Clinical Associates

Kristen Milliron is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in both Colorado and California. Kristen has over 12 years of experience working with individuals and helping them identify the areas that they want to address. She assists patients in learning healthy ways to cope with their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, empowering them to make positive changes in their lives.

Kristen’s therapy is focused on helping patients achieve their goals. She gets feedback after each session so that sessions are tailored to each client’s needs. She believes that the therapeutic process must be individualized for each person and that the process of healing and growth is collaborative between therapist and patient. Kristen is trained in CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), Solution Focused Treatment and EMDR.

Kristen’s role as therapist is to provide a place to understand a person’s particular circumstances and to offer empathy, insight, and useful tools. Her therapeutic approach is compassionate, respectful and professional, using a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and solution-focused approaches.

Kristen grew up in Northern California and moved to Georgia after graduating from California State University Chico with her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Kristen received her Masters degree in Social Work at Georgia State University in 2008. She has spent the last 13 years working in various roles in the mental health field in Georgia, California, and Colorado.

Kristen works with Adults and Adolescents.  Kristen works well with those who are looking for help in the following areas: 

• Depression
• Stress
• Anxiety
• Panic Attacks
• Self Esteem
• Grief and loss
• Mood swings
• Pregnancy, Prenatal and Postpartum
• Relationship problems
• Peer and Family Conflict and Relationships
• Life Transitions
• Work or school struggles
• Anger Management 

Pronouns: she / her / hers 

Ben is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado with over 20 years of experience helping pre-teens, adolescents, adults, couples, and families in a variety of settings, such as private practice, community mental health, and public & private schools. He works with clients' intuitive ways of growing to help them improve upon how they think, feel, and act. Ben focuses on clients' strengths and past successes to help them build upon and develop new and effective solutions for how they operate in life. Affirming and solution-focused, he encourages his clients to move their feet in the direction of their goals and values. While empathetic and supportive, Ben may gently challenge a client's perspective and offer motivation to try something new and different. Context matters to Ben and he supports people from all different backgrounds and cultures. Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are a few of the theoretical orientations Ben utilizes in his work with the following issues:

•  Anxiety and stress Depression 
• Job related stress Goal Setting and Achievement
• OCD Learning Disabilities: e.g. ADHD, Dyslexia
• Problem anger Thriving as LGBTQ+ 
• Technology addiction School-related problems 
• Parenting or Divorce Life transitions (school, career, early adulthood) 
• Relationships Identity formation 

Pronouns: he / him / his