Online Therapy in Colorado
The same licensed therapist every week — not whoever the algorithm assigns this month. You'll know their name, their licence number and their approach before you book a thing.
What This Isn't
Online therapy has a reputation problem, and the big subscription platforms earned most of it.
Not a matching algorithm
You choose your therapist from a page that lists their name, licence, training and rate. If the fit is wrong you switch — but you'll never be silently reassigned.
Not a rotating cast
The same person, every week, for as long as the work takes. The single biggest complaint about subscription therapy apps is churn, and it's the thing we're built to avoid.
Not text-message therapy
Real fifty-minute video sessions at a fixed time. Messaging between sessions exists for admin, not as a substitute for the hour.
Not vaguely licensed somewhere
Every therapist here holds a current Colorado licence, and the number is on their profile. You can verify it with DORA yourself in about ninety seconds.
Not an app you have to install
A link in your calendar invite opens in your browser. Nothing to download, nothing that wants your contacts, and nothing on your phone with a therapy logo on it.
Not a subscription you forget to cancel
You pay per session. No plan, no monthly minimum, no auto-renew that keeps taking money in a month you didn't attend.
Online Isn't the Compromise Version
The assumption is that video is what you settle for when you can't get to an office. The research has been fairly consistent for over a decade: for anxiety, depression and most common presentations, outcomes are broadly equivalent to in-person work.
For a good number of people it is actively better. If leaving the house is the thing you're in therapy for, an appointment that requires leaving the house is a strange first hurdle. If you live ninety minutes from the nearest opening, the drive is the reason it doesn't happen. If you have a chronic illness, a session you can do from bed on a bad week is the difference between continuity and dropping out.
And there's a quieter advantage nobody advertises: people tend to get to the difficult material faster from their own sofa. Something about not having travelled somewhere, not having sat in a waiting room, not having composed yourself in a corridor first.
What online genuinely isn't right for: active crisis, anything requiring in-person assessment, and certain kinds of trauma work in the early phase. We'll say so on the call rather than take you on.
- ✓Equivalent outcomes to in-person for most common presentations
- ✓Better for agoraphobia, chronic illness, rural distance and shift work
- ✓Not right for active crisis or work needing in-person assessment
- ✓You need a private space and headphones — that's the real requirement
Four Steps, About a Week
Most people have their first session within eight days of enquiring.
Pick a therapist
Read the profiles — name, licence number, training, what they actually work with, and their rate. Choose on your own judgement rather than being assigned.
A free 15-minute call
Video or phone, with the therapist you chose. Ask whatever you need. If the fit isn't right, switching now costs nothing and nobody takes it personally.
Check your setup
We'll send a test link. It takes two minutes and it means the first session isn't spent troubleshooting audio, which is a genuinely bad way to spend session one.
A fixed weekly slot
The same day and time each week, held for you. Same therapist, same hour, until the work is done and you decide to stop.
What We Work With
Adults, individually. We're deliberately not a directory of everything.
We see adults only, and only Colorado residents — that's a licensure requirement, not a preference.
The Practical Bit Nobody Covers
What you actually need for this to work well.
A room with a door
Not a shared kitchen table. If home has no private space, a parked car works better than people expect and a fair number of our clients use one. Say so and we'll plan around it.
Headphones, not speakers
This matters more than camera quality. Headphones stop the audio leaking into the next room and stop the echo that makes people talk over each other.
Ten minutes either side
The commute used to do the settling and the decompressing. Without it people go straight from a work call into therapy and back out again. Block the buffer in your calendar.
A plan for a bad connection
It happens to everyone eventually. We'll agree at the start that if video drops we finish on the phone, so nobody spends ten minutes rejoining a call in a difficult moment.
Why We Can Only See Colorado Residents
This trips up almost everyone, and the big platforms are quiet about it because it's inconvenient.
Therapy is licensed by state, and the rule follows where the client physically is at the moment of the session — not where the therapist is, and not where the client's mail goes. A therapist licensed in Colorado can see you in Alamosa and cannot see you in Cheyenne, even if you drove there this morning.
What that means in practice: you can have sessions anywhere in Colorado, and you need to tell us if you're travelling out of state during a session week. It isn't bureaucracy for its own sake — it's what makes your therapist accountable to a board you can complain to, and it's why we put licence numbers on the profiles instead of just saying "licensed professionals".
If you're moving out of state, tell us early. We'll help you transfer rather than quietly stopping, and we can often make a warm referral to someone good where you're going.
- ✓The rule follows where you physically are during the session
- ✓Anywhere in Colorado works — all 64 counties
- ✓Tell us if you'll be out of state on a session week
- ✓Moving away? We'll help you transfer, not just stop
Per Session. No Plan, No Minimum.
Sessions are $165 for fifty minutes, charged per session. There is no subscription, no monthly minimum and nothing that auto-renews in a month you didn't attend — which is the specific thing that makes people resent therapy apps.
We're in network with Cigna, Aetna and United for Colorado plans. For everything else we're out of network and issue a superbill each month automatically. Typical out-of-network reimbursement runs 50–80% once a deductible is met, though your plan is your plan and we'd encourage you to ring them and ask about "outpatient mental health, out of network, CPT 90837".
Six reduced-fee places are held across the practice, weighted toward rural clients and people whose nearest in-person option is more than an hour away.
Cancellations more than 24 hours ahead are free. Inside 24 hours the session is charged, with the obvious exceptions — and we've never once argued about what counts as an exception.
- ✓$165 per 50-minute session, charged per session
- ✓In network with Cigna, Aetna and United (Colorado plans)
- ✓Automatic monthly superbill for out-of-network reimbursement
- ✓Six reduced-fee places, weighted to rural clients
Asked on Almost Every First Call
Does online therapy actually work as well?
For anxiety, depression and most common presentations, the research over the last decade has found outcomes broadly equivalent to in-person work. Where it's clearly not equivalent is active crisis, anything needing in-person assessment, and some early-phase trauma work. We'd rather tell you that on the call than take you on and hope.
Can I see the same therapist every week?
Yes, and that's the whole design. You pick your therapist from their profile rather than being matched, and you keep them. If the fit turns out to be wrong you can switch — but you will never be silently reassigned because someone left the platform.
What if I don't have a private space?
Very common, and worth saying out loud rather than cancelling. A parked car works well and a good number of clients use one. Some people book the 7am slot because the house is asleep. Tell us the constraint on the call and we'll plan the session around it.
Can you see me if I'm outside Colorado?
Not during a session, no. Therapy licensure follows where you physically are at the time, so a Colorado-licensed therapist can't legally see you while you're sitting in another state — even for one week. Tell us about travel in advance and we'll reschedule rather than cancel.
Do you prescribe medication?
No — we're therapists, not psychiatrists. If medication seems worth exploring we'll say so and can refer you to a Colorado psychiatric provider who does telehealth. Plenty of our clients do both, and the two work better when the people involved talk to each other.
What happens in a crisis?
We're not a crisis service and we don't monitor messages overnight. Your therapist will build a specific crisis plan with you in the first few sessions, including 988, your nearest walk-in and who you'd call at 2am. That plan gets made early, not after it's needed.
All Sixty-Four Counties
The point of this practice is the places an office in Denver has never been able to serve.
Fifteen Minutes With the Therapist You Picked
Not a screener, not an intake coordinator, and no obligation to book anything after it.
Book a Free 15-Minute Call
Tell us roughly what you're looking for and which times work. We reply within one business day, and we'll be honest if online isn't the right fit for what you've described.