Individual Psychotherapy in Denver

We offer individual psychotherapy for individuals 15 years old and older. Sessions are tailored to address your individual needs and support you on your unique journey to healing.

How does therapy work?

Individual psychotherapy can be helpful for treating a wide range of conditions as well as providing needed support during many of life's challenges. Each therapist brings their own unique style, experiences, and specialties to their therapeutic work with you.

In general, therapy works by providing a safe space to talk about challenges to build clarity and insight. For example, when you feel clear and confident about what you value, what's important to you, then you can start making decisions about what directions to take in your life. We can't know which turn to take unless we know where we are and where we want to go. Therapy helps us gain this clarity.

Therapy also works by helping us get unstuck. Usually, when we feel stuck, there is something to be learned or understood, grieved or acknowledged. Therapy helps by exploring the problem in order to find concrete steps toward resolutions of different problems in our lives.

What should I expect to get from therapy?

Therapy is a process and a relationship. It's a journey that is uniquely yours. Your therapist brings to the work their own experiences, passions, expertise which informs some of the experience, and therapy is shaped by you and what you are willing to explore and address. Your therapist is committed to bringing their authentic self to the work and utilizing evidence based therapy tools to support you in your journey. Ultimately, the outcome of therapy can be likened to the saying, "you reap what you sow," and in a good way. What you put into therapy, whether that's time, authenticity, determination, curiosity, self-compassion, will have an impact, and that impact will reflect your choice to make healing through therapy work a priority.

What will my therapist ask me in the first meeting?

In your first therapy appointment, the intake appointment, is an opportunity for your therapist to get to know you better and understand symptoms and conditions impacting your life. Your therapist will prepare for the appointment by reviewing the information you provided in the initial paperwork. During the appointment, your therapist might ask you follow-up questions related to your history, family, and social life as well as about your health and daily practices. This will help your therapist get a fuller picture of what your life has been like for you and what your typical day looks like.

Your therapist will also ask you questions about your goals and expectations for therapy, essentially, what you hope to get out of therapy. We want to make sure we are on the same page with you in order to support you in the direction you're wanting to go. If you're not sure what your goals are, that's totally okay! We get that. We're here to help explore this with you and build some clarity for the journey ahead!

At the end of the meeting, you and your therapist will schedule your follow-up appointment and/or confirm your upcoming appointment if it's already been scheduled.

How should I prepare for my therapy session?

Before your first therapy appointment, the therapy intake appointment, your Rooted Acorn Counseling therapist will email you a link to our online, confidential client portal. In the portal, you will find a list of forms you need to review, complete, and e-sign before your first appointment.

Once you complete the initial paperwork in the portal, we will send you the join link for the appointment. In other words, your completed paperwork is your deposit that holds your appointment time for your 1st appointment.

To prepare for your online appointment, you'll want to test your device to ensure your microphone and camera are working and enabled for your meeting.

Before your follow-up appointments, take some time to reflect on and journal about your last meeting by asking yourself some of these questions:

• What stood out to you in the last meeting?

• Was there anything that surprised you?

• What was helpful from that meeting?

Also spend some time reflecting on and journaling about your past week since your last appointment. Ask yourself:

• What were some of the lows for the week?

• What were some of the celebrations or high points for the week?

Finally, to prepare for your therapy appointment, identify some topics that are important to talk about during the session. They could be topics already discussed in previous sessions that you want to explore more or they could be new topics that have been on your mind.

Ultimately, preparing for follow-up therapy appointments is a great way to get the most out of your therapy experience!

What's the first step to start therapy?

So you've read about our different therapists, Lindsay and Sharon, and decided you're interested in working with them. Now you're ready to start the process. The first step to starting therapy is to message one of our therapists, Lindsay or Sharon, to share a brief reason for wanting therapy. We'll work with you to schedule an initial consultation phone call. These are 15 to 20 minute conversations where you'll share a bit more about what you're looking for in therapy and ask the therapist questions about what to expect and what therapy tools they use in their work.