Natalia Aíza
Meet Natalia
Founder & Executive Director
Natalia Aíza is a multicultural, multilingual counselor with a modern approach. Her therapeutic style is warm and welcoming, but also practical. Natalia believes that therapy should be time-limited and goal-oriented. She aims to empower her clients and encourages both children and adults to be active participants in their own therapy. Natalia works alongside her small therapy dog, Miszu.
Natalia is a seasoned therapist, parent trainer, writer, and entrepreneur. Her core missions are to facilitate awareness and healing for those with OCD, and to amplify OCD competency among mental health practitioners. She is the co-founder of Kairos Wellness Collective, an innovative therapy center that specializes in OCD and Anxiety Disorders. In the last three years, Kairos has expanded to four locations in Colorado and has served over two thousand families and individual clients. Natalia also advocates for OCD awareness and provides free psychoeducation on her popular instagram account @letstalk.ocd.
Natalia has worked in Community Mental Health organizations in both China and the United States. She created a play therapy program at an orphanage in Shanghai.
Natalia is passionate about social justice and access to mental health care. She provided hospital-based therapy to children with serious medical conditions and offered therapy at a free clinic for the Latinx community in Westminster.
Currently, she offers therapy at Kairos Wellness Collective in Central Boulder.
Natalia believes in the healing power of exercise and the outdoors. Any appointment can be converted into a walking session in the trails around Boulder.
Natalia provides services in English, Spanish, Polish, and Mandarin.
Natalia is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC.0016740) in the State of Colorado.
Natalia currently serves on the International OCD Foundation’s (IOCDF) Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Action Council
Degrees:
M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Palo Alto University
B.A. Literature, Harvard University
Other Trainings:
SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) - Washington DC (October 2023)
CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) Suicide Prevention Training & Risk Assessment Foundations Course (May 2023)
DBT (Dialectic Behavior Therapy) Certification, Sedona AZ (May 2023)
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) Bootcamp w/ Steven Hayes, PA (March 2023)
EMDR Intensive, PESI, Sedona AZ (February 2023)
Ketamine-Assisted Pyschotherapy Training from Resilience Behavioral Health Solutions (Oct 2022)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Matthew Boone, LCSW, Rajinder (Sonia) Singh, Ph.D (June 2022)
OCD Training from The Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) of The International OCD Foundation (May 2022)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Academy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner
Professional Life Coach
Mindfulness-Based Stress Relief with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn
Parental Effectiveness Trainer (P.E.T.)
Laura Markham’s Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Certified
Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions
Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)
Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions with Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute
Gottman Method Couples Training - Level 1, May 2024
