Humble
Warrior
Therapy
is a global community of people walking the path of well-being. Our unique approach combines the power of therapeutic practices and shared experiences to foster a deep sense of connection and healing.
Together, we empower you to live authentically while cultivating resilience & joy.
Our Values.
No Mud. No lotus.
This state of mind encourages us to see challenges or pain as a potential for growth, rather than something to be avoided. When we stop resisting our experience and lean in, we cultivate a more profound and joyful life.
Coming home to yourself
Within all of us lies a unique blueprint that only we truly know. Humble Warrior Therapy aims to bring you home to who you really are and what you desire for your life by clearing societal pressures, getting out of our heads, and turning inward.
Community
In a world that often prioritizes the individual and the digital, the fundamental human need for connection can be easily overlooked, leaving a void that breeds loneliness. Within community and shared experience lies a profound power to heal, uplift, and bring joy.
joy
We become so used to carrying baggage and suffering that we aren’t sure what to do when we finally let it all go. Humble Warrior Therapy guides you back to your North Star, to an inner knowing that only you know when you feel it — Joy.
Through this work,
you learn how to move
through your pain,
shed the layers of should's,
unbecome, and return
Home to the Love
that you are.
You learn how to liberate yourself from the suffering and the prison of the mind; you learn that a life of happiness and well-being is a labor, like all things in this world. It is a daily effort, a daily commitment to your peace and to your joy, that manifests through every choice you make in a given day.
From the second we wake up until the second we go to sleep, we are making a series of choices/decisions that will either lead us closer to our Highest Self/Love/God/Divine Energy, or further away from it - toward Ego and Fear and Negativity and Suffering.
It's a massive undertaking, every single day, to stay committed to our Joy, but when we do, all else flows beautifully from there. When we do, we can raise happy children. When we do, we can Light up the world.
About Rachel.
Buddhist Psychotherapist & Counselor located in Castle Rock, CO
Combining Buddhist philosophy, including techniques such as mindfulness, yoga, and meditation, with traditional counseling (“talk therapy”), Rachel Gordon helps clients learn how to quiet the mind and become present in their lives.
As a registered psychotherapist, Rachel Gordon, MA, MEd, is deeply interested in helping others achieve a joyful, fulfilling life. At Humble Warrior Therapy in Castle Rock, Colorado, Rachel combines Buddhist philosophies with traditional counseling to help clients find the deepest sense of inner peace. Her Buddhist psychology approach uses integrative, holistic techniques to address mental health issues and promote total body wellness.
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Rachel has lived on 4 continents, visited nearly 40 countries, and speaks 4 languages. She also spent a summer living in a rural village in Kenya, South Africa. Before becoming a therapist, she worked at a Palestinian-Israeli non-government organization (NGO) to help with peacebuilding.
Rachel has personal first-hand experience dealing with and healing from:
anorexia/bulimia
addiction to pharmaceuticals
alcoholism
divorce
pregnancy loss (miscarriage/abortion/TFMR)
depression and anxiety
Through her own journey of suffering, Rachel learned how to accept and heal from the various challenges she's faced.
She is a proud mother and step-mother, and she is married to her partner in love and life, Dr. Adam Graves, a Naturopathic Doctor and licensed acupuncturist.
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Rachel earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and then completed a master’s degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then a second master’s degree from the University of Denver. She has completed 3 years of a Ph.D. in Health and Behavioral Sciences, everything but dissertation (EBD) at the University of Colorado in Denver.
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At Humble Warrior Therapy, Rachel specializes in a variety of mental and psychological health issues, including stress, depression, and anxiety for adults.
She uses mindfulness practices, including yoga and meditation as well as traditional talk therapy, to help clients awaken to the deep sense of inner peace and stillness inherent in, and always available to, each and every one of us.
With the focus on finding peace and total wellness, Rachel’s services include individual and couples counseling, group therapy, and guided retreats.
She also provides the convenience of virtual telemedicine services for consultations via phone and Skype or Zoom.
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Since 2016, Rachel has lived every day of her life with the intention of staying connected to her Joy and being free from the suffering of the mind.
She finds Joy in ways big and small, every day all the time. Through laughter and playfulness; snuggles with her dog; time spent in nature; exercise; sisterhood; music; and more.
Rachel particularly loves yoga, snowboarding, and hot-tubbing; spending time with her daughter and bonus kids; dancing at the club; and Thai food in Thailand.