Therapy for therapists in Denver

You spend your days making room for other people’s hardest material. This is a place to bring your own, with a clinician whose practice brings together complex trauma work and identity-affirming care.

It can be hard to be a client when you know how the work goes.

Many therapists come to this field with histories of their own, and many have already done a good deal of therapy. You might have language for everything you feel and recognize each intervention as it happens, and still find the same patterns showing up when you’re tired, when someone you love pulls away, or when a client’s story lands a little too close. Understanding the theory doesn’t keep old material from running the show, and sometimes it gives a careful part of you one more way to stay a step outside the work. Here you get to be the client, and the clinician in you is welcome to come along without having to be in charge.

Who I work with

I work with licensed therapists and counselors, candidates working toward licensure, and clinicians in crisis, community, and agency settings across Colorado. Many are queer, trans, poly, or neurodivergent, and want a therapist who won’t treat who they are or how they love as part of the problem. Many are also carrying their own complex trauma: the kind that built up over years in early relationships and family life, and that often shaped the very attunement that makes them good at their jobs. Some have grown tired of being the most trauma-literate person in their own therapy, and others are noticing that years of other people’s stories have started to settle in their bodies.

Privacy in a small professional community

The therapy world in Denver is small, and the queer and trans corner of it is smaller still, so it makes sense to think about overlap before you reach out. I see clients online anywhere in Colorado, which means you don’t need to live or practice near Denver to work with me. I do most of my own training outside the Denver and Boulder area, which helps me hold a clear frame for this work. And if we find in the consultation that someone else would be a better fit, I have a broad network of colleagues I trust and can help you find the right one.

Weekly therapy

Weekly work here draws on EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS), paced for complex trauma. We work with the parts of you that learned early to take care of everyone else, including the ones that keep you composed in session and sometimes can’t stand down at the end of the day, and with the memories underneath them. You don’t have to perform insight or arrive with a case conceptualization of yourself. Sessions are in person at my office on Speer Boulevard or online, whichever fits more easily around a full caseload.

EMDR intensives

A full caseload can make a standing weekly hour hard to protect. An intensive gives you one focused block instead: preparation sessions first, then an extended processing day with real rest breaks built in, then integration sessions afterward to help the changes settle. It suits one well-defined piece of stuck work, and many therapists find it easier to clear a single day than to guard the same slot every week. If you already have a therapist you value, you can keep them. An intensive can sit alongside that work, and I’m glad to coordinate with them if you’d like.

Fees and privacy

Weekly sessions are $200, and if you have out-of-network benefits, I’ll give you a superbill to submit. Paying privately means no diagnosis or session information goes to an insurer unless you choose to send it, which many therapists prefer. Intensives come in two different containers, depending on the size of the work, and you can see what each one includes on the EMDR intensives page. They’re self-pay and not covered by insurance. HSA and FSA cards are accepted.

Therapist note

I'm Alex (they/them), a Licensed Professional Counselor in Denver. I know how tiring it can be to hold other people's stories all day, and how odd it can feel to sit in the other chair after years of being the one who keeps a session on track. Here you can let me carry that part, and bring the pieces of your own story that rarely get a turn, at a pace that feels right to you.

Start with a conversation

A free 20-minute consultation is the first step. We’ll talk about what you’re carrying, whether weekly work or an intensive would serve it better, and anything about our professional overlap you’d want to sort out before we begin.

Book a free consultation

FAQ

  • Possibly, since Denver’s therapy community is small. You don’t need to share names until you’re ready, and we can talk through any overlap in the consultation.

  • It usually helps you trust the process, and it can also make it tempting to watch the work from the outside, tracking which phase we’re in. Both are common. When the observing part of you steps in, we’ll notice it together, and it’s welcome to stay close by while the rest of you does the work.

  • Yes, and that’s often an ideal arrangement. Your therapist stays your therapist. I support you through the EMDR piece, and with your permission I’m glad to coordinate with them so the integration happens inside the relationship you already trust.

  • Often what gets called burnout in this work has two parts: the real weight of the job, and older material the job keeps pressing on. We can look at both. The older material is where trauma-focused therapy tends to make the biggest difference, and it often eases the weight of the job along with it.

  • Only if you choose to send it. Paying privately keeps your therapy off your insurance record. If you’d like to use out-of-network benefits, I’ll give you a superbill, and what you submit is up to you.