Tanya Kearns

Tanya joined the Office of Victim Assistance in November 2014. Originally from the mid-west, Tanya graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wartburg College in Iowa where she studied Psychology, Spirituality, and Youth and Family Counseling. After moving to Denver and working as a care manager to women reentering the community from prison/jail, she went on to get her Master's Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University Graduate School of Psychology.  

Tanya has experience working within a social justice and anti-oppression framework including serving as a therapist and advocate to survivors of sexual assault with The Blue Bench, Denver's Rape Crisis Center, as well as The Empowerment Program, where she provided trauma therapy to people in the Denver County Jail struggling with the impacts of trauma, addiction, and mental health issues. She also lectures on university campuses and throughout the Denver/Boulder community. Tanya encourages holism using an eclectic range of modalities including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt techniques, and Existential Psychotherapy.

As a yoga teacher, Tanya utilizes mindfulness and yoga practices as tools for healing. Her therapeutic philosophy is greatly informed by understanding power, privilege, and oppression. She emphasizes the mind-body connection, harm reduction and empowerment based models and is committed to health, healing, and justice.  Please note Tanya is not in the office in the summers.