Therapy after an abusive relationship, at your pace.

Abuse doesn't always leave marks, and it rarely starts on the first date. More often it builds: the checking in that becomes checking up, the money that becomes theirs, the friends you stopped seeing because it wasn't worth the fight. By the time you can name it, you may have stopped trusting your own read on things.

You don't need to have left to start therapy. You don't need to be sure it "counts." Nobody here will push you to leave or to stay. That decision is yours, and it's often more complicated than people outside it understand.

If you're in danger right now, call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline answers around the clock at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788. If someone checks your phone or computer, reach out from a device they don't use, or a private browser window.

Safety first. Then everything else.

Early sessions are usually about the present: what feels safe, what doesn't, what a plan looks like if things get worse. Later the work moves toward what the relationship left behind, the second-guessing, the hypervigilance, the shame that never belonged to you.

When the memories themselves are the problem, trauma approaches like Brainspotting and EMDR can help them settle. We go there only when you're ready.

Who you'd work with

Cameron Bice, LPCC works mostly with intimate partner violence, alongside complex trauma and crisis work. Cameron sees teens 15 and up and adults online, anywhere in Colorado. Sessions are $120 with a sliding scale, and insurance and Medicaid details are on the rates page. If you'd rather come in person, Katie Fortunato, LPC works with complex trauma at our office.