Alice Boertje

At the heart of Alice Boertje’s work is a simple conviction: the painful patterns people struggle with — disordered eating, substance use, unwanted sexual behaviors, compulsive scrolling or gambling, anxiety, depression — aren’t character flaws. They are adaptations, shaped by loss, harm, or experiences that left a mark. As a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Colorado Springs, Alice works with children, teenagers, adults, and families navigating these exact struggles, bringing specialized depth to trauma, addiction, abuse recovery, and mood disorders.

Alice practices within Formation Counseling Center, a trauma-informed setting where the clinical approach draws on depth psychology, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and narrative therapy. Interventions are individualized and may include EMDR, somatic work, mindfulness-based practices, DBT, CBT, art-based therapies, and psychodrama — chosen deliberately to match where each person is, not applied by default. The pace is calibrated to support safety and steady, sustainable change rather than surface-level symptom relief.

Alice offers both in-person sessions in Colorado Springs and secure telehealth, with Medicaid, many commercial insurance plans, private-pay, and sliding-scale options available. Free phone consultations are offered to help people determine whether the fit is right before committing.