About Mikenna
I believe that healing happens in relationship. It unfolds through presence, attunement, and the quiet, regulating rhythm that arises when two nervous systems meet. When you are truly met, something inside you remembers its wholeness, your aliveness, and your pain begins to soften. In that shared field, what’s been exiled can return, and what’s most true begins to emerge.
For much of my life, my body and the world around me didn’t feel like a safe place to be. My nervous system was always scanning, anticipating, holding, or bracing. I learned to survive by staying put together, quiet, and small. It took years of being met by teachers, mentors, and my own therapist who could hold all of me (even the parts I had learned to hide) before I began to trust that safety could live inside me, too.
Because I know how it feels to long for stillness when everything inside you is restless. To ache for belonging when you’ve spent so much of your life holding it all alone. And I know that healing doesn’t happen through effort or fixing but through compassion, through relationship, through presence that says, you don’t have to hold this by yourself anymore.
I specialize in supporting clients navigating:
Anxiety, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm
Shutdown, numbness, and dissociation
Depression or long-standing heaviness
Developmental and relational trauma
Complex trauma
Burnout, collapse, and chronic over-functioning
Grief, loss, and quiet forms of despair
Disconnection from self or identity
Feeling “not like myself” or “something is missing”
Chronic illness and the emotional/identity impact of being unwell
Psychedelic-experiences, spiritual awakenings, or symbolic openings that feel destabilizing
The in-between space of becoming - no longer who you were, not yet who you’re becoming
People who sit with me often describe feeling deeply seen, intuitively understood, and gently invited back to themselves. My role is not to fix but to accompany, to hold a field where your highest self can begin to surface through deep listening and embodied awareness.
At the heart of my work is a devotion to connection - with self, with others, and with the living world. I bring a richly attuned and relationally intelligent presence shaped by years of inner work, illness, and study. My intuition plays a central role in how I listen and reflect, feeling into what’s most alive and true in the moment.
People often describe my way of holding space as both precise and wide open:
a transmitting presence that welcomes complexity and mystery with care, curiosity, and deep trust in the process. My curiosity opens rather than narrows, inviting discovery, tenderness, and the return of what’s been forgotten.
Training and Credentials
Licensure & Education
LPCC — Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, Colorado
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Naropa University
Concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling
Additional training in Gestalt Therapy
Professional Training
Somatic therapy & somatic practice
Parts work
Gestalt Therapy
Mindful-Awareness in Body Oriented Therapy
Transpersonal Psychology
Trauma-informed
Psychedelic Facilitation & Integration
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Training - Journey Clinical through Fluence.
Dreamwork
Brainspotting Phase 1
Training Camp For The Soul Mastery Program
Mother and Father learnings/wounds, Limiting Beliefs, Neurolinguistic work, Breathwork, Somatics, Trauma Release Exercise
12+ years working with the body through corrective exercise and movement
Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Corrective Exercise Specialist
Before becoming a therapist, I spent over a decade working with the body as a personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist, learning to listen to the language of tension, fatigue, and resilience. That foundation continues to guide how I attune to the physical, emotional, and energetic layers of experience.
Whether I’m sitting with someone in therapy, integration, or ceremonial space, I aim to create a field where truth can reemerge, where the fragmented can return, and where being itself becomes alchemical. Not through effort, but through presence, compassion, integrity, and the courage to meet what is, can healing take place.
And from there, you begin to feel your aliveness - your capacity to stand in your creative power, agency, and wholeness. To shape your life not from fear or protection, but from the deep, embodied knowing of who you are.
With care,
Mikenna Kossow, LPCC
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist
