Loren Arienne Uecker
Compassion & Presence
Lying next to my mother as she prepared to cross over, I awakened to a calling to the transitions of life & death. Bearing witness to her passage, I felt as if one of my two eyes, previously shrouded, was given sight. In the inextricable dance between the energies of life & death, I had been shown the face of death, and could now see life's face more intimately.
My longing to stay close to the Mystery I witnessed my mother die into, led me on a 22-year journey, beginning with hospice volunteering, unfolding into graduate interfaith chaplaincy studies at Naropa University’s Divinity School, followed by 15 years of serving as a professional hospice spiritual counselor and end-of-life midwife.
Along this journey, I became steeped in the following heart-studies, which now form the alchemy of my private practice:
- Body-oriented psychotherapies
- IFS--Internal Family Systems
- Grief & loss counseling
- Shamanic healing modalities
- Mindfulness meditation & Buddhist-based contemplative practices
My areas of specialization include:
- Loss & Grief
- Life transitions
- Spiritual emergence
- Shamanic healing & ceremony
- Shamanic journeying & skill building toward accessing spiritual partnerships
- Psychedilic preparation & integration
**Please note: I do not sit for psychedelic medicinal sessions, but rather support the before & after work necessary for successful integration of medicine work my clients are engaging elsewhere.
Accreditations & Training
Core Education
**Loren is registered as an Unlicensed Psychotherapist in the State of CO.
- Masters of Divinity degree from Naropa University, 2007
- Ordained as a Buddhist Minister by the IOBM (International Order of Buddhist Monks), 2014
- 3-Year Professional Shamanic Practitioner training, "The Art & Practice of Shamanic Healing" with Julie M. Kramer, 2017-2019
- Qualified Meditation Instructor since 2006
- Level IV Healing Touch practitioner
Additional Trainings
- Effortless Mindfulness Level I training, Effortless Mindfulness Institute & Loch Kelly, Oct., 2024
- IFS (Internal Family Systems) Level I training, with Internal Family System Institute, 2022-2023
- Ceremony & Rites of Passage 9 month Global Training, with Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute & Nature Knows, 2021-2022
- Comprehensive Bereavement Skills training with Alan Wolfelt, Center for Loss & Life Transitions, Fort Collins, CO., June, 2019
- Grief Companioning Skills training with Alan Wolfelt, Center for Loss & Life Transitions, Fort Collins, CO., June 2019
- Body-Mind Psychotherapy training with Susan Aposhyan, Boulder, CO, 2013-2015
- "Sacred Call of The Healer" year-long training, with Julie Kramer, Boulder, CO, 2011-2012
- Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI), Wellness Educator Program with Donald Epstein, Westminster, CO, 2011
- Completed 5 units of Clinical Pastoral Education as hospital resident chaplain at St. Anthony’s Hospitals, Denver, 2007-2008
- Advanced Buddhist Seminary, Dharma Ocean, Crestone, CO, 2005
- Formal apprenticeship in the Discipline of Authentic Movement, with Janet Adler, Sebastopol, CA. 1999-2004
