Denise Kidd, LPC

Denise Kidd is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado with 22 years of clinical experience. She helps adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and life changes. Denise also focuses on blended family issues, attachment concerns, communication problems, and related relationship strains.

She has worked across community health centers, substance use treatment programs, employee assistance services, and hospital mental health units. That range gives her experience with practical, day-to-day problems and with the ups and downs of recovery work. Denise draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to help people manage symptoms and make changes.

Denise’s style is interactive and solution-focused. Sessions aim to identify small, concrete steps people can try between meetings. She uses motivational interviewing strategies when people are ambivalent about change and DBT skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

When trauma is part of the story, she can use EMDR to address memories and reactions that keep coming up. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are used to clarify values and get unstuck from patterns that cause suffering. The emphasis is on practical skills and realistic goals rather than long lectures or abstract theory.

People coming from blended households or facing co-parenting friction can expect straightforward conversations about communication, loyalty conflicts, and boundary-setting. Denise encourages collaborative planning so each person leaves with clear next steps. To begin, she asks prospective clients to complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial session.