Kat Mindenhall, LCSW, Director: Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor

Tues/Weds/Thurs, 9am to 1:30pm.

I’m Kat, Owner & Director of A Peaceful Life Counseling in Lakewood, CO. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist who works with individuals and couples to provide relationship and intimacy therapy. I also provide supervision to those seeking to deeper their understanding of EFT.

My Approach

I’ve been doing Couples Counseling and Family Therapy since 2006, and I absolutely love it. Since 2014 I have focused on providing Emotionally Focused Couples and Individual therapy, and I haven’t looked back. I’m most passionate about helping people to create what they’ve possibly never had before – the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for and your brain tells you should be possible. Emotionally Focused Couples Counseling gets into the real stuff; that stuff that you feel is hovering every time you have an argument or feel disconnected. That stuff that you wish you could just wave a magic wand and fix in order to have a happy home or call off the divorce. It’s so scary to think about needing couples counseling, so let me walk with you both. 

People who work with me say that I’m down-to-Earth, and they like being able to understand what we are doing and how it’s going to improve their lives (because I can’t help it, my clients always understand what this is about).  I provide individual, marriage, and couples counseling in Lakewood (Denver). I work with sexual and intimacy concerns as well. My office is conveniently located just off of 6th and Wadsworth Blvd. in Lakewood, CO.

I Specialize In Couples Counseling for:

• Communication: Chronic arguing, inability to stay on-topic, inability to address the real issue, distance and avoidance
• Trust and Infidelity: Counseling after an affair, emotional affairs, recovering from infidelity or cheating
• Sex and Intimacy: Unsatisfactory sex life, lack of frequency, questions about whether you are sexually compatible
• Compatibility: Opposites that attract and then repel; differences in interests, temperament, emotional processing
• LGBTQ+ Affirmative Couples Counseling: Couples counseling for Gay and Lesbian issues, coming out, family dynamics, self-concept
• Pre-Marital Counseling: Establishment of a good foundation in marriage, guidance through conversations about expectations, finances, children, parenting, faith, etc.
• Adults experiencing things related to their current or past relationships: Depression or anxiety that is impacting a relationship, postpartum depression, healing from a divorce or bad breakup, insight into what went wrong and how to learn from where you’ve been [/two-thirds]

Some Background

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Social Work from Colorado State University. I received post-graduate training in marriage and family therapy from the Denver Family Institute. I am a certified by the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy in working with Couples (EFCT), Individuals (EFIT), and supervision.

I began my career in the field of child welfare and domestic violence victim advocacy services. I quickly learned that all problems center on the health of the adult relationships in the home, and my focus shifted to working with familes to prevent the need for those very services. Working in home based family therapy left me yearning to go even deeper to heal the pain that so often left parents unable to take good care of themselves or show up for their children. In 2010 I opened my private practice and never looked back.

In my personal life, I have two teenage kiddos and am a longtime practitioner of meditation and Buddhism. In my free time I love to trail run and play classical violin, write, and dabble in painting. My partner and I have been married for over twenty years.

Let Me Help You Move Forward

I offer a free half hour consultation for couples counseling in Lakewood. If you want a truly effective couples counseling experience, let’s talk so that you can get a better idea of who I am and how I can help. The first step would be to either schedule a time to speak with me or simply book a consultation or session. I do have limited availability, so if you think you may be ready for counseling in the coming weeks it would be a great idea to start now.

Contact Kat

If you are interested in connecting with Kat to inquire about services for individual, couples counseling, or EFT Supervision, fill out the form below. You can also call (720) 443-1947 – but the contact form is faster.