Better Lives Building Tribes

The driving force behind Better Lives Building Tribes is Dr Meaghan Rice. Dr. Rice has been helping people change their lives for over ten years. Her method is both insightful and compassionate. Her journey began with a deep insight that our challenges and victories may reveal important truths about who we are. Dr. Rice found that signals from our social networks can sometimes hold the key to personal development. She used this knowledge to create a new therapy that emphasizes group behaviors and feedback over individual symptoms. Her clients can address the root causes of their issues, achieving significant life improvements from her holistic approach. Dr. Rice's dedication to this method is a result of her personal experiences overcoming obstacles in life and picking up on cues from those around her.

Brynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of CO. She received her Bachelor of Science in human services from Metropolitan State University, and her Master of Arts in school counseling and clinical counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. She has spent 16 years in the mental health field working with diverse populations. Brynn places a big emphasis on family systems, not just as we view our families in the present moment, but also how we have come to develop our own family systems throughout our childhood. Specializing in teens and young adults has given her the ability to see how needs change with time and how adaptations can be made along the way to better serve adulthood. She focuses on the most significant relationships, whether that be intimate partnerships, or otherwise, in order to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), as well as solutions-focused modalities to help clients better understand how beliefs, perspectives, and thoughts could potentially be limiting them from accomplishing their goals. The therapeutic relationship is everything to Brynn, so she is incredibly motivated to align, connect, and identify strengths as the organic exploration of getting to the best version of themselves takes place.

Catt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado. Catt graduated from Salve Regina University with a Master's Degree in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and attended University of Rhode Island where she completed her undergraduate studies, double majoring in Psychology and Human Development & Family Studies. Catt has 4 years of experience working with a wide range of individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, feeling stuck, and general life transitions. Catt is a queer-identifying therapist, also having a special interest and experience in working with the LGBTQIA+ population. Catt loves walking alongside clients, working to unearth innate coping strategies and collaboratively develop new ways of seeing themselves, the world, and their place within it. Catt uses client-centered therapy and holistic methods in her practice and believes it is necessary to integrate mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional forms of well-being to help clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves on all of these levels. Catt strives to create an environment of safety, acceptance, validation, humor, and empathic understanding.

Erin is Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of CO. She has over 10 years of experience working with youth, adults, and families. She understands how the family system impacts, both positively and negatively, individual values, beliefs, and perspectives. Erin has had significant experience helping people understand how their own childhood trauma can morph into eating disorders, addiction, or environments that make healing feel completely overwhelming. She believes in harnassing self-awareness, self-confidence, and our own strength-based abilities to heal. Erin uses a trauma-informed, person-centered approach, with elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Erin places great emphasis on therapeutic rapport because connecting professionally is the catalyst to change.

Hiroko is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Colorado. She has two master's degrees to include Clinical Mental Health Counseling From Regis University and a Master of Divinity from Naropa University. Hiroko has been in the mental health field for about 7 years. Originally providing spiritual care to clients going through grief and loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, health complications, crisis, and addiction, she eventually added mindfulness, body-centered, somatic techniques, and holistic well-being to her evidence-based approach. Hiroko was born and raised in Japan and identifies as an Asian immigrant, so she has personal experience in using a diverse lens while helping people transform from a state of reactivity to a state of creativity, growth, and even playfulness.

Hope is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) in the state of CO. She also has her Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) in the state of AZ. She graduated from the University of Arizona with her bachelors in family studies and human development. She went on to complete her masters in clinical mental health counseling. Hope brings 7 years of experience to BLBT. Her background includes many different age groups, but primarily teens, young adults, and adults. Hope specializes in anxiety, depression, and relationships. She is client-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based, solutions-focused, and values-based. Hope understands that being a cisgender White woman is a very different experience than a lot of other people experience and she wants to make sure to hold space for equity, justice, diversity, inclusion as it relates to the clients she services. She's hoping that clients will see therapy as a car ride. The client is in the driver's seat all the while receiving gentle guidance, motivation, and empathy along the way.