TearsAndLaughter, LLC offers Psychotherapy, Spiritual Guidance, and Breathing Education in Boulder, Colorado and throughout the U.S. TearsAndLaughter, LLC invites you to experience the totality and richness of life. This work is not a path toward bliss, or a formula for how to live worry-free, but rather an honest invitation to embrace all we are, including pain and joy, struggle and acceptance, fear and longing, anger and love.

Incorporating powerful skills from a variety of body-mind therapies, knowledge from the neurosciences, and wisdom born in mysticism, meditation, philosophy, and spirituality, Dr. Afra Zmrhal supports her clients’ innate gifts of growth and healing through the embracement of body, mind, and spirit. Mysticism and the modern sciences may appear antithetical, but when brought together with mutual respect, form a powerful foundation underlying our concept of Self.

TearsAndLaughter, LLC, using such a respectful union of science and spirit, body and mind, offers a most direct and effective way to explore the totality of who you are and connect with your most authentic Self.

Healing involves the exploration of Self; born in stillness, nourished by authentic connection with others, and rooted in the path of awakening. The conscious exploration of Self takes place in a therapeutic environment of respectful challenge, acceptance, curiosity, and joy. Clients of TearsAndLaughter, LLC describe a feeling of being more capable, open-hearted, and present with what is, while being empowered and able to make conscious choices in life.

TearsAndLaughter, LLC welcomes individuals of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, communities, and spiritual traditions, and is respectful of the unique process and perspectives of each individual.

“Afra's greatest strength seems to me to lie in the expansion of her consciousness, in the love that flows from her so spontaneously, so irresistibly. In just a few weeks, she gave me such a sense of being seen and known and appreciated that I felt completely safe with her and able to bring up the scariest stuff. She keeps the container strong, so that I'm never swallowed up by what comes: an inner monster arises, for example, and I find it interesting and am able to relax with it and discover the energy of which it's made, energy that then becomes available for living. To put it another way, because she is awake, she helps me feel my own awakeness, which makes it possible to welcome anything – and what can be welcomed can be transformed.”  S. F., 67, Boulder, CO

"I have worked with many therapists.  Afra is special. She has a rare capacity to meet me wherever I need to be met, to work with me in my body, with my feelings or conceptually. She is deeply intuitive and empathetic with a wonderful sense of humor. Working with Afra is very efficient and very clean. She wastes no time or energy on irrelevancies; at the same time she is completely respectful of where I am and does not push me beyond what I can usefully integrate. I trust her judgment 
completely and would recommend her without hesitation."   M. P., 61, Boulder, CO    

“Afra’s unique guidance and support have helped me more than any other single thing on the path to health, wholeness and happiness. In her therapy she draws from her wealth of practical therapy experience and extensive academic training using a variety of tools, resources and information. However, I found the real healing asset to be her obvious deep and focused commitment to helping and supporting in a way that was sensitive to myself as an individual and my needs in the moment. She leads with her heart and all interactions were guided by her compassion, sensitivity and insightful intuition. Whatever my state as I entered into a session I always left feeling hopeful, energized and inspired by her positive and balancing energy.”  J. P., 41, Boulder, CO

"When I first started seeing Afra I was in a very devastated and sad place. In the last six months she has helped me recover the joy and happiness of life. Afra has an innate ability to see inside and know how I'm feeling, allowing me to find my way back to the surface and feel from the heart again. There will always be sadness in life yet it can be embraced along with joy for a truly unique life experience. She has enabled me to regain my personal power, a rare gift."  M. L., 51, Boulder, CO