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Colin has worked with adolescents and young adults for 15 years, and recognizes how pivotal the developmental years are. Colin specializes in working with middle and high school students, couples, and young adults. He mostly works with clients who are dealing with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, or significant life decisions. Colin is Prepare-Enrich certified and can offer helpful tools to couples who wish to do premarital counseling. He believes his clients are the experts of their own stories, and is honored to walk alongside them as they learn more about themselves and seek to re-write parts of their story.

Colin believes that everyone is searching for purpose and relational connection. He works to promote self-care for his clients, while determining what healthy relationships can look like in their lives. By examining relational patterns, caring for self, and setting realistic and attainable goals, clients can experience more sustainable personal health.

As a therapist, Colin’s desire is to help empower clients with tools that are necessary to find healing from underlying fear and shame that can burden their daily lives. He believes that finding healing is a holistic process, and that people need to draw on many different levels of support in that process.

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Dawna has worked with children, teens, adults, and couples. She is passionate about mental health and empowering people to be the best version of themselves. She believes that therapy is about helping you with new skills, challenging your thinking, seeing new perspectives, and supporting you to make changes in your life and relationships. Dawna is a Gottman Level 2 Certified relationship counselor and uses other approaches such as Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Internal Family Systems to help clients with grief, anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, parenting, relationship issues, and other life transitions. Life can get overwhelming, but you don’t have to figure it out alone.

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Liz has experience working with teens, adults, and couples. She supports individual clients with depression, anxiety, stress, self-doubt, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She assists couples with a range of concerns, including emotional disconnection, conflict management, physical intimacy, and co-parenting.

Using a strengths-based approach, Liz helps clients recognize and apply their unique gifts in order to make positive change. Along the way, Liz creates space for processing difficult emotions and offers practical tools that promote personal and relational growth.

When she’s not in the office, Liz enjoys family time, walks with her dog, and outdoor adventures.

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Hello and bienvenidos! I am a bilingual and bi-literate Mexican American Latina. I am also the daughter of immigrant parents. My experience has consisted of working with diverse families and individuals who have survived a traumatic event. I am particularly skilled in working with the Latinx community while offering a culturally competent approach. I primarily work with individual adults.

As a social worker, I have worked in schools, non-profit organizations, and community mental health center.

I believe that people hold the strength and power to create change within themselves. I approach therapy through a trauma-informed lens to support you with exploring/processing different concerns and challenges in life. I aim to offer a calm and open space for you to be vulnerable and feel safe.

Join me in a 15-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit.

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Emily Fisher is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate in the state of Colorado. She received her Masters degree from California Baptist University in Counseling Psychology while training and receiving a Marriage and Family Therapy Certificate from Denver Family Institute. Emily works with couples, adult individuals, and adolescents (12-17).

Emily is a systemic, relationally focused therapist who strives to help all clients reach their goals through a compassionate, strength-based approach. She often incorporates Attachment Theory, EFT, Narrative, and other Trauma-informed modalities in her work to best support and serve her clients needs. Emily strives to make therapy feel safe for her clients while gently guiding them through some of their deepest hurts and biggest triumphs. She believes the therapy room is a place for clients to begin again in ways they knew were possible.

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Emily Bretl supports both individuals (adolescents and adults) and couples at any point in their own unique life journey. Her aim is to unburden symptoms of anxiety disorders, negative self-image, depression, stress, and burnout, as well as address issues such as grief, complex family and relational dynamics, and feelings of 'stuckness' and helplessness, which sit at the forefront of her mission. Through the use of strength and values-based lenses, clients will work together with her to understand, redefine, and rewrite their narrative of becoming. Her values of authenticity, community, humor, adventure, and justice strongly influence how she shows up both inside and outside of the therapy room.

She utilizes parts work that helps build on a working narrative clients have of themselves and aids in developing new narratives. She also comes from an emotionally focused place in relational and individual work.

With a post-graduate certification in Marriage and Family Therapy from Denver Family Institute and a Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Denver, her expertise is grounded in a solid educational foundation.

Emily offers a free 15-minute consultation!

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Lauren is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate in the state of Colorado. She earned her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and works with student counselors as a trainer and administrator in addition to working with clients as a therapist. After a decade-long career in the mortgage operations business, Lauren decided to go back to school to pursue a career shift into the mental health services field. She finds this work to be a perfect fit and deeply fulfilling. Her clients have described her as compassionate, insightful, direct and relatable.

Lauren works with couples, families and individuals of all ages to help them identify and examine the stories they’re living in that have become painful, disruptive, or limiting. She comes alongside those she works with to help them create new stories that honor who they are today and better serve their hopes for the future. Carl Rogers, the founder of humanistic psychotherapy, believed that all humans have an innate drive to grow toward fulfilling their potential: Lauren believes her role as a therapist is to facilitate an environment where her clients are equipped and empowered to make the changes they desire.

To explore working with Lauren, reach out to schedule a free 15-minute consultation call!