Threshold Counseling & Consulting
I work with those who have experienced relational wounds and complex trauma. Together we can heal the painful patterns and wounded places and come into new places of your authentic, free, and flourishing self.
Hello! I’m Chelsea. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have worked with complex trauma for over a decade. I deeply believe in the human capacity to heal and flourish when there is an environment that promotes safety, healing, compassion, and curiosity. Often times this begins in the shifting of the internal environment.
I am a lover of the brain and clinical neuroscience and have seen that when we understand and work alongside our brain and nervous system, we can create the conditions to heal.
Healing is hard work! Often when we are overwhelmed it is saying that we cannot do this journey alone, nor were we meant to. I feel deeply honored to journey alongside people through healing.
My Integrated Approach
The Process
I am an integrative trauma therapist specializing in complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment-based work.
My approach is rooted in the understanding that many symptoms are adaptive responses to overwhelming experiences. Therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong,” but about creating the conditions that promote integration, regulation, and connection.
I draw from:
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Ego State / Parts Work
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Attachment-Based Therapy Models
Experiential Therapy Models
These modalities allow us to work not only with thoughts and insight, but with the nervous system and deeper layers of experience where trauma is often held so that healing can be embodied and lived.
Building Safety and Capacity in the Present
A core part of our work focuses on what is happening in your life right now.
Together, we work with present-day symptoms—such as anxiety, overwhelm, reactivity, or disconnection—by building awareness, regulation, and internal skills that support your nervous system.
This includes:
learning how to recognize internal states
developing tools for regulation and grounding
creating space between trigger and response
strengthening your sense of agency and choice
As this capacity grows, you begin to experience yourself differently—not just managing symptoms, but feeling more steady, more resourced, and more in control of your life.
These experiences create new, corrective patterns in the present—laying the foundation for deeper healing.
Working with Deeper Patterns and Past Wounds
Alongside present-focused work, we gently explore the deeper layers where patterns were formed.
Many “stuck” places are rooted in earlier experiences—moments where the nervous system had to adapt to overwhelming, unsafe, or unmet relational needs.
This part of therapy may include:
processing traumatic or emotionally significant memories
working with parts of self that developed in response to those experiences
addressing patterns that now feel overactive, sensitized, or on “overdrive”
supporting the nervous system in completing responses that were never able to resolve
Through approaches such as EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), and parts work, we can access and process these experiences in a way that is paced, contained, and attuned to your system.
Toward Earned Secure Attachment
As these layers of work come together, something meaningful begins to shift.
Clients often find themselves developing what is called earned secure attachment—a way of relating to themselves that feels more grounded, compassionate, and stable, even if that wasn’t their original experience.
This can look like:
feeling more at home in yourself
relating to your internal experience with curiosity instead of judgment
having greater freedom and flexibility in how you respond
accessing a more authentic sense of who you are
From this place, relationships with others also begin to change—becoming more authentic, connected, and aligned.
My Services
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy provides a space to explore and process trauma, attachment patterns, and internal experiences with depth and care.
Extended sessions are recommended for trauma processing work such as EMDR and DBR.
60-minute sessions (55 min): $200
90-minute extended sessions available
Couples Therapy
Couples work focuses on understanding relational dynamics through an attachment and nervous system lens.
Together we explore:
triggers and conflict cycles
underlying attachment needs
communication and repair
how past experiences impact current relationships
Couples Session: $220
Therapy Intensives
2-day and 3-day intensives available
Therapy intensives offer focused, immersive time for deeper work that can accelerate progress beyond what is often possible in weekly therapy.
Intensives are ideal for:
Complex trauma processing
Clients feeling stuck in therapy
Attachment and relational work
Deep nervous system integration
Individual Intensive: $1900/per day
Couples/Family Intensive: $2000/per day
Clinical Consultation and Supervision
Consultation is available for therapists working with complex trauma and dissociation.
Focus areas may include:
case consultation
integrating EMDR, DBR, and parts work
working with dissociation
navigating stuck clinical dynamics
Consultation Group: $50/hour
Individual Consultation: $140
Payment & Insurance
I am an in-network provider for Colorado medicaid, including Colorado Access and CHIP.
If you have out-of-network benefits, I can provide a superbill that you may submit to your insurance for potential reimbursement. I recommend contacting your insurance provider to understand your specific coverage.
Rate: $200/session
I am an in-network provider for Colorado medicaid, including Colorado Access and CHIP. I have limited spots of Medicaid clients. I am currently full. I do work closely with an organization, Logos Healing Institute, that I can refer to.
Sliding Scale: I have a sliding scale based on income and openings. My sliding scale goes down to $150. Please reach out for my sliding scale assessment form.
Location
My practice location:
2442 S. Downing Street
Denver, CO 80210
Let’s Get Started!
If you’re considering therapy you’re welcome to reach out here with any questions you may have.
I typically respond within 1–2 business days.
If instead, you are ready to set up a consultation, you can do so directly through this link: