Compassionate Virtual Counseling for Individuals and Couples

The right therapist does not have to be located in your immediate neighborhood. Cherry Creek Therapy provides online therapy in Colorado Springs for adults and couples who want thoughtful, personalized emotional support from a private and convenient location. Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, works with people experiencing anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, relationship conflict, infidelity, major life transitions, and other emotionally difficult experiences. Virtual counseling allows you to receive consistent care without driving across Colorado Springs, arranging additional childcare, or limiting your search to therapists with offices nearby. All you need is a reliable internet connection, a suitable device, and a private space within Colorado.

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Accessible Therapy Wherever You Are in Colorado Springs

Starting therapy can already feel emotionally demanding. Accessing it should not create an additional burden. Work schedules, parenting responsibilities, transportation, health concerns, travel, and the distance between different parts of Colorado Springs can make regular office appointments difficult. Online therapy gives you greater control over where and how you attend. Virtual counseling may be helpful if you:

• Have a demanding or frequently changing schedule

• Want to avoid driving across the city for an appointment

• Need to attend from home or a private office

• Have parenting or caregiving responsibilities

• Experience chronic illness, pain, or limited mobility

• Travel regularly within Colorado

• Expect an upcoming move or transition within the state

• Prefer a familiar environment for emotional conversations

• Want more privacy than a local waiting room provides

• Have struggled to find a therapist whose approach fits your needs

• Want specialized relationship-focused or trauma-informed support

Online therapy makes it possible to select a therapist based on connection, approach, and experience rather than proximity alone.

Online Individual Therapy in Colorado Springs

You do not need to be in crisis to benefit from individual therapy. Many people begin counseling because they feel stuck, disconnected, emotionally exhausted, or unable to change a pattern they understand but continue repeating. Online individual therapy can help you slow down and explore what is happening beneath the surface. You may benefit from individual counseling if you are:

• Experiencing anxiety or persistent worry

• Feeling depressed or emotionally numb

• Struggling with perfectionism or self-criticism

• Carrying the effects of trauma

• Grieving a significant loss

• Navigating a major life transition

• Having difficulty setting boundaries

• Feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities

• Questioning your identity, values, or direction

• Coping with chronic illness

• Processing miscarriage or reproductive loss

• Struggling with disordered eating

• Moving through a faith crisis

• Healing from religious trauma

• Feeling disconnected within relationships

• Seeking personal growth and greater self-understanding

Jennifer’s approach considers the whole person. Instead of focusing only on symptoms, therapy can explore how family experiences, relationships, beliefs, identities, and earlier ways of coping continue influencing your present life.

Online Anxiety Therapy

Anxiety may appear as racing thoughts, physical tension, irritability, avoidance, indecision, or the feeling that you must prepare for every possible problem. You may spend so much energy preventing mistakes or disappointing others that it becomes difficult to recognize what you need. Online anxiety therapy can help you:

• Identify situations and beliefs that activate anxiety

• Understand the protective purpose behind anxious responses

• Reduce avoidance

• Develop emotional-regulation strategies

• Respond to uncertainty more flexibly

• Establish healthier boundaries

• Communicate needs more clearly

• Challenge patterns of perfectionism and people-pleasing

• Build greater trust in your own judgment

The goal is not to promise a life without worry. It is to help anxiety occupy less space in your decisions, relationships, and sense of self.

Online Depression Therapy

Depression can be difficult to recognize when you continue meeting external responsibilities. You may go to work, care for your family, and complete daily tasks while privately feeling empty, exhausted, hopeless, or disconnected. Signs that depression may be affecting you include:

• Persistent sadness

• Emotional numbness

• Loss of interest or pleasure

• Fatigue

• Isolation

• Low motivation

• Difficulty concentrating

• Harsh self-criticism

• Feelings of worthlessness

• Changes in sleep or appetite

• A sense that your life is happening around you

Online therapy offers a private space to understand the emotional, relational, and situational factors contributing to depression. Together, you can begin identifying manageable ways to reconnect with your emotions, relationships, values, and daily life.

Online Couples Therapy in Colorado Springs

Couples often seek therapy after realizing that their attempts to solve a problem have become part of the problem. One partner may push for answers because they feel frightened by emotional distance. The other may withdraw because conversations feel overwhelming or impossible to resolve. Both people can end up feeling rejected and misunderstood. Online couples therapy helps partners recognize this cycle and respond to each other differently. Jennifer works with couples experiencing:

• Communication breakdowns

• Repeated arguments

• Emotional disconnection

• Difficulty expressing needs

• Boundary disagreements

• Parenting conflict

• Financial tension

• Differences involving intimacy

• Resentment

• Extended-family stress

• Major life transitions

• Trust concerns

• Infidelity

• Financial betrayal

• Uncertainty about the future of the relationship

The purpose of couples therapy is not to select a winner or prove who caused the problem. Therapy creates room for both partners to understand what happens between them, take responsibility for their part, and build a safer emotional connection. Online couples counseling can also make scheduling easier when partners work different hours or have childcare, transportation, or travel responsibilities. Both partners must be physically located in Colorado during the appointment.

Online Marriage Counseling

A marriage can be under significant strain even when both partners still love each other and want the relationship to work. Stress, parenting, work, health concerns, grief, financial pressure, and unresolved hurt can gradually weaken emotional connection. Online marriage counseling may help you:

• Interrupt recurring patterns of conflict

• Communicate with less criticism and defensiveness

• Understand the fears beneath withdrawal or anger

• Rebuild trust and emotional safety

• Discuss difficult subjects more productively

• Create clearer boundaries

• Navigate family and parenting pressures

• Restore affection and emotional intimacy

• Repair after painful interactions

• Make relationship decisions with greater clarity

You do not need to wait until separation feels inevitable. Couples can begin therapy when they first notice growing distance or simply want to strengthen their relationship.

Online Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling gives engaged couples a structured opportunity to prepare for marriage—not only for the wedding. Partners may share important values while still having very different expectations about everyday married life. Online premarital counseling can help you discuss:

• Communication and conflict

• Financial expectations

• Emotional and physical intimacy

• Children and parenting

• Work and career plans

• Household responsibilities

• In-laws and extended family

• Religion and cultural traditions

• Boundaries and privacy

• Trust and commitment

• Past experiences that affect the relationship

• Expectations for the future

The goal is not complete agreement. Healthy preparation means learning where expectations differ, understanding what those differences represent, and building a respectful way to continue the conversation. Virtual appointments can make premarital counseling more manageable during an already busy season.

Online Trauma and PTSD Therapy in Colorado Springs

Trauma is not defined only by what happened. It is also reflected in how the experience continues affecting your body, emotions, identity, and relationships. You may find yourself reacting strongly even when part of you knows that you are currently safe. Trauma-related experiences may include:

• Intrusive memories

• Nightmares

• Hypervigilance

• Avoidance

• Emotional numbness

• Shame or self-blame

• Difficulty trusting others

• Strong reactions to reminders

• Feeling detached from your body

• Trouble experiencing safety in close relationships

• Persistent fear, anger, or grief

• PTSD symptoms

Jennifer provides trauma-informed therapy that honors your pace. Treatment may initially focus on safety, emotional regulation, grounding, and strengthening internal resources. Trauma processing begins only when it is appropriate and you have adequate preparation and support.

Online EMDR Therapy

EMDR can help some clients process traumatic memories and other distressing experiences. During online EMDR, bilateral stimulation may be adapted using guided eye movements, alternating sounds, virtual tools, or self-administered tapping. Jennifer will assess whether online EMDR is suitable based on your clinical needs, privacy, stability, resources, and readiness. Extended 80-minute individual sessions may be recommended when providing EMDR or other trauma-processing work.

Online Infidelity and Betrayal-Trauma Therapy

Infidelity and other forms of betrayal can create profound emotional instability. A betrayed partner may become hypervigilant, replay events, seek repeated reassurance, or question their own judgment. The partner responsible for the betrayal may struggle to respond without becoming defensive, ashamed, or emotionally overwhelmed. Online betrayal-trauma therapy can help individuals and couples address:

• Shock, anger, grief, and anxiety

• Intrusive thoughts

• Loss of trust

• Damage to self-esteem

• Unanswered questions

• Recurring triggers

• Boundaries and transparency

• Accountability

• Decisions about staying or leaving

• The emotional requirements of relationship repair

Individual therapy can help you process the impact of betrayal and rebuild trust in yourself. Couples therapy can help partners determine whether repair is possible and what meaningful accountability, honesty, and emotional safety would require. Therapy does not pressure couples to reconcile or separate. It supports clearer and more grounded decisions.

Online Grief and Loss Counseling

Grief can affect every part of your life. You may be grieving a death, miscarriage, child loss, divorce, illness, estrangement, significant move, lost opportunity, or a future you expected to have.

Grief may include sadness, anger, numbness, relief, guilt, confusion, or several conflicting emotions at once. Online grief counseling provides space to:

• Talk openly about the loss

• Process emotions without judgment

• Understand changes in identity and relationships

• Prepare for difficult dates and reminders

• Address unresolved or complicated feelings

• Develop support for daily functioning

• Find ways to honor what was meaningful

• Move forward without being expected to forget

There is no universal timeline for grief. Therapy respects the meaning of your loss and the pace at which you are able to process it.

Support for Life Transitions

Life transitions can feel destabilizing even when they are chosen or positive. You may seek therapy while:

• Moving to or away from Colorado Springs

• Beginning or ending a relationship

• Becoming engaged or married

• Becoming a parent

• Changing careers

• Adjusting to a new professional role

• Experiencing an empty nest

• Coping with illness

• Reconsidering long-held beliefs

• Separating or divorcing

• Managing a change in family structure

• Entering a new stage of adulthood

Therapy can help you make space for conflicting emotions, clarify your priorities, and remain connected to yourself during uncertainty.

Additional Concerns Supported Through Online Counseling

Jennifer also works with concerns involving:

• Chronic illness

• Miscarriage

• Disordered eating

• Faith crises

• Religious trauma

• Boundaries

• Self-esteem

• Emotional overwhelm

• Relationship patterns

• Financial betrayal

• Child loss

• Accidents and injuries

• Abuse

• Identity

• Personal growth

If you do not see your specific concern listed, you are welcome to discuss it during the consultation. Jennifer can help determine whether her experience and services align with what you need.

Therapeutic Approaches Used Online

Therapy at Cherry Creek Therapy is compassionate, systemic, trauma-informed, and personalized.

Depending on your needs, online counseling may incorporate:

Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems helps clients understand their emotional parts and protective reactions with curiosity rather than shame.

You may have one part that wants to move forward and another that feels afraid, angry, doubtful, or determined to maintain familiar patterns. IFS can help you understand these internal conflicts and develop greater self-compassion.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps partners identify the needs and fears underneath recurring conflict.

Couples learn to recognize the cycle creating disconnection and become more emotionally accessible and responsive to one another.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may help clients process trauma and distressing experiences when online EMDR is clinically appropriate.

Relational Life Therapy

Relational Life Therapy helps couples explore accountability, emotional honesty, communication, boundaries, and relational balance.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-based work explores how earlier relationships influence present experiences of closeness, trust, rejection, safety, and emotional dependence.

Mindfulness and Emotional-Regulation Skills

Grounding, mindfulness, and emotional-regulation practices can help clients remain connected to the present and respond more intentionally during distress. Jennifer does not use a single formula for every client. Treatment is selected according to your needs, history, identities, strengths, goals, and pace.

Why Choose a Statewide Online Therapist?

Online counseling allows people in Colorado Springs to expand their search beyond therapists with offices nearby. This can be valuable when you are seeking:

• A particular therapeutic approach

• Trauma-informed care

• Relationship-focused treatment

• Support after infidelity

• Premarital counseling

• IFS-informed therapy

• Online EMDR when appropriate

• A therapist whose personality and communication style feel compatible

• Continued care while moving or traveling within Colorado

A strong therapeutic relationship depends on trust and fit. Online access gives you greater freedom to consider those qualities.

What to Expect From an Online Therapy Session

Online sessions take place through a secure video platform. Before the appointment, select a quiet and private location where you can speak without being overheard or interrupted. You may also want to:

• Test your internet connection

• Check your camera and microphone

• Use headphones

• Silence notifications

• Keep water nearby

• Bring a grounding object if helpful

• Allow several minutes to settle before the session

• Avoid scheduling another demanding commitment immediately afterward

During therapy, Jennifer may help you explore emotions, understand patterns, connect present struggles with earlier experiences, practice new communication, process grief or trauma, and identify supportive changes. Therapy is collaborative. You are encouraged to ask questions and discuss what is or is not feeling helpful.

Online Therapy Across Colorado Springs and Nearby Communities

Virtual appointments are available throughout Colorado Springs, including clients living in and around:

• Downtown Colorado Springs

• Briargate

• Broadmoor

• Old Colorado City

• Rockrimmon

• Northgate

• Stetson Hills

• Powers

• Black Forest

• Fountain

• Monument

• Manitou Springs

• Security-Widefield

Cherry Creek Therapy does not maintain a physical office in Colorado Springs. These services are provided online. Clients must be physically located in Colorado at the time of each virtual appointment.

Online Therapy Rates

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

Current rates are:

• Individual therapy: 50 minutes — $175

• Couples therapy: 50 minutes — $175

• Extended couples session: 80 minutes — $240

• Extended individual session: 80 minutes — $240

• Consultation: 15 minutes — free

Extended sessions are encouraged for the first couples appointment and may be recommended for ongoing couples counseling. 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 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. Before becoming a therapist, Jennifer worked as a school teacher with certification in special education. Her experience contributed to her understanding of how families, relationships, communities, culture, and other systems affect individual well-being. Jennifer welcomes diverse client 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 warm, empathetic, direct, and goal-oriented. Therapy is personalized to each individual or couple.

Frequently Asked Questions About Online Therapy in Colorado Springs

Does Jennifer have an office in Colorado Springs?

No. Cherry Creek Therapy’s physical office is in Denver. Counseling for Colorado Springs clients is provided online.

Can I receive online therapy anywhere in Colorado Springs?

Yes. You can attend from any suitable private location. You must be physically located in Colorado during the appointment.

Is online couples therapy available?

Yes. Jennifer provides online couples therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, and infidelity-recovery support.

Can partners attend from separate locations?

This may be possible when both partners are located in Colorado and have appropriate privacy and technology. Discuss the arrangement with Jennifer before the appointment.

Can I continue online therapy if I move?

You can continue while you remain physically located in Colorado. If you move outside Colorado, Jennifer will need to discuss whether continued treatment is legally and clinically possible.

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.

What does online therapy cost?

A standard individual session is $150. A standard couples session is $175. Extended 80-minute appointments are $240.

Can EMDR be provided online?

Online EMDR may be available when Jennifer determines that virtual trauma processing is appropriate for your needs and circumstances.

How long are sessions?

Standard individual and couples appointments are 50 minutes. Extended appointments are 80 minutes.

Is there a free consultation?

Yes. Jennifer offers a free 15-minute consultation online, by phone, or in person.

Is online therapy appropriate for an emergency?

Online outpatient counseling is not an emergency or immediate crisis service. If you cannot remain safe or require urgent assistance, contact local emergency services or an appropriate crisis resource.

Begin Online Therapy in Colorado Springs

You do not have to limit your search for support to the closest therapy office. Online counseling can help you work with a therapist whose approach fits your needs while giving you the flexibility to attend from a private location in Colorado Springs. Whether you are navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship distress, betrayal, or a major life transition, you deserve a space where your experience can be understood without judgment.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, to ask questions and determine whether online therapy is right for you.

Call: (303) 720-6287

Online therapy available throughout Colorado Springs and across Colorado

In-person appointments available in Denver at:

90 Madison Street
Suite 102
Denver, CO 80206