Welcome to the Colorado Clinic of Mental Health

At Colorado Clinic of Mental Health, we provide compassionate care and professional expertise to support your journey toward overcoming addiction. Our experienced professionals are committed to helping you achieve your goals of reducing, or stopping your excessive use (alcohol, marijuana, porn, video games, ect.)  and overall emotional well-being through evidence-based treatments, innovative therapies, and a holistic approach tailored to your unique needs.

Our Approach & Philosophy

Our approach to mental health management comes from a comprehensive perspective incorporating aspects of:

• Pharmacology (medication)
• Biology (how the body works)
• Somatization (internal physical perception of your body)
• Complementary treatments
• Alternative treatments
• Integrative interventions

This comprehensive approach, combined with applied clinical skills, is directed toward symptom reduction and improved life functioning, which provides our clients with a sense of reassurance and confidence in the treatment process.

We view mental health holistically, considering all potential stressors related to relationships, jobs, past experiences, and neurobiological abnormalities. We believe that medications aren’t always the answer to every problem, but when used appropriately, they can help a client successfully achieve positive and lasting behavior change.

We place a strong emphasis on your active participation in developing an individualized treatment plan, ensuring that your voice is heard and your needs are met for the best outcomes.

Length of a Session

The first session, which is crucial for understanding your background and primary reasons for seeking treatment, will be longer than the follow-up sessions and will likely range from 60 to 90 minutes. This ensures that we have adequate time to address your concerns comprehensively. The initial session will also include time for you to complete all required legal documents. Depending on your individual needs, follow-up sessions will range from 15 to 60 minutes, respecting your time while ensuring we cover all necessary aspects of your treatment.

What to Expect in a Session

A session will consist of a provider engaging the client in a discussion about their life and struggles they have experienced or are currently having.

Everything you say in my office will never leave this office; it is entirely confidential. (There are a few legally mandated exceptions, such as if you are actively threatening yourself or others or child and elder abuse)

Audio may be recorded during your session for personal note-taking purposes only. This allows our staff to be more present in the session and avoid staring at the computer to take notes while you are talking. It also ensures that no detail is missed and nothing falls through the cracks, ensuring high-quality, accurate, and effective care.

You will never receive any judgment from our team. Nothing you say and no experience you’ve had will make our team think less of you. We promise that you are not alone. We promise that others have had similar experiences and recovered from them. You can get better no matter the severity of your illness; there is always hope.

Some questions in our conversations may cause a significant emotional reaction. THIS IS OK! Do not hold back your emotions or experiences. Feeling them and processing them is necessary for treatment. Avoiding these uncomfortable thoughts and feelings by diluting or omitting them will reduce treatment efficacy. Also, lying or intentionally leaving out information will make progress more difficult and slower to obtain.

You may receive a psychiatric diagnosis; you may not. Not all problems one can have has a diagnosis to label it. That does not mean  you will not receive treatment, nor that the issue does not need treatment.

Any diagnosis a provider makes is created from the information shared in your session(s), and more information may reinforce or rule out a diagnosis. A psychiatric diagnosis is more of a “collection of symptoms” abbreviated into a short, standardized phrase than a true or false presence of a condition.

How Treatment Works

You are in control of your treatment. The more effort you put into it, the more effective it will be.

After a provider has made a diagnosis or has enough information about your struggle, they will help direct the evidence-based treatment options and referrals to other services as appropriate. The treatment is about YOU and what YOU WANT, not what we think you should do or what we would do in your situation. It is also important to note that medications do not affect every individual in the same way. Something that works wonders for one person may not work for another, and vice versa. Therefore, we may need to try multiple medications and treatment options to find your best fit. Mental health treatment is a process, not an overnight fix; it likely took years or decades to develop your condition, and it’ll probably take more than an hour to resolve it.

Follow-up appointments are necessary to monitor for side effects (if taking medication), determine how well the treatment is working, and continue treatment options such as psychotherapy. Often, if things are going well and you have few side effects, no change in treatment is made in the follow-up appointment. However, scheduling and having a follow-up appointment is still essential to ensure treatment STAYS effective and avoid waiting for an appointment if there is no available time slot. A follow-up also allows the provider to assess your response to treatment from an outside perspective and see things you may not be able to.