From the Orchestra Hall to the Therapy Room: Why I Started Bünte Behavioral Health

Hi, I'm Benjamin. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, a Doctoral Candidate, and the person behind Bünte Behavioral Health here in Englewood, Colorado (Inverness). But before any of that, I was a guy hauling a giant wooden instrument up and down concert hall stairs.

Let me explain.

First, I was a bassist.

For years, my life was the double bass and professional classical performance. I learned what high achievement actually costs and what it feels like to be "the talented one" while quietly exhausted. (Spoiler: a lot of the high-achieving clients I work with now know this feeling intimately.)

Then, I taught teenagers for almost a decade.

I traded the orchestra pit for the public school classroom and spent nearly ten years with teenagers as an Orchestra Director — which, if you've ever met a teenager, you'll recognize as either heroic or unhinged. Probably both. What I found there changed everything: a whole lot of brilliant, funny, capable kids who'd been told something was wrong with them. They weren't broken. They were neurodivergent, anxious, burned out, or just wired in a way the system wasn't built for. They needed someone in their corner who got it.

So I became that person. Officially this time.

Now, I do this.

Bünte Behavioral Health is a neurodivergent-affirming therapy practice in Englewood serving teens (12+), adults, and couples in person and via telehealth across Colorado. I work especially with neurodivergent people (Neuro-Spicy as I like to affectionately call them) and high-achievers, because those two worlds overlap more than people think, and because I've lived in both (I rock ADHD like a boss).

Here's my actual why, the thing under all of it:

I don't think you're broken. I think you're colorful. (Bünte is German for exactly that: colorful, vivid, more-than-one-thing. Felt fitting.) My job isn't to sand down your edges so you fit some beige idea of "normal." It's to help you understand how your brain works, how to work with it rather than against it, and build a life that actually fits you.

No pathologizing. No couch-and-clipboard energy. Just honest, strength-based work with someone who's been the overachiever running on fumes and came out the other side.

If any of this sounds like you: you're a teen who's tired of being "the problem," an adult who's high-functioning right up until you're not, or a couple trying to actually hear each other again, I'd love to meet you.

Take a look around, read a little, and when you're ready, reach out. Let's fucking go.

— Benjamin