Life Feels Heavy
You're carrying change, grief, stress, or uncertainty and need space to sort through it.
Therapy in Boulder & Online Across Colorado
when life feels
unsure
stuck
foggy
heavy
scary
endless
when life feels
unsure
stuck
foggy
heavy
scary
endless
Find steadier ground.
Alpine Clarity Counseling offers warm, grounded therapy for adults navigating addiction recovery, life transitions, anxiety, and depression.
In-network with most major insurers
Free 30-min consultation
You may look like you're
holding it together.
Inside, it may feel different.
You can see the patterns clearly — and still feel stuck in them. Therapy is a place to slow down, understand what's happening, and begin again.
Old Patterns Keep Returning
You want to respond differently, but the same reactions keep showing up.
Substances Are Becoming Louder
Use that started as relief is starting to take more than it gives.
Recovery Needs Support
You're navigating sobriety, relapse prevention, or the emotional work underneath it.
Meet Maggie
Hi, I’m Maggie.
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in mental health care. My work is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that healing happens when you feel safe enough to be honest.
“I’ve been there myself — and I’m here to walk this path with you.”
- LCSW · Colorado
- 10+ years in practice
- MSW, Summa Cum Laude
The Record
Facts, plainly stated
A decade of showing up.
10+ yrs
in clinical practice — community, hospital, grassroots, private
4,000
hours of supervised post-graduate clinical experience
30min
free phone consultation — the only first step required
50min
sessions, weekly — most major insurance accepted
Colorado license CSW.09928517 · sliding scale available case-by-case
How I can help
Therapy for the places where
Therapy for the places where
life gets complicated.
Every engagement begins the same way: a free 30-minute phone call, a plan, and 50-minute sessions — in the Boulder office or by secure video anywhere in Colorado.
Who walks through the door
The Work.
Most people arrive carrying more than one thing — anxiety braided with drinking, a divorce that wakes an old grief. The chart is tidy; the work, mercifully, is not.
How we work together
A therapy approach built around you.
Maggie draws from humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, DBT, ACT, and narrative therapy. The work is tailored to your life, not forced into a formula.
How the work unfolds
Step one · The first call
A free 30-minute consultation.
We talk briefly about what’s bringing you here and whether working together feels like the right fit. No forms, no commitment, no pressure.
Step two · The first sessions
Understand the pattern.
We begin by making sense of what keeps repeating — the history, the habits, the thing beneath the thing. You don’t need the perfect words to start.
Step three · Week by week
Build new tools.
You’ll learn practical ways to regulate, communicate, and respond differently — drawn from approaches fitted to your life, never forced into a formula.
Step four · Where this goes
Move forward with clarity.
Steadier choices, deeper self-trust, and a clearer sense of what you actually want. Not a life without hard days — a life where they don’t run the show.
The hour nobody sees
Meetings kept. Texts answered. Dinner on the table. From the outside, you’re doing fine. But some nights the quiet gets loud — the pattern you keep circling, the decision you keep not making, the weight no one else can see. Here’s the truth: you’re not a problem to be fixed. You’re a person who needs a place to set it down.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
Free Young Adult's Guide
Quiet Steps Forward
How to face addiction and find the help you need in Colorado —
a young adult's guide.
A free, no-pressure resource for anyone noticing substances have become louder than they used to be. Real talk, practical first steps, recovery options without the lecture, and a curated list of Boulder & Colorado resources — written by a licensed therapist who's been there.
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Quiet Steps Forward
Facing addiction and finding the help you need in Colorado.
Who this is for
This may be a fit if you're
This may be a fit if you're
ready for honest, supportive work.
Therapy works best when you're willing to slow down, look honestly at what's happening, and try something new — at your own pace.
You want more than surface-level coping
You're open to reflection and change
You want therapy that feels human and grounded
You're navigating recovery, transition, anxiety, or depression
You want to feel clearer and more connected to yourself
The experience
What therapy with Maggie feels like.
Warm
You won't be met with clinical distance. Maggie brings genuine warmth to every session — the kind that makes hard conversations feel safe to have. Therapy here starts with being met exactly where you are.
Direct
Kind honesty, not empty reassurance. If something important surfaces, Maggie will name it clearly — because the real work starts when someone is willing to say what they see.
Collaborative
This is your process, not a prescription. You set the pace, choose what matters most, and build tools that fit your actual life — not a textbook version of it.
Nonjudgmental
Whatever you bring into the room — relapse, shame, the thing you haven't told anyone — it belongs here. There is no wrong thing to say. Maggie has been on her own recovery path, and that lived experience shapes everything.
Because therapy is private, I do not ask clients to publicly review their work with me.
Notes from the path
Reflections, frameworks,
View all
Reflections, frameworks,
and small practices.
Addiction
When "I Just Like to Drink" Starts to Feel Like Something Else
The quiet, internal experience of noticing your relationship to substances has shifted — without naming it as addiction yet.
6 min read · Jun 2026
Recovery
You Don't Have to Hit Rock Bottom to Start
Pushing back on the cultural myth that you have to lose everything before you "deserve" help.
8 min read · Jun 2026
Therapy
What a Therapist Actually Does (When You're Not Sure You're Ready to Quit)
Demystifying what therapy looks like for someone who's still using or ambivalent about quitting.
7 min read · May 2026
Questions, answered
The practical
The practical
details.
Everything people ask before picking up the phone. Tap any question to open the answer.
Most major insurance plans are accepted, and Maggie will verify your coverage before the first session. Private pay is $150 per 50-minute session, with a sliding scale available case-by-case.
Thirty minutes on the phone. You share as much or as little as you like about what’s bringing you in, ask anything you want, and see how it feels to talk with Maggie. If it doesn’t feel like a fit, she’ll point you somewhere better. No pressure, no commitment.
That’s one of the most common reasons people come. “Something feels off” is a perfectly good starting point — naming it precisely is part of the work, not a prerequisite for it.
No. Being unsure — even deeply ambivalent — is a normal place to start. Maggie works with people who are questioning, cutting back, newly sober, or protecting hard-won recovery — without shame, and without pushing you toward a decision you haven’t made.
Yes. Secure video sessions are available to anyone in Colorado, and the Boulder office is there when you’d rather sit in a real room. For most people online therapy is just as effective — research consistently backs this up. Many clients mix both.
It depends on what you’re carrying and what you want. Some people come for a season around a specific transition; others stay longer for deeper work. You’ll revisit this together regularly — there’s no meter running toward a required number of sessions.
Sessions run 50 minutes, typically weekly. Please give 24 hours’ notice for cancellations. Payment is handled through a HIPAA-compliant system — all major cards accepted.
Everything you share is confidential, with the few legal exceptions every therapist is bound by (safety-related situations), which Maggie will walk you through plainly in your first session.
The practical part
How we can
How we can
work together.
Fees, insurance, logistics — answered plainly, so the only thing left to decide is whether it feels like a fit.
Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute phone call — a chance to share what’s bringing you in, ask anything, and see whether it feels like a fit. No forms, no commitment, no pressure.
- Free 30-minute consult
- No obligation
- Ask anything
Sessions are 50 minutes and $150. Most people start weekly — consistency is where the momentum comes from — and adjust the rhythm as things steady. A limited number of sliding-scale spots are available; just ask.
- $150 per session
- 50 minutes
- Weekly to start
- Sliding scale available
Most major insurance is accepted. Not sure about your plan? Mention it during the free call — a quick check is all it takes, and you’ll know your exact cost before your first session.
- Most major plans accepted
- Coverage checked up front
- Superbills for out-of-network
Meet in the Boulder office, or from your own couch by secure video anywhere in Colorado. Many clients mix the two — the work is the same either way.
- Boulder, CO office
- Telehealth across Colorado
- Mix and match freely
Scheduling is handled directly with Maggie, and payment runs through a secure, HIPAA-compliant system. Life happens — if you need to reschedule, just reach out with as much notice as you can.
- Direct scheduling
- Secure, HIPAA-compliant payment
- Flexible rescheduling
The things you tell yourself at night
Every reason to wait, answered.
Hover each thought — or tap it — and hear the other side of the argument.
"
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.— Abraham Maslow
Therapy can help you take the next step with support.
Ready to begin?
Start with a complimentary consultation. We'll talk briefly about what's bringing you here and whether working together feels like the right fit.
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