Therapy for Educators, Veterans & Healthcare Professionals Across Colorado
At Grounded Light Counseling, we offer online therapy across Colorado for those who spend their lives caring for and serving others — teachers, veterans, and healthcare professionals who’ve dedicated themselves to helping, protecting, or guiding others.
But sometimes, the ones who carry everyone else’s load need a place to set their own down.
We help high-functioning, purpose-driven people find balance again — learning how to recover from burnout, manage anxiety, and reconnect to the parts of themselves that get lost in the constant giving.
When Helping Becomes Heavy
If you’ve ever thought, “I should be able to handle this,” you’re not alone.
Educators, veterans, and healthcare professionals often hold themselves to impossible standards — expected to stay calm under pressure, stay compassionate through chaos, and keep going even when exhausted.
Over time, that pressure takes a toll. You may feel emotionally detached, constantly on alert, or caught between deep fatigue and guilt for not “doing enough.”
Therapy can help you learn how to care for yourself with the same compassion you give to everyone else.
Understanding Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Burnout doesn’t always look like quitting — sometimes it looks like going through the motions, feeling emotionally flat, or struggling to recover between shifts or semesters.
For many in helping or service roles, burnout blends with compassion fatigue — the emotional weariness that comes from giving empathy, attention, and energy to others for too long without adequate support.
At Grounded Light Counseling, we help you understand how chronic stress and overexposure to emotional demands affect your body and mind.
You’ll learn how to reset your nervous system, regulate stress responses, and find a rhythm that supports sustainable energy and emotional connection again.
How Therapy Can Help You Recenter
Educators: Manage classroom stress, set boundaries with students and administration, and find meaning in your work again without losing yourself in it.
Veterans: Process trauma and transitions, regulate hypervigilance, and learn to trust calm without feeling exposed or on guard.
Healthcare Professionals: Navigate compassion fatigue, moral injury, and work-related trauma while rebuilding confidence and self-compassion.
Therapy Outcomes:
Rebuild emotional resilience and mental clarity
Develop practical tools for stress management
Restore connection with purpose and self
Prevent future burnout through awareness and boundaries
Our Approach — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Mind-Body Balance
Our therapy approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness and nervous system regulation to help you understand your stress patterns — and how to change them.
We’ll work together to challenge unhelpful beliefs (like “I can’t rest until everything is done” or “I have to be strong for everyone else”) and replace them with more compassionate, sustainable ways of thinking and responding.
Our work focuses on helping you find your “optimal stress zone” — that healthy middle ground where calm and drive coexist.
This balance is where resilience, clarity, and confidence thrive.
Healing Through Validation and Connection
You don’t have to minimize what you’ve been through.
Whether your stress comes from exposure to trauma, moral conflict, or emotional overextension, we create a space where you can be honest about your experience — without judgment or performance pressure.
Therapy is about reclaiming your capacity to connect and care — for others and for yourself.
Through consistent, compassionate work, you’ll rediscover the sense of meaning that first led you to your calling, this time supported by healthy limits and renewed energy.
Why Online Therapy Works
All sessions at Grounded Light Counseling are 100% virtual, so therapy fits into your demanding schedule and lifestyle.
Whether you’re between shifts, stationed remotely, or balancing multiple responsibilities, telehealth therapy makes support accessible anywhere in Colorado.
- Secure video sessions via SimplePractice
- Flexible scheduling to match shift work or service demands
- Comfort of connecting from your own space — no travel, no commute
Inclusive & Affirming Care
We’re deeply committed to providing inclusive, trauma-informed therapy for all clients, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and disabled professionals.
We recognize that cultural, gender, and systemic factors all influence how burnout and stress show up — and your therapy should reflect that understanding.
At Grounded Light Counseling, you’ll always be met with respect, authenticity, and care.
Ready to Reconnect with Purpose and Peace?
You’ve spent so much of your life helping others — it’s okay to ask for help now.
Therapy can help you find your balance, rebuild your energy, and reconnect with the meaning that first brought you to your work.
You deserve care that restores, not just sustains.