About Sally

Sally Williams, M.A. is a psychotherapist based in Boulder, CO and the founder of Hidden Moon Healing. Sally’s approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that every person has an innate ability to heal, if given the right therapeutic relationship and tools. Through her work with people in correctional facilities and on probation and parole—people who often thought they had no hope of healing from or living sustainably with addiction, diagnosed mental illness, or persistent emotional and nervous system distress—she has seen the validity of this belief again and again. People who came into treatment feeling hopeless, frustrated, and stuck were able to create warmer, more respectful relationships with themselves through therapy, and to significantly shift their own painful and harmful patterns. 

Through this background, Sally learned firsthand how to hold space for intense emotional and psychological states. She learned how to discuss harm that has been caused without judgment or aversion, and how to create a space that is warm and compassionate while also asking clients to be accountable to themselves and to the therapeutic process. She brings this background and all the tools she’s trained in to support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsiveness, posttraumatic and complex posttraumatic stress, pain from problematic attachment relationships, postpartum mood disorders, major life transitions, addiction and substance abuse, and other painful and challenging aspects of being human. 

Sally began teaching studio yoga in 2011 and teaching people who were incarcerated in 2012. In addition to her 200-hour yoga teaching certification, she has certifications in Trauma-Informed Yoga and Yoga for Overcoming Anxiety. She has a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University (2009) and her master’s in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University (2017). She began facilitating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) groups in the Boulder County Jail in 2015, and doing individual and group psychotherapy with people on probation and parole in 2016. She is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and is working to complete trainings in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Somatic Experiencing (SE). 

About Sally

Sally Williams, M.A. is a psychotherapist based in Boulder, CO and the founder of Hidden Moon Healing. Sally’s approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that every person has an innate ability to heal, if given the right therapeutic relationship and tools. Through her work with people in correctional facilities and on probation and parole—people who often thought they had no hope of healing from or living sustainably with addiction, diagnosed mental illness, or persistent emotional and nervous system distress—she has seen the validity of this belief again and again. People who came into treatment feeling hopeless, frustrated, and stuck were able to create warmer, more respectful relationships with themselves through therapy, and to significantly shift their own painful and harmful patterns. 

Through this background, Sally learned firsthand how to hold space for intense emotional and psychological states. She learned how to discuss harm that has been caused without judgment or aversion, and how to create a space that is warm and compassionate while also asking clients to be accountable to themselves and to the therapeutic process. She brings this background and all the tools she’s trained in to support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsiveness, posttraumatic and complex posttraumatic stress, pain from problematic attachment relationships, postpartum mood disorders, major life transitions, addiction and substance abuse, and other painful and challenging aspects of being human. 

Sally began teaching studio yoga in 2011 and teaching people who were incarcerated in 2012. In addition to her 200-hour yoga teaching certification, she has certifications in Trauma-Informed Yoga and Yoga for Overcoming Anxiety. She has a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University (2009) and her master’s in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University (2017). She began facilitating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) groups in the Boulder County Jail in 2015, and doing individual and group psychotherapy with people on probation and parole in 2016. She is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and is working to complete trainings in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Somatic Experiencing (SE).