Compassionate Virtual Counseling for Individuals and Couples

Getting to therapy should not add more stress to an already demanding week. Cherry Creek Therapy provides personalized online therapy in Denver for adults and couples who want meaningful emotional support without commuting to an office. Virtual appointments allow you to meet with Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, from a private location where you feel comfortable. You receive the same thoughtful attention and individualized care while avoiding traffic, parking, travel time, and many of the scheduling difficulties associated with in-person appointments. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship conflict, infidelity, emotional disconnection, or a major life transition, online counseling can provide a steady space to understand what is happening and begin creating change. Online appointments are available throughout Denver and across Colorado. In-person sessions are also available at the Cherry Creek Therapy office on Madison Street in Denver.

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Therapy Without the Denver Commute

Life in Denver can feel full before the day even begins. You may be managing a demanding career, parenting responsibilities, school schedules, relationship pressures, health concerns, or a long commute. Adding travel across the city for a therapy appointment can make consistent care difficult. Online therapy allows you to meet from home, a private office, or another confidential location in Colorado. You may prefer virtual therapy if you:

• Want to avoid traffic, parking, and additional travel time

• Have a busy or unpredictable work schedule

• Work remotely and want to attend from home

• Need an appointment that fits around school pickup or childcare

• Experience chronic illness, pain, or limited mobility

• Feel more comfortable discussing personal subjects in your own space

• Want to avoid missing therapy during difficult weather

• Travel regularly within Colorado

• Have struggled to maintain consistency with in-person appointments

• Want access to relationship-focused or trauma-informed care

Online therapy is not simply about convenience. Removing logistical pressure can make it easier to attend regularly and give therapy the attention it deserves.

Online Individual Therapy in Denver

Individual therapy gives you space to explore experiences and emotions that may be difficult to understand on your own. You may appear successful, capable, or composed while privately feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to change the patterns affecting your life. Online individual therapy may help if you are:

• Living with anxiety, chronic worry, or overthinking

• Feeling depressed, emotionally numb, or unmotivated

• Struggling with perfectionism or people-pleasing

• Experiencing burnout or decision fatigue

• Recovering from trauma

• Grieving a loss

• Adjusting to a major life transition

• Having difficulty setting boundaries

• Questioning your identity, values, or direction

• Coping with chronic illness

• Navigating miscarriage or reproductive loss

• Experiencing shame or self-doubt

• Working through a faith crisis or religious trauma

• Repeating relationship patterns you want to understand

• Seeking greater self-awareness and emotional stability

Therapy can help you connect present difficulties with the experiences, relationships, and beliefs that helped shape them. The goal is not to judge how you learned to cope. It is to understand those responses with compassion and determine what you need now.

Online Couples Therapy in Denver

Relationship difficulties can leave partners feeling like they are having the same argument repeatedly without reaching the real issue. One person may become critical or pursue the conversation more intensely. The other may shut down, become defensive, or withdraw. Both partners may be trying to protect themselves while unintentionally creating greater distance. Online couples therapy helps partners slow this process down. Couples may seek support for:

• Repeated arguments

• Communication breakdowns

• Emotional distance

• Loss of affection or intimacy

• Difficulty expressing needs

• Unresolved resentment

• Parenting disagreements

• Financial tension

• Boundary difficulties

• Conflict involving extended family

• Mismatched expectations

• Major life transitions

• Trust concerns

• Infidelity or financial betrayal

• Decisions about the future of the relationship

Jennifer helps couples identify the emotional cycle affecting their relationship rather than assigning blame to one partner. Virtual couples counseling may be especially convenient when both partners have demanding schedules, arranging childcare is difficult, or commuting together would make regular attendance less manageable. Both partners must be physically located in Colorado during online appointments.

Online Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling can help partners address painful patterns before they become increasingly difficult to change. You do not need to wait until the relationship is in crisis. Online marriage counseling may help you:

• Communicate with less criticism and defensiveness

• Understand the needs beneath recurring arguments

• Rebuild emotional security

• Repair trust

• Establish healthier boundaries

• Navigate parenting and family pressures

• Discuss money without turning against each other

• Restore emotional and physical connection

• Make difficult decisions more thoughtfully

• Create a more balanced and responsive partnership

Therapy provides a structured environment where both partners can speak honestly, listen differently, and begin practicing healthier ways of responding.

Online Premarital Counseling in Denver

Wedding planning often focuses on the ceremony. Premarital counseling focuses on the relationship and life that follow it. Online premarital counseling gives engaged couples a convenient way to discuss subjects that will shape their marriage. Sessions may explore:

• Communication styles

• Conflict and repair

• Financial expectations

• Emotional and physical intimacy

• Children and parenting

• Household responsibilities

• Career plans

• Religion and culture

• In-laws and family boundaries

• Trust and commitment

• Expectations for married life

• Past experiences that influence the relationship

The purpose is not to prove that a couple agrees about everything. It is to help partners understand their differences and learn how to approach them as a team.

Online Trauma and PTSD Therapy in Denver

Trauma can continue influencing your emotions, body, relationships, and sense of safety long after an experience has ended. You may notice that you:

• Feel constantly alert or unable to relax

• Avoid people, places, or situations connected to what happened

• Experience intrusive memories or emotional triggers

• Feel numb or disconnected

• Struggle to trust other people

• Carry shame or self-blame

• Become overwhelmed by emotions that seem disproportionate

• Have difficulty feeling safe in close relationships

• Understand the past intellectually but still feel controlled by it

Jennifer provides trauma-informed therapy that respects your pace and emotional readiness. Treatment may involve developing stabilization skills, understanding trauma responses, strengthening internal resources, and carefully processing painful experiences when you are prepared to do so.

Online EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can help some clients process traumatic memories and other emotionally distressing experiences. EMDR may be adapted for online treatment using virtual bilateral stimulation, guided eye movements, or self-administered tapping. Online EMDR is not automatically appropriate for every client or every stage of treatment. Jennifer will assess your privacy, emotional stability, available support, treatment needs, and readiness before beginning virtual trauma processing. Extended 80-minute individual appointments may be recommended for EMDR and trauma-processing sessions.

Online Infidelity and Betrayal-Trauma Therapy

Betrayal can disrupt your sense of safety, trust, identity, and reality. After discovering an affair, financial secrecy, or another significant breach of trust, you may feel caught between needing answers and feeling overwhelmed by what you might learn. Common responses include:

• Anger and grief

• Intrusive thoughts

• Replaying conversations or events

• Difficulty sleeping

• Anxiety and hypervigilance

• Loss of self-esteem

• Fear of future betrayal

• Uncertainty about whether to stay or leave

• Difficulty trusting your own judgment

Online infidelity therapy is available for individuals and couples. Individual sessions can help the betrayed partner process the emotional impact, rebuild self-trust, and consider their next steps. Couples sessions can help partners understand what repair requires, establish boundaries, communicate more safely, and determine whether rebuilding the relationship is possible. Therapy does not force a particular outcome. It creates space for honesty, accountability, emotional processing, and clearer decisions.

Online Anxiety Therapy in Denver

Anxiety can show up as persistent worry, perfectionism, irritability, physical tension, difficulty making decisions, or the feeling that you must always prepare for something to go wrong. Therapy can help you:

• Understand what activates your anxiety

• Recognize the experiences and beliefs beneath it

• Respond to anxious thoughts differently

• Reduce avoidance

• Establish healthier boundaries

• Develop emotional-regulation strategies

• Approach uncertainty with greater flexibility

• Build a more compassionate relationship with yourself

The goal is not to eliminate every uncomfortable emotion. It is to help anxiety stop controlling your decisions, relationships, and daily life.

Online Depression Therapy

Depression does not always look like visible sadness. You may continue working, caring for others, and meeting responsibilities while feeling empty, exhausted, disconnected, or unable to experience pleasure. Online depression therapy may support you if you are experiencing:

• Persistent sadness or hopelessness

• Emotional numbness

• Loss of motivation

• Fatigue

• Isolation

• Harsh self-criticism

• Difficulty concentrating

• Changes in sleep or appetite

• Loss of interest in meaningful activities

• A sense that you are simply going through the motions

Therapy can help you understand the emotional, relational, and situational factors contributing to depression while identifying manageable ways to reconnect with yourself and your life.

Online Grief and Loss Counseling

Grief may follow a death, miscarriage, child loss, divorce, estrangement, illness, major transition, or another meaningful loss. There is no correct timeline for grieving. Online grief counseling provides space to:

• Express painful or conflicting emotions

• Process what the loss means to you

• Adjust to changes in identity and daily life

• Navigate difficult dates, reminders, and family dynamics

• Address guilt or unfinished feelings

• Find ways to remain connected to what mattered

• Move forward without erasing the significance of the loss

You do not have to appear strong or make your grief easier for other people to understand during therapy.

Additional Concerns Supported Online

Jennifer also provides online counseling related to:

• Major life transitions

• Chronic illness

• Miscarriage

• Disordered eating

• Faith crises

• Religious trauma

• Boundary setting

• Self-esteem

• Relationship patterns

• Financial betrayal

• Child loss

• Accidents and injuries

• Abuse

• Identity and personal growth

If you are unsure whether your concern falls within Jennifer’s scope of practice, the free consultation offers an opportunity to discuss what you need.

Therapeutic Approaches Used in Virtual Sessions

Jennifer uses an empathetic, systemic, trauma-informed, and goal-oriented approach. Online treatment may incorporate:

Internal Family Systems

IFS helps clients understand the different emotional parts of themselves with curiosity and compassion. It can be helpful when one part of you wants to change while another feels frightened, overwhelmed, angry, ashamed, or determined to maintain familiar patterns.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps partners identify the attachment fears and needs beneath conflict. Couples learn to recognize their negative interaction cycle and create more emotionally accessible and responsive ways of connecting.

EMDR

EMDR may be used to process trauma and emotionally distressing experiences when online treatment is appropriate.

Relational Life Therapy

Relational Life Therapy helps couples examine communication, accountability, boundaries, relational roles, and power dynamics.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-based work helps individuals and couples understand how earlier relationships influence present expectations of closeness, trust, safety, and rejection.

Mindfulness and Emotional-Regulation Skills

Grounding, mindfulness, and emotional-regulation practices can help clients remain present during distress and respond more intentionally.

Jennifer selects therapeutic approaches according to each client’s history, goals, strengths, identities, needs, and comfort.

Online or In-Person Therapy in Denver

Denver clients can choose between online appointments and in-person sessions at Cherry Creek Therapy’s office.

Online therapy may be preferable when:

• You want to avoid commuting

• Your schedule changes frequently

• You need to attend from home

• Weather or transportation creates barriers

• You feel more emotionally comfortable in your own environment

In-person therapy may be preferable when:

• You have limited privacy at home

• You experience frequent technology problems

• Leaving your usual environment helps you focus

• You feel more connected when sharing physical space

• Your clinical needs are better suited to in-person care

Some clients may also benefit from discussing a hybrid arrangement when appropriate and available.

Jennifer can help you consider which format is likely to support your comfort, consistency, and therapeutic goals.

What to Expect From Online Counseling

Online appointments take place through a secure video platform.

Before your session:

• Select a private and comfortable location

• Test your camera, microphone, and internet connection

• Use headphones if they improve privacy

• Silence notifications

• Keep water or a grounding object nearby

• Allow a few minutes to transition into the appointment

During therapy, Jennifer may help you explore emotions, understand recurring patterns, connect present difficulties with earlier experiences, practice new communication, process grief or trauma, and identify supportive changes between appointments.

Therapy is collaborative. You can ask questions, discuss what feels helpful, and provide feedback about the process.

Online Therapy Across Denver

Virtual sessions are available to clients throughout Denver, including people living in and around:

• Cherry Creek

• Washington Park

• Capitol Hill

• Congress Park

• Park Hill

• Lowry

• Central Park

• Baker

• Highland

• Sunnyside

• Sloan’s Lake

• Five Points

• University

• Virginia Village

• Hilltop

• Hampden

You do not need to live near the Cherry Creek office to receive online counseling.

Clients must be physically located in Colorado at the time of every virtual session.

Online Therapy Rates

Cherry Creek Therapy is a self-pay practice and is not currently accepting 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 appointments are encouraged for the first couples session and may be recommended for ongoing couples work. Extended individual sessions may be recommended for EMDR and trauma processing.

A limited number of sliding-scale appointments may be available. Please ask about current availability.

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

Jennifer provides focused therapy for adults and couples seeking deeper emotional understanding and meaningful change.

She earned a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Regis University. Before entering the therapy profession, Jennifer worked as a school teacher with certification in special education. That experience contributed to her understanding of how family, relationships, culture, community, and other systems influence individual well-being.

Jennifer celebrates diverse client identities and believes that race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family background, and other intersecting experiences deserve thoughtful recognition within therapy.

Her professional training includes:

• EMDR

• Internal Family Systems

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

• Relational Life Therapy

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Grief treatment

• The Developmental Model for Couples

Her approach is warm, direct, compassionate, and personalized.

Frequently Asked Questions About Online Therapy in Denver

Do I have to live in a particular Denver neighborhood?

No. Online counseling is available throughout Denver and across Colorado.

Can I switch between online and in-person appointments?

Online and in-person sessions are both available to Denver clients. Discuss your preferences and scheduling needs with Jennifer to determine what arrangements are appropriate and available.

Where is the Cherry Creek Therapy office?

The office is located at 90 Madison Street, Suite 102, Denver, Colorado 80206.

Is online couples therapy available?

Yes. Jennifer provides online couples therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, and infidelity-recovery support. Both partners must be located in Colorado during the appointment.

Can partners join from separate locations?

This may be possible if both partners are in Colorado and each person has a suitable private space and reliable technology. Ask Jennifer about the arrangement before your session.

Does Cherry Creek Therapy accept insurance?

Cherry Creek Therapy is currently self-pay and does not accept insurance. Limited sliding-scale availability may be offered.

How much does online therapy cost?

A standard 50-minute individual appointment is $150. A 50-minute couples appointment is $175. Extended 80-minute individual and couples appointments are $240.

Is online EMDR available?

EMDR may be provided online when Jennifer determines that virtual trauma processing is clinically appropriate for the client.

Is there a consultation before starting?

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

Is online therapy appropriate during an emergency?

Online outpatient therapy is not designed for immediate crisis or emergency intervention. If you need urgent help or cannot remain safe, contact local emergency services or an appropriate crisis resource.

Begin Online Therapy in Denver

You do not have to wait for the perfect time or until your difficulties become unmanageable. Online therapy can provide a consistent space to understand what you are experiencing, process painful emotions, strengthen your relationships, and create meaningful change without adding a commute to your day. Cherry Creek Therapy offers virtual counseling for individuals and couples throughout Denver and across Colorado.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with Jennifer Gardner, M.A., MFT-C, to ask questions and determine whether online therapy is the right fit. Call: (303) 720-6287

Online appointments available throughout Denver and Colorado

In-person appointments available at:

90 Madison Street
Suite 102
Denver, CO 80206