Garrett Colton, MSW, SWC
Garrett is a Clinical Social Worker Candidate in Colorado. He has both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in social work and has completed additional graduate-level coursework in advanced clinical behavioral health. Before becoming a therapist, Garrett worked for 6 years in emergency medicine in various settings. He also has experience in community health and outreach.
As a former first responder, he has learned how to bring a calm presence to the therapeutic space and provides an environment where you can safely challenge yourself to heal. He approaches each client’s treatment individually, always examining how life circumstances, cultural considerations, and other unique factors affect their mental health and well-being.
Clients have described Garrett’s style as comforting but direct and challenging yet rewarding. He offers a free 30-minute consultation to ensure a good fit.
In his free time, he’s usually mountain biking, backpacking, whitewater rafting, or playing tabletop/board games with his family and friends.
Approach
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short term treatment approach that focuses on a person’s present and future goals instead of past issues.
Couples Counseling
Being in a romantic relationship can be a source of great joy and fulfillment, but also frustration and disappointment. Counseling helps both partners examine how they contribute to the satisfaction and stress in their relationship and build skills that enhance the partnership.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The goal of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is to increase psychological flexibility, or the ability to enter the present moment more fully and either change or persist in behavior when doing so serves valued ends.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach for many different concerns such as anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on challenging unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors to improve emotional regulation and self-awareness. A summary of CBT is “change the way you think to change the way you feel.”
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) helps resolves ambivalence and increases internal motivation to change behaviors. MI is often used to address physical health changes, addictions, and life transitions.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy helps people understand and explore the stories they believe about themselves, their past, and their future. This type of therapy helps clients identify and separate those unhelpful stories from who they are, examine them more objectively, and then create new stories to guide the future.