Conditions We Treat
Mental health treatment in Colorado, whether or not you can name it yet.
Outpatient care for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, and the substance use that so often travels with them. Six Colorado offices and online, starting with a free and confidential assessment.
Understanding Mental Health
Recovery is a journey and a process.
There is no one quick fix for mental health disorders, their symptoms, or how they impact your daily life. Mental health disorders take many forms, each of which demands its own approach to challenge and overcome, and they are far more common than most people assume. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that 59.3 million American adults, 23.1 percent of the adult population, lived with a mental illness in 2022, and that only about half of them received any treatment that year.
We at The Redpoint Center understand the personal nature of recovery, especially as it relates to how mental health disorders have affected your life or your use of drugs and alcohol. Whether you are continuing recovery goals after detox or residential treatment, or adding a positive, supportive outlet to an otherwise busy and stressful life, we are ready to help you build your own path to a healthy future.
Redpoint is an outpatient provider. We do not operate a detox unit or an inpatient psychiatric unit, so when someone needs that level of care first, we help them get to it and pick their care up from there.
Clinical Categories
Mental health disorders take many forms.
The term covers an extensive range of diagnoses, describing anything that routinely affects your mood, behavior, thoughts, beliefs, or feelings. Some show up only on occasion, often in response to something external. Others are chronic and present through the whole of a day. No two experiences with any mental health disorder will be the same, and these categories overlap far more often than they stay separate.
Anxiety disorders
Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, where worry, fear, or intrusive thought becomes the organizing feature of a day.
Depressive disorders
Major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder, where low mood, exhaustion, and loss of interest hold for weeks or years rather than days.
Bipolar and related disorders
Cycles between depressive lows and elevated or manic periods. Its own category, not a form of depression, and it responds to a different plan.
Trauma and stressor-related disorders
Post-traumatic stress disorder and the lasting effects of a single event or a long-running one, including intrusive memory, hypervigilance, and avoidance.
Personality disorders
Borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder among them, where the pattern sits in how a person relates to themselves and to other people.
Seasonal affective disorder
Depressive symptoms that track the calendar, arriving with the short days of late fall and lifting again in spring.
Genetics, Trauma, Substances
Mental health disorders stem from a myriad of sources.
For some it is genetic. For others it begins with something that happened. For many it is both, and the substances used to cope become part of the picture.
Genetic components can lead to the development of mental health disorders. Having family members who have struggled with their own mental health can affect your own propensity for it, though it decides nothing on its own.
Traumatic experiences also commonly lead to mental health disorders. Childhood trauma, sexual assault, physical or verbal threats, serious illness, and natural disasters all profoundly affect a person, sometimes surfacing years after the event itself.
For others, the use of addictive substances alters brain chemistry and gives rise to mental health disorders that were not there before. The National Institute on Drug Abuse notes that common risk factors including inherited characteristics, adverse social environments, trauma, and stress contribute to both mental illness and substance use, which is part of why the two so often arrive together.
Regardless of how mental health disorders manifest, professional help and support to navigate their challenges are crucial for creating an effective recovery plan.
If you are thinking about suicide, or you are worried about someone who is, you do not have to wait for an appointment. Call or text 988 to reach 988 Colorado, the state's mental health line, free and confidential, 24 hours a day. In an immediate emergency, call 911.
Co-occurring Conditions
One condition almost always pulls on the other.
Mental health disorders often beget the use of addictive substances. Drugs or alcohol may offer short-term relief from your thoughts, your symptoms, or your mental state, but that relief tends to lead to more complicated hurdles in recovery rather than fewer.
The use of addictive substances also brings its own anxiety, depression, shame, and guilt, creating a cycle of use that can develop into addiction quickly.
Co-occurring disorders is the term for that cyclic relationship, and it covers any combination of mental health disorders and substance use. Whether it is anxiety alongside an addiction to alcohol, or opioid use alongside the effects of bipolar disorder, co-occurring disorders demand a personalized, holistic approach. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration calls the answer integrated treatment, where care for both conditions happens in the same sessions rather than in two separate places, and names it the best practice for people living with both.
We are committed not only to treating your symptoms but to building a healing program for the whole self, addressing your goals for mental health and addiction treatment in tandem. When substance use is a significant part of the picture, our page on dual diagnosis treatment covers how that combined care works in practice.
In Their Words
Safety, care, compassion, understanding without judgment were all key factors to my success.
A Harder Case
Substance-induced psychosis needs a clinician, quickly.
Drug-induced psychosis is one of the more frightening experiences a person can go through, and one of the most misread by the people around them. It is a set of symptoms rather than a change in who someone is.
What it is
Short-term episodes where a person feels wholly detached from reality as a result of drug use.
What it looks like
Hallucinations that can be auditory, visual, or olfactory, along with delusions, and the anxiety, panic, and paranoia that come with them.
When it happens
Either as a direct result of drug use or as a symptom of withdrawal, which is one reason stopping without support carries its own risk.
The mood swings
Extreme states including anger, terror, and agitation, with intense swings between them inside a single episode.
The safety piece
An altered mental state can lead to risky behavior, with potential for self-harm or harm to others. This is the part that most often brings a family in.
Why a clinician
Professional help is necessary to challenge drug-induced psychosis. We assess it, treat what our level of care can treat, and coordinate a higher level when that is what the situation needs.
How We Treat It
Stability first, then an accurate name for it.
Mental health disorders can affect every facet of your daily life, and finding a point of stability is what makes the rest of the work possible. Having a safe space to understand and accurately diagnose what is happening is a crucial part of the process.
Our clinicians are always ready to sit down and discuss how your experiences, beliefs, and thoughts have affected your life, to determine the right diagnosis and build the most effective plan for healing. That first conversation is free and confidential, and it commits you to nothing.
Even people carrying the same diagnosis experience it differently, with their own symptoms and their own history, so care here is matched to clinical need and readiness rather than to a fixed track, and it moves as you do. Helping you stabilize and challenge mental health disorders is part of our mission, and regardless of how they have affected your life, we are ready to help you begin.
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family involvement
- Medication support when it fits
- Coping and relapse-prevention planning
Levels of Care
Where mental health treatment actually happens.
Care is matched to clinical need and readiness, not to a fixed track. Most people start with an assessment, step into the level that fits, and step down as they stabilize.
Find out what your plan actually covers.
Insurance often covers more mental health care than people expect. The fastest way to know what yours includes is to let us check it for you. Verification is free, takes a few minutes, and does not commit you to treatment.
Accepted insurance
Employer and EAP partners
Don’t see your plan? Call us and we will check it, including out-of-network benefits.
Clinical Approaches
What each therapy is actually for.
More Specific Help
If you already know what you are dealing with.
Common Questions
Mental health treatment questions, answered.
What is a 5150 hold, and does Colorado have one?
Is PHP or IOP better for mental health?
Do you treat mental health conditions and substance use at the same time?
Do you treat psychosis?
How much does mental health treatment cost in Colorado?
What should I do right now if this is a crisis?
Where in Colorado can I get outpatient mental health treatment?
Tell us what is going on.
You do not need a diagnosis, a plan, or the right words to start. Send us a note or call (303) 219-0973, and we will help you work out what kind of care actually fits.