Bruce Kenyon · LMT · MA · LPCC Candidate
Colorado DORA License No. LPCC.0024723
Integrative Somatics
Where the body becomes the doorway to healing
Begin the Conversation
Bruce Kenyon
The heart of my work is inspired by three beliefs:
- that you are inherently whole
- that you are the expert of your own experience
- that your body holds the wisdom necessary to exist in its natural state — adaptive, balanced, and resilient
Deepening your relationship with yourself — through the body — is essential for cultivating secure internal attachment, which has meaningful implications for all of your relationships. This work involves attending to sensation, movement, and posture while gently exploring emotions and narratives that may be present.
A significant thread in how I work draws from a parts-based perspective — the recognition that we are not singular, but a community of inner voices and protective strategies that developed for good reasons. Rather than trying to override or eliminate protective patterns, I bring curiosity to what they are guarding, and what becomes available when those parts feel genuinely met.
Another dimension of my work — one I explored in depth in my graduate thesis — involves the relationship between structural alignment, sensation, and emotional context. I've found that gently supporting the body into a more expansive, aligned position (through props, bolsters, or guided movement) and then exploring what emerges from inhabiting that state can create conditions for integration that years of addressing structure and emotion separately did not. This is not the only way we work, and it is never imposed — but for some clients, it opens a different quality of access to somatic experience.
Underlying both approaches is the understanding that we are deeply interconnected. Relationships are often both the source of, and a pathway toward healing, many of our deepest struggles. When we focus on improving our relationships — with ourselves, others, and the natural world — we can enter a positive feedback loop.
I hold a Master of Arts in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University (2026) and have spent over a decade working as a Structural Integration therapist in Colorado and California. That background in hands-on bodywork deeply shapes how I understand the body's intelligence, and integrative techniques may be woven into our work together when appropriate.
Outside of my graduate and internship life, I enjoy spending as much time outside as possible, being with my lovely girlfriend, and savoring the present. I look forward to connecting with you.
Education & Formation
Degrees & Licensure
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M.A., Somatic Counseling Psychology
Naropa University, Boulder, CO — Body Psychotherapy Specialization (2026)
Thesis: Embodying the Outcome — Structural Alignment, Sensation, and Emotional Context in Somatic Psychotherapy -
B.A., Studio Arts
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2012) -
Licensed Massage Therapist
Colorado (2011–Present) · California (2020–2022) -
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
Colorado DORA · License No. LPCC.0024723
Supervised by Maggie VandenBerg, LMFT & Sybil Cummins, LMFT
Certifications & Trainings
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Somatic Experiencing Training
Joybrain Counseling, Denver, CO (2025) -
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certification
Embody Lab (2022) -
Heart & Thoracic Cage Mobilization, Levels 1 & 2
Fulcrum Institute, Colorado Springs — Timothy Bonack, DOMC, PT (2021–2022) -
Structural Integration & Manual Bodywork
Over 15 years of clinical practice integrating Structural Integration, Neuromuscular Therapy, CranioSacral, and Acupressure
Investment in Your Care
I believe financial barriers should not stand between you and the support you need. I accept several insurance plans and offer private pay options.
Private Pay
$180 / session
Individual 50-minute therapy session. A free 15-minute consultation call is available to explore fit before committing.
Insurance Accepted
- CCHA Medicaid
- Colorado Access Medicaid
- Kaiser Permanente
- Cigna
- United Healthcare
Please verify your benefits before your first session. I'm happy to help clarify coverage questions.
How We Work Together
This is not conventional talk therapy. While language matters, the body is the primary text — a living record of experience, adaptation, and longing. Our work begins there.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Body-centered psychological work that attends to sensation, breath, movement, and the nervous system as pathways into deeper understanding. We work with what the body is already saying — not to override it, but to listen more carefully.
Relational Presence
The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space of contact and repair. Safety, attunement, and consent are foundational — not incidental — to the work. We bring curiosity and care to whatever arises, including the parts of you that have learned to protect, hide, or brace.
Integration
When appropriate, bodywork and somatic touch may be woven into the therapeutic process — not as a separate service, but as an integrative dimension of the work. Structure and emotion, body and psyche, are understood as one continuous story.
"The body does not lie. It holds the full record of every experience — pleasure, pain, longing, defense — written in muscle, posture, and breath."
— after Wilhelm Reich
Informing modalities
- Somatic Experiencing
- Parts Work (IFS-informed)
- Bioenergetics
- Mind-Body Psychotherapy
- Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- Somatic Touch & Bodywork
Ways of Working
All sessions are offered in-person in Lafayette / Boulder, Colorado. Telehealth is available for some services.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Individual therapy sessions grounding psychological work in the body's experience. We move between reflection and embodied awareness, following sensation, impulse, and pattern as they arise in present-moment experience.
Inquire →Integrative Sessions
For those who want to bring bodywork and touch directly into the therapeutic space. Drawing on my background as a bodyworker, these sessions may include somatic touch as a complement to psychological processing — always with clear consent and client direction.
Inquire →Walk & Talk / Nature Therapy
Sessions held outdoors in the natural environment — walking side by side rather than sitting face to face. Movement in nature can ease self-consciousness, regulate the nervous system, and open dimensions of the work that an office setting doesn't always reach. Available in the Lafayette / Boulder area.
Inquire →You Might Be Someone Who…
Carries chronic tension, pain, or holding patterns and senses there is more beneath the surface than symptom relief can reach.
Is already in therapy and ready to bring the body into the room — to feel, not just understand.
Is a practitioner or healer seeking your own depth work — exploring how you live in your body, not just how you work with others.
Is moving through a life transition — a loss, a threshold, an ending or beginning — and wants to meet it with the whole of yourself.
Is drawn to contemplative, embodied, or spiritual paths and wants your inner work to have a somatic dimension.
Is recovering from trauma — including the kind that lives in the body long after the event — and wants a therapeutic space that honors your pace and agency.
Begin the Conversation
I welcome inquiries from anyone curious about this work. A free 15-minute consultation call is always available — a chance to sense whether we might be a good fit before committing to anything.