Our Team

Learn about Our Therapists

Check out the Emotion Alchemy Team bios below. We offer Fully Licensed, and Qualifying Therapists. Note that Qualifying Therapists have completed all graduate work and are currently completing their hours to apply for their Full License. They are under direct supervision of Dr. Laurel Hicks, PhD and are very skilled and supported. Often a qualifying therapist can offer a lower fee which allows us to keep our services more accessible.

Meet LAUREL

Founder & Steward of Emotion Alchemy Collective

Laurel Hicks, PhD, LCSW, PMH-C, E-RYT, RPYT, CLD. (She/Hers)
Modalities & Specialties: EMDR-certified, IFS-informed, Psychedelic Assisted, Somatic-Based, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Attachment-focused, Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT Skills), Parent/Infant Dyadic, Psychodynamic, Transpersonal, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health.

Meet MARIA

Licensed Professional Counselor-Candidate

Maria Borghoff LPCC, MA, E-CYT (She/They)
Couples, Adults, Family Therapy, EMDR, Mindfulness-Based, Attachment-Focused, Perinatal Mental Health, Parent-Infant Dyadic Therapy, Yoga Therapy, Buddhist Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Expressive Arts, Somatic Psychotherapy, Neuroscience of Trauma, Reiki, Sound Healing, Sexuality Counseling, LGBTQIA2+, Transpersonal, Death & Grief, Psychedelic-Assisted, Adult Children & their Parents.

Meet KATHERINE

Licensed Professional Counselor-Candidate

Katherine Bennett LPCC, RYT-500 (She/Her)
Modalities & Specialties: Individuals & Couples, Wilderness / Nature-Based Therapy, Transpersonal / Spiritual, Nonduality, Mindfulness-Based, Buddhist Psychology, Pregnancy & Postpartum Mental Health, Grief / Loss / Death, Narrative Therapy, Mythopoetics, Ritual, Ceremony, Rites of Passage, Life Transitions, Existential Crisis, Psychedelic-Assisted, Somatic Therapy, Sex Therapy, Veterans, Neurodivergence, Autism (ASD), Personality Disorders, Borderline Personality (BPD), Sexual Trauma / Military Sexual Trauma (MST), LGBTQIA+.

Meet JAYCEE

Licensed Professional Counselor-Candidate

Jaycee Cole LPCC, MA (She/Hers)
Adults & Couples, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), EMDR with Couples, Somatic Psychotherapy, Wilderness Therapy, Nature-Based Therapy, Trauma (PTSD), Grief / Loss, Ritual, Ceremony and Rites of Passage, Transpersonal/Spiritual, Mindfulness-Based, Psychedelic-Assisted, Sex therapy, LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, Autism (ASD), Sexual Trauma, Adolescents, Life Transitions, Depression, Anxiety

The wound is the place the light enters.~Rumi .