Connie Owens , LCSW, CSW

Connie Owens, LCSW, CSW, offers a calm and direct approach for people facing a wide range of life challenges. She has 25 years of experience and focuses on practical steps that help clients feel steadier and more capable. Many who come to her are dealing with relationship pain, trauma, grief, addiction, anxiety, or struggles related to identity and self-worth. Connie practices in Colorado and works by phone, video, chat, or text with clients in multiple regions including international clients.

Connie blends several therapy styles to fit each person’s needs rather than relying on one fixed method. Sessions usually focus on what is most pressing - coping with strong feelings, building safer boundaries, changing unhelpful patterns, or managing stress and mood swings. She emphasizes straightforward skills people can use between sessions to feel more in control.

Her work often addresses intimacy and relationship problems, complicated grief, addiction recovery, and trauma and abuse. Connie also supports clients dealing with eating and sleep problems, career stress, ADHD, and caregiver strain. She names women’s issues among her areas of focus and has substantial experience helping people recover from abusive relationships.

Connie describes her style as respectful and compassionate, yet honest and goal-oriented. She will listen and then suggest steps that make sense for daily life. The plan is tailored to each client’s values, strengths, and practical limits.

To begin, clients answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their routine. Sessions are offered in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with concrete experiments and skills practice between sessions; it often helps with mood, sleep, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and aims to build safer ways of relating and communicating in present relationships.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Connie will work with each client to match methods to their goals, needs, and life situation. She often combines elements from different approaches so the work fits the person rather than forcing one style onto everyone.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.