Therapists in Cherry Creek, Denver, CO
Michael Simms
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LAC, NMIT, CSAT, CIFST
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO 80206
I have worked with individuals who have struggled with trauma, addiction, and mental health struggles for the last 10 years. I have seen the damage that can occur when we attempt to carry these burdens alone. I hope to help. To support you in building connections, addressing trauma, and finding more adaptive ways to get what you want and need out of your life. As a licensed addictions counselor (LAC) and certified sex addictions therapist (CSAT), I understand how we may have come by coping mechanisms that may be hurting more than helping. I can work with you to address the core issues and build new ways to take care of yourself.
I have worked with individuals who have struggled with trauma, addiction, and mental health struggles for the last 10 years. I have seen the damage that can occur when we attempt to carry these burdens alone. I hope to help. To support you in building connections, addressing trauma, and finding more adaptive ways to get what you want and need out of your life. As a licensed addictions counselor (LAC) and certified sex addictions therapist (CSAT), I understand how we may have come by coping mechanisms that may be hurting more than helping. I can work with you to address the core issues and build new ways to take care of yourself.
Katie Salazar-Schuckman
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
5 Endorsed
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO 80206
HI! My name is Kathryn, but I like to go by Katie and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). I have been working in the mental health field for over 10 years now. I have worked with all ages of individuals. My primary passion and specialty is working with women and young adults that have experienced Trauma, anxiety and depression in their lives. I have worked for nonprofit agencies and have contracted with the District attorneys office with advocating individuals that have been a victim of a crime. My personality include empathy and compassion. I will meet you where you are. Through this journey we can discover a comfortable
HI! My name is Kathryn, but I like to go by Katie and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). I have been working in the mental health field for over 10 years now. I have worked with all ages of individuals. My primary passion and specialty is working with women and young adults that have experienced Trauma, anxiety and depression in their lives. I have worked for nonprofit agencies and have contracted with the District attorneys office with advocating individuals that have been a victim of a crime. My personality include empathy and compassion. I will meet you where you are. Through this journey we can discover a comfortable
Most of my clients are people who are looking for support navigating themes around sex, intimacy, and relationships. Whether you are hoping for deeper authenticity and pleasure in your sex life, more harmonious and constructive communication in your relationships, or healing in regards to past traumas and behavioral patterns, this may be a good space for you. I work with individuals, couples, and polycules+ and the space I provide is inclusive of all sexualities, gender expressions, neurotypes, kinks, relational styles, races, ethnicities & religions.
Most of my clients are people who are looking for support navigating themes around sex, intimacy, and relationships. Whether you are hoping for deeper authenticity and pleasure in your sex life, more harmonious and constructive communication in your relationships, or healing in regards to past traumas and behavioral patterns, this may be a good space for you. I work with individuals, couples, and polycules+ and the space I provide is inclusive of all sexualities, gender expressions, neurotypes, kinks, relational styles, races, ethnicities & religions.
I'm Amara, a licensed clinical social worker, passionate about guiding individuals, couples and families through life's challenges towards healing, transformation and self-discovery. I specialize in anxiety, depression, trauma, interpersonal relationships, burn out, personal growth and fostering a sense of self worth and confidence. Healing looks different for each of us and I'm here to guide and facilitate your process towards cultivating your intuitive wisdom and resiliency. On this journey, you'll have an opportunity to deepen your self-awareness, acceptance and self-love.
I'm Amara, a licensed clinical social worker, passionate about guiding individuals, couples and families through life's challenges towards healing, transformation and self-discovery. I specialize in anxiety, depression, trauma, interpersonal relationships, burn out, personal growth and fostering a sense of self worth and confidence. Healing looks different for each of us and I'm here to guide and facilitate your process towards cultivating your intuitive wisdom and resiliency. On this journey, you'll have an opportunity to deepen your self-awareness, acceptance and self-love.
Navigating a significant life transition? Feeling stuck and struggling to make necessary life changes? Experiencing emptiness or a sense of disconnection? Understanding the root of your anxiety or sadness is crucial for making sense of your emotional struggles—common challenges I often address in my practice. My approach centers on building a strong therapeutic connection, inviting you to safely become more honest with yourself and others. Together, we'll move beyond surface-level symptom management, exploring how unconscious conflicts and past experiences are impacting your life and hindering lasting change.
Navigating a significant life transition? Feeling stuck and struggling to make necessary life changes? Experiencing emptiness or a sense of disconnection? Understanding the root of your anxiety or sadness is crucial for making sense of your emotional struggles—common challenges I often address in my practice. My approach centers on building a strong therapeutic connection, inviting you to safely become more honest with yourself and others. Together, we'll move beyond surface-level symptom management, exploring how unconscious conflicts and past experiences are impacting your life and hindering lasting change.
Are you struggling with trauma, depression, or anxiety? These conditions are treatable. With effective EMDR therapy, we can alleviate your pain and foster transformative growth. As your therapist, I’ll encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone and focus on true healing—what EMDR therapists call “adaptive resolution.” Together, we’ll design a structured treatment plan with a clear beginning, middle, and end to achieve meaningful and lasting change. My EMDR expertise has helped many clients, including those who once believed their issues were untreatable.
Are you struggling with trauma, depression, or anxiety? These conditions are treatable. With effective EMDR therapy, we can alleviate your pain and foster transformative growth. As your therapist, I’ll encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone and focus on true healing—what EMDR therapists call “adaptive resolution.” Together, we’ll design a structured treatment plan with a clear beginning, middle, and end to achieve meaningful and lasting change. My EMDR expertise has helped many clients, including those who once believed their issues were untreatable.
Are you a stressed-out university student or dealing with a major life overhaul? Maybe brand new at the job, uprooted by a move across country or bombarded by the pressures of life on campus? An exhausted new parent, navigating tricky relationships with adult kids or reinventing yourself after retirement? Our lives are full of change and change is tough but a tremendous chance for reflection and growth. Learning to manage these changes intentionally and effectively will pave the way for what comes next.
Are you a stressed-out university student or dealing with a major life overhaul? Maybe brand new at the job, uprooted by a move across country or bombarded by the pressures of life on campus? An exhausted new parent, navigating tricky relationships with adult kids or reinventing yourself after retirement? Our lives are full of change and change is tough but a tremendous chance for reflection and growth. Learning to manage these changes intentionally and effectively will pave the way for what comes next.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.
Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, weighed down by depression, or feeling stuck after a traumatic experience or major life change? You're not alone and support is within reach. As a therapist specializing in trauma, depression, anxiety, and life transitions, I offer a safe, compassionate space where you can begin to heal and rediscover your strength. Whether you're coping with past wounds, navigating uncertainty, or seeking clarity and emotional balance, I’m here to help you find relief, build resilience, and create lasting change. Together we can work toward the life you deserve.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, weighed down by depression, or feeling stuck after a traumatic experience or major life change? You're not alone and support is within reach. As a therapist specializing in trauma, depression, anxiety, and life transitions, I offer a safe, compassionate space where you can begin to heal and rediscover your strength. Whether you're coping with past wounds, navigating uncertainty, or seeking clarity and emotional balance, I’m here to help you find relief, build resilience, and create lasting change. Together we can work toward the life you deserve.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, sad, or like you're quietly carrying more than you let others see? Most of my clients are thoughtful, creative, capable, and deeply feeling— yet struggle with anxiety, grief, loneliness, relationship challenges, or difficult life transitions. Therapy with me is a warm, collaborative space where you can exhale and explore your authentic self. My clients often share that they feel truly seen, safe, and challenged to grow. I’m a strength-based, trauma-informed therapist and will offer practical tools for relief now, while also exploring the deeper patterns shaping your relationships.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, sad, or like you're quietly carrying more than you let others see? Most of my clients are thoughtful, creative, capable, and deeply feeling— yet struggle with anxiety, grief, loneliness, relationship challenges, or difficult life transitions. Therapy with me is a warm, collaborative space where you can exhale and explore your authentic self. My clients often share that they feel truly seen, safe, and challenged to grow. I’m a strength-based, trauma-informed therapist and will offer practical tools for relief now, while also exploring the deeper patterns shaping your relationships.
Do you want to feel happier, have more confidence, and stop worrying so much? Therapy can help! In individual therapy I will work with you to help build on your personal strengths to live the life you want to live. I have had an established private practice in Denver for nearly 20 years, and during that time I’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of individuals seeking to improve their lives. I value building strong working relationships with my clients and helping them make positive, meaningful changes that last!
Do you want to feel happier, have more confidence, and stop worrying so much? Therapy can help! In individual therapy I will work with you to help build on your personal strengths to live the life you want to live. I have had an established private practice in Denver for nearly 20 years, and during that time I’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of individuals seeking to improve their lives. I value building strong working relationships with my clients and helping them make positive, meaningful changes that last!
I believe that the relationship between the therapist and client is fundamental in that it provides a safe and supportive framework for the individual to grow, explore, develop and heal. I have been in the mental health/wellness field since 1985 and in private practice since 1998. I have worked with a richly diverse group of individuals dealing with life in all of its complexities. I have felt honored throughout this time to walk along side the courageous individuals that have invited me to share in their journey.
I believe that the relationship between the therapist and client is fundamental in that it provides a safe and supportive framework for the individual to grow, explore, develop and heal. I have been in the mental health/wellness field since 1985 and in private practice since 1998. I have worked with a richly diverse group of individuals dealing with life in all of its complexities. I have felt honored throughout this time to walk along side the courageous individuals that have invited me to share in their journey.
I work with people from various backgrounds that are addressing issues such as, depression, anxiety, and difficulty around life transition. My goal is to provide each person with a comfortable environment to foster connection and personal growth.
I work with people from various backgrounds that are addressing issues such as, depression, anxiety, and difficulty around life transition. My goal is to provide each person with a comfortable environment to foster connection and personal growth.
While I specialize in treating trauma and practicing sex therapy, I meet my clients where they are in helping them achieve their goals. Ultimately, my goal is for you to feel empowered, understood, and more connected to yourself and others. Together, we’ll navigate your path towards healing from sexual, relationship, religious, or medical trauma, improving communication, and building the intimate life you desire. I believe there’s no “wrong way” to have a body or engage with consensual partners, and my aim is to empower you to embrace your sexuality, gender identity, and relationships authentically.
While I specialize in treating trauma and practicing sex therapy, I meet my clients where they are in helping them achieve their goals. Ultimately, my goal is for you to feel empowered, understood, and more connected to yourself and others. Together, we’ll navigate your path towards healing from sexual, relationship, religious, or medical trauma, improving communication, and building the intimate life you desire. I believe there’s no “wrong way” to have a body or engage with consensual partners, and my aim is to empower you to embrace your sexuality, gender identity, and relationships authentically.
I take a holistic and eclectic approach to therapy. I want to know your sources of pain - but I also want to know what you value, what has shaped you, where you draw inspiration, your beliefs, and how you feel in your own body. We’ll peel back layers, we'll process distress, and we'll build practical tools to manage the challenges you're facing. Ultimately, we’ll build a more authentic, empowered sense of self. If something is no longer serving you, let’s figure out how to change it. My focus areas include sexuality, sex, anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, trauma, and life-transitions.
I take a holistic and eclectic approach to therapy. I want to know your sources of pain - but I also want to know what you value, what has shaped you, where you draw inspiration, your beliefs, and how you feel in your own body. We’ll peel back layers, we'll process distress, and we'll build practical tools to manage the challenges you're facing. Ultimately, we’ll build a more authentic, empowered sense of self. If something is no longer serving you, let’s figure out how to change it. My focus areas include sexuality, sex, anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, trauma, and life-transitions.
Feeling disconnected from yourself can be its own kind of loneliness. If you're navigating an eating disorder, body image distress, or a life change that's left you feeling isolated, you don't have to keep carrying that alone. Healing starts when you have somewhere safe to process your fear, worry, and pain.
I work with people who are ready to reconnect with their values, their bodies, and a version of life that actually feels livable. My approach is collaborative and curiosity-driven. I'll meet you with empathy and zero judgment, and we'll move at a pace that feels right for you.
Feeling disconnected from yourself can be its own kind of loneliness. If you're navigating an eating disorder, body image distress, or a life change that's left you feeling isolated, you don't have to keep carrying that alone. Healing starts when you have somewhere safe to process your fear, worry, and pain.
I work with people who are ready to reconnect with their values, their bodies, and a version of life that actually feels livable. My approach is collaborative and curiosity-driven. I'll meet you with empathy and zero judgment, and we'll move at a pace that feels right for you.
Nathan Lopez - Couples & Sex Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate, MFTC
2 Endorsed
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO 80209
In your relationship, are you feeling stuck, unloved, unable to talk to each other without a disagreement or fight, or is something from the past affecting you or your partner? There’s so much that impacts a relationship and it’s my role to see through your and your partner’s lens to understand your perspective, history, beliefs, stories, communication, and values. With this, we can work together to bridge understanding in how you think, feel, and act towards each other and break any negative cycles you experience. Relationships can be hard, but they don’t have to be. Let’s work together to find your personal brand of connection.
In your relationship, are you feeling stuck, unloved, unable to talk to each other without a disagreement or fight, or is something from the past affecting you or your partner? There’s so much that impacts a relationship and it’s my role to see through your and your partner’s lens to understand your perspective, history, beliefs, stories, communication, and values. With this, we can work together to bridge understanding in how you think, feel, and act towards each other and break any negative cycles you experience. Relationships can be hard, but they don’t have to be. Let’s work together to find your personal brand of connection.
Jess Quick, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who brings warmth and energy along with a cognitive, humanistic approach to her work. Using a blend of CBT, person-first therapy and humanistic theory, complemented by mindfulness techniques and specialized grief counseling, Jess has worked in a wide variety of treatment settings for over eighteen years to help individuals and couples set, reach, and maintain goals. In addition to her clinical work, Jess has been an Adjunct Professor at Metro State University for the past twelve years focusing on grief and trauma work and education.
Jess Quick, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who brings warmth and energy along with a cognitive, humanistic approach to her work. Using a blend of CBT, person-first therapy and humanistic theory, complemented by mindfulness techniques and specialized grief counseling, Jess has worked in a wide variety of treatment settings for over eighteen years to help individuals and couples set, reach, and maintain goals. In addition to her clinical work, Jess has been an Adjunct Professor at Metro State University for the past twelve years focusing on grief and trauma work and education.
I am a compassionate, practical-minded, effective therapist who specializes in helping my clients get the RESULTS they want in a timely fashion. I blend practical, effective tools with an intuitive, spiritual approach. I worked in the private sector for many years and have an unusually strong understanding of the dynamics that affect professionals and their families. I have extensive training in couples and relationship therapy, family and parenting dynamics, workplace issues, and EMDR. I help my clients achieve healthy, active relationships with themselves and others, bringing individuals, families, and couples into greater harmony, peace, and abundance.
I am a compassionate, practical-minded, effective therapist who specializes in helping my clients get the RESULTS they want in a timely fashion. I blend practical, effective tools with an intuitive, spiritual approach. I worked in the private sector for many years and have an unusually strong understanding of the dynamics that affect professionals and their families. I have extensive training in couples and relationship therapy, family and parenting dynamics, workplace issues, and EMDR. I help my clients achieve healthy, active relationships with themselves and others, bringing individuals, families, and couples into greater harmony, peace, and abundance.
Our thoughts influence our actions, but they don’t control them. This distinction is often overlooked, especially when we feel stuck or uncertain about how to move forward in life. If you've ever wondered whether there’s more to life, I’m here to help you discover what truly matters to you while fostering greater self-awareness. Many times, it’s not our experiences themselves but how we interpret them that causes distress and suffering. Through a mindfulness-based, acceptance and commitment approach, you can learn to engage with the present moment and take meaningful actions that align with your values.
Our thoughts influence our actions, but they don’t control them. This distinction is often overlooked, especially when we feel stuck or uncertain about how to move forward in life. If you've ever wondered whether there’s more to life, I’m here to help you discover what truly matters to you while fostering greater self-awareness. Many times, it’s not our experiences themselves but how we interpret them that causes distress and suffering. Through a mindfulness-based, acceptance and commitment approach, you can learn to engage with the present moment and take meaningful actions that align with your values.
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Number of Therapists in Cherry Creek, Denver, CO
200+
Average cost per session
$150
Therapists in Cherry Creek, Denver, CO who prioritize treating:
| 91% | Anxiety |
| 81% | Depression |
| 78% | Relationship Issues |
| 73% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 65% | Self Esteem |
| 65% | Stress |
| 59% | Grief |
Average years in practice
10 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 84% | Aetna |
| 69% | Cigna and Evernorth |
| 69% | UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH |
How Therapists in Cherry Creek, Denver, CO see their clients
| 55% | In Person and Online | |
| 45% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 80% | Female | |
| 18% | Male | |
| 2% | Non-Binary |
