About
George S Yerger, MA, LPCC
SōlRoot Counseling
Before becoming a therapist, I spent over twenty-five years as a professional tattoo artist doing custom work that required deep listening, close attention to bodies and boundaries, and the ability to stay present with people as they shared deeply personal stories during moments of intensity, vulnerability, and pain. Much of that work involved collaboration, attunement, and trust—skills that now carry directly into my clinical practice.
My interest in therapy developed alongside that career and eventually became a deliberate pivot. I returned to school and earned my graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, with an emphasis in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Psychology, at Naropa University, where I shaped my approach around somatic, relational, and depth-oriented trauma work. The modalities I use were chosen intentionally, reflecting both my professional training and what has proven meaningful in my own healing process.
I’m especially attuned to working with people whose sensitivity and inner complexity have often gone unrecognized or unsupported, and who are beginning to question long-held ideas about themselves and their relationships. I believe therapy is a co-creative act, one shaped through curiosity and discovery as new ways of understanding take form. I remain an artist at heart, and that sensibility informs how I listen, how I pace the work, and how I understand change.
I Specialize In
I work with clients navigating the long-term effects of complex trauma (C-PTSD) and repeated relational stress. Many of the concerns I work with are cumulative and layered, developing gradually over time—shaping the nervous system, sense of self, and patterns of relating. These concerns often require more than insight alone to shift.
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Working with individuals whose nervous systems have adapted to prolonged pressure, responsibility, chronic self-reliance, or sustained hypervigilance, often expressed through perfectionism or the need to hold everything together.
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Helping people understand and stabilize experiences of panic, unreality, and shifts in perception or consciousness that can feel disorienting or overwhelming. These experiences often arise in the context of trauma, unintegrated psychedelic or psychoactive experiences, or other non-ordinary states such as intensive meditation or spiritual emergence.
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Supporting awareness of present-moment patterns of activation, shutdown, or overwhelm while strengthening the body’s capacity for regulation and co-regulation.
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Exploring how early relationships shape trust, boundaries, and closeness, including the push–pull many people experience in connection.
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Working with harsh inner criticism and deeply held beliefs that formed as adaptations to early environments and can come to feel like identity, even though they are not inherent to who you are.
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Supporting artists and creatives whose inner lives are rich, intuitive, and perceptive, and whose nervous systems may carry the strain of heightened sensitivity, self-criticism, or prolonged pressure. This often includes creative blocks, burnout, shame around output or identity, and difficulty feeling settled or safe in one’s own rhythms.
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Working with the long-term effects of early relational instability, prolonged nervous system strain, or repeated experiences of unsafety that shape how regulation, trust, and sense of self develop over time.
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Supporting moments when familiar sources of meaning, identity, or direction fall away, often in the wake of trauma, major life transitions, or transformative internal experiences.
How I Think About Healing
My role is to support you in understanding your experience and to help create the conditions where your system can respond differently. This work is collaborative and paced with care, grounded in respect for your autonomy. We stay close to what is happening in your body, emotions, and relationships in the present moment, rather than pushing for insight or change before it can actually be integrated.
Over time, patterns that once served a protective role often loosen their grip. Automatic responses become more flexible, and identity can reorganize around greater choice and responsiveness. These shifts come through lived experience and relationship repair, not force or effort. My goal is to help you come home to yourself and lead the dynamic and authentic life you deserve.
Real healing
asks more of us than
understanding alone.
It invites us to
feel, to listen, and to integrate
what we’ve learned
into the body
& the present moment.
Logistics & Fees
I currently offer telehealth sessions and have some availability for in-person sessions in Longmont. Weather permitting, I also offer nature-based therapy sessions along the Front Range. Outdoor sessions may include a small additional fee to cover travel and related expenses.
I work on a private-pay basis and do not accept insurance. I am happy to provide a superbill for clients who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement. My session fee starts at $150 for 50 minutes. I also reserve a limited number of sliding-scale slots for clients who are committed to the work and in need of financial flexibility.
Training & Experience
Registered LPCC therapist in the state of Colorado
MA in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Psychology, Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
The Awakened Therapist, Level I: Foundations of Holistic Psychotherapy
Somatic Spiritual Gestalt Psychotherapy Training
Clinical Supervision II: Harmony Kwiker, MA, LPC, ACS
Clinical Supervision I: Harvest Therapeutic Services
Emotional Liberation Master Class, Becca Williams
Psychedelic Sitter Training, Zendo Project
