Counseling Center – Empowered Play
Empowered Play is a child and family counseling practice with three Colorado locations in Louisville, Longmont, and Fort Collins. The practice offers trauma-informed, affirming, and strengths-based services for children, teens, young adults, and parents, with a child-led philosophy shaping the structure of its therapeutic approach across all locations.
Services provided include play therapy for children, teen counseling, parent support, and therapy for young adults. The practice describes itself as specializing in working with neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Clinical focus areas listed include executive functioning, emotional regulation, and social connection skills, with treatment tailored to each client’s needs within the strengths-based model.
Empowered Play identifies as LGBTQ+ affirmative and describes its practice as grounded in a socially just approach to advocacy on behalf of young clients. The child-led model central to the practice reflects a therapeutic stance that follows the child’s cues and pacing within sessions. Sessions appear to be conducted in-person across the Louisville, Longmont, and Fort Collins office locations. Telehealth availability is not stated on the page reviewed.
In addition to direct client services, the practice maintains a blog and offers professional training courses in play therapy for clinicians pursuing continuing education in child-centered clinical approaches.
A free consultation is available for prospective clients and families interested in learning more about services and fit. Specific clinician names, licensure designations, insurance panels accepted, and year of establishment are not listed on the page reviewed.
Empowered Play serves families and young clients across Colorado’s Front Range corridor, with offices in Louisville, Longmont, and Fort Collins positioned to serve communities north and northwest of Denver. The practice’s combination of direct therapeutic services for children and teens, parent support programming, and professional training offerings in play therapy reflects a multi-audience model designed to support both individual clients and the clinicians who serve them. The neurodivergent-affirming and LGBTQ+ affirmative stance is stated explicitly as central to the practice’s identity and clinical philosophy.