About Bernadine
Dr. Bernadine Knittel helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, career decisions, and struggles with self-worth. She writes and speaks plainly and listens closely to each person's story.
Dr. Knittel offers steady support as clients set practical goals and work toward clearer next steps. She spent most of her career as a school counselor, working with high school and middle school students on academic, emotional, and post-secondary planning.
That background shaped her focus on problem-solving and short-term strategies that fit busy lives.
Background and approach
She also teaches part time at the University of Northern Colorado and supervises students in school and clinical settings. Dr. Knittel earned a Master’s degree in School Counseling from Colorado State University and a PhD in Education and Human Resource Studies.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado and brings 27 years of counseling experience to her practice. In sessions she partners with people to identify clear, achievable goals and to break bigger problems into manageable steps. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavior work, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods to help people try new approaches and track progress.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including relationships, parenting challenges, midlife changes, chronic illness and aging, workplace stress, and ADHD-related struggles. Dr. Knittel aims to offer compassion and practical guidance so clients can move toward more purposeful, balanced lives.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on values-based actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, grief, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to reduce unhelpful patterns and build new habits. That approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and work-related stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Knittel will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. She collaborates on a plan and adapts methods over time so the strategies fit the person’s life and progress is measurable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and demonstration of exercises, phone can fit a short check-in or lower bandwidth, live chat works for focused exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English