Hanna Bingham, MA, LPCC
Hi, I’m Hanna.
I’m a Colorado therapist, a fellow human figuring out life in a chronically ill body, and someone who believes deeply in the power of our stories.
I live in Salida, Colorado, where I spend as much time outside as I can. I love the mountains, curling up with a good book, sharing time with my spouse and close friends, and being part of my community, both for fun and in spaces of advocacy.
I also live with endometriosis and adenomyosis. Chronic illness has given me my own experience of navigating uncertainty, changing plans, advocating for myself, grieving what my body cannot always do, and learning that needing rest and having limitations are not personal failures.
That lived experience is part of what draws me to working with people navigating chronic illness, chronic pain, and complex trauma. I will never assume that my experience is the same as yours, but you also will not have to convince me that what happens in your body can impact nearly every other part of your life.
I know there can be grief, anger, humor, frustration, relief, and a whole lot of complexity in learning how to live alongside a body you cannot always predict.
The work I care most about
I specialize in working with adults navigating complex trauma, chronic illness/chronic pain, religious trauma, and burnout, and I offer EMDR therapy for working through experiences or beliefs that continue to feel stuck or unresolved in your life.
While these may sound like separate issues, I often see a common thread. What happens when you have spent a long time adapting?
Maybe you learned to push through pain, stay small, keep other people comfortable, question your own instincts, or keep functioning no matter what was happening underneath.
Those patterns can make a lot of sense in the context of what you have lived through. Therapy gives us a place to understand those patterns without judgment and decide what you want to carry forward and how you want to carry it.
How I think about therapy
So much of what we believe about ourselves comes from stories.
Stories about who we should be. What makes us worthy. What success looks like. What our bodies should be able to do. What we are allowed to want. Which parts of ourselves are acceptable and which ones should stay hidden.
Those stories can come from family, religion, relationships, culture, gender, sexuality, work, illness, or experiences that taught us what we needed to do to feel safe and belong.
Therapy gives you a place to get curious about those stories and decide which ones still deserve a place in your life and which ones might need some re-authoring or some healing.
What it’s like to work with me
My style is warm, curious, collaborative, and grounded. I will listen closely, ask thoughtful questions, and help you notice connections you may not have seen before. I am not interested in positioning myself as the expert on your life. You’re the expert on you, I’m just here to offer practical tools for growth and healing, get curious, and help you notice things that are hard to see on your own.
My work integrates EMDR, narrative therapy, and somatic approaches, and is informed by feminist, queer, and multicultural perspectives. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and attentive to the ways identity, culture, relationships, and systems shape our experiences.
You can bring the complicated parts here. The grief and the humor. The anger and uncertainty. The things you understand intellectually and the things your body and emotions have not caught up with yet.
I do not provide crisis services. If you find yourself in a mental health crisis, or need immediate mental health services, please text or dial 988, or visit your nearest emergency room.
You don’t have to become someone new to heal.
Healing can look like trusting your own voice again. Feeling more at home in your body. Understanding your past without letting it dictate your future. Making room for grief while still imagining something different.
We do not become more whole by erasing what has happened to us. Instead, we can learn to carry it differently.
If that sounds like the kind of therapy you are looking for, I would be glad to meet with you.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation, or contact me to learn more.
A new lease on life
Through every step of the therapeutic process we will work hard to meet your goals so that you can live authentically as yourself.
A lasting impact
We will work together to cultivate the growth and change you’re currently seeking in life.