About Gwen
Gwen Bartran is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 25 years of experience. She blends practical, relationship-focused work with mindfulness to help people facing stress, anxiety, mood disorders and life transitions. Gwen pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how people connect and where those connections feel stuck. Sessions focus on small, concrete changes clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness practices are woven into Gwen's approach. She helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them. This can be helpful for anxiety, panic, depression, and ADHD-related struggles when attention and overwhelm get in the way of daily life.
Narrative therapy is part of the work too. Gwen invites clients to tell their stories and to consider new meanings that free them from old labels. That often helps with issues like shame, body image, and recovery from trauma or addictive behaviors.
Gwen offers a calm, steady presence and favors practical tools rooted in lived experience. Her clients commonly work on relationships, grief, parenting stress, career doubts, and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder and other mood challenges.
Sessions are available in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, someone chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions focus on exercises you can try between meetings, like noticing urges, choosing one clear behavior, and tracking what changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns of connection. In an online format Gwen uses discussion and reflective exercises to identify repeating patterns and to practice new, healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what feels doable for the client.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with short check-ins, and text messaging supports quick coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist 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
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