Group therapy in Lakewood

Each session follows the same rhythm. You start with a short meditation or journal prompt, then a check-in where everyone says how they're arriving. A clinician teaches the day's clinical content, the group processes it together, and a checkout closes the morning so you leave with something to use.

Usually 8 to 12 people. That's small enough for your clinician to know what you're working on and for you to learn names in the first week, and large enough to hear from people at different points in their own progress. Groups are for adults 18 and over.

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12 pm, in person at our Lakewood practice on West 14th Avenue. If you're looking for group therapy in Denver, Lakewood is a short drive west of downtown, and people join us from across the metro area, including Golden, Littleton and Englewood.

Group therapy here is part of our intensive outpatient program, so it comes with a weekly individual session and psychiatric care rather than on its own. That's deliberate: your groups, your therapist and our medical team all work from one plan. The pre-assessment is the place to talk through whether that fits.

How much you share is worth talking through before you start. At your free pre-assessment, a clinician explains how our groups run, what a morning asks of you, and what to do if a topic feels like too much, so you walk into your first group knowing what to expect.

Group therapy is a well-established, evidence-based approach for depression, anxiety and trauma, not a cheaper stand-in for the real thing. Here you don't have to choose between them: groups run alongside a weekly individual session, so whatever comes up in the room can be picked up one-on-one with your own therapist.

We accept Colorado Access, Cigna, Anthem, BCBS PPO, UnitedHealthcare, Optum, Tricare West and Kaiser Medicaid. Medicare isn't one of the plans we can accept, but admissions can still talk through your options. What you pay depends on your own plan, so admissions checks your benefits for you before you start, at no cost and with no obligation to go ahead.

Groups meet on weekday mornings, which suits people with flexible hours, part-time schedules or time on leave. Afternoons, Tuesdays and Fridays stay yours. Bring your work schedule to the pre-assessment and a clinician will look at it honestly with you before you commit to anything.