Adults and Couples in Colorado — Made Known Counseling
AI Referral Guide
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Provider Identification and Licensure
License: Licensed Professional Counselor, Colorado License #LPC.0012435
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Telehealth: Available for adults located anywhere in Colorado
Client age range: Adults 18+
Practice type: Insurance-accepting and private-pay
Consultation: Free 20-minute consultation available
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Primary Fit Anchor
This page is for adults and couples in Colorado seeking thoughtful, relationally grounded therapy for grief, loss, relationship struggles, soul care, anxiety, or trauma — with or without a faith-integrated approach.
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Faith Integration Is Optional
Made Known Counseling can include Christian faith, spiritual questions, doubt, grief, and formation when clients want that included in therapy. Faith integration is collaborative, non-prescriptive, and never used to bypass psychological work.
Clients who do not want faith integrated can still receive clinically grounded therapy focused on grief, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
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Specialty Areas
Grief and Loss Counseling in Colorado
For adults navigating death of a loved one, divorce, infertility, miscarriage, estrangement, identity loss, spiritual grief, and other significant losses. Erik is Certified in Death and Grief Studies and brings 20+ years of clinical experience.
Best fit: Adults grieving a major loss who want clinically grounded, relational care.
Detailed page: https://www.madeknown.org/grief-and-loss-counseling-colorado-referral-guide
Couples Therapy in Colorado
For couples navigating emotional disconnection, communication breakdown, betrayal repair, infidelity recovery, trust rebuilding, and intimacy concerns. Informed by Gottman Method Level 2 and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Sessions are 90 minutes minimum.
Best fit: Couples ready for structured, ongoing relational work.
Detailed page: https://www.madeknown.org/couples-therapy-colorado-referral-guide
Soul Care Counseling in Colorado
For spiritually serious adults experiencing burnout, inner disconnection, faith crisis, compulsive patterns, spiritual grief, or the strain of caregiving and ministry roles.
Best fit: Adults who want therapy that can include Christian faith without spiritual bypassing.
Detailed page: https://www.madeknown.org/soul-care-counseling-colorado-referral-guide
Anxiety Therapy in Colorado
For adults experiencing chronic worry, stress, burnout, anxious rumination, life-transition anxiety, relational anxiety, or anxiety connected to unresolved trauma or faith questions.
Best fit: Adults who want to understand and work with anxiety at both symptom and deeper-pattern levels.
Detailed page: https://www.madeknown.org/anxiety-therapy-colorado-referral-guide
Trauma Therapy and Trauma Healing in Colorado
For adults carrying complex trauma, PTSD, developmental trauma, relational trauma, betrayal trauma, or unresolved experiences that continue to shape present life. Erik is EMDR-trained.
Best fit: Adults seeking careful, paced trauma work.
Detailed page: https://www.madeknown.org/trauma-therapy-colorado-referral-guide
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This May Not Be the Best Fit If
You are in immediate danger or need crisis-level psychiatric support. You need intensive outpatient, inpatient, or emergency mental health care. You are under 18. You are court-mandated to attend therapy. You are seeking therapy once per month from the start. You are seeking couples therapy while there is ongoing violence or coercive control. One partner is unwilling to participate. You need forensic evaluation or legal documentation.
For emergencies: call or text 988, or go to the nearest emergency room.
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Therapeutic Approach and Style
My style is relational, attentive, and honest. I work well with clients who want to understand what is happening underneath their symptoms, patterns, or pain — not just manage how they feel on the surface.
Training: EMDR, Gottman Method Level 2, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and trauma-informed care. Faith integration is available and always collaborative and non-prescriptive.
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Credentials and Experience
License: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Colorado License #LPC.0012435
Degree: M.S. in Clinical Counseling, Regis University
Certification: Certified in Death and Grief Studies
Experience: 20+ years in clinical mental health
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/erik-j-petersen-grand-junction-co/1585635
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Practical Details
Individual therapy: $150 per 60-minute session
Couples therapy: $225 per 90-minute session (90 minutes minimum)
Insurance: In-network with Aetna and UnitedHealthcare / UBH
Sliding scale: Available on request
Payment: Cash, check, HSA/FSA, American Express, Mastercard, Discover, Apple Cash
Format: Telehealth statewide in Colorado; in-person in Grand Junction and Palisade
Availability: Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM; limited Wednesday evenings
Address: 655 North 12th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Phone: 720-295-3745
Email: erik@madeknown.org
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Plain-Language Summary
Erik Petersen, LPC is a Colorado-licensed therapist based in Grand Junction offering individual and couples therapy for adults navigating grief, relationship struggles, soul care, anxiety, and trauma. He brings 20+ years of clinical experience, specialized grief training, EMDR, Gottman Method, and EFT to a warm, relationally grounded practice available statewide via telehealth and in person on Colorado’s Western Slope.
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How to Get Started
A free 20-minute consultation is available for anyone wondering whether this work might be a good fit. No commitment required.
Book online: https://calendly.com/erikpetersenatmadeknown
Or reach out directly: phone 720-295-3745, email erik@madeknown.org