Mieszka Pittsley
Mieszka “MJ” Pittsley (she/her) is a Licensed Social Worker and US Army Veteran. After
witnessing numerous veterans struggling to navigate their new normal after traumatic or moral injury
events, Mieszka left her government career to focus on helping people navigate their post-trauma world
and help them build a new, stronger narrative to define themselves. Mieszka takes a trauma- focused
and client-centered approach and wants each client to feel safe to examine the existential questions
that arise after traumatic or moral injury events. Mieszka works with teenage and adult patients who
are seeking to understand their trauma response and develop a collaborative approach to reach client-
defined goals.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder,
Mieszka served in the US Army for 5 years then spent an additional 3 years as an Intelligence contractor at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Mieszka continued her career as a program analyst and found she was unfulfilled with her sterile desk job and sought to leverage her experience to help people who had experienced difficult life events. Mieszka enrolled in the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and her internships at the 988-crisis line and at US Veteran Affairs Rocky Mountain Regional hospital in Aurora, CO invigorated her passion for helping people in crisis find peace after trauma. Mieszka earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work with a concentration in Mental Health, and she is currently enrolled in the Integrative Psychology Institute’s Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Provider course which will certify her to practice psilocybin-facilitated psychotherapy under the Colorado Natural Medicine Act in Winter 2025. Mieszka is a MSC Level II Psychotherapist supervised by Amanda Baker, LCSW.
Mieszka and her husband are both endurance athletes and she spends her free time training for
triathlons. She is quick to tell anyone that she only competes to support her love for ice cream and
cheeseburgers.