About Tracy
Tracy Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Colorado. She brings 18 years of clinical experience and a steady presence for people facing emotional overwhelm. Tracy focuses on listening first and building a plan that fits each person.
She works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, anger, and addictions. Trauma and grief are also areas she addresses. Tracy often helps people who are coping with relationship troubles, intimacy questions, self-esteem struggles, life changes, and caregiver strain.
Background and approach
Her approach is grounded in somatic awareness and evidence-informed talk therapies. Sessions may include noticing bodily signals, learning skills to reduce distress, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. The goal is practical change that people can use between sessions.
Tracy aims to create a respectful, sensitive space. She adjusts the conversation and treatment plan to match individual needs and preferences. People who value a calm, steady clinician may find her style helpful.
She holds a Colorado LPC license - CO LPC LPC.0014018 - and communicates in English. Online options are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a brief matching questionnaire before scheduling.
Taking the first step can feel hard. Tracy encourages people to move at their own pace and will work collaboratively to set realistic goals.
How Tracy’s approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body and physical sensations that hold stress or trauma. Online sessions can guide clients to notice breath, posture, and tension and learn how to ease those signals at home. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify values, accept difficult feelings, and commit to small steps that match what matters most. It suits worries, depression, and life transitions by teaching flexible coping strategies. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and uses empathic listening to help clients feel heard and understood; it supports anyone needing a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and comfort with different methods. Together they decide whether somatic work, ACT, client-centered listening, or a mix makes the most sense for the current concerns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue therapy from home or between appointments. Using different formats can help maintain momentum during busy weeks and allow practice of skills in real-life settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English