Life Dimensions Counseling's mission statement is to enhance the quality of relationships through personal, familial, social, cultural, and spiritual experience and education.
Life Dimensions, Inc. is here to provide quality, confidential counseling services to all members of our community. Life Dimensions Counseling is committed to maximizing your communication skills and knowledge, which enhance the quality of relationships through personal, familial, social, and developmental experiences and education throughout the human life cycle. We are here to listen and offer guidance on taking the steps towards positive life changes. Give us a call today to learn more about setting up an appointment.
M.A., M. Div., LPC
Certified Pastoral Counselor
Relationship Expert
Mary Ann Van Buskirk, M.A., M. Div. is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado, and a marriage and family therapist in Colorado, with a private practice. She has been integrating Catholic theology, spirituality, and psychotherapy since 1986. She has been a counselor, trainer, and clinical supervisor for over 30 years. In addition to her extensive experience in business, family, and life, she has also written, lectured, and conducted numerous workshops and retreats.
Credentials
Mary Ann is a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage & Family Counselors and a member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association and the American Association of Christian Counselors. She was a Chaplain at Children's Hospital and has served as Adjunct Faculty at Iliff School of Theology, Senior Faculty for the Institute of Life & Care, and was the Family Life Director for the Archdiocese of Denver as well as serving as the Director of St. Patrick's Pastoral Counseling Center serving the needs of an inner-city neighborhood.
Life Dimensions Counseling offers a variety of therapy and counseling services. If you or someone you know needs help with any of the following issues, please consider contacting us:
Knowing how to start getting help with your marriage can be difficult. At Life Dimensions Counseling, we pride ourselves on providing couples with quality, research-based marriage counseling to begin repairing and reconnecting. Our priority is to help you get back on the path of repairing a healthy and happy relationship. Together, we will emphasize communication and strengthen the positive aspects the relationship may be missing. Whatever your needs, Life Dimensions will adapt to find the best approach for your circumstances.
Life Dimensions, Inc. believes that the quality of our relationships determine the quality of our lives. For over 30 years, we have been integrating spirituality, theology and psychotherapy in our clinical practice with couples, individuals and families.
This approach integrates spirituality and theology with research-based clinical practices. We offer a holistic approach to health and healing, taking one's spirit into consideration alongside mind and body. People, who want to honor their faith tradition, will incorporate their spiritual practices or work to heal from some hurtful religious-based experiences from this method.
We use the metaphor of a mobile, the kind you put over a baby’s crib, to describe how family systems work. You move one part, and the entire thing is affected. Each individual is influenced by their family, workplace, community, culture, etc. Every person has an influence on the whole (family, work, society, and culture). Life Dimensions helps individuals, couples, and entire families see how their interactions help or hurt one another and, more importantly, what they can do to make their relationships stronger and healthier.
This approach is solution-focused and more short-term with oftentimes measurable results. It is more “here and now.” What do you need to think and do differently to get the results you want? For example, some suffering from depression will have negative thoughts that adversely affect their lives. By helping them rethink some of these thoughts, they will respond more effectively to loved ones, their work situation, their enjoyment of life, etc. To know better (a different way of thinking and feeling) leads to doing better (behaviors).
Counseling is effective at any stage in an individual's life, and it is never too early to seek guidance. That can be when they are a certain age, they are changing from one stage of life to another. For instance, in the transition from being single to getting married, a major life change is occurring, as with job loss, retirement, menopause, etc. Each stage holds the capability of crisis and stress, which is experienced as a problem. Life Dimensions helps people overcome and move through these crises, and help them see these major transitions as an opportunity for growth.
Viktor Frankl, a Viennese psychotherapist, wrote a famous book entitled Man's Search for Meaning. It is his gripping story of surviving in a concentration camp and how he found meaning in suffering resulting in his theory and practice of logotherapy. Logotherapy helps the individual make sense of life in spite of tragedy. Life Dimensions will help integrate this approach when helping individuals who struggle with the question of "Why?"
Anxiety is a normal reaction to important events, however, excessive anxiety can interfere with your daily life, and may be a sign of generalized anxiety disorder. Life Dimensions is dedicated to offering you guidance and providing the confidence you need to change behavior patterns that take away from your life and focus. By identifying day-to-day stressors, you can begin taking the steps towards positive life changes, healing, and a healthier mind.
Seeking support for you and your partner? Our goal at Life Dimensions Counseling is to help resolve conflicts and address stagnation in relationships. Every couple experiences ups and downs and our couples counseling can help slow down internal conflict and reestablish realistic expectations and goals. We understand people in a relationship may prefer different approaches to counseling, and whether they want help processing and overcoming difficult experiences, or a more practical approach to generating tangible changes, we will adjust our therapy goals to fit our couples’ needs.
Being a parent is a joyful experience, but can be a very complex and challenging phase in one’s life. Life Dimensions' parenting counseling can help parents identify, communicate, and learn from past or current situations that may be affecting the way they interact with their children or partner. We will work with you to identify stressors and offer you the knowledge of how your issues may impact your family. Get in touch now, and we’ll help improve your communication skills, set achievable goals, and help better balance your parenting and life commitments.
There is no true formula to making divorce simple or painless - but professional support can help. The deterioration of marriage usually occurs long before the actual divorce proceedings, and the emotional damage can impact your life long after the decision is made. Life Dimensions can help you manage your emotions throughout the process and emerge stronger in the end. If you need support through this challenging process, call now for a consultation.
At Life Dimensions, we want to provide you with the resources to maintain healthy relationships and communication outside of our counseling services. Our seminars will help you successfully navigate complex situations in your own life, be they personal, familial, or spiritual. Any presentation can be customized to your specific needs.
Life Dimensions is dedicated to providing you with quality counseling services and helping you take steps toward positive life changes. Established in 1997, Life Dimensions believes in providing professional, affordable, and accessible counseling to individuals from any walk of life. Life Dimensions works with clients through counseling to better understand the challenges they face that detract from their life.
If you or somebody you know is struggling with emotional, relationship, or spiritual stress, please consider our counseling options. Contact us at 303-692-8006 to see our counseling options, and improve the quality of your own life.
Life Dimensions offers a consultation to any individual or family interested in our services. During this consultation, we will explore any issues that you may be facing in your life, and give you a brief synopsis of our treatment options. Call 303-692-8006 or send a message using the contact form below.
Life Dimensions Counseling believes in affordable and accessible care, no matter what challenges you may be facing. Life Dimensions offers individuals counseling for their anxiety, depression, coping with grief and loss, major life transitions, marital and familial concerns, spirituality, and personal growth. For groups, we also offer relationship, marriage, infidelity, and divorce counseling.
If you do not see your issue above, please don't hesitate to reach out - Life Dimensions counseling services are flexible and we are open to personalizing any of our sessions to what may be troubling you.
If you or a loved one is ready to reach out for help, contact Life Dimensions by using the form provided on the site for a consultation, or call us at 303-692-8006.
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