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Denver & Aurora Counseling by Colorado Comprehensive Counseling

Colorado Comprehensive Counseling: Providing licensed professional counseling and therapy services in the colorado communities of Denver, Aurora, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Foxfield, Parker, Englewood, and Littleton.

Comprehensive Counseling Services

1. Counseling
2. Seminars
3. Testing

>> Counseling Services

Individual Counseling:

I treat clients for; depression, anxiety, compulsive behaviors, grief, complicated grief (grief with depression or anxiety), trauma, low-self esteem, addictions, difficult adjustments, bi-polar depression and other issues. Sometimes you may not know what it is that you are facing, life just feels overwhelming. While, it is a good idea to come in before a crisis many wait until then. There is no judgment in my office. Only a place to feel understood and cared for as you explore issues of concern. However, I may challenge your line of thinking if I see that it is destructive or unhealthy for you. For rates and insurance see the FAQ page.

Women’s Counseling:

Women experience a variety of stressors unique to women. I treat women for issues that are specific to women such as sexual abuse, rape trauma, body image, post-partum depression or depression during pregnancy.

Couple's Counseling:

Many couples will benefit from 3-6 months of counseling. I treat couples with communication problems, and issues related to disillusionment with the marriage. Couples often wait until they are nearly ready to sign divorce papers to come in. However, if you are experiencing difficulty in your marriage it may benefit you to come in before you feel it is too late to work it out. Often a few things need to be addressed and within a few sessions couples often feel some relief. Sometimes longer term counseling is needed and some individual sessions may help as well.

Couple's Intensive's:

I now offer 3 hour intensive counseling appointments for couples. It often feels that 1 hour appointment is a short time frame for couples in crisis. There are often multiple issues that need to be addressed and progress can feel slow. Couples in crisis often want relief and quickly. A three hour individual session can help couples address some important items and learn some needed skills to weather the storms. If you are interested in an intensive session please contact me for prices and times.

Children and teens:

I treat children and teen girls with adjustment issues such as facing the divorce of parents, a significant move, or loss of a loved one. Other concerns may also include eating disorders, cutting, mood swings or other issue. Modalities that I use for kids include, projective play therapy, sand-tray therapy, art therapy, and the Talking Feeling Doing Psychotherapeutic game for children. Teens prefer talk therapy, journaling, and art therapy. Usually just a few sessions can help kids sort through issues of concern. Sometimes longer term therapy is recommended.

Premarital Counseling:

Premarital counseling is a good idea to give your marriage a head start. Marriage is a lifelong commitment and there are important tools that can help you build a foundation that will last. I offer a set of 3 to 8 sessions for pre-marital counseling. The PREPARE-ENRICH test is an affordable way to highligh specific areas to address and a workbook helps fine tune areas needing specific work. Please contact me to help strengthen your marriage before it starts! http://www.prepare-enrich.com

Supervision Toward Licensure:

Throughout my years as a counselor, I have supervised interns completing practicum or therapists seeking to complete hours toward attaining their license. A state requirement in Illinois is 18 hours of Continuing Education on the topic of being a qualified supervisor. I have completed those courses. If you are interested in attaining supervision toward licensure please feel free to contact me.

Multicultural Counseling:

Individuals from different cultures will experience life through their unique ethnic background. I personally believe culture is a beautiful aspect of life. I make an effort to respect cultural differences and strive to understand subtle differences in ethnicity. I ask clients from different cultures to educate me on their culture and how it affects them personally.

Interns and Practicum Students:

Sometimes I supervise students who are learning counseling skills from area Masters programs. When I have students on board counseling services by the counselor in training are very affordable. Fees range from $5.00 to $20.00 when seeing a student for counseling. I have a practicum student starting January 2011. Please let me know if you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity for low fee services. I oversee all of her cases.

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>> Seminar and Speaking Topics

Seminar: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

6 Continuing Education Credits. During This valuable seminar you will:

Learn about stress and the body
Learn about adrenal fatigue symptoms
Understand compasison fatigue warning signs
Learn how to recover from burnout and compassion fatigue
Understand the stages of burnout

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>> Speaking Topics: Foundations For Marriage

This seminar covers several important topics for couples. It is affordable, effective and applicable immediately. Couples will learn to identify their bad habits and learn how to replace them with better ways of communicating. This seminar can be scheduled for 2-4 hours and is a cost effective way to improve your relationship. Contact me for more details.

>> Testing Services:

16 PF: Personality and Career tests

The 16 PF is an assessment tool to assist in learning about your personality traits. You can take several different versions of this test; personality, career, teen, couple and others as well. Let me know if you are interested in taking this useful assessment.

PREPARE-ENRICH

Prepare-Enrich is an assessment tool to help couple's identify a range of strength areas, and areas that need growth in your relationship. An accompanying workbook and counseling sessions adds strength and insight that can build tools for the future.