Emotional Health

Master of Social Work with an emphasis on community practice, University of Denver, 2002.

Tiffany completed The Compassion Course through the New York Center for Nonviolent Communication in 2019 and utilizes the Nonviolent Communication framework in much of her work. She particularly likes NVC as an approach for self-talk and self-compassion.

An experienced counselor and emotional health educator, Tiffany’s passion lies in learning how to feel and process our emotions in safe, effective ways. Understanding and trauma-informed, Tiffany most frequently counsels those working with obesity and binge-eating, history of acute and complex trauma, domestic violence, abuse, depression, and anxiety. She has recently completed coursework on chronic pain, which she understands to be simultaneously a physical and emotional experience.

Tiffany utilizes a variety of models in her counseling work, favoring somatic approaches when appropriate. Tiffany often explains that she’s a Social Worker who works with people’s bodies, because often they hold the key to healing. In her work, you will find emphasized mindfulness and related teachings from a number of spiritual and meditative traditions, Polyvagal theory, the drama triangle and related work on co-dependency (including addictions), understanding core beliefs from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the abuse cycle. She completed the Kempe Center’s Trainer Training for abusive behaviors arising in childhood in 1999.

Hatha yoga

Teacher of Hatha Yoga, Temple of Kriya, 2016.

200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance. Experienced Teacher designation expected toward the end of 2021.

For more than half of her life, Tiffany has met herself on the mat and cushion. She took her first Yoga class in 1994, dabbling for many years until she found her spiritual home in the Kriya lineage in 2002. Tiffany practices and teaches Yoga from a full-being perspective, incorporating all 8 limbs of Yoga into her teaching and practice. Dedicated to the ongoing development on this path, Tiffany has completed more than 150 hours of continuing Yoga education since joining Yoga Alliance in 2017. Yoga is Tiffany’s greatest passion, and the core of all of her teaching.

Tiffany is particularly interested in balancing patterns of overwork and collapse, and in bringing the spiritual to life on your mat—and the rest of your life. You will find in her teaching a strong emphasis on high-quality alignment, mindfulness, and listening to your own wisdom. Tiffany teaches students with a wide variety of bodies and needs, and works hard to make the practice accessible to everyone, regardless of ability or experience.

physical fitness

Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist (FRCms), Functional Rage Systems, 2019

Primary Group Exercise, Athletics and Fitness Association of America, renewing 2022

Personal Fitness Trainer, Athletics and Fitness Association of America, renewing 2022

An experienced and enthusiastic fitness trainer, Tiffany borrows from a variety of disciplines to deliver effective and enjoyable fitness programming. She considers herself a functional trainer. A lover of many forms of exercise, Tiffany’s passion lies in personalizing workouts to make them accessible to all. In Tiffany’s group classes, you will find a wide range of ages and abilities, from seasoned athletes to those nursing injuries. Tiffany’s fitness programming is designed to enhance the body’s resilience to injury while improving strength, cardiovascular fitness, mobility, coordination, and balance.

Tiffany’s strongest fitness skills are in the realm of corrective and rehabilitative exercise. She has helped numerous people heal from a wide variety of injuries and illnesses, and manage chronic conditions with thoughtful exercise programming. She has a rich toolset from which to derrive programming that is specific and effective for addressing individual needs. She believes that there are many ways to be fit, and enjoys helping people find their own individual road to physical fitness.

Tiffany is a certified and experienced teacher of STRONG Nation™, Groove™, and Zumba™. In addition to her general group exercise certification, Tiffany is certified to teach groups by both TRX and ViPR (Institute of Motion). Tiffany has attended advanced human cadaver dissection with Anatomy Trains for the purpose of more deeply understanding the integrated function of the human body. You can find her group classes at Inspiration Fitness Studio in Golden, CO, and livestreamed all over the world.