Compassionate Virtual Counseling for Individuals and Couples Across the State

Finding the right therapist should not depend on how close you live to an office. Cherry Creek Therapy offers compassionate online therapy throughout Colorado, allowing individuals

and couples to receive meaningful emotional support from the privacy and convenience of home. Whether you live in Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Thornton, Boulder, Pueblo, Greeley, or a smaller Colorado community, online counseling can make it easier to work with a therapist whose experience and approach fit your needs.

Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, provides personalized virtual therapy for adults and couples navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, major life transitions, and other emotionally challenging experiences.

Online therapy is not a simplified version of counseling. Sessions provide dedicated time to understand what you are experiencing, recognize the deeper patterns affecting your emotions and relationships, and begin creating meaningful change.

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Online Counseling That Fits Into Your Life

Life can make attending therapy more difficult than it needs to be. A long commute, unpredictable work hours, parenting responsibilities, chronic illness, mobility concerns, Colorado weather, or limited access to specialized care may prevent people from seeking support. Online therapy removes many of these barriers.

You may appreciate virtual counseling if you:

• Have a demanding or frequently changing schedule

• Live outside the Denver metropolitan area

• Want to avoid traffic or a lengthy commute

• Need greater privacy and flexibility

• Feel more comfortable speaking from your own space

• Have childcare or caregiving responsibilities

• Experience chronic pain, illness, or mobility limitations

• Travel frequently within Colorado

• Want to continue therapy when weather makes travel difficult

• Have struggled to find the right therapeutic fit in your community

The goal is not simply to make therapy more convenient. It is to make consistent, thoughtful care more accessible.

Online Therapy Services Available Across Colorado

Cherry Creek Therapy works with both individuals and couples. Treatment is personalized according to your concerns, goals, experiences, identities, and relationships.

Online Individual Therapy

Individual therapy offers a private space to understand your emotions, explore difficult experiences, and develop a healthier relationship with yourself.

You might consider online individual counseling if you are:

• Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally exhausted

• Experiencing depression or emotional numbness

• Struggling with self-doubt or low self-worth

• Recovering from a painful or traumatic experience

• Grieving a person, relationship, identity, or expected future

• Moving through a major life transition

• Having difficulty establishing healthy boundaries

• Feeling disconnected from yourself or others

• Coping with chronic illness or health-related stress

• Questioning long-held religious beliefs or navigating a faith crisis

• Carrying emotional patterns that continue affecting your relationships

• Seeking greater clarity, confidence, and self-understanding

Therapy does not require you to arrive with a perfectly defined goal. Jennifer can help you understand what feels difficult and determine what kind of support may be helpful.

Online Couples Therapy

Relationship distress can leave both partners feeling lonely, misunderstood, or trapped in arguments that never seem to resolve. Online couples therapy creates structured space for both partners to slow down, understand their relationship patterns, and communicate more honestly.

Couples may seek support for:

• Repeated communication breakdowns

• Emotional distance or loneliness

• Frequent conflict or unresolved resentment

• Difficulty expressing needs

• Problems establishing or respecting boundaries

• Differences involving money, parenting, intimacy, or family

• Trust concerns

• Infidelity or financial betrayal

• Major life changes affecting the relationship

• Trauma that influences emotional or physical connection

• Decisions about whether to repair or leave the relationship

• A desire to strengthen an already healthy partnership

Virtual couples therapy may be particularly helpful when partners have demanding schedules, live temporarily in different parts of Colorado, need to arrange childcare, or find that meeting from home makes regular attendance more manageable. Both partners must be physically located in Colorado during an online couples session.

Online Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling can help partners better understand the emotional cycle beneath their disagreements. One partner may pursue a conversation more intensely because they are afraid of losing connection. The other may withdraw because they feel overwhelmed, criticized, or unable to respond successfully. Over time, both partners can begin to see each other as the problem instead of recognizing the cycle affecting them.

Online marriage counseling may help you:

• Identify recurring conflict patterns

• Communicate with less criticism and defensiveness

• Rebuild emotional safety

• Express vulnerable needs more clearly

• Repair trust after hurt or betrayal

• Create healthier boundaries

• Navigate parenting, career, financial, or family pressures

• Strengthen affection and emotional intimacy

• Make difficult relationship decisions with greater clarity

The purpose is not to decide which partner is right. Therapy helps both people understand what happens between them and create a more responsive way of relating.

Online Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling is not only for couples experiencing problems. It gives partners an opportunity to discuss the expectations, values, and decisions that will shape their marriage before unspoken differences become recurring sources of conflict. Online premarital counseling may include conversations about:

• Communication and conflict

• Money and financial expectations

• Emotional and physical intimacy

• Children and parenting

• Careers and household responsibilities

• In-laws and extended-family boundaries

• Religion, culture, and shared values

• Trust and commitment

• Past experiences that affect the relationship

• Expectations for married life

Virtual sessions can be especially convenient for engaged couples balancing work, travel, family commitments, and wedding planning.

Online Trauma and PTSD Therapy

Trauma can affect the way you experience safety, trust, relationships, and your own emotions. You may understand intellectually that a painful experience is over while your body and nervous system continue responding as if danger is still present.

Trauma-informed online therapy may help people experiencing:

• Intrusive memories or distressing reminders

• Hypervigilance or difficulty relaxing

• Emotional numbness or disconnection

• Shame, guilt, or self-blame

• Avoidance of people, places, or conversations

• Difficulty trusting others

• Strong emotional reactions that feel difficult to control

• Relationship patterns connected to earlier experiences

• PTSD symptoms

• Trauma following abuse, injury, betrayal, loss, or other overwhelming events

Jennifer’s trauma work may incorporate EMDR, Internal Family Systems, attachment-based therapy, grounding, emotional regulation, and other approaches selected according to the client’s needs and readiness. Online EMDR may be appropriate for some clients. Jennifer will assess whether virtual EMDR is clinically suitable and help establish adequate preparation and emotional stability before trauma processing begins.

Online Infidelity and Betrayal-Trauma Therapy

Discovering infidelity, financial secrecy, or another significant betrayal can destabilize a person’s sense of reality and emotional safety. You may find yourself replaying what happened, questioning your judgment, searching for missing information, or feeling unsure whether trust can ever return.

Online betrayal-trauma therapy can support individuals and couples who are:

• Coping with the immediate emotional impact of betrayal

• Experiencing anger, grief, anxiety, or intrusive thoughts

• Struggling with self-worth

• Trying to understand what happened

• Deciding whether to remain in the relationship

• Attempting to rebuild trust

• Working through recurring triggers

• Learning to communicate without causing additional harm

Therapy does not pressure you to stay or leave. It provides space to process what happened, understand your needs, and make decisions from a more grounded place.

Online Anxiety and Depression Therapy

Anxiety and depression can affect work, relationships, sleep, concentration, motivation, and the ability to enjoy everyday life. You may appear capable and composed to other people while internally feeling exhausted, worried, disconnected, or unable to stop overthinking.

Online therapy can help you explore:

• Persistent worry or fear

• Stress and emotional overwhelm

• Perfectionism and people-pleasing

• Harsh self-criticism

• Difficulty making decisions

• Burnout

• Feelings of hopelessness

• Emotional numbness

• Loss of motivation

• Relationship anxiety

• Problems setting boundaries

• The impact of earlier experiences on present emotions

Treatment is tailored to the whole person rather than focused only on reducing a list of symptoms.

Online Grief and Loss Counseling

Grief does not follow a predictable schedule. Loss may involve the death of someone important, miscarriage, child loss, divorce, illness, estrangement, a major transition, or the loss of an identity or future you expected to have.

Online grief counseling offers a compassionate environment in which you can:

• Express emotions without pressure to move on

• Understand how grief is affecting daily life

• Process complicated or conflicting feelings

• Adjust to changes in identity and relationships

• Find ways to remain connected to what was meaningful

• Develop support for difficult dates and reminders

• Move forward without minimizing what you have lost

The purpose of grief therapy is not to erase the loss. It is to help you carry it with greater support and emotional steadiness.

Additional Concerns Supported Through Online Therapy

Jennifer also works with concerns involving:

• Life transitions

• Chronic illness

• Miscarriage and reproductive loss

• Disordered eating

• Faith crises and religious trauma

• Communication difficulties

• Boundary setting

• Financial betrayal

• Child loss

• Accident or injury

• Abuse

• Self-esteem

• Identity and personal growth

If your concern is not listed, you are welcome to schedule a consultation. Jennifer can help determine whether Cherry Creek Therapy is an appropriate fit or whether another type of support would better meet your needs.

Therapeutic Approaches Used in Online Counseling

Therapy at Cherry Creek Therapy is compassionate, systemic, trauma-informed, and tailored to the individual or couple.

Depending on your needs, online sessions may draw from:

Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems, or IFS, helps clients approach conflicting emotions and protective responses with curiosity rather than shame. IFS may be helpful when one part of you wants change while another feels frightened, guarded, angry, or overwhelmed. The approach supports greater self-understanding, compassion, and internal balance.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps partners recognize the attachment needs and fears underneath recurring conflict. Instead of treating one partner as the problem, couples learn to identify the cycle creating disconnection and respond to one another with greater accessibility and emotional safety.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may help clients process traumatic or emotionally distressing experiences. When online EMDR is appropriate, Jennifer may use virtual bilateral-stimulation options along with careful preparation, stabilization, and ongoing assessment.

Relational Life Therapy

Relational Life Therapy supports greater emotional honesty, accountability, and balance within relationships. It may help couples examine communication habits, boundaries, relational roles, and patterns that prevent genuine connection.

Attachment-Based and Systemic Therapy

Present difficulties are often shaped by earlier relationships, family systems, cultural experiences, and learned ways of protecting yourself. A systemic and attachment-based approach helps clients understand these influences without reducing them to a diagnosis or isolated symptom.

Mindfulness and Emotional-Regulation Skills

Grounding, mindfulness, and emotional-regulation strategies can help clients remain present during difficult emotions and respond more intentionally outside therapy. Jennifer does not apply one approach to every client. Therapy is personalized to fit your needs, goals, history, comfort, and pace.

What Happens During an Online Therapy Session?

Online sessions are conducted through a secure video platform. Before your appointment, choose a private location where you can speak comfortably and are unlikely to be interrupted. Headphones, reliable internet access, and a device with a camera can improve privacy and connection.

During a session, you may:

• Discuss what has been happening since your previous appointment

• Explore emotions, relationships, and recurring patterns

• Connect present struggles with earlier experiences

• Practice communicating a difficult need

• Learn grounding or emotional-regulation strategies

• Process grief, trauma, conflict, or a major decision

• Identify practical steps to support change between sessions

Online therapy is still relational. Jennifer brings the same attention, warmth, and thoughtful presence to virtual appointments that she provides during in-person sessions.

Is Online Therapy Right for You?

Online therapy may be a good fit when you have access to a private space, reliable technology, and feel comfortable communicating by video. It may not be the right level of support for every circumstance. Some people benefit from in-person care, a specialized treatment program, medical support, or a higher level of care. Online outpatient therapy is not designed for emergency or immediate crisis intervention. Jennifer will discuss your concerns during the consultation and help determine whether virtual therapy through Cherry Creek Therapy is an appropriate option.

Online Therapy Throughout Colorado

Jennifer provides online counseling to clients who are physically located in Colorado at the time of their sessions.

Online services are available to residents of communities including:

• Denver

• Colorado Springs

• Aurora

• Fort Collins

• Lakewood

• Thornton

• Arvada

• Westminster

• Pueblo

• Greeley

• Centennial

• Boulder

• Castle Rock

• Longmont

• Loveland

• Parker

• Littleton

• Highlands Ranch

• Broomfield

• Commerce City

Online therapy is also available to clients in rural and mountain communities throughout Colorado, provided they are located within the state during the appointment. You do not need to live near Denver to work with Cherry Creek Therapy online.

Online Therapy Rates

Cherry Creek Therapy is currently a self-pay practice and is not accepting insurance.

Current rates are:

• Individual therapy: 50 minutes — $150

• Couples therapy: 50 minutes — $175

• Extended couples session: 80 minutes — $240

• Extended individual session: 80 minutes — $240

• Initial consultation: 15 minutes — free

Extended sessions are encouraged for the first couples appointment and may be recommended for ongoing couples work. Extended individual appointments may be recommended for EMDR and trauma- processing sessions. A limited number of sliding-scale appointments may be available. Please ask about current availability.

Meet Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C

Jennifer Gardner provides focused, compassionate therapy for individuals and couples. She earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Regis University. Her earlier experience as a special-education teacher helped shape her understanding of how family, relationships, community, culture, and other systems influence individual well-being. Jennifer welcomes diverse identities and recognizes the importance of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family background, and other intersecting experiences within therapy.

Her training includes:

• EMDR

• Internal Family Systems

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

• Relational Life Therapy

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Grief treatment

• The Developmental Model for Couples

Her style is empathetic, thoughtful, goal-oriented, and grounded in the belief that lasting change begins with greater understanding.

Frequently Asked Questions About Online Therapy in Colorado

Can I receive online therapy if I live anywhere in Colorado?

Yes. Online appointments are available to clients throughout Colorado. You must be physically located within Colorado at the time of your session.

Do I need to live in Denver?

No. Cherry Creek Therapy’s physical office is in Denver, but virtual counseling is available statewide.

Is online therapy available for couples?

Yes. Online couples therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, and infidelity-recovery support are available when both partners are located in Colorado during the appointment.

Can we join a couples session from different locations?

This may be possible when both partners have private spaces, suitable technology, and are physically located in Colorado. Jennifer can discuss the arrangement with you before the appointment.

Can EMDR be provided online?

EMDR can be adapted for virtual treatment when it is clinically appropriate. Jennifer will evaluate your needs, readiness, privacy, stability, and available support before beginning online trauma processing.

How long are online therapy sessions?

Standard individual and couples appointments are 50 minutes. Extended 80-minute appointments are also available.

Does Cherry Creek Therapy accept insurance?

Cherry Creek Therapy is currently self-pay and does not accept insurance. A limited number of sliding-scale appointments may be available.

How much does online therapy cost?

A 50-minute individual session is $150. A 50-minute couples session is $175. Extended 80-minute individual and couples sessions are $240.

Is there a consultation before starting?

Yes. Jennifer offers a free 15-minute consultation by phone, online, or in person. This gives you an opportunity to briefly discuss what you are looking for and ask questions about working together.

How should I prepare for an online session?

Choose a quiet, private space and test your internet, camera, and audio beforehand. Using headphones, silencing notifications, and allowing a few minutes to settle before the appointment can help you remain focused.

Begin Online Therapy in Colorado

You do not need to wait until life becomes unmanageable to ask for support. Therapy can help you understand painful patterns, communicate more openly, process difficult experiences, and move toward a life and relationships that feel more grounded. Cherry Creek Therapy offers compassionate online counseling for individuals and couples throughout Colorado.

Schedule your free 15-minute consultation with Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, to discuss what you are experiencing and whether online therapy may be the right fit.

Call: (303) 720-6287

Online therapy available throughout Colorado

In-person appointments available at:

90 Madison Street, Suite 102, Denver, CO 80206