About Us

Deepwell Psychotherapy was founded on a simple truth: the deeper we are go, the more purity we find.

A well does not offer its purest water at the surface. It requires patience, courage, and a willingness to dig below what is immediately visible. In much the same way, meaningful healing often asks us to move beyond symptoms and coping strategies and into the deeper layers of our emotional lives — our unconscious patterns, early wounds, relational templates, and spiritual longings. At Deepwell, we believe that when this deeper work is approached with care, safety, and skill, it becomes a source of clarity, vitality, and renewal.

Just as importantly, a well is not meant to remain sealed or hidden. Water that stays buried beneath layers of rock and earth cannot nourish anything beyond itself. Many of the protective layers we carry — defenses formed in response to pain, loss, or danger — once served an essential purpose. Over time, however, they can keep what is most alive, generous, and true within us locked away. At Deepwell, our work is not only about accessing what is pure and vital within, but about bringing that aliveness into relationship, work, creativity, and the world around us, where it can flow outward and be shared.

Deepwell Psychotherapy was created by Ryan Welborn, LPC, as a practice devoted to depth-oriented, relational, and integrative therapy. Ryan’s path as a therapist has been shaped not only by clinical training, but by years spent in wild and remote landscapes — places where simplicity, presence, and inner truth become unavoidable. Long-distance journeys on trails such as the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Camino del Norte, GR20, and the Haute Route offered more than physical challenge; they became sustained encounters with fear, resilience, grief, meaning, and awe. These experiences deeply inform the spirit of Deepwell: an understanding that growth happens through sustained engagement, not quick fixes.

Ryan later worked as a naturalist at an outdoor school, teaching children to attune to the natural world and their place within it. This further shaped a therapeutic orientation grounded in mindfulness, embodied awareness, and respect for the rhythms of both psyche and environment. His graduate training at Naropa University in Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy provided a formal foundation for integrating mind, body, emotion, and spirit — an approach that continues to guide the practice today.

Clinically, Deepwell Psychotherapy is informed by experience across multiple levels of care, from private practice to intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs. The work here is both practical and deep: offering tools for stabilization and symptom relief, while also creating space for deeper emotional processing and long-term change. Our clinicians draw from evidence-based and experiential approaches, including attachment-based therapy, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), mindfulness-informed practices, and relational models for couples influenced by the work of John Gottman and Stan Tatkin.

At its heart, Deepwell Psychotherapy is a relational practice. We believe healing happens in the presence of safety, curiosity, and authentic connection. We aim to meet clients where they are — whether they are seeking grounding during a difficult season, support in a relationship, or a deeper encounter with parts of themselves that have long remained buried.

We see therapy not as a process of “fixing,” but as an act of returning and releasing — returning to emotional truth and inner vitality, and releasing what has kept that vitality hidden. Our role is to help you dig with care, listen closely, and support the movement of what is most alive within you back into the world, where it can genuinely sustain both you and those around you.

720-675-9364

Ryanwelborncounseling@gmail.com

6690 W 38th Ave.

Wheat Ridge, CO, 80033