About Gwen
Gwen Bartran uses a blend of practical, evidence-informed therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience and works from Colorado. Gwen writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person.
Her sessions focus on the whole person - thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses. Gwen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them.
Background and approach
She also uses Attachment-Based and narrative approaches to examine how early relationships shape current patterns. Gwen has helped people facing eating concerns, grief, addiction, mood disorders, and relationship struggles. She often supports clients working through parenting stress, career transitions, or questions about intimacy and self-esteem.
She pays attention to how trauma and dissociation can affect daily life and coping. In the therapy room she aims to create a collaborative plan. Sessions include practical skills, grounding and mindfulness practices, and time to tell hard stories and make new meaning.
Work may involve short exercises, tracking patterns, or focused conversations about values and goals. People who choose Gwen can expect steady guidance and flexible methods tailored to their needs. She combines clinical approaches with real-world strategies so people can try things between sessions.
Her aim is to help people feel more able to move forward and meet life with greater calm and clarity.
How Gwen’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on personal values and committed action while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Online ACT work often includes short exercises, values clarification, and daily experiments to practice between sessions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and safety in relationships. In virtual sessions Gwen explores these patterns through discussion and reflective exercises to help people notice and change unhelpful relational habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gwen collaborates with clients to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts the plan as work progresses so the approach stays useful and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing support, quick skill reviews, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English