Therapy for anxiety, depression, and anger in adults. Evidence-based, direct, and not the version that tells you to calm down. Telehealth across Colorado.
These three rarely arrive alone. People call about one of them and describe the other two within the first ten minutes without noticing they have done it.
Usually the one people name first, because it is the one with the most obvious physical signature. Anxiety is a prediction system running hot, and it is extremely resistant to being argued with, which is why being told it is irrational has never once helped anybody. We work on the prediction, not the argument.
Often mistaken for sadness. More often it is flatness, a total withdrawal of interest that makes the obvious advice about exercise and sunlight land as an insult. The order matters here: behavior first, energy second, mood last. It is not intuitive and it is reliably the way it goes.
The one that gets treated as a character flaw rather than a symptom. Anger is usually a signal about a boundary, a loss, or a fear that has no other route out, and it is overwhelmingly the presenting problem for men who were raised to have exactly one permissible emotion.
Anger management that only teaches you to suppress it does not work, and I do not practice it. If the anger is protecting something, we work on the something.
Cognitive and rational-emotive work when a thought is running unexamined. Dialectical skills when the feeling arrives at full volume before you get a vote. Acceptance and commitment work when the fight against the feeling has grown larger than the feeling. Behavioral activation for depression, because it is what the evidence supports and because it works.
You will get homework, in the sense that something has to happen in the other one hundred and sixty-seven hours of the week. It will be small and specific, and if it does not get done we will talk about why rather than pretending it did.
I am not a prescriber. Some people do well with therapy alone, some do markedly better with both, and it is not a moral question in either direction. If it seems worth exploring I will say so, and I coordinate with your physician or psychiatrist if you want me to.
If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988, or call 911. The Colorado Crisis Line is 1-844-493-8255, or text TALK to 38255.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. No paperwork, no obligation. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so and point you toward someone who is.