- Stress and anxiety
- Eating concerns
- Attachment work
About Gwen
Gwen Bartran is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 25 years of experience helping people facing major life changes and mental health concerns. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, mood disorders, and questions about life purpose.
Gwen uses a mix of approaches rooted in attachment theory, mindfulness practices, narrative work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and client-centered methods. She pays attention to how thoughts, bodies, and past relationships shape current problems. In sessions she listens, reflects what she hears, and helps people notice patterns that get in the way of living the life they want.
She often works with people recovering from trauma, people with eating and body-image concerns, and those coping with grief, addiction, or career crossroads. Gwen also supports people dealing with anger, guilt, panic attacks, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes long-term clinical practice and ongoing study of neuroscience research.
Gwen frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients clarify values, try new behaviors, and tell different stories about themselves. Sessions can include mindfulness exercises, attention to bodily experience, and exploring attachment patterns from early relationships.
People who want practical ways to manage anxiety, rebuild trust after hurt, or find more direction in work and life often seek her approach. To begin, prospective clients follow the site’s intake steps to match and schedule a first session.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Gwen often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions despite difficult feelings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns influence present behavior and emotional responses. This work helps with intimacy issues, trust, and patterns that show up in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gwen discusses options with each person and together they decide which methods fit the client’s goals and preferences. That collaboration can include trying mindfulness exercises, narrative reflection, or ACT strategies and checking what helps most.
Confirm the session formats available before booking, since the profile does not list specific delivery methods. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or avoid travel. It also lets people practice mindfulness and behavioral experiments in everyday settings while still getting professional guidance.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting questions, relationship and intimacy issues, mood disorders, grief, and life purpose concerns.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends attachment-based thinking, mindfulness, narrative approaches, ACT, and client-centered work. Sessions focus on noticing patterns, values, and bodily experience.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience working with people facing trauma, eating issues, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado.
Does she work in other languages or accept clients internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Confirm current session options through the site before booking, as the profile does not list specific session formats.
How does her pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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