About Gwen
Gwen Bartran is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and life changes with practical, down-to-earth care. Gwen uses a hands-on style that draws on mindfulness and attachment ideas to help people feel steadier and more connected.
Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based thinking, and client-centered listening. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, narrative work to reframe hard stories, and conversations about how thoughts and feelings show up in the body.
Background and approach
She keeps techniques simple so people can use them between sessions. Gwen has long experience supporting people facing trauma, eating and body-image issues, grief, and career or relationship concerns. She also helps with panic, ADHD-related struggles, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation.
Her work is practical: she helps clients spot patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills that fit their daily life. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. Gwen invites honest talk and helps clients set clear goals.
She uses hearing, reflection, and gentle challenge to move work forward. Her sessions are available in English and are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session through the site.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values and then taking small actions that move a person toward what matters. It helps with anxiety, worry, and life transitions by teaching practical skills for staying engaged with life despite uncomfortable feelings. Attachment-Based approaches look at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. This work helps people understand patterns in close relationships and try new ways of reaching out and connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experience and pace. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what is heard, and supports the client in finding their own solutions rather than directing them.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gwen will help clients identify what fits best by talking through goals, preferences, and how each method feels in practice. Therapy is collaborative, and adjustments are made over time to match changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attending easier around work, family, and daily life. Video sessions let the work feel most like in-person meetings, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be good for quick check-ins, and messaging or live chat can support shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it possible to maintain momentum and try techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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