Tara Behr, MA, LPC
Psychotherapist

Heartbreak. Love. Connection.

I am a lover of truth.

I have found that the more I know my ways of surviving the lovelessness of this world, and who I am beneath my pain and grief, I come to see my heart, and the heart of others, clearly. I have chosen to fall in love with this world and human beings in spite of the violations and harm deeply present within our species in this era.

Music, poems, eros, intimacy with anam cara’s, my psychotherapy practice, writing and creating elixirs with herbs and wild plants are the main creative expressions which keep me anchored in who I am and what I love.

I care deeply about people's freedom to be themselves. I believe the only way our human species will survive the terrors we have created is if we each pick up the ashes of our lives, create beauty out of our aliveness, and support the aliveness of the other.

I graduated from Denver Seminary's Counseling Program in 2017 and have been in private practice for the last four years, with a one-year sabbatical during this time. I have studied Christian mysticism through The Action and Contemplation School (2019), radical therapy and interpersonal phenomenology through an apprenticeship with my mentor Bruce Sanguin (2021- present), and ecopsychology through The Animas Valley Institute (2020-present).

I have a background in personal training, wilderness guiding, and vocal performance.

Being human in this era is often filled with necessary (death, decay, loss) and unnecessary suffering (abuse). We will traverse the waters of how each of these have impacted you throughout your life.

Unnecessary sufferings are the failures of love we endured at the hands of people who were meant to offer us the greatest love. If we can face and transmute this kind of suffering that we endured in our lives, we can co-participate in creating a more beautiful world for our present and future selves, our children and their children. This is truly the heart and art of therapy— to create a beautiful world merely by us learning who we truly are before we were wounded or asked to play roles and wear masks to perform for others.

Beneath suffering is your innocence, wonder, joy, love, soul, spirit, compassion, and wildest gratitude. It is your birthright to be free, to live a life emancipated, to live as you most deeply desire.

May our relationship be a doorway to this.

Therapy is one of the most vital journeys you can embark on in your life; it will lead you from a life of fear to a life of love.