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About Dr. Rae Sandler Simon
Licensed Clinical Psychologist Founder of Live & Love Well™
I'm Dr. Rae Sandler Simon, a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of Live & Love Well™, a practice devoted to couples work and adult wellness in Colorado, Hawai'i, and across 40+ PSYPACT states. I'm a Denver native with deep roots in Hawai'i, and both places shape how I work: grounded, unhurried, connected.
Clients describe my style as honest, warm, and deeply compassionate.
How I Got Here
I began in business at Emory's Goizueta Business School and as a management consultant, then moved to the nonprofit world, helping refugees and asylees build new lives here. That work taught me that healing is never only individual.
I earned my PsyD from the University of Denver, focused on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and couples communication.
“My approach is intuitive, relational & real:
A culturally safe space where
your whole self is welcome.”
DR. RAE SANDLER SIMON
What I Know About Pain, Personally
I live with chronic pain and autoimmune disease, including two spinal fusions. For a long time I didn't see how much pain had quietly shaped my days, until I slowed down and listened to my body. Through mindfulness, movement, and support, I've learned to live with it rather than survive it.
So I don't only understand chronic illness and invisible struggle clinically. I understand them in my body.
Why Couples Therapy Is My Passion
My commitment to couples therapy is rooted in personal experience. I grew up in a family where love was tested and strengthened through effort and honesty, and I carried that into my own marriage of nearly 20 years. Thriving relationships don't happen by chance. They are built.
My husband and I have our good days and our not-so-good days, and we keep choosing each other. That is what I want for the couples I work with. Not perfection, but the willingness and the tools to keep choosing.
“Healing is never only individual.
It happens in relationship, in community, and in the slow,
courageous work of rebuilding.”
DR. RAE SANDLER SIMON
Outside the Office
I stay grounded through Pilates, hiking, skiing, reading, and time outdoors with my husband, our two teenagers, and our fur babies. I am a former mogul skier, which explains a few things about how I approach hard terrain.
I am an Executive Board Member and affordable-care clinician at Gesher Community Care. I also volunteer as the on-call psychologist for families at Brent's Place in Denver.