Support for Real Life in Fort Collins, CO
If you’re looking for Fort Collins therapy, you’re probably looking for something specific: a place to talk honestly, feel understood, and walk away with tools that can actually improve your mental health and quality of life. Woodswalk Counseling offers talk therapy and psychiatric services in Fort Collins, Colorado, and across the state, with care that’s warm, practical, and grounded in your strengths. We have a virtual care model that allows you meet with a therapist through secure telehealth, so support can fit into real life, not just the life you wish you had time for. And because our team includes clinicians with a range of specialties and styles, you do not have to settle for a one-size-fits-all approach. We’ll help you find support that matches what you need right now.
That matters because in Fort Collins and across Colorado, plenty of people are carrying more than they can hold alone. The Colorado Health Access Survey reports that more than 1 in 4 Coloradans report struggling with their mental health, and Mental Health America ranks Colorado 41st out of 50 for mental health quality and access to care. When support feels hard to access, it can be tempting to put it off. Woodswalk Counseling was founded with a mission to help close that gap with counseling that fits into your busy schedule, so starting can feel doable, not overwhelming.
We offer psychiatric nurse practitioner services for teens and adults in Fort Collins and across Colorado through secure telehealth. Clients often come to us for support with anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress and burnout, sleep problems, and the emotional impact of health changes or big life transitions. Care is holistic and person-centered. Together, we look at your history, current stressors, strengths, and goals, then build a plan. We can support you with a variety of skills that might include medication management, CBT, and DBT approaches, and lifestyle strategies that fit your life and unique needs and circumstances​
Flexible, Client-Centered Counseling
Our practice is built for people who want therapy that fits their life without adding another layer of stress. Your needs, your goals, your pace, and your reality matter here. That is what “client-centered” looks like in practice. You bring what is true for you, and your therapist helps you build insight, clarity, and skills that translate into everyday life.
We are very intentional about accessibility. Our model is designed to be secure, flexible, and easy to access across Colorado. That matters when your schedule is full, your energy is limited, or your life is already asking a lot of you.
You do not have to show up with the perfect words, a neat timeline, or a clear idea of a potential diagnosis. You can show up exactly as you are. Therapy here is meant to feel supportive from the first session, with a plan that is custom-made for you.
Therapy That Fits Your Life: Telehealth in Fort Collins
Telehealth is secure counseling from your phone or computer, from home or anywhere private. For many of our clients, virtual sessions remove the biggest barriers to consistent care. No commute. No rushing across town between work and responsibilities. No sitting in traffic when you are already drained.
Virtual therapy also helps you keep momentum. You can build steady support even when life gets busy, seasons change, or your schedule shifts. And because we serve people across Colorado with Fort Collins therapy offerings, you can continue with your therapist even if you travel, move, or your routine changes. For more on Telehealth at Woodswalk Counseling, visit our page: Why Telehealth
Our Therapy Approaches and Modalities
Counseling should not feel scripted or clinical. It should feel like a conversation that helps you understand yourself, change what is not working, and build skills you can actually use to improve your mental health and circumstances. Our therapists in Fort Collins, Co draw from evidence-based approaches, using their expertise to encourage a real positive difference in their clients’ lives.
Our Modalities
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This approach helps you notice patterns in thoughts, emotions, and behavior so you can respond differently. It’s often useful when anxiety is loud, stress is constant, or your inner critic takes over.
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
You’ll focus on practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationships. It can be especially helpful when you feel overwhelmed, reactive, or stuck in intense cycles.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
For trauma recovery, this can be a helpful way to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the way they show up in your body and daily life.
Mindfulness and Grounding
These tools help you stay connected to the present, especially when you feel anxious, scattered, or flooded. They are not about forcing calm. They are about creating steadiness and choice.
Narrative Therapy
This work helps you explore the story you’ve carried about who you are and what you’ve lived through. Over time, you can shift from a story that keeps you stuck to one that makes room for strength, growth, and self-respect.
Somatic-Informed Support
Working with the body’s stress response can help when your nervous system feels stuck in high alert, shutdown, or both. These tools support regulation and help you feel more grounded in the moment.
Specialties and Areas of Focus
Fort Collins therapy does not have to start with a perfect label. Whether you're looking for support for individual challenges or a relationship therapist in Fort Collins, it can start with a pattern you’re tired of, a feeling you cannot shake, or the sense that life has gotten harder than it needs to be. Sometimes you know exactly what’s going on. Sometimes you only know you want things to feel different.
These are some of the areas we often work with. Use them like signposts, not check boxes. If something here sounds familiar, it’s a good place to begin.
Anxiety, Stress, and Burnout
When stress and anxiety run things for too long, burnout often follows, leaving you exhausted, on edge, and not able to enjoy things you once did. In therapy, you can learn practical ways to slow anxiety spirals, steady your nervous system, and cope in the moment, while also looking at the root of your anxiety, what supports are missingin your life, and what it would take to feel more grounded day to day.
Depression and Feeling Stuck
Depression can look like sadness, but it can also look like numbness, irritability, low motivation, or feeling disconnected from yourself. Therapy helps you untangle what’s weighing you down and take small, realistic steps toward feeling like yourself again. You do not have to force big changes overnight. You just need a place to start.
Trauma Recovery and Healing
Counseling can help you process trauma of all types and rebuild safety, trust, and confidence. The tools we utilize with our clients in therapy, like EMDR, can help take the charge out of traumatic moments over time, helping you regulate and heal. By the way, healing does not mean forgetting. It means gaining freedom, agency over your story, and a sense of groundedness and joy in your life.
Neurodiversity and ADHD Support
If your brain works differently, you may have spent years masking your struggles, trying to fit yourself into systems that do not fit you. Therapy can help you build strategies that work with your brain for focus, routines, emotions, and self-acceptance. It can also be a place to unlearn shame around your neurodivergence and replace it with understanding and practical support.
Relationships and Communication
​Talk therapy is a great place to explore tough or complex topics with your partner. Our relationship therapists in Fort Collins help their clients understand the patterns they have with their partners, communicate more clearly, and ultimately build healthier, happier relationships.
Family and Parenting Support
Many people searching for a family therapist in Fort Collins are looking for support with boundaries, parenting stress, blended family dynamics, or the impact of old family roles on their new ones. Working with a dedicated family therapist in Fort Collins can give you and the people you love a place outside the home to process and create solutions for unhealthy family dynamics, improving your home life.
Life Transitions
Transitions can be exciting, painful, and oftentimes both. Moving, changing careers, ending or starting relationships, becoming a parent, or stepping into a new season of identity can bring up more than you expected. Therapy can help you navigate uncertainty, make grounded decisions, and stay connected to yourself while life changes around you.
Medication and Mental Health Care Under One Roof
Sometimes talk therapy and lifestyle changes are not enough, and you need more support. Our psychiatry services can support mental health care through medication consults, evaluations, and ongoing support, when appropriate. The goal is not to medicate away your experience. The goal is to support you in a holistic way, with talk therapy and medication management under one roof, eliminating the need to juggle care with multiple different clinics or providers. Therapy helps you build insight and skills, and psychiatry can add medication support when it makes sense, so your care feels more complete and coordinated.
Meet Our Therapists in Fort Collins, Co
We understand the importance of finding a therapist in Fort Collins, CO. You need someone you connect with, who has the right skills, education, and background who you can trust with your story. Someone who listens well, understands your story and lived experience, and helps you move forward in a way that fits who you are and your life circumstances.
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Different people connect with different styles. Some of our clients prefer a direct and practical approach with “homework” and a clear framework for healing. Others want space for reflection, deeper exploration, or a family therapist in Fort Collins who can help you heal your homelife dynamic. The best fit is the one that helps you feel safe enough to be real and supported enough to grow.
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We can help match you with one of our individual or relationship therapists in Fort Collins, or you can choose someone you already feel drawn to. From there, you’ll pick a time that works for you and meet through our secure telehealth portal. Bring your questions, your goals, or just what’s been feeling hard lately. You do not need to have it all figured out to get started.
Meet Our Team
Get the Care You Deserve with Woodswalk Counseling
You deserve support that feels steady, personal, and built around your unique circumstances. At Woodswalk Counseling, Fort Collins therapy is collaborative, strength-based, and shaped to fit you, not the other way around. With secure telehealth across Colorado and a team of clinicians with a range of specialties and styles, you can get care that matches what you need right now; including individual, couples, or family therapists in Fort Collins. You deserve to feel better, you deserve care that fits your lifestyle, needs, and values. We are here for you when you’re ready.