Therapy Services Anxiety & Maternal Mental Health Treatment
Get therapy from the comfort of your home by a therapist who gets it.
I'm Nicole.I help perfectionists, overthinkers and mothers overcome their worries to live their best life possible. Balancing Anxiety is my passion and purpose.
Individual Therapy for Colorado Residents
⪼ A session includes a 50-minute one-on-one session with Nicole to work on your specific treatment goals and whatever YOU want to work on. Whether it’s excess worry, parenting stress, or pregnancy support - the time is yours!
⪼ I accept most major insurances for payment, including Kaiser, TriWest, Aetna, Cigna, Optum, Oxford, United Healthcare, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and more! {currently, I do not accept Medicaid or Medicare.}
⪼ If you choose not to use insurance, I offer a sliding scale of $90 to $180 fee per session.
⪼ I do not offer traditional couples counseling, but do work with couples regarding pregnancy preperation and support and birth trauma processing.
My Session Fee Includes:
⪼ A clinical assessment that includes a diagnosis if applicable and a treatment plan for us to work on together.
⪼ Targeted guidance for how to relieve your symptoms and feel better after just the first session. This can include coping skills, stress relief techniques, nutrition guidance, sleeping suggestions, and more. The more we work together, the deeper we can dive and chip away at the root causes.
⪼ Ongoing monitoring of conditions, through ongoing clinical assessment and the administration of formal mental health questionnaires such as the PHQ-9 and GAD-7
Anxiety can feel like…
✖ You’re stressed, and you can’t relax.
✖ You can’t seem to fall asleep at night, and your thoughts don’t shut off.
✖ You find yourself feeling more and more overwhelmed, and yet you just keep taking on more.
✖ Your mind is racing with thoughts about things you need to accomplish, and it never feels like your best is enough.
✖ You want to talk to someone about it but you don’t want to burden the people in your life. The worry builds, and you find yourself feeling shameful.
Treatment can feel like…
✔ Get more rest at night and stop racing thoughts that keep you up and drain your energy during the day.
✔ Utilize coping skills for your anxiety such as sensory practices, thought-work, and interventions.
✔ Determine what is at the root cause of your anxiety and work past it.
✔ Create a self-preservation plan to ensure you do not experience symptoms in the future after discharging from our work.
✔ Get you the support you deserve.
⪼ Collaboration with my clients to decide what modality of treatment will work best {my clients are always in charge!}
⪼ Invitations to utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic approaches and Solution Focused Brief Therapy {and so much more!}
⪼ A safe space to talk about whatever you need to — really.
My Approaches Include:
Mothering struggles can feel like…
✖ You are lost and can’t seem to feel “put together anymore” aand you’re tired of others just brushing it off.
✖ You love your kids but mothering wasn’t what you thought it would be and you want a safe space to process those feelings.
✖ Your anxious about your upcoming birth and may have unresolved brith trauma. You spend almost all of your day thinking about this.
✖ You want to be the best parent possible but feel held back by your own trauma.
Relief can feel like…
✔ You finally are mothering the way you always wanted to, free of outside judgement or guilt.
✔ You feel prepared and excited about your birth or the next chapter in your parenting journey.
✔ You feel heard for the first time by a mother and therapist who has been there {from baby to adult, biological and adopted!}
✔ You are able to reccognize how your previous traumas are impacting your ability to parent have coping skills and language to use
My Specialities Include:
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder most frequently presents as having excessive worry, disrupted sleep, racing thoughts, stomach or head pain, and an inability to calm down or rest.
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Social Anxiety is a condition that refers to having an excess worry in relation to talking or interacting with others.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a disorder that is fueled by worrisome thoughts known as an obsession, which could include an obsession with keeping things clean or safe. An individual with OCD then also completes a compulsion to try to manage their obsession, such as cleaning frequently or constantly monitoring their home to make sure things are safe.
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Mothers can experience excessive worry from the time they find out they are pregnant to after their children leave. “Mom worry” is an area I specialize in and love to work with!
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Post Partum Anxiety is classified as having excess worry directly after the birth of a child. Closely related to Post Partum Depression, it is brought on by hormonal changes in the new mother.
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This includes processing childhood trauma, traumatic life events, birth trauma and generational trauma.
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Post Partum Depression is classified as feeling down, depressed or hopeless directly after the birth of a child. It is brought on by hormonal changes in the new mother. Working with a talk therapist can help you determine if a higher level of care is needed for your symptoms.
FAQs
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Psychotherapy refers to mental health treatment that involves non-invasive medical procedures. Psychotherapy is usually synonymous with talk-therapy as opposed to other interventions such as medication. In Colorado, psychotherapists are regulated by the Colorado Mental Health Practice Act. That act provides the below definition:
"Psychotherapy" means the treatment, diagnosis, testing, assessment, or counseling in a professional relationship to assist individuals or groups to alleviate mental disorders, understand unconscious or conscious motivation, resolve emotional, relationship, or attitudinal conflicts, or modify behaviors which interfere with effective emotional, social, or intellectual functioning. CO Rev Stat 12-43-201-9
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The answer to this question is unique to every individual, but you can guarantee that you will do a lot of talking. Once a treatment plan is developed, psychotherapy focuses on minimizes symptoms and uncovering underlying traumas and systemic issues. Clients who are being treated for anxiety could focus on coping skills related to reducing worry. Clients who are experiencing depression could work through grief with their therapist. No matter what you want to work on, talking about it usually helps.
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People are often surprised to learn that in the U.S. social workers provide an upwards of 70% of all psychotherapy services. Social workers adhere to a similar code of ethics that counselors and psychologists do. Social workers tend to take into account a broader perspective than those only trained in psychology. Social Workers utilize theories that analyze not only the psychological content of an individuals suffering but also their ecological environment. Social workers are also better connected to community resources and can help clients find other resources outside of just psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy does not work unless the client is willing to work with their therapist. If you do not feel that you have anything to work on in therapy right now, then I would not recommend you begin therapy. Attending therapy is not a decision that one person can make for another person. If you feel that you need assistance in deciding if you are ready for therapy or not, schedule a consultation.
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No. I do not prescribe medication and am not licensed to do so. If you are in the Denver metro area and are looking for medication mangement, I have heard good things about Peak Interactive Wellness.
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Yes, I partner with most insurance companies exlcuding medicaid and medicare. Be sure to specify what insurance you would like to use when booking your session so that I can connect you to one of my third party billing partners so that you can access in-network rates.
Everyone deserves therapy, and that means you too.
As of November 2024, I am ACCEPTING a limited number of new clients.