Therapy Services

Individual and group counseling services
for primary and secondary survivors
from three years old and up.

We’re here to help you heal.

The SAVA Center provides individual and group therapy services for survivors of sexual violence, as well as their family members, partners, and friends. Our therapy services are available for individuals aged 3 and older. Therapy offered at the SAVA Center is trauma-specific and trauma-focused, meaning that our therapy services concentrate on addressing the specific ways in which sexual violence has impacted your life.

Our therapists can help decrease the effects that
sexual violence has had on your daily life.

This includes things such as:

  • Understanding and recognizing your trauma responses

  • Managing trauma triggers through developing and strengthening coping skills

  • Addressing changes to thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs about oneself, others, and the world

  • Processing implicit and explicit memories related to sexual violence

To learn more about any of our therapy services or to see if our services are the right fit for you, call us at the location nearest to you.

Fort Collins
(970) 472-4204

Loveland
(970) 775-2962

Individual Therapy

Each SAVA center’s multiple therapists has a unique approach based on their education and training, as well as the framework they use to guide their work.

While there are some differences in how each therapist at SAVA approaches their work, all of our therapists practice in a client-centered and trauma-informed manner and are invested in working with each client to find what works best for them in therapy. Some of the therapeutic approaches used by our clinicians are:

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Expressive Therapies

Survivors of sexual violence can receive up to one year of individual therapy services at the SAVA Center; affected family members, partners, and friends of survivors can receive up to six months of individual therapy. At the outset of therapy, we will work together to identify your goals and create a treatment plan.

For primary survivors of sexual violence, as we approach six months of therapy, we will work together to acknowledge and celebrate your progress and determine together whether you have met your goals or would benefit from continuing to work with us for up to another six months.

Play
Therapy 

We offer play therapy for children aged 3 to approximately age 9. As with our adolescent and adult therapy services, play therapy at the SAVA Center is designed to support children in processing and coping with the effects of sexual violence.

If you are interested in learning more about the nature of play therapy and how it works, you can visit the Association for Play Therapy website.

How do I get started with Individual or Play Therapy?

If you are interested in individual or play therapy at the SAVA Center, here is what the process to get started looks like.

  • We can provide you with more information about our therapy services and will collect some basic information from you*. If it seems like the therapy we offer aligns with your needs, then we will schedule a consultation with one of our staff therapists.

    *Please note: if you call to inquire about therapy for anyone under the age of 18, we require a case number.

  • Consultations help us determine if SAVA’s therapy services would be a good fit for your needs.

    During the consultation, you will be asked to share some information about yourself and what you are hoping to get out of therapy. Please note that the therapist you meet with for your consultation may or may not be the therapist you work with if you begin therapy at SAVA.

    For the consultation, please bring any information you have related to our payment options for services. If you have Medicaid, this includes bringing a copy of your Medicaid card and/or plan number. If you have applied for Crime Victim Compensation and have received a letter from them in response, please bring a copy of that letter.

    At the end of the consultation, if we seem to be the best fit for your needs, we'll add your name to our therapy waiting list.

    If SAVA isn't the best organization to meet your needs, we will provide you with referrals to other agencies and/or providers that could be a better fit for your needs.

  • As soon as one of our therapists has an opening, they will call you and discuss scheduling and what appointment time(s) they have available. If one of those times works for you, you will be scheduled to begin services with that therapist.

    If the appointment time(s) the therapist has available will not work with your schedule, you will remain on the waiting list until another therapist has an opening and is able to contact you with their availability.

    The time it takes to receive a call from one of our therapists varies depending on several factors, such as the number of people ahead of you on the list, preferences you may have identified about a therapist and/or their therapeutic approach, the office location in which you hope to be seen for therapy, and your availability for appointments, among others. Please note that appointments at 3:00pm or later have the highest demand, so your wait may be longer if this is the only time frame in which you are able to schedule appointments.

Group
Therapy

The SAVA Center typically has multiple therapy groups running across our three office locations. You do not need to be a current SAVA client to participate in our groups but you will need to complete a group therapy consultation to determine if the group will be the right fit for you.

The types of groups we offer vary based on the needs we are seeing in our communities and on our therapists’ areas of specialization. Examples of groups we have offered include:

  • Women’s Support Group

  • Men’s Support Group

  • Adolescent Support Group*

  • Art Therapy Group

  • Secondary Survivor Support Group

Getting Started with Group Therapy

Please call one of our offices to find out about the groups currently being offered and to learn about the process for getting started in one of our groups.

*Please note, if you call to inquire about group therapy for anyone under the age of 18, we require a case number.

Other Information

Offices

It is important to us that we provide a welcoming space for our clients. All of our office locations offer ADA accessible therapy spaces and all-gender restrooms. If you have a specific need related to our office spaces, please let us know so that we can do our best to make your experience as comfortable as possible. 

Payment Options

We accept Medicaid and Crime Victim Compensation (CVC) as forms of payment.

If you do not have Medicaid or do not qualify for CVC, then sessions may still be available at no cost to you through grant funding. 

Notice of Intent to Destroy Client Records

The SAVA Center has a retention period for client records of 7 years past the last encounter date. For clients who began receiving therapy services while under the age of 18, records will be kept until their 25th birthday OR seven years after their last encounter date, whichever is longer.

Client records with a last encounter date on, or before, December 31, 2017 will be destroyed on or after December 31, 2024. Anyone wishing to request their original client records must contact the SAVA Center’s Director of Clinical Services prior to the destruction date. Please call 970-472-4204 between 8:30a.m. and 5p.m. Monday through Friday to learn how to request a treatment summary, and/or (pending approval by the Director of Clinical Services) copies of client records. Standard release of client records charges may apply.