About Gwen
Gwen Bartran is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 25 years of experience. She draws on mind-body approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. Gwen aims to make therapy practical and approachable for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
Her work emphasizes somatic awareness alongside evidence-informed talk work. She uses mindful practices and acceptance strategies to help clients notice bodily signals, regulate strong emotions, and respond differently to old patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs and comfort level. Gwen also brings attachment-focused thinking into sessions. That helps when relationship patterns or family of origin issues affect mood, self-worth, or communication.
She uses client-centered methods to keep conversations grounded in what matters most to the person in front of her. Common concerns she addresses include trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, panic, ADHD, and addiction. Gwen also helps people with career stress, caregiver strain, life purpose, and body image difficulties.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She offers a mix of short-term coping tools and deeper work when needed. People can expect practical steps they can try between sessions and attention to how the body and mind are connected.
How somatic and acceptance approaches work online
Somatic Therapy in her work focuses on noticing the body first. It helps people identify tightness, breath patterns, or tension that link to anxiety, trauma, or eating concerns and then learn simple ways to shift those responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to clarify values, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and take small actions consistent with what matters most. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether somatic practices, ACT exercises, mindfulness, or attachment-informed conversation fits best. Goals, comfort, and what feels useful guide that choice rather than a preset formula.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets the therapist and client work together on breathing, posture, and movement. Phone or chat can be easier on busy days or for quick, practical coaching. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between live sessions. These options make it easier to fold therapy into everyday life while keeping the focus on useful, body-aware strategies.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does Gwen help with?
What is her general therapeutic style?
How much experience does she bring?
Where is Gwen licensed to practice?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What formats are available for sessions?
How does billing and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- 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