Meet Lena McCain | Founder & Clinical Director of Interfaith Bridge Counseling, PLLC

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lena McCain and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Lena, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
Interfaith Bridge Counseling, PLLC is an online mental health organization for tweens, teens, and twenty-somethings in Colorado. When I think about how our business helps our Colorado community, I immediately think of our values: Accessibility, Community, Advocacy, Belonging, and Collective Liberation.

It is through our values and our clinical approach that we are able to offer more affordable, liberation-based individual counseling and group therapy. At its heart, our therapeutic offerings offer a safer space for young people to practice therapeutic skills and social bravery alongside their community. In turn these skills and social bravery are taken back out into the world and used to advocate for a world that believes in connecting with others, sharing one’s thoughts and feelings, and developing a greater sense of identity, compassion, and belonging.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Here at Interfaith Bridge Counseling, we believe that mental health is a human right. It is to this end that we prioritize giving young people a brave and safer space for their mental health in our Colorado community.

As a person-centered, liberation-based mental health organization, we focus on long-term counseling that uplifts on changing behavior and includes a large component of overcoming white supremacy, including and amplifying disabled, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ voices. We do all of this while balancing being cost-conscious while also knowing we need to provide ourselves a living. Is it easy? Of course not. Between establishing a clientele from ground up, building a website from scratch, navigating relationships with parents and teens, and the occasional management of a crisis, sometimes it feels like there are challenges around every corner. One of the ways I have overcome these challenges is doing a lot of work on both my personal perfectionism as well as Interfaith Bridge as a whole’s approach to perfectionism. All of these challenges are things that can be met with “it’s a good enough response even if it isn’t perfect.” And we’ve learned that if we pour all our energy into responding to one challenge perfectly, we risk burning ourself out and thus providing a lackluster response to the next challenge. Interfaith Bridge is, at the end of the day, trying to model behavior for clients, parents, and the world at large a person-centered approach. This means that the client is in charge of the therapeutic process, so we are here as the guides for you to get to the desired endpoint.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
This is such a funny question because my best friend and I are homebodies and would almost certainly end up at my house at some point! But outside of that, we do very much enjoy a good iced coffee and an estate sale. So maybe we would go to one of Denver’s many coffee shops (Sojourner’s is a favorite of ours in the area) and then hit up an estate sale, it’s always so fun to see things that have been kept for so long to us, just the variety and you can meet some interest people at an estate sale. After that, we’d love going to a movie – we love a lot of horror movies or romantic comedies. We probably wouldn’t go to lunch, we’re definitely an evening-oriented organization, but for dinner we’d go to Golden Saigon or to hot pot.

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