Individual and couples therapy in Fort Collins and online across Colorado
Our expert team helps with anxiety, trauma and PTSD, depression, ADHD and autism, addiction, life transitions, self esteem, and couples and relationship repair.
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Therapy Services
Personalized support from caring mental health professionals dedicated to improving mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
You do not have to keep replaying every conversation, avoiding the things you want to do, or worrying that everyone is judging you. Social anxiety can make work, school, relationships, and everyday interactions feel exhausting.
With social anxiety therapy our therapists use evidence-based approaches to help you understand your anxiety, feel more confident in social situations, and show up as yourself.
You do not have to keep forcing yourself through the day when everything feels heavy. Depression can make it hard to find motivation, enjoy the things you used to care about, feel connected to others, or believe that things can get better.
Depression therapy offers a supportive place to understand what you are carrying, build skills that fit your needs, and take small, meaningful steps toward feeling more like yourself again.
You do not have to keep replaying conversations, lying awake with racing thoughts, or wondering why everyday things feel so hard. Anxiety can affect your sleep, relationships, confidence, and ability to feel present in your own life.
Anxiety therapy helps you understand the patterns behind your worry, build practical tools for managing stress, and feel more grounded in the moments that matter to you..
Your past is part of your story, but it does not have to control your life. Trauma and PTSD can leave you feeling on edge, disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck reacting to things that happened long ago.
Trauma therapy offers a supportive place to understand your responses, build coping skills, and move forward at a pace that feels manageable for you.
Moving through a world that often expects you to think, communicate, and respond like everyone else can be exhausting. You may be feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, burned out, or unsure how to honor your needs without having to mask who you are.
Neuroaffirming therapy offers a supportive space to understand your brain, build on your strengths, and find strategies that work with you—not against you.
Relationships can feel hard when conversations turn into arguments, you feel more like roommates, or the same issues keep coming up without getting resolved. Couples therapy offers a place to slow down, understand the patterns between you, and reconnect without blame.
Couples therapy can help you strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and create a relationship that feels more connected and supportive.
When past relationships have left you feeling guarded, on edge, or afraid the same thing will happen again, it can be hard to feel safe with someone new. Relationship trauma can show up as overthinking, shutting down, people-pleasing, or expecting rejection before it happens.
Relationship trauma therapy can help you understand your triggers, rebuild trust in yourself, and create relationships that feel safer, more connected, and more honest.
Substance use can affect more than one part of your life. It may create stress, conflict, secrecy, distance, or worry in relationships with the people you care about. You deserve support without judgment.
Substance use counseling offers a place to understand your patterns, identify what you need, and build healthier ways of coping and connecting.
Why should I try therapy?
How individual or couples therapy can help you heal.
Many of us struggle with the idea of asking for help, especially when we are facing emotional challenges or feeling overwhelmed. Maybe you've been told to "buck up," to "not be so emotional," or perhaps you simply haven't had a safe space where you can share your mental health experiences could be expressed without judgment.
Therapy can give you that space.
Seeking support is more common than many people realize. Millions of individuals have worked with a therapist at some point in their lives, often during periods of stress, change, loss, uncertainty, or personal growth.
Reaching out for support doesn't mean something is wrong with you it means you're investing in your well-being and creating space to better understand yourself.
Our team believes that each person already possesses strengths, resilience, and the capacity for growth. Mental health counseling is not about telling you how to live your life or who you should become. It is an opportunity to explore your experiences, better understand yourself, and identify meaningful ways to move toward the life you want to create.
And who doesn’t want that?
Reach out to one of our caring, compassionate counselors today and get started reaching for your potential.
Meet Our Therapists
Rachel Berglund, MA, LMFT
Specialties: Self Esteem, Gottman Couples Therapy, General Anxiety, Burnout, Eating Disorders/Body Image, and Interpersonal Work
Kady Wilmer, MA, MFTC
Specialties: Self Confidence, Burnout, Family of Origin Trauma, Relationship Trauma, Relationship Conflict, Resolution, Awareness and Insight Building, and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emily Mandel, MS
Specialties: Neuro Affirming Care for Individual & Support System, Executive Functioning, Relational & Transitional Grief, Burnout, and LQBTQAI+ affirming care
Jessica Mehring, MA, LPCC
Specialties: Relationship Conflict and Repair, Burnout, Life Transtions, Relationships and Addiction, Gottman Couples Therapy, IFS Informed Care, and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Andrea Di Lizia, Masters Level Intern
Specialties: General Anxiety, Life Transitions, Self Esteem, Family of Origin Anxiety, and Emotional Regulation
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Our Story
Empowering Hope was created out of a passion for quality, compassionate mental health care by our founder, Rachel Berglund. After years in the field Rachel noticed a gap in care for individuals, couples, and families seeking support outside of community mental health and agencies that supports people where they are at. Both financially and mentally. She wanted to create a space for people to feel seen and heard by experts who do not treat them as a burden, or just a number on their caseload. Because they can!
That was when Empowering Hope was born.
Since its creation in 2020 we have been providing expert therapy to individuals, couples, and families in Fort Collins and virtual counseling throughout Colorado.
Whether this is your first time reaching out for therapy, or you're just looking for a new therapist who gets it, you are in the right place.
We can help.