About the practice

Therapy that feels like a real conversation.

No clipboards. No worksheets that look like the SAT. Just trained, trauma-informed people you can actually talk to.

Katie Fortunato smiling with a coffee mug in her office

Why we do this

Crescita means growth.

The name's a nod to the slow, unflashy version of growth, the kind that happens when someone finally has the space to be honest. Not the kind that looks good on a graphic.

We built this practice because most of our clients didn't need more coping skills. They'd read the books. They'd done CBT. They were exhausted from being resilient. What they needed was somewhere safe enough to put the armor down for fifty minutes a week.

That's what this is.

What we believe

Your nervous system isn't broken. It's been doing exactly what it was set up to do. The work isn't fixing it. It's helping it learn the danger is over.

How we work

A few things we mean when we say trauma-informed.

Pace is yours

We never push faster than your system can integrate. If we hit a wall, we slow down or back up. That's the work, not a setback.

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Bodies count

Talk therapy alone doesn't always reach the places trauma lives. We work somatically and with EMDR when that's what's actually needed.

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Real over polished

You don't have to perform. You can swear, cry, blank out, change your mind mid-sentence. We've seen all of it. None of it scares us off.

The office

A house on North Weber.

Sessions happen in a Victorian house in the Old North End, a few blocks north of downtown Colorado Springs. It feels more like a living room than a clinic, which is the point.

Map and directions

The front porch and gabled roof of 627 N Weber St in spring

The team

Want to meet the people behind this?

Three clinicians. All trauma-informed, all warm, all genuinely glad you reached out. See who might be the right fit for what you're carrying.

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