How I See the Work
I don't believe healing is about becoming someone new or fixing what is broken. I believe it is about remembering and reconnecting with the wholeness that is already within you.
Each of us carries an innate capacity for wisdom, creativity, connection, and growth. Yet trauma, relationships, cultural expectations, family and inherited patterns, and the experiences we move through can sometimes lead us away from that knowing.
Therapy offers a space to become curious about what has shaped us, listen to the different parts of ourselves, and discern what we want to carry forward—and what we may be ready to release.
My work is grounded in mindfulness, compassion, creativity, and non-judgment. I bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based, transpersonal, and socially conscious perspective, honoring the ways that our identities, relationships, communities, bodies, and larger world shape our experience.
I believe finding both freedom and rootedness is part of living a more integrated life: freedom to become more fully ourselves, and rootedness in the values, relationships, wisdom, and belonging that sustain us.
heavy within. By reconnecting with these creative roots, we cultivate a deeper sense of belonging to yourself and the natural world.
A Little About Me
I’m Ria Bonstrom (she/they), MA, LPCC, ATR-P—a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate and Provisional Registered Art Therapist. I work with adults and couples navigating complex trauma, perfectionism, burnout, grief, life transitions, relationships, parenthood, spirituality, and identity. I enjoy working people who are willing to soften their inner critic, reconnect with themselves, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with who they are.
I see myself as a lifelong student, continually exploring how our experiences, relationships, culture, and the natural rhythms of life shape who we become. I orient toward this work through a lens of love, authenticity, joy, and social justice. I believe there is wisdom to be found in both pain and possibility. We can learn from the past without being bound by it, become more present to the choices available to us now, and meet the future with curiosity and reverence.
My own relationship with creativity has taught me that there are many ways of knowing ourselves. Sometimes insight comes through words and reflection; sometimes it emerges through an image, a movement, a feeling in the body, time in nature, or simply creating space to listen.
I offer a warm, inclusive space where we can slow down, become curious about your experience, and make room for the full complexity of who you are. As a queer therapist, I value the freedom to explore who we are and how we want to live, beyond the expectations and stories we may have inherited. I don't approach therapy as someone who has everything figured out. I bring genuine curiosity, compassion, and a willingness to be alongside you as you discover what it means to live more authentically and feel more at home in yourself.
Training & Experience
I hold a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Transpersonal Art Therapy from Naropa University. My clinical experience includes work in community mental health and domestic violence services, supporting people navigating trauma, relationships, safety, and significant life transitions. These experiences have deepened my commitment to creating spaces where people can feel safe enough to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and recognize the strengths and wisdom they already carry.
Having experienced trauma myself, I understand how difficult it can be to trust your inner wisdom or act from your intuition when the world has taught you that it may not be safe to do so. I bring compassion for the ways we adapt to protect ourselves, while also offering resources and creative processes for those who are ready to explore new ways of relating to themselves and their experiences.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) in Colorado and a Provisional Registered Art Therapist (ATR-P). I practice under clinical supervision as part of my ongoing professional development and in accordance with Colorado licensure requirements.
Why "Re-Membering"?
The name Re-Membering reflects my belief that healing can be a process to re-member and gather ourselves into greater alignment. The parts of ourselves we have pushed away, lost touch with, or learned to hide may still have something important to tell us. Re-membering is an invitation to welcome those parts, reconnect with our inner wisdom, and come home to the fullness of who we are.
At the heart of my practice is the belief that belonging begins within.
Re-membering means making space for all of ourselves—to become more at ease in our own skin, to honor what we have lived through, and to cultivate a deeper sense of connection with ourselves even amidst a world that can be painful and uncertain.
