Verified Mental Health Practices in Denver (2026)

AllHealth Network is the nonprofit community behavioural health provider for the southern Denver metro, and its own site names a service area covering Littleton, Centennial, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Castle Rock, the Denver Tech Center and Estes Park. Its published service list runs from one-to-one counselling and psychiatry through group therapy, intensive outpatient programmes, substance use and addiction treatment, school-based counselling, early childhood services and residential recovery.

The organisation states on its site that most insurance plans are accepted, including Medicaid, and that it operates walk-in crisis locations 24 hours a day across the metro in partnership with the state crisis system. Its chief clinical officer, Jennifer Bock, holds an active Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor credential — licence LPC #3687 in the DORA register, current to 31 August 2027. An LPC is a master's-level psychotherapist; the credential does not carry prescribing authority, so medication is handled by the organisation's prescribers rather than by the counselling team.

Denver Health is the city's public safety-net hospital system, and its behavioural health division is the widest in scope of any organisation on this page: adult and child inpatient units, psychiatric emergency services, addiction medicine, consultation-liaison psychiatry, neuropsychology, school-based care and adult outpatient treatment. The adult outpatient clinic at 667 Bannock Street, Pavilion K, publishes hours of 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, and offers individual, group and couples psychotherapy alongside medication management and case management for patients aged 18 and over.

It is also the only entry here that publishes a full clinician roster with credentials, which makes independent verification straightforward. Elizabeth Lowdermilk, MD, listed as medical director of outpatient behavioural health services, holds active Colorado physician licence DR #47645; Christian Thurstone, MD, listed as director of service, holds active licence DR #41830. A physician licence is the credential that permits prescribing. Christopher Sheldon, PhD, the division's chief psychologist and predoctoral internship training director, holds active psychologist licence PSY #2356, registered under the name John Christopher Sheldon — a doctoral credential regulated by the Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners that covers assessment and psychotherapy but not, in ordinary practice, prescribing.

On cost, Denver Health replaced the Colorado Indigent Care Program and its older financial assistance programme with a sliding fee discount programme on 1 July 2025. The system's published rules extend hospital discounts to households up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level and discounted care in its federally qualified health centres up to 200 percent, with the discount calculated from household income and family size.

Jefferson Center has provided mental health and substance use care in Colorado since 1958, which makes it the longest-established organisation on this page. Its published service mix covers counselling, psychiatry, substance use treatment, crisis response, suicide prevention and early childhood family services for pregnant people and families with children from birth to age eight, plus resource navigation for housing and benefits. Its walk-in crisis centre is at 4643 Wadsworth Boulevard in Wheat Ridge.

It is the only entry here that publishes its self-pay price list, and that transparency is worth naming: brief therapy from $70, intake at $140, individual therapy between $90 and $135 depending on session length, psychological testing at $250 an hour, and residential recovery at $650 a day. Reduced rates are published alongside them, starting at $2 for group therapy and case management and $5 for intake and outpatient sessions. The organisation states it accepts most commercial insurance as well as Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare and other government-funded programmes.

Two members of its clinical leadership are verifiable in the state register. Lenya Robinson, MA, LPC, chief operating officer, holds active Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor licence LPC #3681. Kristen Thome, MA, LCSW, deputy chief clinical officer, holds active clinical social worker licence CSW #1215 — an LCSW is a master's-level clinician licensed through the social work board, trained to treat mental health conditions and, distinctively, to work with the housing, benefits and family systems around a patient rather than the diagnosis alone.

Maria Droste Counseling Center is a Denver nonprofit founded in 1989 that operates as a collaboration between a 501(c)(3) organisation and contract therapists. It is the smallest organisation on this page and the one built most explicitly around the cost barrier: its Options programme provides sliding-scale counselling to people who lack insurance, hold coverage inadequate for mental health care, or cannot afford private-sector fees, and the centre states that roughly 60 percent of Options clients have annual incomes under $20,000. Its published insurance list includes Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, Medicaid and United Health.

The published service range is therapy rather than medication: individual counselling for adults and children, couples and marriage counselling, family therapy, grief counselling, and trauma work, delivered through approaches the centre names as CBT, EMDR, somatic therapy, play therapy and expressive arts therapy. Telehealth is offered, and the site states interpreter services are available in all languages.

Three of its clinical staff are verifiable in the DORA register. Laura Ferguson, executive director, holds two active licences — Licensed Professional Counselor LPC #5959 and Marriage and Family Therapist MFT #1087 — a dual credential that is uncommon and permits her to practise under either scope. Melissa Weiler-Cabral, clinical director, holds active licence LPC #12792. Maresa Hubbard, DSW, clinical manager, holds active clinical social worker licence CSW #9931175 and active addiction counsellor licence ACD #1654.

WellPower — formerly the Mental Health Center of Denver — is the designated community mental health centre for the City and County of Denver, and by its own published count it serves more than 20,000 people a year from over 30 sites and roughly 200 community locations including schools, shelters and assisted living facilities. Its published services include individual, group and family therapy for children, teens and adults, psychiatry, case management, peer support, medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, housing support and primary care. El Centro, its multicultural clinic, provides Spanish-language and bilingual outpatient care.

Access is the clearest thing about it. Denver's 24-hour walk-in crisis centre at 4353 East Colfax Avenue is operated by WellPower, its main line is answered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and its published insurance position is unusually direct: Medicaid covers all costs associated with behavioural health services, including outpatient therapy, psychiatry and medication-assisted treatment. Medicare, Medicare Advantage and a named list of commercial carriers are also accepted, and the organisation states it serves people regardless of ability to pay.

Its vice president and chief medical officer, Jody Ryan, MD, holds active Colorado physician licence DR #40476. A physician licence is what distinguishes a psychiatrist from every other clinician named on this page: it is the credential under which medication can be prescribed and managed.