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About
Ari Hoffman...
...is me, and I'm happy you're here considering therapy.
Here's a bit about me.
I graduated with a Master of Arts in Couples and Family Counseling from University of Colorado at Denver in 2007 and became licensed (LPC #5647) in 2010.
So I've been doing therapy since 2007 and my professional journey has been a fascinating, challenging, and wonderful adventure. I started my professional life working with children and families in schools outside of Denver. During this time I also got to do crisis work in hospitals and a jail.
In 2012 I trained to use EMDR, a very effective approach to working with the effects of trauma.
From schools I shifted to working in medical practices doing integrated care with everyone from kids to older adults, working with the patients and their families.
I left the world of community mental health to focus on my private practice and building a company called Integrated Care Institute which promotes the mind-body connection by placing therapists in medical practices.
In 2020 I shifted my practice to focus primarily on working with couples and families. I feel both fulfilled and enjoyably challenged by this stage of my professional journey and it is a path I intend to stay on for a long while.
In 2021 I moved with my family to Israel which is why I see people in person here in Israel and generally not in Denver (except when I come visit).
Although the most important element of therapy is the presence of rapport between the therapist and client there are also many tools that the therapist will use in therapy. Among the tools and influences that I bring into the therapy experience are: Family systems, trauma informed care, EMDR, Hakomi, and EFT.
I am also the founder and head wilderness guide at Avanim Adventures, LLC. I started and continue to run Avanim Adventures with the mission of getting Jews out in to the backcountry
When not doing therapy, building business, or intently gazing at his navel, I enjoy spending time with my family, getting lost in the woods, and swimming in the Mediterranean, staring at the little fish that swim near the beach.