Masha Mikulinsky, MA, LPC

Hi and welcome! I am Masha. I am a somatic therapist, coach, clinical supervisor, and social justice educator with 15 years of professional experience. I am committed to the work of personal and collective awakening at the intersections of:

• adaptive embodiment

• mindfulness practice

• anti-oppression work

As a human who is queer/non-binary, bi-cultural, and non-normatively abled, I love supporting folks to navigate complexity — as it comes to internal states, relationships, making decisions, and sifting through layers to make sense of yourself and your place in the world.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Colorado and work with clients in Colorado and across the world in English, Russian, Spanish via phone and/or video. My aim is to support you to better understand yourself and your place/s in the increasingly complex world we live in.

I believe access to joy, resilience, and healing is inextricably tied to identity, to relationships with people and with place, and to the stories we tell. I work with folks living in the intersection of multiple worlds:

• multi-cultural folks

• medical professionals

• first and second generation immigrants

• queer and trans folks

• the LGBTQIA+ community

• chronic illness and chronic pain

• white people doing the internal work to disinvest from whiteness

For folks living multiple marginalized identities, access to authentic expression, feeling at home, and agency is often fluid. I trust that we each have our own challenges and pathways for accessing resilience, inspiration, ease, and play. Working together can help strengthen those pathways.

Education and Professional Experience

As a therapist I have worked for the past fifteen years as part of multidisciplinary teams in integrative health settings, in community mental health serving marginalized communities, and in private practice. My experience includes facilitating wilderness-adjacent trauma recovery programming, mindfulness-based workshops, serving on equity and inclusion committees in non-profits, and organizing health equity based events. I have worked as a therapist in residential programs, with refugee and immigrant folks, with queer and transgender kids, teens, and their families in schools, and in non-traditional settings with homeless youth navigating substance use, systemic violence, and homelessness in downtown Denver.

I have over fifteen years of professional experience working with:

• acute, complex, and intergenerational trauma

• multi-cultural folks navigating identity, acculturation, and belonging

• healing ancestral lineages

• folks on a path of self-exploration and self expression

• survivors of sexual assault

• medical professionals and first responders

• queer and trans youth and adults

• neuro-divergent folks

• folks living multiple marginalized identities

Approach and Influences

My work with clients is informed by queer theory, anti-oppression methodologies, comprehensive training in somatic, body-based modalities, and over a decade of experience as a practitioner of Medical Qi Gong, plant spirit medicine, and work as a meditation instructor/solitary retreat guide in a Tibetan Buddhist tradition. My emphasis has consistently been on diversity and equity, focusing on institutional policy change, inclusivity trainings, and adapting somatic and mindfulness practices for folks with non-normative identities and experiences. Prior to work as a therapist, I implemented diversity and inclusion based programming in the non-profit sector, worked in performance contexts, and as a private chef.

My current research is at the intersection of immigrant acculturation experiences, relationship to ancestral lineages through food, and queer identity.

Outside of work, I can often be found in the woods, nurturing relationship with the wilderness, reading about and engaging in social justice practices, listening to podcasts about design, and experimenting with medicinal recipes.

Formal Trainings

• Hakomi Method

• Tension/Trauma Release Exercises (TREs)

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Meditation Instruction in a Vajrayana Buddhist lineage

• Motivational Interviewing

• Authentic Movement

• Clinical Supervision

• Body-Mind Centering with Erika Berland & Wendell Beavers

• Racial Awareness Training with angel Kyodo williams

Professional Memberships

• American Counseling Association (ACA)

• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

Community Engagement

I volunteer free and reduced rate services through No Mas Muertes, Urban Peak and for workers on the front-lines of COVID-19. A portion of proceeds is donated to The Loveland Foundation. In addition to practicing as a therapist, I present regularly at the JDRF Type One Nation Summit, work with Youth Seen in support of queer and transgender youth and families, and teach at the Graduate Somatic Counseling Psychology program at Naropa University.

Free 20-minute consultations for new clients