize in Treating

Chronic Illness & Chronic Pain

Living with a chronic health condition can affect every aspect of life, from your identity and relationships to your confidence and future. Together, we'll work to process the emotional impact of illness, develop practical coping strategies, and build a meaningful life alongside uncertainty.

Caregiving & Caregiver Fatigue

Supporting a loved one through illness can be deeply meaningful, but it can also leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and disconnected from yourself. Therapy can help you set healthy boundaries, process grief, reduce caregiver stress, and care for yourself without guilt.

Healthcare Worker Burnout

Working in healthcare often means carrying the emotional weight of others while neglecting your own needs. Drawing on my experience in hospital and hospice settings, I help healthcare professionals navigate burnout, compassion fatigue, moral distress, and the challenge of leaving work at work.

Women's Reproductive Challenges

Whether you're navigating pregnancy loss, infertility, postpartum changes or another significant medical transition, therapy offers a space to process grief, uncertainty, and the emotional impact these experiences can have on your sense of self and your relationships.

My Story

Before joining Her Time Therapy, I worked directly with patients and families in healthcare, including hospital-based care and home health. That experience gave me a close-up view of how illness, pain, reproductive challenges, caregiving, and major health changes affect far more than the body. They can change relationships, careers, your future plans, and importantly, the relationship you have with yourself. I became a counseling intern and future therapist because I wanted to support the part of these experiences that medicine does not always have the time or resources to address: medicine can treat the physical symptoms, but how do you heal?


What I love most about this work is helping people regain a sense of agency when circumstances have made them feel powerless. My approach is warm, collaborative, action-based, client-centered, and grounded in evidence-based research. I also bring an understanding of healthcare from still working within it as a licensed nursing assistant. I believe therapy should be a place where you can grieve what has changed without being defined by it, make room for uncertainty without surrendering to hopelessness, and begin building a life that still feels genuinely fulfilling and truly yours.

Rebecca West

Education & Professional Training

Master of Arts Candidate, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Adams State University


Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

University of Colorado Boulder


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Additional Credentials & Training

  • Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

  • Student Member, Aging Life Care Specialist

  • Founder, The Invisible Crowd

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Books I Recommend

Invisible Women :: by Caroline Criado-Perez

Being Mortal :: by Atul Gawande

How Emotions Are Made :: by Lisa Feldman Barrett

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