Patrick Pitchford
Graduate Student Intern
When your family feels like it’s coming apart, you don’t need someone to tell you everything will be okay. You need help figuring out what to do next. Patrick works with individuals, couples, and families, helping clients navigate relationship challenges, family conflict, and major life transitions.
Maybe you and your spouse keep having the same arguments, and neither of you feels heard. Maybe you barely feel like partners anymore because so much of your relationship has become managing kids, work, bills, schedules, and everything else adult life demands.
Or maybe your family just feels harder than it used to. Your child is struggling at school, making choices you don’t understand, or pulling away from you. An aging parent, a loss, a child leaving home, or an overbearing family member has shifted the dynamics. Boundaries are getting complicated. Everyone is frustrated. And conversations that should be simple somehow keep turning into conflict.
Patrick especially enjoys working with couples and families who care about each other but know something needs to change. That might mean communicating better, navigating a transition, strengthening boundaries, or simply figuring out how to feel more connected again.
His approach is realistic, straightforward, and focused on finding a way forward. Rather than spending all of therapy deciding who is to blame, Patrick helps couples, families, and individuals understand what isn’t working, recognize the strengths they already have, and start making practical changes that can help them reconnect.
With a specific focus on marriage and family therapy and training in Levels 1 & 2 of the Gottman Method, Patrick can also bring research informed tools into his work with couples experiencing conflict and disconnection.
Insurances I Accept:
Aetna, CHP+, Cigna, Medicaid, and Private Pay
How I Work:
My name is Patrick Pitchford and I have been a Colorado resident since 1995. I love Colorado for its beautiful mountains, sunny days, and expansive prairies. I am a graduate student at CCU for Clinical Mental Health Counseling, focused specifically on marriage and family therapy. I believe that every individual, couple, or family has strengths and resources that they can use to overcome their struggles and create solutions that can lead to the outcomes they want. As a counselor who uses Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and an integrative approach, I believe my job is to help clients discover and rediscover those strengths and put them into practice.
My philosophy about therapy is a little like a road trip. I believe that individuals, couples, and families often begin the road trip with a destination in mind, but sometimes they get lost on the way or run into unexpected car trouble. As a therapist, I believe my role is to be the person who can help look at the map to get the family back on track, or the good Samaritan who can help give the car a jump to get it back on the road. I believe that my clients know, on some level, where they want to go, and I want to be a valuable partner in helping them get there. I strive to create a counseling relationship that is respectful and authentic so we can get to where you want to go.
When I am not working, I enjoy spending quality time with family and friends, playing video games, or getting outside into nature.
Issues I Treat:
- Adjustment/Change, Anxiety, Depression, Life Stressors
Populations I Serve:
- All Ages, All Genders, Couples
Professional Background:
Education
- Associates of Science – Pueblo Community College
Bachelor's of Counseling for Christian Ministries – Nazarene Bible College
Masters of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy – Colorado State University (Currently enrolled, 2nd year)
Training
- Helping Families Thrive in a Digital World - CEU
Gottman level 1 and 2 Training
Previous Employment
- Operations Manager – Wurth Industries North America