What is your background?
What is your style and therapeutic orientation?
How much do you charge?
Do you accept insurance?
What are your hours?
Where is your office?

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I have eight years of experience counseling others to understand themselves more fully and better their lives.  I have provided therapy to individuals, couples, families, teens and groups.  I started my professional career in the high-tech sales world, making the change to counseling in order to follow my heart.

I received my Master's Degree in Counseling with a focus on Marriage and Family Therapy from San Francisco State University.  My BA is from Middlebury College in Vermont.  I am a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor.

As the married mother of two children, I bring real life experience along with counseling expertise to each and every therapy session with you.  

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Relational
As a Relational or Interpersonal therapist, I work very hard to develop a caring, trusting, and honest relationship with my clients.  Therapists from this orientation often use the therapeutic relationship itself as a model for what may be happening in a client's relationships.  Often, the counseling dialogue itself is used to help us both understand the presenting challenges better. 

Systemic and Holistic
My training focused on community-based family therapy which addresses the system (society, school, peers, family, & self) in understanding client problems and developing solutions.  I may recommend in-home therapy for your family in order to best include all these dynamics which can impact your family.  I am also a firm believer in viewing the whole person in therapy.  A Holistic approach will take into consideration and may include in the therapy: overall health, fitness, diet, sleep, friendships, work, and other relationships.

Strengths-Based
As a strengths-based therapist, I believe in the noble intent of human interactions and helps clients to find the solutions within themselves, using their current strengths.  Change occurs also through the development of those strengths. 

Practical & Solutions Focused
I believes in addressing real-life challenges in a positive, practical manner.  If a solution is not practical (i.e. you wouldn’t actually do it), then its usefulness is extremely limited.  Work can then focus on identifying barriers to good solutions and overcoming them.

How much do you charge?
For those not using insurance, my fee is $90 per 50-55 minute session.

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I am a listed provider for Aetna, Mines EAP, Colorado Access, Colorado Health Plan (CHP), Compsych EAP, and Humana (Corphealth) insurance panels.  If I am not a listed provider on your insurance, statements can be provided for "out of network" insurance reimbursement or for flexible spending accounts (FSA).

A Note on Insurance:
Although it may sometimes be financially necessary to utilize insurance benefits to pay for therapy, there are several important considerations:

1. All Insurance claims require a medical model diagnosis, even if one doesn’t exist. This can affect or limit future insurance coverage and may inhibit certain employment opportunities
2. The insurance company, not you, decides how many sessions are appropriate for your treatment.
3. Private information, even under new privacy policies, is shared with insurance companies.

Thrive Counseling office locations:

Tech Center
7995 E. Prentice Ave.
Suite 106
Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Denver
1530 West 13th Ave.
Denver, CO 80204