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Insights, research, and practical guidance on DBT, CBT, and mental health from our clinicians.
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DBT
The skills, the structure, and how the treatment actually works.
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Teenage Mood Swings: Normal or Something More?
Most teenage mood swings are developmentally normal. A few are the first sign of something treatable. What Denver clinicians look at to tell the difference. -
Can BPD Be Diagnosed in Teenagers?
Many clinicians still won't diagnose borderline personality disorder before 18. The diagnostic manuals allow it, the research supports it, and waiting has a cost. -
Teen Anger Management: A Parent's Guide to What Actually Works
Explosive anger in teenagers is usually a skills problem, not a character problem. What's underneath teen anger, which approaches work, and when to get help. -
A Year in DBT: Month by Month
DBT is a year-long commitment. An honest month-by-month picture: early frustration, the skill-building plateau, and the shifts that stick.
Conditions & Approaches
What we treat, how it gets assessed, and which therapy fits which problem.
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Burnout or Depression? What Denver Clinicians Look For
Burnout and depression share most of their symptoms and call for different treatment. How Denver therapists tell them apart, and why getting it wrong costs months. -
Autism or BPD? Why Adults Get the Wrong Answer
Autism and borderline personality disorder overlap enough that adults — especially women — are routinely given the wrong one. What actually separates them, and how a Denver evaluation sorts it out. -
Postpartum Anxiety and Intrusive Thoughts
Scary, unwanted thoughts about your baby are one of the most common and least-discussed postpartum symptoms. What they mean, what they don't, and how CBT treats them. -
Psilocybin in Colorado: One Year In
One year into Colorado's Natural Medicine Act: what's actually available for psilocybin-assisted therapy, the evidence, and what to watch for.
Natural Medicine
Psilocybin-assisted therapy under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act.
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Psilocybin and SSRIs: Do You Have to Stop Your Antidepressant?
Whether you need to taper your SSRI or SNRI before psilocybin therapy is genuinely unsettled. Here's the evidence on both sides, and how to decide with your prescriber. -
Psilocybin Contraindications: Who Natural Medicine Is Not a Good Fit For
A plain-language list of who should not do psilocybin therapy — the firm rule-outs, the situations that need a longer conversation, and how to read your own. -
Preparing for Your First Psilocybin Session
A practical guide to physical, emotional, and logistical preparation for your first psilocybin-assisted therapy session in Colorado. -
Psychedelic Therapy for Couples: What the Research Says
What the research says about psychedelic and psilocybin therapy for couples — relationship satisfaction, intimacy, integration, and the limits.
Family, Practice & Local
For partners, parents, referring clinicians, and finding care in Denver.
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Does Medicaid Cover DBT in Colorado?
Health First Colorado covers DBT — but which plan you have and which programs contract with it decides whether you can actually get in. A plain breakdown for Denver-area families. -
Sarah Gordis Earns DBT-Linehan Board Certification
Sarah Gordis, LCSW is now a DBT-Linehan Board Certified DBT Clinician™ — the field's gold-standard credential. Here's what that means for clients at FRTC. -
Online Couples Counseling in Colorado
Telehealth couples therapy is now standard, not a compromise. A Colorado clinician on when online sessions work and how to make them productive. -
What to Do When Your Child Refuses Therapy
Your child needs help but won't go to therapy. Here are practical strategies from Denver DBT therapists for navigating refusal.