About On Becoming

A Therapy Practice to Heal Your Past Through Meeting Yourself in the Present

On Becoming supports adults across Colorado who are longing to feel more grounded, present, and connected to themselves. This work actively engages the beliefs, patterns, and protective strategies that shape how you relate to yourself and the world, especially those that developed through difficult experiences and now feel limiting. The purpose of this practice is to offer trauma-informed, integrative therapy that helps you reconnect with your intuition, cultivate inner steadiness, and engage with your life from a place of authenticity and integrity.

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Who This Work Is For

For those seeking deeper healing, presence, and self-understanding

You have spent years trying to understand your inner world while still feeling anxious, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. You are thoughtful and self-aware, yet continue to find yourself in patterns that no longer support you. You may be navigating stress, trauma, grief, relationship insecurity, or meaningful changes in identity, and are looking for a grounded place to explore what is happening within you.

You are purpose-driven and goal-oriented, even if living this out has felt increasingly difficult. You rebel against the idea of settling or running on autopilot, yet have struggled to find a sustainable alternative. You aim to practice inspired commitment to growth and wellbeing, and long for authenticity, meaning, and fulfillment. You want support that blends intuitive guidance with structural frameworks & tangible change practices.

You are ready to move beyond coping to simply make it through each day and toward a deeper sense of peace, purpose, and embodied presence. You are seeking therapy that honors your whole self and helps you reconnect with what truly resonates.

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My Approach

A developmental, relational, and trauma-informed approach to therapy

My approach is founded in trauma-informed care and shaped by an understanding of human development, family and societal systems, attachment functioning, and the relational and survival-based strategies we learn over time. I integrate mindfulness practices, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, and structured dialogue to help you slow down, reconnect with your internal experience, and gently work through what has remained unresolved.

This approach matters because meaningful change requires both emotional understanding and physiological shifts. Together, we strengthen psychological flexibility, build inner safety, and address how painful or confusing experiences continue to shape nervous system responses, thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns. Rather than focusing only on insight or feeling better in the moment, this work supports trauma reprocessing that allows your system to respond to stress in new and more adaptive ways.

My intention is not to fix you, but to support your natural capacity to heal. This work is collaborative, thoughtful, and deeply human. It allows you to grow in alignment with who you truly are, and to tend to fears and pain so that all parts of you may become integrated and whole.

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About Emily

Emily Rotert, MS, LPC

Emily Rotert is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Buena Vista, Colorado. Her work is shaped by advanced training in human development, family systems and attachment functioning, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and trauma-informed care. She approaches therapy through a developmental and relational lens that honors the interplay between mind, body, and lived experience.

Prior to founding On Becoming, Emily gained extensive clinical experience working with individuals across the lifespan from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. She has supported people navigating complex experiences including acute and recurrent trauma, systemic oppression, chronic anxiety and depression, addiction, relational instability, identity transitions, grief and existential loss. This depth of experience informs her ability to work effectively with complex trauma, even when clients appear high-functioning or outwardly stable.

Emily brings a calm, compassionate, and highly attuned presence while remaining actively engaged and directive in the therapeutic process. She introduces structural frameworks and education, relational and emotional regulation skills, compassionate inquiry, creative perspective-taking, and experiential practices to ensure each session feels purposeful. Emily is passionate about this work as a fellow human engaged in her own self-discovery journey. She currently connects with her intuition and finds meaning through spending time in nature, running on trails, practicing yoga, listening to music, writing, traveling, & remaining curious to learn from all possible sources.

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Emily’s work is rooted in the understanding that every person holds an inner wisdom that becomes more accessible when met with presence, safety, and care.

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Supervision & Consultation

In addition to her therapy practice, Emily offers clinical supervision and consultation for Licensed Professional Counselor Candidates in Colorado. Her supervision style emphasizes a psychodynamic approach to focus on the provider’s experience of the therapeutic relationship, integrating trauma-informed care and reflective practice to address themes of countertransference and interpersonal dynamics. She recognizes therapy as a parallel process in which the therapist is evolving alongside the clinical work they provide.

Emily respects the responsibilities of this profession to help new clinicians strengthen assessment and treatment planning skills, develop sound documentation practices, attend to legal and ethical considerations, and cultivate a therapeutic style that reflects their values. She recognizes how deeply personal this profession is and aims to create a supportive space for both professional development and personal growth. Her goal is to support emerging therapists in building confidence and sustainability in their work while continuing to cultivate their sense of wholeness and wellbeing.

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