At Mighty Minds Therapy, we take time to understand your needs, help you connect with a provider, and develop thoughtful recommendations for care.
Our process begins with a conversation about what you are looking for. After choosing your clinician, you’ll complete an intake process designed for your stage of life—whether you are seeking support for yourself, your teen, or your child.
In-person in Wheat Ridge, serving the greater Denver area. Telehealth in Colorado, Nevada, and Indiana, depending on clinician licensure and clinical appropriateness.
Getting Started With Mighty Minds Therapy
Complete Our Contact Form
Tell us who you are seeking services for, what you would like support with, and any preferences about scheduling, insurance, or a particular clinician. You do not need to know which therapy approach to choose.
Connect With Our Team
We respond within 24 hours to ask clarifying questions and explore clinical fit. This helps us identify possible providers based on your needs, preferences, and location.
Meet With Potential Providers
Schedule a free, 15-minute meet and greet with a possible provider. If you are considering more than one clinician, these conversations can help you decide who feels like a good fit. Ask questions and learn about their approach before choosing.
Choose Your Provider
Select the clinician you would like to work with. Our team can help answer any remaining questions about fit or next steps.
Verify Insurance and Complete Intake Paperwork
If you are using insurance, we verify your benefits to help clarify anticipated coverage and costs. We also send your intake paperwork for you to complete before scheduling your initial appointment.
Schedule Your Initial Appointment
Once your intake paperwork is complete and insurance benefits have been verified, if applicable, we help you schedule your initial appointment. We confirm who will attend, whether you will meet in person or online, and how to prepare.
A note about insurance: Benefit verification helps clarify anticipated coverage and costs. It does not guarantee coverage or payment. Final coverage and your financial responsibility are determined by your insurance plan.
The Next Stage
An Intake Process That Fits Your Needs
Choose the section that applies to you or your child to learn what to expect during the intake process.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
Our Child Intake Process
We get to know your child through caregiver perspectives, individual time, and shared parent-child play activities. These appointments help us understand your child’s strengths, concerns, developmental needs, and relationships. We adapt the intake process to your family’s caregiving structure and circumstances.
Parent Interview – Parents Only
We discuss your concerns, your child’s history, family relationships, strengths, and hopes for therapy. Meeting without your child provides space to share sensitive information and ask questions.
Parents may meet jointly or schedule separate interviews, in person or by telehealth. For divorced or separated families, separate appointments can give each parent space to share their perspective.
Child Intake Appointment
Your child meets the therapist and begins building comfort and connection. Play, conversation, drawing, or other activities help the therapist get to know how your child communicates and approaches new experiences.
Parent-Child Play-Based Assessments – Two Appointments
These appointments use shared play activities to help the therapist understand your child’s relationship with each caregiver. We explore relational strengths, communication, connection, and areas that may benefit from clinical support. These are not tests that parents or children pass or fail.
We generally schedule one appointment for each parent-child pair. Your clinician will work with you to make arrangements that fit your family’s caregiving structure and needs.
Clinical Recommendations and Treatment Planning – Parents Only
Parents meet with the therapist without the child to review what we have learned, discuss clinical recommendations, and develop treatment goals. Together, we plan ongoing care, including session frequency and caregiver involvement.
Parents may attend together or schedule separate treatment planning appointments. We can accommodate separate meetings for divorced or separated parents while keeping care focused on your child’s emotional well-being.
Recommendations may include child therapy, parent coaching, family sessions, or additional services when appropriate.
Our Teen Intake Process
We get to know your teen through caregiver perspectives and individual time with the therapist. These appointments help us understand your teen’s strengths, concerns, developmental needs, and relationships while making space for their own priorities. We adapt the intake process to your family’s caregiving structure and circumstances.
Parent Interview – Parents Only
We discuss your concerns, your teen’s history, family relationships, strengths, and hopes for therapy. Meeting without your teen provides space to share sensitive information and ask questions. We also discuss caregiver participation and how confidentiality supports your teen’s care.
Parents may meet jointly or schedule separate interviews, in person or by telehealth. For divorced or separated families, separate appointments can give each parent space to share their perspective.
Teen Intake Appointment
Your teen meets with the therapist to share their experiences, ask questions, and begin building comfort and connection. Conversation and other age-appropriate activities help the therapist understand what matters to your teen, their strengths, and where they would like support.
The therapist explains privacy and its limits, including how information may be shared with caregivers. Your teen does not need to know exactly what to say or have clear goals before beginning.
Clinical Recommendations and Treatment Planning – Parents and Teen
Your teen and parents meet with the therapist to review what we have learned, discuss clinical recommendations, and develop treatment goals together. We plan ongoing care, including session frequency and how caregivers can support progress while respecting your teen’s privacy.
Parents may participate together, or we can arrange separate treatment planning conversations for divorced or separated families. Your clinician will discuss arrangements that fit your family’s needs while keeping your teen’s voice and emotional well-being central to the process.
A trusting relationship with their therapist helps your teen feel seen, heard, and validated throughout the process. Your teen has a voice in their care, and their experiences, preferences, and goals help shape the work they do together.
Our Adult Intake Process
We take time to get to know you—your experiences, relationships, strengths, and what matters most to you. Understanding your needs and building a trusting relationship helps us create care that feels personal and meaningful. You do not need a diagnosis or a clear explanation of what feels difficult to begin.
Initial Intake – One to Two Appointments
These appointments provide space to share what brings you to therapy, how your concerns affect daily life, and the experiences that have shaped you. We explore your history, relationships, strengths, and hopes for change while learning about the support you need.
You can ask questions, share at a pace that feels manageable, and begin building a connection with your therapist. You do not need to tell your whole story at once.
Clinical Recommendations and Treatment Planning
You and your therapist review what you have shared, discuss clinical recommendations, and develop treatment goals together. We consider your priorities, preferences, possible therapy approaches, and recommended session frequency, including what meaningful progress would look like in your life.
Treatment planning is an ongoing conversation. As your therapist comes to understand you more deeply, you can revisit goals and adjust your care together.
A trusting therapeutic relationship gives you space to feel seen, heard, and understood. Your experiences, questions, and feedback matter throughout the process and help shape the work you and your therapist do together.
Beginning Ongoing Therapy
With a shared understanding of your needs and a treatment plan in place, we begin working toward the changes that matter to you or your child. Sessions provide space to feel supported, build on strengths, learn new skills, and work through difficult experiences at a manageable pace.
You do not need to have everything figured out to move forward. Your therapist will work alongside you, recognize progress, and adjust care as your needs evolve. Your questions and feedback remain an important part of the process.
