A Collective Healing Center · Niwot, Colorado

Where Hope Begins and Dignity Is Restored.

A sanctuary for counseling, integration, and community — many modalities under one roof, so no one has to transform alone.

Welcome

A Place to Land, and to Begin Again

Venya Therapeutics is a collective of therapists and healers who meet you wherever you are — in grief, in transition, in the quiet ache of wanting more from your life.

We pair evidence-based clinical care with a deeper attention to the whole of who you are. Whether you come for trauma work, couples therapy, expanded-states integration, or simply a steadier place to stand, you're met with warmth, skill, and the belief that healing is possible for you.

The Venya Therapeutics home — our healing center in Niwot, Colorado

Our Vision

Healing that is shared, not solitary

We're building a home where many modalities live under one roof and people are gathered into community through events, teachings, and retreats — so no one has to transform alone. A center where hope is contagious and dignity is the starting point, not the reward.

What We Offer

Four ways we walk beside you

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Counseling

Individual, couples, and trauma-informed therapy tailored to you.

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Retreats & Immersions

Restorative gatherings that take healing beyond the therapy room.

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Spiritual Integration

Support for processing expanded states and making meaning.

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Community

Events, teachings, and circles that remind you you're not alone.

Explore our services

Layered mountains under a soft golden dawn

Our Guiding Values

What we hold

Dignity

Every person met as whole and worthy, exactly as they arrive.

Hope

We hold belief in your healing until you can hold it yourself.

Depth

We tend to the soul as seriously as the symptom.

Integrity

Skilled, ethical, evidence-informed care you can trust.

Community

Healing is shared; no one transforms alone.

Transformation

Like the vulture, we help you metabolize what you've carried — turning what was left to rot into something that can fly.

Take the first step

I'm ready to begin.

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Our Team

The people who walk beside you

Alex Mezyad

Owner · Therapist

MA, LPC-S

In-Person & Telehealth

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Austin Gates

Therapist Intern

Graduate Intern · Naropa University

In-Person & Telehealth

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Emily Cohn

Psychotherapist

MA, LPCC

In-Person & Telehealth

Rachel Wilding

Counseling Intern

Graduate Intern · Naropa University

In-Person

Learn More →

Faith Collins

Counseling Intern

Graduate Intern · Naropa University

In-Person

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Venya Therapeutics began with a single conviction — that the best healing happens when skilled clinicians work side by side, sharing wisdom across modalities. As our team grows, every practitioner is chosen for clinical excellence and the warmth to meet you as a person, not a diagnosis. What we share is a belief in your capacity to change, and a commitment to walking beside you while you do.

Contact Us

alex@dignitycw.com · Call 720-938-7320

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Owner & Visionary

Alexandria Mezyad

MA, LPC-S · Owner · Therapist

Alexandria Mezyad is the owner and visionary behind Venya Therapeutics — a mental health therapist with almost a decade of experience working with adults, teens, and couples. She earned her Bachelor's in Psychology from Penn State University in 2014 and her Master's in Transpersonal Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Naropa University.

Alexandria's specialties focus on sexual trauma, OCD, Complex PTSD, grief, relationship struggles, forensic populations, spirituality, and helping people and families navigate personality disorders.

She has extensive experience with the criminal justice system and high-impact restorative-justice dialogues — giving victims a voice and helping offenders take accountability. That work fuels her commitment to community safety and resilience, and gives her a rare understanding of how early, compassionate support can change a life.

Alexandria's style is warm yet direct. She blends EMDR, attachment-based therapy, trauma-informed care, and existential, mindfulness-based, and Jungian approaches with creative practices like storytelling, art, nature, and reflective work, and she draws on her background in documentary filmmaking and writing to help people tell and transform their own stories. She is passionate about creating an inclusive, affirming space for LGBTQ, BIPOC, and people from all walks of life.

Venya Therapeutics is the next chapter of that vision: the experience she's spent a decade building, offered to the public through a new approach and a growing team — so that more people, and a wider community, can find meaningful, lasting change.

Education & Credentials

MA, Transpersonal Psychology (Clinical Mental Health Counseling), Naropa University · BA, Psychology, Penn State University (2014) · Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor (LPC-S)

Specialties

Sexual TraumaOCDComplex PTSDGriefRelationshipsForensic PopulationsSpiritualityPersonality DisordersEMDRRestorative Justice

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Graduate Intern

Austin Gates

Therapist Intern · Naropa University

Austin Gates is a graduate intern at Venya Therapeutics, completing his Master's in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University. He works with adults and couples, in person in Niwot and via telehealth, under the supervision of Alexandria Mezyad, MA, LPC-S.

Austin's approach is contemplative and embodied. He draws on mindfulness, Gestalt, transpersonal, existential, and humanistic traditions, meeting clients in the present moment, with attention to the whole person and the questions of meaning, freedom, and identity that come simply with being human. His work is grounded in years of personal meditation and spiritual practice, including his practice within the Inayati-Maimuni Sufi Order.

Much of what draws him to this work is the tension between the performed self and the lived one: how the pace and noise of modern life pull us away from present experience, and what it takes to return. He brings patience, steadiness, and genuine regard to each conversation, trusting every person's own capacity to grow.

Education & Supervision

MA, Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling (in progress), Naropa University · Practicing under the supervision of Alexandria Mezyad, MA, LPC-S

Approaches & Focus

MindfulnessGestaltTranspersonalExistentialHumanisticAdultsCouples

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Counseling Intern

Rachel Wilding

Counseling Intern · Naropa University

Rachel Wilding (she/her/ella) is a graduate student in the nature-based clinical mental health counseling concentration at Naropa University. She is an 8.5-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and has spent many years in corporate tech, from small startups to large-firm marketing and account management. She holds an MS in Environmental Policy and Management and is a student member of the American Counseling Association.

Rachel's superpower is empathic relating: compassionately guiding us to our blind spots, and empowering individuals to reclaim their inherent wisdom. Fascinated by Jungian and decolonial depth psychology, as well as existential and humanistic theories, she believes the mind, body, and spirit are inseparable. She is a mystic, an intuitive, and an earth-based medicine ceremonial initiate in the Shipibo Amazonian tradition.

Rachel's life experience brings a desire to support individuals who are curious to explore their own relationship to spirituality, those tending grief, those experiencing major life transitions, those with terminal diagnoses, and military veterans.

Education & Supervision

Graduate student, Nature-Based Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Naropa University · MS, Environmental Policy and Management · Student member, American Counseling Association · Practicing under licensed supervision

Approaches & Focus

Jungian & DepthExistentialHumanisticGriefLife TransitionsVeteransSpirituality

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Counseling Intern

Faith Collins

Counseling Intern · Naropa University

Faith Collins is a graduate student in Naropa's Nature-Based Transpersonal Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. She pursued her Master's after spending half a decade in the mental health field, working as a Behavioral Specialist (Recovery Coach) and Group Facilitator at an adult inpatient residential facility for eating disorders, and as a field instructor in Wilderness Therapy with adolescents.

That work inspired her to help individuals reclaim their joy, either again or for the first time. She believes you are the expert in your own life, and she is here to help guide you into the life you want to live. She works with a wide range of challenges, including trauma, grief, depression, and relationships with self and others, tailoring therapy to each person's unique needs, wants, and style.

Faith views therapy as a relational space to explore what's working, what isn't, and to build tools for navigating life with greater ease. Her style is direct, warm, and compassionate.

Education & Supervision

MA (in progress), Nature-Based Transpersonal Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Naropa University · Practicing under licensed supervision

Approaches & Focus

ACTSolution-FocusedCBTDBTMotivational InterviewingNature-BasedTraumaGrief

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About · Our Vision

Many modalities, one roof, a shared belonging

Venya Therapeutics exists to provide healing to individuals — and to create community through events, teachings, and retreats. We bring many modalities under one roof so care is integrative rather than fragmented, and we mentor emerging clinicians so this work keeps growing. Our aim: a center where individual transformation and collective belonging strengthen each other.

Inside Venya Therapeutics — a light-filled therapy room in our Niwot space

A quiet still life — flowers and a candle in low light

The Meaning of Venya

Every name is chosen for what it holds

[ Origin / meaning of "Venya" — to be added. Share the story and the values the name carries, and this section will be written around it. ]

Understanding Our Clinicians

Types of counselors you'll meet

LPC

Licensed Professional Counselors have completed a master's degree, thousands of supervised clinical hours, and full state licensure. They practice independently and carry full responsibility for your care.

LPCC

Licensed Professional Counselor Candidates hold their master's degree and are accruing supervised hours toward full licensure. They bring current training and best practices, with an experienced supervisor behind every step.

Internship

Our interns are advanced graduate clinicians completing their Master's degrees at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, practicing under close supervision from a licensed supervisor. Their bios will be added soon, alongside the rest of our growing team.

Finding the Right Fit

The relationship between you and your therapist is the strongest predictor of good outcomes — so your comfort comes first, always. If the clinician you start with isn't the right fit, you're free to switch at any time, no explanation needed.

Questions

Frequently Asked

We're at 210 Franklin St, Niwot, CO 80544, with virtual sessions (video and audio) available. Hours are 10:00 AM–6:00 PM.

Yes — book a free 30-minute consultation by phone or Zoom. One of our interns will reach out to get you scheduled and answer any first questions.

Our team includes LPCs, LPCCs, and supervised interns completing their Master's degrees at Naropa University, led by Alexandria Mezyad, MA, LPC-S.

Insurance — coming soon. In the meantime, reach out and we'll talk through your options.

We practice from a transpersonal, holistic stance — treating symptoms with evidence-based methods while honoring meaning, spirit, and the whole person. Your story is never reduced to a label.

Individuals, couples, teens, and young adults navigating trauma, anxiety, life transitions, relationships, and the integration of expanded states of consciousness.

Workshops & Trainings

Something is taking shape.

Our workshops, trainings, and immersions are in the making. Soon this space will hold retreats, teachings, and experiential gatherings that take healing beyond the therapy room. Check back, or reach out to be the first to know.

Keep me posted

Therapy Services

Care for the whole of who you are

From trauma recovery to relationship repair to the integration of expanded states, our clinicians draw on a deep range of modalities — choosing what fits you, not the other way around. Below is the work we offer; every path begins with a conversation.

Couples Therapy

A space for two people to be heard at once. We work with communication, conflict, trust, and the attachment patterns running underneath — helping partners move from reactivity toward understanding and repair.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps the nervous system reprocess distressing memories so they lose their grip. A structured, evidence-based approach for trauma, anxiety, and the moments that still feel stuck in the body.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

You are not one voice but many. IFS gently works with the "parts" of you — the protectors, the wounded, the exiled — so they can unburden and your core Self can lead with clarity and compassion.

Mindfulness

Practices that bring you back to the present moment and out of the spin of rumination. We use mindfulness to build awareness, steadiness, and a kinder relationship with your own mind.

Restorative Justice

Rooted in deep clinical experience, our restorative-justice work creates structured dialogue that gives those who've been harmed a voice and helps those who've caused harm take accountability — in service of repair, safety, and community resilience.

Psychedelic & Expanded States Integration

Profound experiences deserve careful meaning-making. We offer preparation and integration support — helping you process expanded or non-ordinary states and weave their insights into lasting change. (Integration and support only.)

Transpersonal Counseling

Therapy that honors the spiritual and the soulful alongside the psychological. Drawing on the Naropa tradition, we hold space for meaning, transcendence, and the questions that reach beyond symptom relief.

Trauma-Informed Therapy & PTSD

Care designed around safety, choice, and trust. We understand how trauma lives in the body and the story, and we move at your pace — never re-traumatizing, always restoring a sense of agency.

Existential Therapy

For the big questions — freedom, meaning, mortality, responsibility. Existential work meets the anxieties that come simply from being human, and helps you live more deliberately inside them.

Humanistic Therapy

Grounded in the belief that you carry your own capacity to grow. Person-centered, warm, and non-pathologizing — a relationship built on genuine regard, where you set the direction.

Jungian Therapy

Depth work with dreams, symbols, and the archetypal patterns beneath the surface. Jungian therapy supports individuation — the lifelong becoming of who you most fully are.

Gestalt Therapy

Healing happens in the here-and-now. Gestalt work brings awareness to what's alive in the present moment — body, feeling, and contact — to restore wholeness and choice.

Investment

Session Rates

Individual Therapy

Interns · 60 min $99
LPCCs · 60 min $135
Alex · 60 min $180

Couples Therapy

With Alex

60 min $215
75 min $250
90 min $275

With LPCC or Unlicensed Clinicians

60 min $150
75 min $185
90 min $200

Intake & Groups

Initial Intake · 60+ min $170
Groups · per session $45–$70

Group rates vary by program. Reach out and an intern will help you find the right starting point.

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Community & Events

Healing Is Better Shared

Transformation rarely happens in isolation. Alongside one-on-one therapy, Venya Therapeutics gathers people through events, teachings, and circles — at our space in Niwot and out in the wider community. Come not just to heal, but to belong.

A warm gathering room inside the Venya Therapeutics space in Niwot

An Open Invitation

Bring your offering to our space

Are you an artist, teacher, or healer with something to offer? We open our space to practitioners whose work aligns with ours — bodyworkers, sound healers, facilitators, and more. To bring an offering to our space, reach out.

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Moments from our space

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Reflections, practices, and small reminders from the practice — shared between sessions. Follow along for grounding tools, notes on healing, and the occasional look inside our space.

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Schedule

Book a Session with Alex

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Contact

Prefer to Say Hello First?

Reaching out is the first brave step. Whatever brought you here, we'd be honored to hear from you — no pressure, no obligation, just a conversation.

Thank you for reaching out. Send a note and one of our interns will follow up to get you on the calendar.

Phone720-938-7320

Emailalex@dignitycw.com

Visit210 Franklin St, Niwot, CO 80544

Hours10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

VirtualVideo & audio sessions available

Send a note and one of our interns will follow up to get you on the calendar.