Where Healing Happens

"There is a place in the soul that neither time, nor space, nor any created thing can touch...an inner kind of sanctuary...There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there is still a sureness in you, where there is a seamlessness in you and where there is a confidence and a tranquility in you." - John O'Donohue 

The highest goal of therapy is to find that place that exists in all of us through stillness, mindful awareness, learning, connection, and love. It is there that true healing happens.

Molly Ahern-Thompson, MA, LPC

Hello! I'm Molly. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor living and practicing in Durango, Colorado. I graduated with a dual Master's degree in Professional Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy from Amridge University in 2014 after doing a two-year internship at the Fort Lewis College Counseling Center. I was fortunate enough to spend three years on staff there as well. During that time I gained invaluable training and experience treating a wide range of individual clinical issues, running rich process groups, facilitating deeply meaningful multicultural training for graduate students, and providing clinical supervision for interns among many other things. I will forever be grateful for my time there. It is truly where I learned the art of therapy.

My path has been somewhat circuitous. I started out majoring in psychology, but veered off that course for a time during which I studied a variety of subjects including language and religion and spent time raising my two babies. Eventually my passion to become a counselor could no longer be suppressed and the doors necessary to make that happen opened.

Hearing people's stories is what I truly love to do. That is why I became a counselor. That is what I would want to spend my time doing even if it wasn't my career. Human beings are complex, that is true. And we are beautiful in endless ways, good when all is stripped away, and valuable beyond anything else in all of creation. To know and be known is one of the sweetest experiences of life. Along with being loved and securely belonging to other human beings.

I hope my work gives these kind of gifts. To spend my life being poured out in this way is the highest honor and most satisfying pursuit I can imagine. Mark Twain said, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." I believe this is part of why I am here on this earth. My work is my calling. It is my passion. What I do is who I am. I am so grateful to get to do this work. 

Inrto photo by Brumley & Wells  | Portrait by The Wells Makery