About Me

Hello!

My name is Lisa Wallace

I'm a contemplative psychologist who focuses on mindfulness and how it can help us connect to ourselves and others.

Get to Know Me

A contemplative psychotherapist with a passion for political theology, social justice and meditation, I am continuously working to develop the skills and awareness needed to best support individuals and foster healthy communities.

My journey started growing up in a middle class community in the mountains of Colorado where I learned the power of being connected with the earth. The mountains, trees, sky and water, supported me through times of unease and suffering. The personal relationship I had with pain and depression led me to pursue a serious meditation practice with Micheal Gregory of Mindfulness Meditation Centers. During long retreats, I met myself in different ways. Meditation was the first pathway to understanding and uncovering my queer identity, while also waking up to the privileges I have as White person in the U.S.

My journey in education

I developed a deep passion for storytelling and spiritual exploration and acquired two undergraduate degrees at CU Boulder in Film Production and Religious studies. Over the next few years, I lived and worked in the mountain community I am from. Although I loved the proximity to the outdoors, I knew that I wanted more than to just help people tell their stories, I wanted to help people heal. In 2014, I went back to school to become a therapist.

After graduating from Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy program in 2017, I worked for three years at Umbrella Collective, a LGBTQIA+ oriented therapeutic practice, where I honed my therapeutic skills. I am WPATH trained and value providing gender affirming care to my clients. I am also trained in EMDR, Level I IFS, and as a Mindfulness Instructor from both Naropa University and iBme. I continue to explore and unpack my identity as a White person and am committed to various anti-racist work.

How I can help you

My favorite way of practicing therapy is to collaborate with my clients to find a way forward that works best for them. Because I value and believe that we are all individually unique, I do not hold that one approach fits all. Rather, I look forward to working with you through a client centered approach. Even though I hold the map and might suggest where to go from time to time, ultimately, you are in the driver’s seat directing where we travel and how fast or slowly we get there.

I believe strongly that the degree to which I am able to believe and trust in my own brilliant sanity is the degree to which I can believe and trust in my client’s inner wisdom and truth. To this end, I welcome feedback and believe in doing the work it takes to hold myself accountable to others and my community. Being human is messy, let’s see if we can find a way to come together in that mess!