Walk the Liminal path
for people pleasers in Colorado.
Your needs and dreams sit like your coffee: cold, forgotten, and given the empty promise that it will be enjoyed one day.
You Start Your Day With The Burden Of Other People’s Problems, A Pack You Are Willing To Carry. It’s The Noble Thing To Do, Selfless, And Helps You Earn That 3% Raise Every Year. Plus You Make It To 5pm Quicker By Working Through Your Legally Required 15 Minute Breaks And 30 Minute Lunch. With A Racing Mind On Deadlines Crushing You, You Accidentally Ignore Jeff And His Archaic And Dinosaur Perspectives As He Sighs When You Include Your Pronouns And How You Identify During Introductions. He Became White Noise A Long While Ago Anyway.
And there is your coffee. Just sitting there.
Waiting. Patiently,
Longing for you
Like The Way you ignore your own feelings, You Ignore Your Oat Milk Add Two shots with whip cream coffee’s Longing To Be Enjoyed, Appreciated. It Doesn’t Want To Be A Burden Upon You, So It Sits Quietly. You Take A Quick Sip, Never Long Enough To Actually Enjoy The Warmth It Fills You With.
If the answer were simple, Life and Previous Therapist would've given it to you already.
The “Atta Boy/Girl” You Get In Passing Tastes Like Emotional Nectar Directly From The Gods Themselves. You Are Starving To Be Seen, But Haven’t Figured Out Why. Past Therapists Have Told You To “Practice Breathing Deeply” And “Journal Your Thoughts” To Try And Get To The Bottom Of It, But The Directionless Sailing The Other 6 Days Of The Week You Don’t See Them Left You Stranded At Sea.
You’ve Tried To Commune With The Control Freak Underneath. The Anxiety That Transforms To Anger When It Slips Past Your Filter, So You Try To Be Punny To Hide The Monster Within. You Journal To Try And Get Close, But That Just Sends You Off With More Questions, Your Journal Filled With Side Quests Of Interrogations Unfulfilled.
you've been down this path before, and you don't want to do it again
you loved the community, but another trip to IOP and/or a grippy sock vacation are not things you are hoping for this time. You’ve learned so much from these spaces. what you really miss? The Support, The frequent contact, the continuity from week to week.
It was the full cup of coffee, warm and delicious, that satisfied your soul. You knew that your needs would be met and that the space would be help for you. You’ve graduated from that, but you need a space that can do the same for you.
But there isn’t anything in existence like that, so you take what you can get and hope it’ll work, even though you know the resentment builds further and further.
Even when you escape to try and find the truth, you get lost in your mind. The worries of the human built world weigh down as you search for curiosity again.
There is a fear that drives you to worry about others, take care of them, and make their needs more important than your own. You can’t quite connect where this fear comes from, but it’s been a companion for most of your life.
You don’t know any other way.
You long for a guide that walks you through the process of a healthy and well lifestyle, that balances the needs of others with your own care and desires, and that soothes the fear that causes you to abandon yourself.
Come explore a deeper path that puts you as the main charactera path to the place of liminality; transition from the old to the new
Join the hike down The Liminal Path
A new way forward that will help you:
- Go deep in your individual therapy,
- build the skills to manage the daily crisis and distress
- Learn how to creatively explore yourself and share bravely with other
- Seek haven in the natural world and experience it in a reciprocal way
- Have a guide with you every step of the way, available when you need them
Let’s walk the Liminal Path together, schedule now and show up, we’ll guide you the rest of the way
tim kelly, lCSW
licensed clinical social worker
Poetic Dreamer
Lead Guide down the Liminal Path
Howdy Hey, Weary Traveler.
I help fed up, exhausted, and resentful people pleasers with their crisis skills
I’m Tim. I built the Liminal Path for you, but I found it because I needed it. I got lost because I wasn’t honoring what I knew was right for me, and it fucking sucked.
So I went searching for myself and came back to what I knew has helped me: therapy, creative writing to find my inner wisdom, and nature retreats to fall in love with my soul again and the natural world that can witness it.
I've been lost before, and the Liminal Path helped me find myself again
I bushwhacked to create the Liminal Path, the first of it’s kind in mental health. I knew you were out there, and that you needed this new way forward just as I needed to get back on the trail.
It sucks that you’re here, but that means that you now have the choice to take a new way forward. It’s a path that will help you learn about yourself, push your comfort zones, and bring you to sights unseen. I’ve seen it come true for others, which means it can come true for you too.
I'm here to guide you to this place of transitioning into the life you long before. All you have to do is show up at the trailhead. We’ll bring the snacks.
Let's walk the Liminal Path Together
The clearly guided and intentional path to mental wellness, getting your needs met, and living the life you long for.
Life has many stops and along the journey, and a whole person program is no different. below are the different components that make up the liminal path. over a month you’ll get to experience the stops on this journey that meet the needs of your whole person. take a peak at what’s in store for you below:
Individual Therapy
It’s your classic 1:1 time, but I take the extra time to guide you to what is needed to ease your pain, find healing, and bravely connect with yourself again. We'll meet three times in a month, and You’ll have a space that is consistent, and place to be brave, and start down this new path you seek.
Soulful Stargazing Nature Walks
Practice your skills of slowing down, observing your senses and surroundings, and learn how to sit with the magic and mystery the natural world holds. one immersion monthly and You’ll find exactly what you need, whether it’s more energy & a rejuvenated spirit, insights into your deeper connection to the world, or simply a place to rest and recharge.
Wisdom Writing Groups
A group that teaches you more than just how to journal. You’ll learn how to articulate your and express yourself in a group that keeps you present and accountable to the change you want to make. two of these groups will help You confidently take what you learn from others into the world, after feeling visible for the first time.
Office Hours
message based support weekly during dedicated time to help you problem solve, explore further, and celebrate the wins. weekly office hours so You’ll have comfort knowing you have the support and practice asking for help on the regular. Because I’ll be waiting for you to message me.
You Also Get Access to Tim's Trail Pack
Tim's Trail Pack Includes...
Creative Compass Sheet
- Concrete tips to help you creatively explore in between sessions
Trail Blaze Binder
- 8 guided poetry sessions you can do at any time.
Stargazing Map
- Take Home Soulful Stargazing Kit that will walk you through crafting your own retreat session anywhere in the world,
Crafted Coping Skills
- A handmade clay cup that connects you to us in spirit with a grounding practice to keep you connect to yourself
Snacks for the Trail
- Coffee, Tea, and Snacks for all of the time we spend together.
I Told you I'd Bring the Snacks Now All You Have To Do Is Show Up
common questions
Often the first, and very important question. So I’ll keep it straight:
The costs average out to $250 a week paid monthly at $1,000. This covers all three individual therapy sessions, two wisdom writing groups, Soulful Stargazing Nature Walks, and office hour sessions in the for the whole month.
This does not include the use of EAP plans and/or insurance, which I talk about in the next two questions.
If you wanna talk about weekly payments, we can have that discussion too.
I sure do! The Liminal Path has been designed to be all encompassing and provide care directly to you. That means you get the benefit of having my time when you need it. We’ll have secure messaging platform to keep your privacy.
I sure do! I’m credentialed with Lyra Health EAP and for Individual Therapy.
If you do not have Lyra through your employer, be sure to ask your partner or whomever you get your insurance through about their EAP. Benefits are typically available for the person working for the company AND their family.
Group therapy is not covered EAP services and still payed out of network.
The short answer? Probably.
The Long Answer: I’m consider Out Of Network with all commercial insurances, meaning I don’t get paid by them. My Obligation is to you. Some insurances have Out of Network Benefits, typical if you have a PPO. If you don’t have this, then we can work to get what’s called a Single Case Agreement to get our considered ‘in-network’
Additionally, if you have Either Lyra Health EAP or Spring Health EAP, you individual therapy may be free for the first 6-12 sessions, and then covered by insurance afterwards.
I get it, groups give you the heeby jeebies and make you uncomfortable. The Liminal Path has been designed intentionally, to include all of the elements that come along with it. Take one of the portions out is like only halfway packing for a camping trip. It’ll be incomplete, miserable, and you’ll end early.
It sure is. But how much are you willing to invest into your mental health?
I help all kinds of people. If you are a
- people pleaser, need hider
- minimizer of your own emotions or experiences
- need more support than just 1:1 therapy
- Identifiy as a I-Don’t-Know-How-To-Ask-For-Help-and-don’t-want-to-burden-everyone-with-my-shit-for-because-what-i-have-is-traumatic-and-hurt-me-so-i-don’t-want-to-hurt-others type of person, then i’m here for you.
Then I’m here for you. But if it helps, I’ll write down some different populations/people i’ve worked with before.
Populations:
- Business workers and professionals stuck in the daily grind and have lost who they are
- EMTs and Paramedics, Firefighters, Law Enforcement, Nurses, and Doctors who are burned from patient care and want to learn how to care for themselves
- Students, teachers, and education professionals who are exhausted by the system they work in.
- Exchausted tech workers with demanding jobs and poor work boundaries
- and many more…
As fare as a diagnosis goes, they tend to be focused on getting your bills paid by the sinsurance companies and don’t quite fit current mental health needs. so Fuck Big Insurnace and Healthcare. BUT many people I meet and work with carry or find themselves meeting criteria for:
- Depression & Anxiety
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- PTSD
- Complex PTSD
- In Recovery from Addiction
- ADHD
- Other forms of Neurodiversity