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title: "Colorado Springs, Colorado Psychologist: Telehealth Therapist for Love Obsession, Sex Addiction & Sexual Trauma"
description: "A telehealth psychologist licensed in Colorado for Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels and Cheyenne Mountain. Confidential virtual therapy for love addiction and love obsession, compulsive sexual behavior and sexual trauma. Video only, private pay, no insurance billed."
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  Educational content, not treatment. Reading it establishes no clinical
  relationship. Every personal account on this page is fiction, written by
  Dr. Lapite-Garrett from her own clinical knowledge and expertise; she uses AI
  as a drafting tool and approves every word. No client information of any kind
  was used to make them.
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**Alafiora™ · Colorado Springs · Private Pay**

# Colorado Springs Psychologist for Love Obsession, Compulsive Sexual Behavior & Sexual Trauma

### Pikes Peak sits at the top of nearly every sightline in this city, the same summit that inspired the song most Americans learned before they could read, and a few miles below it, the bases, the Academy, and NORAD's own hardened command post inside Cheyenne Mountain run on schedules that rarely pause for anyone's personal calendar. In both, a name has usually traveled through a command structure, a ministry's own leadership circle, or a training center roster before it ever reaches the person who needed it. Sessions come to wherever a client in Colorado is sitting: the woman whose husband's deployment schedule means whole seasons pass with nothing but scheduled video calls between them, and the man whose public role as a moral leader is exactly what makes his own private struggle feel impossible to say out loud to anyone who knows him.

[Begin with a First Session](https://book.carepatron.com/Alafiora/Dr--Esther?p=Oo6qVwWRRimYcwZm5qsxxw&s=EbDHmCbO&i=OPJJzQ94) · [Begin with a Consultation](https://book.carepatron.com/Alafiora/Dr--Esther?p=Oo6qVwWRRimYcwZm5qsxxw&s=EbDHmCbO&i=68bi61zK)

Held entirely by video, wherever in Colorado a client happens to be sitting.

**What This Page Covers**
Six sections. Most take three minutes or less to read; the longest takes eight.

1. A City Built Around the Mountain, the Bases, and the Missions: Confidential Telehealth Therapist for Colorado Springs & the Broadmoor
2. Care at Alafiora™: Licensed Psychologist Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett, Colorado Telehealth Practice
3. Serving Colorado Springs and the Surrounding Communities: Telehealth Coverage Area: The Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain & Flying Horse
4. What Some People May Describe: Composite Reflections From Colorado Springs & the Broadmoor
5. What Therapy at Alafiora™ Addresses: Confidential Telehealth for the Pikes Peak Region: How Care Is Structured With a Private-Pay Psychologist
6. Common Questions About Therapy in Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Psychologist FAQ: Love Addiction, Sex Addiction & Sexual Trauma Treatment

[Session formats and current rates →](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees)

**Also in [Where Alafiora™ Practices](https://alafiora.com/where-alafiora-practices):** [Colorado](https://alafiora.com/colorado) · [Aspen, CO](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co) · [Boulder, CO](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co) · [Castle Pines & Lone Tree, CO](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co) · [Cherry Hills Village, CO](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co) · [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) · [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico)

Colorado Springs is small and closely networked enough, for all its institutions, that a referral still travels the way it would in a much smaller town. A name offered here tends to come from a fellow officer's spouse, a colleague inside the same ministry, or a training center staff member who has recommended someone entirely outside that world. A name that arrives that way brings all of it along.

Alafiora™ sits outside that world by design, and in Colorado, by law. [Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) is a licensed psychologist in Colorado, and that license carries its own status, active, telehealth-only, which permits care by video only. It does not authorize a Colorado office or any in-person service anywhere in the state, and this page describes only what that license actually allows. Care reaches Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain, and Flying Horse entirely by video, which means beginning does not require a car parked somewhere a fellow officer's spouse or a colleague would notice it.

Every personal account described on this page is fiction. Dr. Lapite-Garrett writes them from her own clinical knowledge and expertise. AI helps shape the first draft, and Dr. Lapite-Garrett reviews and approves every word before it is shared. The individuals, the histories, and the sequences of events here, including those written as he or she and including any pattern shown escalating over time, are not drawn from any current or former client of this practice, and no client information of any kind was used to make them. No one's trajectory appears on this page. What appears is what these psychological phenomena may look like when they occur.

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## A City Built Around the Mountain, the Bases, and the Missions

Confidential Telehealth Therapist for Colorado Springs & the Broadmoor

An El Paso County Client Community

Spencer and Julie Penrose opened the Broadmoor in 1918 on the site of a failed casino at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, and the resort they built has held its Five-Star rating for decades, its two golf courses shaped by Donald Ross and Robert Trent Jones Sr. still anchoring a corner of the city that has changed less than almost anywhere else in Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak rises directly behind it, the same summit that gave Katharine Lee Bates the words for "America the Beautiful" in 1893, and every June the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb still sends cars up the same 12.42 miles and 156 turns to the 14,115-foot finish it has run since 1916.

What sits underneath that resort-town postcard is a city built almost entirely around institutions most towns this size don't have even one of. Colorado Springs holds one of the densest concentrations of military and aerospace installations in the country, Fort Carson, two Space Force bases, NORAD's own command post inside Cheyenne Mountain, and the Air Force Academy, an economy the local Chamber estimates makes up well over a third of the region's total output. It has also been headquarters to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee since 1978, hosting more national governing bodies for individual Olympic sports than any other American city by a wide margin, which means a genuinely unusual number of the country's top athletes train within a few miles of the Broadmoor's front lawn. And since the early 1990s, when Focus on the Family relocated its headquarters here, Colorado Springs has become home to dozens of national and international Christian ministries, a concentration few other American cities can match.

### The Private Side of a Publicly Accountable Life

Love Obsession, Compulsive Sexual Behavior & Sexual Trauma Among Colorado Springs's Military, Ministry, and Olympic Community

A city built this specifically around institutions that answer to a command structure, a board, or a governing body runs on public accountability as its actual currency. Whether that accountability comes from a rank insignia, a ministry's own public reputation, or a national team roster, the pressure to appear steady in public makes it especially hard to admit that something private has stopped being manageable.

Some women in this community may be married to service members stationed at one of the area's bases, spending large stretches of most years with a spouse deployed somewhere the relationship narrows down to scheduled video calls and whatever contact the mission allows. A fellow spouse in her own unit's support network starts as a daily lifeline, which is exactly what it's supposed to be during a deployment. What it becomes is something else: the daily messages get memorized down to their rhythm, and on the evenings her own husband is unreachable, an entire second marriage takes shape around this friend instead, whole futures imagined that the two of them have never once discussed out loud. Her days start arranging themselves around his schedule without her quite deciding that on purpose, and she may call it getting through the deployment together every time. The week both husbands come home, she watches her friend greet his own spouse at the airfield with an ease that a daily message or a rearranged afternoon never once had to earn, and recognizes, finally, what she'd actually been doing.

A related pattern in this community draws its cover from the public moral authority a senior role at one of the city's ministries confers. Consider a man in a visible leadership position at a Colorado Springs-based Christian organization, whose actual job includes speaking publicly about integrity and family life. His organization's finance office reconciles his card only in broad categories, which is how a habit of arranging paid encounters through an app, most weeks, goes unremarked for as long as it does. It began alone, an occasional evening with pornography during long ministry travel; a first paid encounter near wherever he was speaking followed within a year, then two or three trips a month, billed to an account nobody at the organization thought to question. Each time a trip gets booked, the same private bargain resurfaces: whatever he tells his board about his travel schedule this quarter will be the last version of it, and he believes that completely until it's time to book the next one. It's his own organization's finance team, flagging irregular expensing during a routine audit, that eventually surfaces the pattern he never reckoned with on his own, and the conversation reaches his board before it reaches his wife. Holding this much public trust is exactly the weight [Leaders and Executives](https://alafiora.com/leaders-and-executives) addresses, and [Faith & Purity Culture](https://alafiora.com/faith-purity-culture) names something more particular still: the isolation of standing at the front of a room teaching a certainty about sex he cannot privately live inside himself, on top of whatever he still carries from having been raised inside that same strict teaching to begin with. Underneath both, [Moral Injury and Self-Betrayal](https://alafiora.com/moral-injury) names the harder fact: a private bargain he fully means every time he makes it, broken again by the next trip regardless, an injury that doesn't depend on the behavior for its own reality.

Still others throughout Colorado Springs may carry harm that goes back decades before any base assignment or ministry role entered the picture at all. An athlete who may train year-round at the city's Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, recognized within her own sport by strangers who have never actually been introduced to her, may go still every time physical contact during a routine training session sets her heart pounding, with no explanation she has ever given her own coaching staff for it. [People in the Public Eye](https://alafiora.com/people-in-the-public-eye) names that specific layered exposure directly, for anyone whose recognizability within even one competitive world changes what disclosure actually costs. It goes back to a coach, years earlier and at a different training center, who began staying behind after everyone else had left the gym to "check her form" alone. What may have begun as an ordinary hand correcting a shoulder position may have moved, over a period of months, to that same coach positioning himself against her from behind during a stretch she had not asked for help with, until she could feel exactly how aroused he was through his own sweatpants. Nobody on her current team has ever heard any of it, in part because naming it now would mean explaining, to people who only know the composed, high-performing version of her, why a hand on her shoulder during a routine stretch makes her flinch in front of the entire training group.

Call or text [988](tel:988), or use its chat at [988lifeline.org](https://988lifeline.org) if a call is not something that can happen where you are sitting. Military-connected individuals and their families can also reach the Veterans Crisis Line by dialing [988](tel:988) and pressing 1, or the DoD Safe Helpline at [877-995-5247](tel:8779955247), both detailed further on [the practice's crisis resources page](https://alafiora.com/crisis-resources), which covers sexual assault, domestic violence and trafficking separately as well. Where somebody is in immediate danger, [911](tel:911) is answered locally and around the clock.

An airfield homecoming and a Sunday service both close before any of this could be said out loud there: the daily message memorized word for word, the private bargain that doesn't outlast the next trip, the flinch in front of an entire training group. Alafiora™ is where it finally gets said, to a psychologist whose only relationship to any of them is the work itself.

## Care at Alafiora™

Licensed Psychologist Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett, Colorado Telehealth Practice

Nobody is assigned here. The same psychologist takes the first call and every hour after it, so nothing has to be told twice to somebody new. [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) founded Alafiora™ as a boutique psychological practice, and she trained in psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches to [complex trauma](https://alafiora.com/complex-trauma-cptsd), [love obsession](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), and [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality). She works from the premise that behavior, however distressing, serves a function, and that lasting change begins with understanding that function before attempting to remove it.

Individuals working through the aftermath of sexual assault, betrayal, or cumulative violation often begin with [Understanding Sexual Trauma & Its Many Forms](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms), where pacing and consent shape every part of the process. Those caught in patterns of obsessive longing, fixation, or fantasy frequently find language for their experience in [Understanding Love Obsession, Love Addiction & Attachment's Many Forms](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment). Individuals whose relationship to sexual behavior has become compulsive, secretive, or beyond their own control are welcomed, without judgment, into the work described in [Understanding Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Sex Anxiety & Their Many Forms](https://alafiora.com/understanding-compulsive-sexual-behavior-sex-anxiety-sexual-acting-out). Many clients move fluidly between these areas, since attachment, trauma, and compulsion are rarely separate experiences in practice. Among the [leaders and executives](https://alafiora.com/leaders-and-executives) holding public trust at ministries and defense organizations, the [athletes and public figures](https://alafiora.com/people-in-the-public-eye) training at the city's Olympic center, and the military families living through recurring deployment, these three domains tend to arrive together often enough that treating them separately would miss most of what is actually happening.

### How Care Is Delivered

Confidential Video Therapy for Clients in Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels & Cheyenne Mountain

[Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) is a licensed psychologist in Colorado, and her license there carries an active, telehealth-only status, which authorizes care to Colorado residents entirely by video. There is no Colorado office and no in-person option anywhere in the state; video is the whole of what this credential authorizes. Sessions are held through a HIPAA-compliant platform backed by a signed business associate agreement, at an ordinary hour's length or as an extended session for anyone who needs longer than one, from wherever a confidential connection can be maintained: a home office near the Broadmoor, a quiet room during a break in training, or a private space carved out during a scheduled deployment call. For military and defense families reassigned out of state, or for anyone whose life moves between Colorado and elsewhere, it matters to say plainly: care continues only while the client is physically present in Colorado, or in Indiana or New Mexico, the two other states where Dr. Lapite-Garrett is licensed.

### Why Is Care in Colorado Video Only, Rather Than On Location Like Some of Alafiora™'s Other Markets?

SB24-141 is the reason this page can only describe video care in Colorado: the statute created a telehealth-only credential category, and Dr. Lapite-Garrett's license under it authorizes exactly that and nothing more, with no path to an in-person visit anywhere in the state. [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) and [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) work differently, since her licensure there is full and on-location-eligible, allowing both formats. For a community built around a handful of institutions that all know each other's business, that turns out to be worth something on its own: no car in a driveway, no arrival for a colleague or a fellow officer's spouse to register.

### What Becomes Possible

Life After Love Addiction, Sex Addiction & Sexual Trauma Treatment in Colorado Springs & the Broadmoor

Further along, what people describe tends to be plain and specific: a deployment that no longer needs someone else's marriage to fill it, a private bargain that finally holds past the next trip, and a training session that doesn't require flinching in front of an entire team. None of it happens on a short timeline, and this practice is built for the slower one.

## Serving Colorado Springs and the Surrounding Communities

Telehealth Coverage Area: The Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain & Flying Horse

Care reaches each of the communities below by video only, on identical clinical terms; what follows are the practical differences in how each client tends to use it.

**Colorado Springs / Downtown.** For someone near the Old North End or downtown, the first practical question is usually finding an hour where a video call won't be interrupted by a base or ministry schedule, and that gets settled at the consultation.

**The Broadmoor & Cheyenne Mountain.** Video reaches homes throughout this neighborhood the same way, at whatever hour fits around a resort or country club calendar.

**Kissing Camels.** Care reaches this gated west-side community as readily as anywhere else in the city, with the privacy already built into the neighborhood tending to make a video hour especially natural here.

**Flying Horse.** North of downtown, video care reaches this newer luxury community on the same terms as everywhere else on this list, with no difference in format or fee.

### Does Care Reach Clients Only While They're Physically in Colorado Springs, or Anywhere in Colorado?

Anywhere in Colorado. The license is statewide, so the only real requirement is that the client be physically located somewhere in Colorado at the time of the session; the communities named above are simply the ones clients here name most often.

The facts most first inquiries ask about, gathered in one place:

| At a Glance | Alafiora™ in Colorado Springs |
|---|---|
| Psychologist | [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther), a doctoral-level licensed psychologist and Alafiora™'s sole practitioner |
| Colorado license | Active, telehealth-only status; not the on-location-eligible status held in [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) and [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico); no Colorado office, no in-person services |
| Also licensed in | [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) and [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) |
| Session format in Colorado | Video only, statewide |
| Session lengths | An ordinary hour, or an extended session for anyone who needs longer than one |
| Communities named on this page | Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain, Flying Horse |
| Who is seen | Individuals 16 and older, with a guardian co-signature required at 16 and 17 |
| Payment | Private pay. No insurance billed. A superbill for out-of-network reimbursement is available on request |
| Session rates | Published in full on the [Rates and Fees page](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees) |
| How to begin | A consultation first, or directly with a first session |

## What Some People May Describe

Composite Reflections From Colorado Springs & the Broadmoor

The reflections below are fiction. Dr. Lapite-Garrett writes them from her own clinical knowledge and expertise. AI produces a rough draft, and she reviews and personally approves every word that stays. They are not quotations from clients of this practice, whose privacy is protected absolutely, and no client information of any kind was used to make them. They appear here so that anyone who recognizes themselves, whoever they are, does not have to arrive at care carrying an experience they have never once seen written down.

How some may describe this experience:

*"i arrange my whole day around when she's usually free and tell myself it's just about getting through the deployment together. i have her daily messages basically memorized, the exact way she says goodnight. i have entire conversations with her in my head some nights, a whole other marriage built around her instead of him, none of which actually happened. watched her hug her own husband at the airfield when they both got back and realized she's never once looked at me the way she looked at him. our husbands deploy the exact same rotations and i genuinely don't know what i was building in the months they're gone"*

*"i write and give talks about integrity for a living, that's the actual job, and i've been lying to my own board for almost a year. i tell myself the same thing every time i book another trip, that this is the last version of it and i mean it this time. i believe it completely right up until i'm booking the next one. finance flagged a pattern on my card during the annual audit and it's going to the board before it's going to my wife. it's been actual hotel rooms near wherever i'm speaking for a while now, two or three trips a month, and i stopped using protection over a year ago and never told a single person that part. i teach people how to be honest and never once got flagged for anything until now"*

*"a coach used to stay behind after everyone else left the gym to 'check my form' and it went from a hand on my shoulder to him standing against me from behind in a way i couldn't explain to anyone. last week a different coach touched my shoulder during a stretch and my whole body flinched in front of the entire team before i could stop it. nobody there knows why. i've built an entire career on being the composed one since then"*

Recognizing something described here and being ready to discuss it out loud are not the same milestone, and reaching the first does not obligate anyone to have reached the second yet. This community rarely lets any of it show; whatever composure comes from a rank, a pulpit, or a training roster is usually already doing the work of managing it. [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) founded Alafiora™ to work across exactly this range, [love obsession](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), and [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms) treated as one system rather than three separate referrals, for individuals throughout Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, and Cheyenne Mountain.

## What Therapy at Alafiora™ Addresses

Confidential Telehealth for the Pikes Peak Region: How Care Is Structured With a Private-Pay Psychologist

What an early session actually contains is a week in detail: the message that got reread, and the schedule that got rearranged around it. For a client whose own role carries public trust, whether that trust comes from a uniform, a pulpit, or a team roster, the question of what does and does not leave the room gets answered out loud in the first hour, before any history is asked for. An eighty-minute clinical intake is $475, and a standard fifty-minute session is $300 after that; the complete schedule sits on [Rates and Fees](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees).

[Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) names each mechanism out loud rather than treating it as a lapse in discipline. Obsessive checking and rereading get named as [love obsession and love addiction](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), relational dependency, and, where a fixation attaches to one specific individual rather than to being in love generally, [person addiction](https://alafiora.com/limerence). [Compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality) gets named as loss of control and mounting cost, often working as a way to regulate the pressure of holding public trust or enduring repeated separation, and never as a verdict on what someone actually wants for their own life, since Alafiora™ is sex positive, sex informed, and [sex work](https://alafiora.com/adult-entertainment-professionals) affirming throughout. A history of assault, betrayal, or accumulated harm gets named as [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms), whether that is a single acute incident, [developmental trauma](https://alafiora.com/developmental-trauma) carried from the years the nervous system was still forming, the relational kind that happened inside a bond a person depended on, or [betrayal trauma](https://alafiora.com/betrayal-trauma) where the dependence itself suppressed the recognition, and it is worked with at the client's own pace, whatever a client's relationship to faith, service, or competition looks like.

Individuals throughout this community bring this work to Alafiora™ from a genuinely wide range of circumstances: [leaders and executives](https://alafiora.com/leaders-and-executives) at defense and aerospace organizations and Colorado Springs-based ministries, [athletes and public figures](https://alafiora.com/people-in-the-public-eye) training at the city's Olympic center, military spouses living through recurring deployment, and adult children managing an aging parent's finances who notice something before anyone says it out loud. What concealment costs depends on what a person has to lose, and in a community built this specifically around public trust and public performance, that cost is often higher than it looks from outside.

A consultation is a brief conversation, by video or phone call as preferred, where anything can be asked in order to feel confident this is the right fit, with nothing decided in advance. A first session is where care itself actually begins: history is gathered at whatever pace it comes, and a treatment plan starts to take shape from there. Alafiora™ works with individuals 16 and older, with a guardian co-signature required for clients age 16 and 17.

## Common Questions About Therapy in Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs Psychologist FAQ: Love Addiction, Sex Addiction & Sexual Trauma Treatment

**Is there a psychologist for Colorado Springs who treats love obsession, sex addiction, and sexual trauma together, not as separate concerns?**

Yes, and this is the practice's actual structure, not a marketing description. [Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) treats [love obsession and love addiction](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), and [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms) as one interconnected system, since for most clients who bring any one of these three to treatment, the other two are somewhere nearby, whether or not the connection has already been named.

**Does Alafiora™ see clients in Colorado Springs in person, or only by video?**

Only by video. Dr. Lapite-Garrett's Colorado license carries an active, telehealth-only status, which authorizes telehealth care to Colorado residents and does not extend to a Colorado office or in-person services anywhere in the state. A session runs on a HIPAA-compliant platform from wherever a client is physically located in Colorado at the time.

**We may be reassigned or deployed out of state. Does that affect care?**

Care continues only while a client is physically located in Colorado, [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana), or [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico), the three states where Dr. Lapite-Garrett is licensed. A reassignment or deployment to a different state doesn't fall inside that coverage on its own, though the same standing hour picks back up as soon as a client is physically present in one of the three again. The practice can discuss what continuity looks like around a specific reassignment.

**What kind of therapy does Alafiora™ provide for residents of Colorado Springs and the surrounding communities?**

Alafiora™ provides psychotherapy, held entirely by video for Colorado residents, addressing [love obsession](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), and [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms) as one connected system. Clients are individuals 16 and older, worked with by a single licensed psychologist with no rotating clinical team, throughout Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain, and Flying Horse.

**Is it too late to reach out if this has already cost me a marriage, a career, or my standing in my community?**

No, it is not too late, and in a community built this specifically around public trust, this is one of the more common reasons people actually reach out, not a reason to have waited longer. A pattern that has already cost something real is not past the point of being treated; the cost is often what finally makes it visible enough to address directly.

**Does Alafiora™ bill insurance in Colorado, or is this a private-pay practice?**

Colorado Springs sessions are private pay, sometimes called direct pay or out-of-pocket, and Alafiora™ bills no insurance for any of them. A superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement is available on request, and current rates and session formats sit on the [Rates and Fees page](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees). Paying privately keeps the record narrow: no diagnosis or treatment plan goes to an insurer, and nobody outside the room decides how many sessions are appropriate or how long they run, unless the client authorizes a release of information themselves.

**Begin a Confidential Conversation**

The first call is short and confidential, held to the same limits any licensed psychologist is bound by before work begins, and it is not a setting where a client's history or behavior gets tried or judged. Whatever the client actually wants to talk about is the only subject. Most people in this position, once they get there, say they want something plain: a homecoming, a Sunday, a training session with nothing in it that has to be explained to anyone afterward. A reader already sure of that is just as welcome to begin directly with a first session.

[Begin with a First Session](https://book.carepatron.com/Alafiora/Dr--Esther?p=Oo6qVwWRRimYcwZm5qsxxw&s=EbDHmCbO&i=OPJJzQ94) · [Begin with a Consultation](https://book.carepatron.com/Alafiora/Dr--Esther?p=Oo6qVwWRRimYcwZm5qsxxw&s=EbDHmCbO&i=68bi61zK)

For a closer look at how faith and private struggle intersect specifically, the page on [Faith & Purity Culture](https://alafiora.com/faith-purity-culture) goes further into that ground. A bookmark, or a scan of the footer's QR code, keeps the practice's information ready for whenever it's wanted.

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