ABOUT THE THERAPIST

Kendra Hill, MA, LPC

I specialize in working with adults wanting to process various challenges related to adverse religious experiences, rigid belief systems, high control environments, and dysfunctional parent-child relationship patterns. I appreciate the range of experiences I get to hold space for every day, but some of my specific expertise centers around Christian church hurt and problems related to deconstruction, loss of relationships and community, identity discovery, sexism, and purity culture recovery.

Hi! I’m so glad you found your way here. 

I know the road away from harm and into freedom is not always an easy one to walk, and it can feel hopeless and lonely at times for many of us. You do not have to walk this road alone. 

High control environments, church hurt, spiritual abuse, and religious trauma can often lead to experiences of feeling isolated, ashamed, afraid, and disconnected from yourself and others. Those of us who are wounded need safe, connecting spaces to get deeply curious, explore, and heal, without someone claiming to have all the answers.

We are people who navigate the world through our bodies, who hold memory in our cells, whose wounds go beyond our thoughts. Because of this I tend to focus on embodiment as a path to healing. Parts work, inner child healing, somatic approaches, creative expression, nervous system regulation and brainspotting are some of the specific paths we can take together to help you unravel from harmful beliefs and learn to reconnect to your most authentic self.  

 My interest in this work sprouted from the soil of my own wounds and it is one of my deepest joys in life to create spaces where healing can be found. I’d be honored to hold that kind of space for you.

  • I know what it is like to come from a history of trauma to what feels like a safe container. I know what it is like to exist in faith containers that start to constrain and constrict rather than expand with us. I was deeply involved in a campus ministry throughout my time in college and worked in that same ministry for a year afterwards. Through this ministry I developed my spirituality and my belief in God, but I also learned how to partition off parts of myself that weren’t acceptable to the system I was in – specifically parts of me that were deeply wounded. After I left that ministry and moved to Denver, my husband and I became deeply involved in a local church here. At first it felt like a bigger container but when I started my graduate program in counseling and doing my own personal trauma work, I began to have words for the patterns of control, spiritual bypassing, victim blaming, and oppression I was seeing in Christian culture at large. All of these parts of my story were catalysts for my own deconstruction of who I thought God was and elements of evangelical Christian culture.

    People like us often feel like there aren’t spaces to process- the spaces that once held us became unsafe or too small. Church hurt can lead to so many big questions that aren’t safe to ask friends who are still living in the context of the belief systems that caused harm. When we can experience connection with someone who wants to hear our story, who doesn’t judge us or spiritually bypass us, who empathizes with the harm we have been through, we can begin to move past the shame we took on and start to have the courage to untangle ourselves from previous ways of being.

    • Master of Arts in Clinician Mental Health Counseling, Denver Seminary, 2019

    • Licensed Professional Counselor, Colorado

    • IFS Informed Clinician, IFS Online Circle

    • Brainspotting levels 1 & 2

  • I probably buy french fries more than I buy vegetables, aspire to be a pro at every hobby I try (I was seriously going to be a ballerina at one point in life), adore Mary Oliver’s poetry, won’t stop listening to Taylor Swift’s Folklore and Evermore albums, watch Gilmore Girls on repeat (Stars Hollow is my second home), and seriously feel like embracing mystery is the key to my spiritual health (Mary Oliver has a wonderful poem about that).

 
 

SPECIALTIES:

  • Church Hurt

  • Religious Trauma

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Childhood Trauma

  • Relational Trauma

  • Purity Culture Recovery

  • Life Transitions

  • Faith Transitions

  • Christian Faith Transitions

  • Highly Sensitive People

  • Anxiety & Depression

MODALITIES:

  • Internal Family Systems

  • Somatic Work

  • Brainspotting

RATE:

  • $165 / Individual Session

 

  • Testimonial

    “Kendra is empathetic, wise, and most importantly, safe. She is a truly genuine soul; a well trained and effective therapist, but always aware of the importance of authentic human connection in a session. I highly recommend her if you’re looking to process trauma— especially religious trauma and the ways your faith beliefs may transition as a result.” - S

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