Psychotherapy for Individuals,
Couples and Families
Expert Care. Personal Connection. Lasting Impact.
Compassionate Care Meets Specialized Expertise
Growth and change can be hard work, and therapy is a deeply personal endeavor. We recognize that a one-size-fits-all approach to treatment leaves most clients feeling misunderstood—finding a therapeutic environment that meets your unique needs is vitally important.
Our diverse team of doctoral-level clinicians is here to guide and support you through a wide range of psychological specialties, ensuring you receive the personalized care you need to build a life of greater ease and capability.
We provide individual, couples, and family therapy with expert care. We offer both in-person sessions at our Denver private practice and HIPAA-compliant telehealth options via Zoom.
Let’s Find the Right Fit
Finding a therapist you connect with is the most important step. Reach out to our intake coordinator, Carrie Simpson, M.A., to discuss your goals and match with the right clinician.
Evidence-Based Treatments Tailored to You
Our doctoral-level clinicians blend the most effective elements of various therapeutic approaches to build a customized treatment plan. Pairing their personal and professional strengths with a deep understanding of training in evidence-based therapies, they create a personalized path that works for you. Depending on your goals and our clinical assessment, your care may include:
- Insight-Oriented Psychodynamic Therapy: Going beneath the surface/symptoms to uncover, understand, and process complex, long-standing relationship and behavioral patterns.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Providing practical tools and actionable skills to help you function better in life, increase your ability to tolerate discomfort, regulate your emotions, and improve your relationships.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Behavioral Therapy: Identify and learn to shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to create meaningful change and more freedom in your inner and outer world.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Helping you stay grounded in the present moment, safely experience difficult emotions without judgment, and align your actions with your core values.
- Trauma Therapy & EMDR: Specialized forms of psychological treatment to help people process through and heal from distressing experiences. Some of these forms of therapy are more somatic (body-oriented) and help clients safely revisit painful past memories so they loosen their grip on the nervous system and present life experiences.
- Psychological Assessment: A structured process using interviews, tests, observations and other tools to build a clear picture of how someone thinks, feels and behaves—ultimately answering specific questions pertaining to mental health, diagnoses (such as ADHD or autism), learning or functioning.
What to Expect
The Initial Consultation
The first step is a free phone consultation with our intake coordinator, Carrie. This is an opportunity to share some of what you’re struggling with and hoping for in reaching out to us. Carrie is skilled at understanding each client’s specific clinical needs, explaining our approach to therapy and matching you with the clinician whose expertise and style best fit your goals.
Building Your Personalized Plan
Once you’ve connected with your primary clinician, you’ll collaboratively establish goals for treatment and build a personally tailored plan to achieve these goals. Depending on your clinical readiness and immediate needs, it might combine deep, exploratory work with highly practical, evidence-based coping skills.
Doing the Work Together
Growth requires deep engagement, but we provide a highly attuned, actively supportive clinical presence throughout the process. You will meet with your therapist regularly—either in our Denver office or via telehealth—to uncover deeper insight, master evidence-based tools, and create sustainable shifts in your daily life.
Please note: If it is important to you to work with a clinician who shares a particular cultural, social, or religious identity, or sexual orientation, please let Carrie know. We take pride in our diverse team and will do our best to match you with a provider who aligns with both your personal preferences and clinical needs.
What to Expect
The Initial
Consultation
The first step is a free phone consultation with our intake coordinator, Carrie. This is an opportunity to share some of what you’re struggling with and hoping for in reaching out to us. Carrie is skilled at understanding each client’s specific clinical needs, explaining our approach to therapy and matching you with the clinician whose expertise and style best fit your goals.
Building Your Personalized Plan
Once you’ve connected with your primary clinician, you’ll collaboratively establish goals for treatment and build a personally tailored plan to achieve these goals. Depending on your clinical readiness and immediate needs, it might combine deep, exploratory work with highly practical, evidence-based coping skills.
Doing the Work Together
Growth requires deep engagement, but we provide a highly attuned, actively supportive clinical presence throughout the process. You will meet with your therapist regularly—either in our Denver office or via telehealth—to uncover deeper insight, master evidence-based tools, and create sustainable shifts in your daily life.
Please note: If it is important to you to work with a clinician who shares a particular cultural, social, or religious identity, or sexual orientation, please let Carrie know. We take pride in our diverse team and will do our best to match you with a provider who aligns with both your personal preferences and clinical needs.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust
Truly Integrative, Universally Welcoming
What sets Denver DBT apart is our clinical expertise combined with a highly flexible, integrative approach to care. Our team is trained in multiple modalities to support clients engaging in deep psychodynamic work, processing trauma, or simply seeking a secure space to navigate chronic stress, relationship dynamics, and major life transitions.
You can see one of our clinicians for individual, couples or family therapy; you also have the option to add one of our DBT skills groups to your treatment plan for additional peer and skills-based support.
Just as our staff is interested in working with people with a wide range of psychological complaints, we also welcome people of any race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, political opinion, culture and subculture. We look forward to getting to know you and helping you deepen your understanding of yourself!
FAQs:
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach focused on teaching highly practical life skills. It is built on the concept of “dialectics”—the ability to hold two seemingly opposite truths at the same time. In our groups, this means we accept you exactly as you are today, while simultaneously giving you the tools to make the meaningful changes you want for your future.
Who benefits most from DBT groups?
While initially developed for and widely considered the premier intervention for borderline personality disorder (BPD), it is also highly effective for individuals managing anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, impulsivity, relationship problems, anger issues, eating disorders and ADHD. Ultimately, it is designed for anyone (from professionals managing high-stress environments to parents looking for support or individuals navigating life changes) who requires structured tools to improve emotion regulation and reduce reactivity. We welcome a variety of individuals to our groups and find that the clients who benefit the most show up regularly ready to engage with the material and wanting to learn/grow.
Is group DBT therapy effective?
Highly. Decades of research show that DBT is incredibly effective for teaching emotional regulation. Because it accelerates learning through peer support, shared experiences, and real-time practice, the group format is the clinical gold standard for mastering these skills. Most clients achieve the best outcomes by completing the full 45-week curriculum, with some choosing to repeat modules to solidify and deepen their mastery of the skills as well as their cognitive, behavioral and interpersonal changes.
Will I have to share personal information with the group?
You maintain complete control over your level of personal disclosure. Because this is a structured skills-training environment rather than a traditional “process” group, the clinical focus is on learning and applying new tools, not processing historical trauma. While active participation is encouraged for optimal learning and group cohesion, there will never be pressure to share about anything personal that is beyond your comfort zone
How large are the groups?
When choosing a DBT group/program, group size is very important. Many DBT practices facilitate groups that allow 10 to 15 members. We intentionally keep our groups small, capping them at a maximum of 8 participants. This ensures that you will get the individual attention/feedback that you deserve; it also fosters more connection between the members.
How frequently do the groups meet?
Our DBT groups meet once a week for 90 minutes. We find this steady rhythm gives us enough time to dive deeply into new concepts together each week while giving you adequate time to apply each skill to daily life. We do maintain a consistent schedule year-round, with occasional planned breaks to observe major holidays.