Toni Kooy, LPC

Toni Kooy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 20 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, and career challenges. Sessions are presented in plain language with practical strategies and goal-focused planning.

Toni uses straightforward listening to help people identify what drives their distress. She combines short-term and longer-term goals so clients can see progress and build skills that matter day to day. She draws on approaches like Dialectical Behavior Therapy to strengthen emotion regulation and decision making, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.

Her background includes work across rural and urban community mental health centers and many years supporting people with mood problems and trauma symptoms. She has training in trauma work that included EMDR and has helped people dealing with grief and post-traumatic stress. Toni’s clinical work is informed by a long history in substance abuse and mental health settings beginning in 2004.

Before becoming a counselor she held varied jobs including musician, construction worker, nanny, home-maker, and assembly worker. Those roles shape a practical, non-judgmental perspective in sessions and a focus on real-life solutions. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Colorado.

Toni frames therapy as a collaborative process that examines strengths and skills people already have. She emphasizes emotion regulation, problem solving, and making choices that lead toward better daily functioning rather than abstract theory.

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