About Us

Susan Denison MSW LCSW

Susan  is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with children, adolescents and adults since 1990.  She has been trained in a variety of modalities, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and trauma resolution techniques, such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and Somatic Experiencing.  Susan has also trained in various complementary healing practices and typically weaves together wholistic practices and traditional psychotherapy techniques in her work with individuals.

Susan believes in the inherent health of each individual and focuses on building strengths and resources to provide the best care possible.  Her warmth, authenticity and sense of humor help create a warm and caring environment in which her clients can grow and heal from life’s many challenges.

Specialties include:

• Parenting support
• Stress reduction
• Anger management
• Anxiety, Depression and Mood Disorders
• Life Transitions
• Relationship challenges
• DBT for Teens and DBT for Parents groups
• Trauma Resolution including EFT, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting
• Overcoming Self-harm behaviors

Colleen Todd MA LPC CACIII

Colleen has a warm, authentic and direct style which provides a safe and comfortable space for clients to set their own pace in making positive shifts or changes in their lives.

With an extensive history in counseling and working with people, Colleen believes in sharing the full expanse of her knowledge and methods with her clients in an effort to provide them with the tools to help themselves.

Colleen has more than 15 years experience in human services and mental health.

Her past experience includes:

• Counselor working with the terminally ill, developmentally disabled children, preschool children, the elderly, prison inmates, college students, adults, and young adults.
• Teacher
• Inpatient Psychiatric care
• Advanced Clinical Supervisor
• Career Counselor
• Forensic Psychotherapist
• Psychotherapist/Coach in the private sector

Colleen has placed furthering her experience and education as a high priority.  As a result, she has continued her experience/education extensively to include:

• DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
• Internal Family Systems
• Pharmacology
• Psycho-pharmacology
• Providing Advanced Clinical Supervision
• Standardized Offender Assessments
• Research Team Participant Protection
• Training with Albert Ellis on issues of Anxiety/Depression
• Safe-zone Training
• Attachment Therapy for Adults and Couples
• Motivational Interviewing
• Criminal Justice Substance Abuse Treatment
• Advanced Clinical Training and Strategies for Experienced Clinicians
• Multiple modalities surrounding issues with drug and alcohol problems

She has practiced psychotherapy for the past eight years and worked with a wide variety of people. Currently, Colleen has a full time private practice in Louisville, CO. Colleen consistently maintains a strong integrity in her work. She has continued her education in multiple directions incorporating a wide-spanning variety of treatment approaches in order to meet her client’s needs. Colleen regularly creates and delivers presentations to various groups of health-care professionals on effective treatment, ethics, addictions, and EMDR.

Matt Banner, MA, LPC

Matt Banner, MA, LPC is an adolescent, family, and adult psychotherapist providing individual, family, and group services in Louisville. Matt has been working with adolescents and families for over 15 years, and specializes in working with adolescents with significant mixed mental health and behavior challenges utilizing treatment strategies including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Matt's treatment philosophy as a client-centered Existential psychotherapist views individuals and families as capable of maintaining their own mental and emotional health, that healing and the process of therapy occur in the here and now, and that the role of psychotherapy is to unfold that inner skill and give it strength to be self-sustaining.

Specialties include:

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy
• Intensive Family Therapy
• Acute and Chronic Adolescent Behavior challenges
• Mindfulness practice integrated into psychotherapy
• Life Transitions
• Parent Coaching and skills training
• Mixed mood and substance use issues with adolescents and adults
• Anger Management
• Stress Reduction