Common Questions
How does therapy work?
Therapy provides a safe, supportive space to better understand your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. Through counseling, you can identify patterns that may be contributing to anxiety, depression, stress, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, or feeling stuck in life.
A therapist helps you gain insight into the underlying causes of your struggles, process difficult experiences, and develop healthier ways of coping. Depending on your goals, therapy may focus on managing anxiety, improving relationships, healing from past experiences, increasing self-confidence, navigating life transitions, or creating lasting behavioral change.
As therapy progresses, many clients experience greater emotional resilience, improved self-awareness, healthier relationships, and a stronger sense of purpose and fulfillment. Rather than simply reducing symptoms, therapy can help you build the skills and confidence needed to create meaningful, long-term change.
If you’re ready to better understand yourself, overcome obstacles, and build a more balanced and fulfilling life, therapy can help.
What is the first session like?
Your first session opens up a space for your to meet your therapist, discuss your goals and ask questions.
The session instills a sense of safety and comfort since client often feel nervous to talk to a therapist for the first time. Simply show up and be yourself.
How do I schedule and appointment?
You can schedule an appointment with us by doing one of the following:
- To get a call from us in one business day, send us a Contact Form
- Call us at 303-209-2592
- Schedule a free 15 minute call directly
Do you take insurance?
Yes. We are in-network with many major insurance providers, including Colorado Access Medicaid, CCHA (Colorado Community Health Alliance), and most commercial insurance plans. Our team is happy to help you understand your mental health insurance benefits before starting therapy.
If we are not in-network with your insurance plan, you may still be able to use your out-of-network benefits to receive reimbursement for therapy sessions. We can help you determine your eligibility and provide the necessary documentation, including superbills and receipts, for submission to your insurance company.
For clients seeking a more affordable option, we also offer reduced self-pay rates through our counseling interns, making therapy accessible to individuals, couples, and families who may not have insurance coverage or prefer not to use their benefits.
We also offer private pay therapy for clients who choose not to use insurance. Some clients prefer private pay counseling for greater flexibility, increased privacy, or to avoid receiving a mental health diagnosis that may be required by certain insurance companies.
Understanding insurance coverage and therapy costs can feel overwhelming, but we’re here to help. Contact our office, and we’ll walk you through the process of verifying your insurance benefits, understanding your out-of-pocket costs, and finding the therapy option that best fits your needs and budget.
Is what we discuss in sessions confidential?
If you use your insurance benefits, we may be required to share any diagnosis or treatment goals. Aside from this, your therapy is confidential except when the safety of you or someone else is threatened. You therapist must report:
- Actual or suspected child or elder abuse
- Threats of serious harm to another person
- An intention or plan to harm yourself
What is the cost of therapy?
Daytime sessions are $170. Weekend and sessions after 5pm are $180. Couples counseling sessions are $200.
We accept most major insurance, which can help eliminate or reduce your out-of-pocket costs. We would be happy to help you determine if your insurance covers mental health services.
Do I really need therapy or can i do it myself?
Seeking therapy shows acceptance, self-awareness and courage. Life challenges require many skills and deep knowledge to overcome. It’s important to have helpful, experienced guidance.
Learning new skills and navigating obstacles together with your therapist is a smart investment in yourself.
Seeking therapy shows acceptance, self-awareness and courage. Life challenges require many skills and deep knowledge to overcome. It’s important to have helpful, experienced guidance.
Learning new skills and navigating obstacles together with your therapist is a smart investment in yourself.
How often would I come to therapy?
You have unique goals, and your therapist will tailor your treatment to your needs.
To address specific concerns, short-term therapy works very well. For more complex challenges or long-standing issues, a longer timeline might be needed.
The majority of our clients work with us for 4-12 months.
How will therapy work?
Clients often seek therapy to resolve painful feelings, troubling thoughts, and distressing situations. Along the way they learn practical ways of coping with stress, grief, anger, depression and much more.
Through therapy, our clients better understand themselves, their relationships, strengths, weaknesses, patterns, and needs.
After therapy, you will easily identify personal goals and use what you learned to achieve them. The result is a more purposeful and satisfying experience of life.
How do your prices compare to other therapists?
The average therapy session in the Denver area range from $130 to $200.
Our aim is always to make services as accesible as possible, while also paying our therapists well. We charge a fair rate for our skilled, licensed therapists.
How long is each session?
Each session is 50-55 minutes long, depending on insurance coverage.
What makes Thrive Counseling different?
All of our therapists have been in therapy too. We get it. It’s hard to find the right therapist with the right appointment time. It’s hard to get someone to call you back, let alone sift through all your options.
We’re easy to connect with, and always responsive. Our therapists bring not only their valuable expertise, but their respect, understanding and authenticity to your sessions.
You will receive honest feedback, not psychological jargon. You will get practical help and solve your problems.
What are your specialties?
Thrive Counseling specializes in anxiety, ADHD, relationships, dating anxiety, life transitions, depression, trauma, self-esteem, and stress and burnout. Our therapists work with children, teens, adults, and couples, and we tailor therapy to each client’s specific needs and goals.
We have particular experience helping clients who struggle with anxiety and overthinking, social anxiety, ADHD and executive functioning, relationship and communication difficulties, attachment concerns, dating and intimacy issues, major life changes, and low self-esteem.
Our approach to therapy is practical and collaborative. We don’t believe therapy should simply be a place to talk about your problems—we help you understand what’s keeping you stuck and develop practical coping strategies and tools you can use in your everyday life.
Thrive Counseling offers both in-person therapy in Denver and Arvada and online therapy throughout Colorado.