Zoe Lewis

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Adding to our area’s rich store of wellness-oriented services, Zoe Lewis of Nederland brings to us Sole Talk Therapy, her wilderness-based private therapy practice.

Lewis had dreamed and planned to start such a program ever since she began working as a wilderness therapy field guide in 2007. Finding that “wilderness is a powerful and necessary force for healing,” she believes that “the natural world reminds us of our interconnectedness with everything that is. It brings us back to our core selves and our true nature.”

Lewis holds most of her therapy sessions actually outdoors, in the wilderness, where she will sit, walk, and talk with her clients in a private, off-trail location. She also offers sessions via Zoom, and in winter she rents office space for working with those who are uncomfortable meeting outdoors.

With her main emphasis on trauma, anxiety, and chronic pain, Lewis finds “that I end up teaching a lot of my clients about their nervous system, about why they’re feeling what they’re feeling from an evolutionary and survival-based perspective, and what to do about it.” 

She continues: “A lot of my work centers around helping people recognize their belonging to the human race, to this planet, and to this universe. Every person has within them an intact, healthy, whole self at their core. I try to help people connect with this true self, to help them love and accept themselves as they are, and to help them recognize their own brilliance, beauty, and value.”

Lewis clearly loves her work, telling The Mountain-Ear that the best part of what she does is interacting with “Humans! The people I work with are wonderful. I am so lucky to have found my way into this work. I feel so connected to humans because of the work I do. And also, it’s pretty incredible to have my ‘office’ outside in such a phenomenally gorgeous place.” 

The future for Sole Talk Therapy, Lewis hopes, will include psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration services. And while she focuses on our mountain community, she will continue offering Zoom sessions for folks all over Colorado.

To find out more about Sole Talk Therapy, you can check out Zoe Lewis’ website at https://www.soletalktherapy.com, or reach her directly at zoelewis@therapysecure.com or 435-979-3564.