About Tracy
Tracy Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She brings 18 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and relationship problems. Tracy aims to meet people where they are and to make the first steps feel manageable.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first and then shapes conversations and plans to match each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical ways to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Tracy uses methods that help people notice thoughts and feelings, learn new behavior patterns, and process painful memories. She often combines talking, skill-building, and paced processing to address issues like grief, compassion fatigue, or addictions. The work is paced to the person's comfort and goals.
Many people come to her for help with life changes, intimacy struggles, low self-esteem, or ongoing mood shifts. She also supports those managing chronic pain or long-term caregiving stress. When trauma or past abuse is present, she uses techniques aimed at gradual healing.
Tracy encourages questions about the process and about what to expect in a session. She works collaboratively to set realistic goals and to track progress over time. Taking that first step is acknowledged as an important move toward feeling better.
How Tracy brings therapy online with practical approaches
Tracy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and take small, actionable steps toward meaningful change. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life shifts.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and shift patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete tools for managing panic, low mood, and relationship stress. When trauma is a central issue, she can incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) techniques to process distressing memories in a paced way.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Tracy will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then help choose an approach together. That collaborative decision is revisited as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and teaching skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can serve for quick check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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