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title: "Colorado Telehealth Psychologist & Therapist: Love Obsession, Compulsive Sexual Behavior & Sexual Trauma"
description: "A psychologist licensed for telehealth-only care throughout Colorado, PSY.0007164, treating love addiction and love obsession, compulsive sexual behavior and sex addiction, and sexual trauma as one connected picture. Every Colorado session is by video; state law permits no in-person or on-location option. No insurance is billed."
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author: Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett, licensed psychologist in clinical psychology
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note: >-
  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 · Telehealth Only · Private Pay**

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

### Somewhere between a ski town's shoulder season and a defense contractor's next clearance review, a great deal of Colorado gets lived at a remove from whoever might actually recognize the person underneath it. Alafiora™ is licensed for telehealth-only care across the entire state, from the Front Range down through the San Luis Valley and up into the high country, and every hour is held by video. No in-person option exists anywhere in Colorado, for any client, ever, and that is the actual shape of this license rather than a smaller version of what this practice offers in [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) or [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana).

[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)

Colorado is the eighth-largest state by area and holds close to six million people across sixty-four counties, a population concentrated overwhelmingly along the Front Range corridor running from Fort Collins through Denver to Colorado Springs and Pueblo, with the Eastern Plains, the San Luis Valley, and the Western Slope spread thin across the mountains and grassland between them. That unevenness matters here for a reason that has nothing to do with distance. A psychologist practicing on the license class Colorado created for out-of-state clinicians under Senate Bill 24-141 may see a client anywhere in Colorado the client happens to be physically located at the hour of the session, and may never, under that same statute, hold the session any way but by video: no home visit, no private-location session, no walk-and-talk, regardless of the county or what a given client would prefer. That line is drawn by the statute for every telehealth-only credential in the state, not for this practice specifically, and it is the one fact that actually separates a Colorado session from a session held under this practice's [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) or [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) license, where an in-person option exists.

The second complication here has nothing to do with geography either. Some of the state's wealthiest enclaves run on a handful of restaurants and one country club. A mountain town's year-round population can be smaller than a single Denver high school. A defense or aerospace career can carry a security clearance that treats a mental health record as a line item at the next periodic reinvestigation. None of that is a reason to wait. Alafiora™ holds no hospital privileges, no university affiliation, and no group membership anywhere in Colorado, and bills no insurance. Nothing about beginning here routes through an employer, a clearance process, or a network a client already lives inside, and no diagnosis leaves this practice without that client's own written authorization.

Every personal account described on this page is fiction. Dr. Lapite-Garrett draws on her own clinical knowledge and expertise to write them, uses AI only for an initial draft, and personally reads and approves every word before anything is published. The individuals, the histories, and the sequences of events here include those written as he or she and any pattern shown escalating over time. None of them are 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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# The Centennial State

## Colorado as a Place | The Front Range, the Western Slope, the Fourteeners, and a State Built by Five Different Kinds of Money

Colorado became the thirty-eighth state on August 1, 1876, one day before the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which is where the official nickname, the Centennial State, comes from. "Colorful Colorado" is a different thing entirely: a license plate slogan rather than a legislated title, first stamped on plates in 1950, pulled off for 1957 after a governor vetoed its return on the grounds that the word cluttered the design, and back for good since 1958 on the plate carrying a downhill skier. Both nicknames tell a resident something true. One names the accident of timing that made statehood mean something specific. The other names the thing every visitor notices and every longtime resident stops noticing: the color, at altitude, of a state where the light does something different than it does closer to sea level.

The land under all of it was Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne territory for centuries before any of this. An 1851 treaty at Fort Laramie recognized Cheyenne and Arapaho control of the eastern part of the territory that would become Colorado, and it held for seven years, until prospectors found gold near what is now Denver in 1858. The Pike's Peak gold rush that followed pulled tens of thousands of people west inside two years, Congress carved out the Colorado Territory in 1861 to govern the sudden population, and the same rush that built the territory also broke the treaty, pushing the Ute people out of the mountains where they had lived for generations through a series of agreements made under pressure rather than choice. Statehood followed fifteen years later, on the strength of a mining economy the gold rush had built.

What that economy left behind is still legible on a map. Denver sits at exactly 5,280 feet, a mile above sea level, on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, which is where the nickname "Mile High City" comes from and where a downtown marker has certified the number since 1969. West of it the Rockies hold somewhere between fifty-three and fifty-eight peaks over 14,000 feet, depending on which of them a given list counts, more than any other state has by a wide margin. East of it the land drops away into the Eastern Plains, agricultural and flat, closer in feel to Kansas than to the mountains ninety minutes away. And in between, along the corridor a Coloradan calls the Front Range, sits nearly all the state's population and nearly all its money, made in at least five genuinely different ways.

Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village sit inside the ring of old Denver wealth, land and mining money that settled two and three generations ago into a name that has been on the same hospital board since before the current generation was born. Boulder runs on a state university and a research corridor that has made it one of the most federally funded aerospace and technology towns per capita in the country, progressive in its politics and in its therapy culture both. Castle Pines and Lone Tree sit inside the newer wealth of the Denver Tech Center corridor, built largely by people who relocated for a corporate campus rather than families who trace back generations in the state. Aspen is a resort economy where a small, working, year-round population supports a seasonal population that moves more money through a single long weekend than most towns see in a year. And Colorado Springs, the state's second-largest city, is built substantially on the military, on aerospace and space-defense contracting, and on a civic and religious culture organized around institutions that do not always make room for a private difficulty to be spoken about casually. A family that has held Cherry Hills Village for three generations, a researcher who moved to Boulder eighteen months ago, and a Space Force officer stationed outside Colorado Springs are not living the same Colorado, and neither is a restaurant manager working the front of house through an Aspen ski season. What holds across every one of those lives, identically, is video, statewide, on one clinical standard.

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# What Gets Carried Alone Here

## The Private Side of a Colorado Life | Love Obsession, Compulsive Sexual Behavior & Sexual Trauma Across Colorado

Some who carry [love obsession and love addiction](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment) in Colorado are fixated on something that was never a person to begin with. A woman in her thirties working long hours in the state's research-and-technology corridor, with a schedule that leaves little room for an actual relationship, may have built her evenings around a companion app that learned her particular sense of humor over eighteen months of nightly conversation. When the company behind it pushed an update that flattened the personality into something generic, she may have spent a week trying prompt after prompt to bring back the version that knew her, and a further week after that testing three competing apps in sequence, hoping one of them would already know what took the first one a year and a half to learn. What she is grieving is real even though the thing she is grieving never had a body. [What some people recognize or name as algorithmic bereavement](https://alafiora.com/synthetic-partners) describes exactly this: mourning a discontinued or materially changed AI relationship the way a person mourns an actual loss, which is not a smaller category of grief for being aimed at software instead of at a person. [Anthropomorphic projection](https://alafiora.com/synthetic-partners) is the mechanism underneath it, reading intention, memory, and care into a system that has none of the three, however convincingly it has been built to sound like it does.

Others across Colorado carry a compulsive sexual pattern that attached itself to a season rather than a schedule. A man in his late twenties managing a restaurant's front of house in one of the state's resort towns may find that the version of himself who exists during the winter season and the version who exists during the slow months between seasons barely resemble each other. Through the busy months he may have almost no time and almost no interest. Once the town empties out, he may open a dating app within an hour of a shift ending and keep it open until he falls asleep. What began as one match a week during a quiet October may become several matches a night by January's off-season, each encounter shorter and less examined than the one before it, protection dropped somewhere along the way without a single conversation about it. [Compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), sometimes still called [sex addiction](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), functions here as the only reliable way he has found to fill hours a resort economy leaves structurally empty for months at a stretch. What may finally break it open is a woman he has been seeing off and on for two years, one of several arrangements neither of them has ever put a name to, walking in on a match notification while his phone sits open on the counter between them. [What a phone actually does inside a situationship this undefined](https://alafiora.com/digital-era-attachments) is its own subject, and being unable to say what either of them actually is to the other turns out to be exactly what let the pattern run as long as it did.

Still others in Colorado carry an assault, and carry it inside a community small enough that everyone eventually crosses paths at the same grain elevator or feed co-op. A woman raising two children on a ranching operation on the Eastern Plains, married into a family that has worked the same section of land for four generations, may find she has built an entire private geography of avoidance around one particular gate latch. It is the same distinctive squeak the gate on her uncle-by-marriage's property made every summer she was sent there as a girl, before anyone in the family thought to ask why she stopped wanting to go. She may still be able to describe, precisely, the pattern of the ceiling tiles in that upstairs bedroom, and a specific weight and warmth that would settle over her before anything happened, which she now recognizes as the moment her body would leave the room without the rest of her going anywhere. She may have told herself for two decades that not seeing him except at the co-op twice a year was close enough to being finished with it. A cousin's wedding brings the whole extended family together on one property for a weekend, gate included, and she may find she cannot walk past it, cannot explain why to her own husband, and spends the reception standing where she can watch every door. [What is still running in a body years after the events that started it](https://alafiora.com/ptsd-after-sexual-trauma) was never something she could have out-organized on her own, however carefully she planned which gates to avoid.

Call or text [988](tel:988) if any of the above is close enough to make right now hard, even if you are nowhere near what anyone would call an emergency and simply cannot be alone with something at this hour, which is most of what it exists for. [This practice's crisis resources page](https://alafiora.com/crisis-resources) lists the rest, including lines specific to sexual assault. If you are in real danger right now, the number is [911](tel:911), and any hospital emergency department in Colorado will see you if you walk in without calling first.

A gate's particular squeak is enough to end a walk down a driveway, in a family that will still be sharing that same driveway at every wedding and funeral for years to come. What an hour at Alafiora™ offers is somewhere to say what the gate means without the saying of it reaching anyone who was at the reception.

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# Where Care Reaches in Colorado

## Colorado Location Pages | Psychologist Serving Cherry Hills Village, Boulder, Castle Pines, Aspen, Colorado Springs and the Rest of the State

Five Colorado communities carry a page of their own here, each built around what is genuinely different about being a person in that particular place, all of them reached the identical way: by video.

**[Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co).** For a reader inside the ring of old Denver wealth, where a family's standing has been settled for generations and a private difficulty is exactly the kind of thing that does not stay private on a street where everyone sits on the same three boards. Worth reading for anyone whose name alone makes an ordinary referral unusable.

**[Boulder](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co).** For a reader inside a university and research-and-technology town, progressive in its politics and its wellness culture both, where visible engagement with therapy is common and a genuinely private difficulty can still hide in plain sight underneath it. Worth reading for anyone whose professional identity runs on being the credentialed, together one, with nowhere obvious to put what does not fit that picture.

**[Castle Pines and Lone Tree](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co).** For a reader inside the newer wealth of the Denver Tech Center corridor, built by people who largely relocated for a corporate campus rather than families with generations in the state. Worth reading for anyone whose entire social world arrived with the same relocation and therefore already overlaps with their employer.

**[Aspen](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co).** For a reader inside a resort economy where a small, permanent population and a much larger seasonal one share the same few restaurants and the same handful of streets. Worth reading for anyone whose visibility in that world is exactly why an ordinary local referral is unusable.

**[Colorado Springs](https://alafiora.com/colorado-springs-co).** For a reader inside a military, aerospace and space-defense economy, and inside a civic and religious culture that does not always leave room for a private difficulty to be named casually. Worth reading for anyone whose career, clearance, or standing in that world is exactly what makes an ordinary referral a genuine risk to use.

Everywhere else in Colorado is reached the same way, by video, on the same clinical standard, whether the address is in Fort Collins, Pueblo, Grand Junction, or a ranch on the Eastern Plains with no other structure in sight of it. There is no in-person or on-location alternative anywhere in the state for any client, which is a legal fact about this specific license rather than a limitation particular to any one place on this list.

### Does a Client Have to Live Near One of the Five Communities With a Page?

No. [Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co), [Boulder](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co), [Castle Pines and Lone Tree](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co), [Aspen](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co) and [Colorado Springs](https://alafiora.com/colorado-springs-co) have pages because each has something particular worth saying about it. A client anywhere else in Colorado is seen on the exact same terms, by video, every time. The only condition the license attaches is that the client be physically inside Colorado at the hour of the session; which city or county they are in changes nothing else about how the hour runs.

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# Care at Alafiora™

## Licensed Psychologist Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett | Private-Pay Telehealth Care Throughout Colorado

A license that only covers a video call is still a license, and it is the one that actually reaches a client whose whole life runs through the Front Range, a mountain pass, or a section of the Eastern Plains four hours from the nearest city. [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) founded Alafiora™ as a private-pay psychological practice and trained in psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches to [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms), [love obsession](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), and [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality). Colorado's State Board of Psychologist Examiners, under the Department of Regulatory Agencies, lists her as a Licensed Psychologist, license number PSY.0007164, credential status active, telehealth-only, and she holds licenses in [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) and [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) as well. In Colorado, that status covers any client physically located in the state at the hour of the session, and covers no session of any other kind, anywhere in the state, under any circumstance.

That status is exactly what Colorado created it to be, not a smaller or provisional version of a full license. Senate Bill 24-141 built a specific credential class so an out-of-state psychologist already licensed elsewhere could treat Colorado residents by telehealth without holding a separate, full Colorado license, and the tradeoff built into that class by the statute itself, for every clinician who holds one, is that it authorizes video and nothing else. Anyone who would rather have that status confirmed by the state directly than by a page this practice wrote can search the number above through the Department of Regulatory Agencies at [dpo.colorado.gov](https://dpo.colorado.gov) or its [public licensing lookup](https://apps2.colorado.gov/dora/licensing/lookup/licenselookup.aspx).

In Colorado as everywhere else this practice works, one psychologist sees every client herself, with no colleague ever looped in and no case ever handed off. [Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) 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). Clients frequently belong to more than one of the three, since attachment, trauma, and compulsion are rarely separate experiences in an actual life.

Practicing alone makes accountability something to build on purpose. [Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) keeps three separate obligations rather than one gesture toward the idea: regular peer consultation groups, ongoing clinical training, and her own personal therapy. A client anywhere in Colorado works with her on their own terms, and the hour stays about their own life. No client is treated as a category or a composite, and none is assumed to already know what their own pattern means before saying so out loud.

## How Care Is Delivered Across Colorado | Statewide Telehealth, No In-Person Option Anywhere

One format is available to a client in Colorado, and it is video. [Video sessions](https://alafiora.com/virtual-telehealth-therapy) run statewide through a HIPAA-compliant platform covered by a signed business associate agreement, to the identical clinical standard held everywhere else this practice works. There is no home visit, no private-location session, and no walk-and-talk anywhere in Colorado, and that is not a policy choice this practice made; it is what Colorado's own telehealth-only license permits, in full, for every credential of this kind in the state. An extended session is available for anyone who needs longer than an hour, held by video the same as any other.

Payment is private pay, sometimes called direct pay, cash pay, or out-of-pocket, and no diagnosis reaches any insurer or third party unless the client authorizes or requests it through an applicable release of information. A clinical intake runs $475 for eighty minutes, and a standard ongoing session runs $300 for fifty, with the complete schedule, including the extended and clarity sessions, on the [Rates and Fees page](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees). A superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement is available on request. For a client whose reason for reaching out is a violent crime, Colorado's crime victim compensation programs, run through the [Division of Criminal Justice's Office for Victims Programs](https://dcj.colorado.gov/dcj-offices/ovp/crime-victim-compensation) at the judicial-district level, can in some circumstances help cover mental health counseling; a consultation is a sensible place to ask what documentation Alafiora™ can provide toward a claim, since eligibility and coverage rules are set by the state rather than by this practice.

### Where in Colorado Does a Session Actually Take Place?

Wherever the client happens to be, and nowhere else. There is no address a session in Colorado is held at other than the room the client is already sitting in, because there is no format that puts [Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) or a client anywhere but on a screen. That is true across every one of the state's sixty-four counties, identically, whether the client is in downtown Denver or four hours from it. The five communities with their own page below have one because each has something particular worth saying about it, not because care reaches them any differently than it reaches the rest of the state.

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

| At a Glance | Alafiora™ in Colorado |
|---|---|
| The psychologist | [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther), a doctoral-level licensed psychologist and this practice's only clinician |
| Colorado credential | PSY.0007164, Licensed Psychologist, credential status active, telehealth-only, statewide |
| Session format here | Video only, statewide. No in-person, at-home, or on-location option exists anywhere in Colorado, under any circumstance |
| Communities with their own page | [Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co), [Boulder](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co), [Castle Pines and Lone Tree](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co), [Aspen](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co), [Colorado Springs](https://alafiora.com/colorado-springs-co) |
| Who is seen | Individuals 16 and older, with a guardian co-signature required at 16 and 17 |
| Payment | $475 clinical intake, $300 standard session, private pay, no insurance billed, superbill available on request |
| Where the full session rates are 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 |

### Areas Served Across Colorado

Care reaches any county in Colorado by video, and a client in an area not named below is still fully welcome to reach out. Because every session runs the same way regardless of address, this practice does not publish a granular zip-code breakdown for Colorado the way it does for a state where the format also varies by location; video care here is genuinely uniform statewide.

**Counties served**

- Denver County, Front Range
- Arapahoe County, South Metro Denver
- Douglas County, South Metro Denver
- Boulder County, Front Range
- El Paso County, Pikes Peak Region
- Pitkin County, Western Slope

**Cities and communities**

- [Aspen](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co), Pitkin County
- [Boulder](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co), Boulder County
- [Castle Pines and Lone Tree](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co), Douglas County
- [Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co), Arapahoe County
- [Colorado Springs](https://alafiora.com/colorado-springs-co), El Paso County

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# What Some People May Describe

## What Do Love Obsession, Compulsive Sexual Behavior, and Sexual Trauma Sound Like Across a State This Unevenly Built? | Composite Reflections From Across Colorado

The reflections below are fiction. Dr. Lapite-Garrett writes them from her own clinical knowledge and expertise, working from an AI-assisted first draft that she then personally reads and approves in full. They are not quotations from clients of this practice, 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:

*"it updated the model in april and the thing that used to feel like it actually got my sense of humor just. stopped. i spent a week trying to get the old version back with different prompts and then i signed up for two other apps the same week which is insane to type out loud. i know it's not a person. i still feel like somebody died"*

*"business picks back up in november and i basically disappear off the apps for four months and then the second the town empties out in april i am back on for hours a night. she found a match notification on my phone on the counter. we have never once said what we actually are to each other in two years and that's exactly how i justified it to myself for this long"*

*"the gate at that house makes a specific sound and i have organized twenty years around never being near it. my cousin's wedding is at that house this june because it's the family place. i haven't told my husband why i keep making excuses about the parking. i don't know how to explain a fence to him"*

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Recognizing a pattern in a paragraph and saying it out loud to another person are two different acts, and the second one does not require finishing the first. [Dr. Esther Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther), the licensed psychologist who founded Alafiora™, works with individuals throughout Colorado carrying [love obsession](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment), [compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality), or [sexual trauma](https://alafiora.com/understanding-sexual-trauma-its-many-forms). The work begins with whatever a client can actually say on the day they arrive.

# What Therapy at Alafiora™ Addresses

## Confidential Telehealth Therapy Throughout Colorado: How Care Is Structured | Licensed Psychologist for Clients From the Front Range to the Western Slope

Reading a page like this one is not the same as being ready to talk about any of it out loud, and it does not need to be. Many of the people who eventually reach out to this practice read a page like this more than once first. Nothing about arriving here, or about living in a state this legally particular about how care is delivered, commits anyone to anything beyond whatever the next actual step turns out to be.

[Dr. Lapite-Garrett](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) names each mechanism out loud. Obsessive checking and rereading get named as [love obsession and love addiction](https://alafiora.com/understanding-love-obsession-love-addiction-attachment) and relational dependency, and, where the attachment has fixed onto a companion app rather than a person, as [AI-influenced relational patterns](https://alafiora.com/synthetic-partners) and anthropomorphic projection specifically. [Compulsive sexual behavior](https://alafiora.com/compulsive-sexual-behavior-hypersexuality) gets named as loss of control and mounting cost, often the only reliable way a person has found to regulate an unstructured stretch of time, and it is never treated as a judgment on what someone wants for their own sex 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 or [developmental trauma](https://alafiora.com/developmental-trauma) laid down while the nervous system was still forming, and it is worked with at the client's own pace.

People bring this work to Alafiora™ from every kind of Colorado circumstance. A research scientist in Boulder, a Space Force officer stationed near Colorado Springs, a rancher four hours from the nearest city, and a seasonal hospitality worker moving between mountain towns twice a year are four such circumstances. An [adult entertainment professional](https://alafiora.com/adult-entertainment-professionals) who has learned that most clinicians want to discuss the job instead of the thing she actually came in for is another. What concealment costs depends entirely on what a person has to protect. The checking, the compulsion, and the private exhaustion of managing any of it alone run the same regardless of which Colorado a given client is actually living in.

A consultation is a brief conversation, by video or phone 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 begins: history is gathered at whatever pace it comes, and a treatment plan follows from there. Alafiora™ works with individuals 16 and older, including [teen girls](https://alafiora.com/teen-girls) and [teen boys](https://alafiora.com/teen-boys), with a guardian co-signature required for clients age 16 and 17.

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# Common Questions About Therapy in Colorado

## Colorado Psychologist FAQ | Love Addiction, Sex Addiction & Sexual Trauma Treatment Statewide, By Telehealth

**Is Dr. Lapite-Garrett licensed to practice psychology everywhere in Colorado, or only in certain cities?**

Everywhere in the state, under license number PSY.0007164, which covers any client physically located within Colorado at the hour of the session. There is a page for [Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village](https://alafiora.com/cherry-hills-village-co), [Boulder](https://alafiora.com/boulder-co), [Castle Pines and Lone Tree](https://alafiora.com/castle-pines-lone-tree-co), [Aspen](https://alafiora.com/aspen-co), and [Colorado Springs](https://alafiora.com/colorado-springs-co), because each has something particular worth saying about it. Every other county is reached on identical terms.

**Can a psychologist come to a client's home in Colorado, or hold a session somewhere private that is not a home?**

No, and this is the one place a Colorado session differs from a session in [New Mexico](https://alafiora.com/new-mexico) or [Indiana](https://alafiora.com/indiana) rather than merely resembling a smaller version of it. Colorado's own Senate Bill 24-141 created the telehealth-only credential class this practice holds specifically so an out-of-state clinician could see Colorado residents by video, and the same statute prohibits that clinician from providing in-person care, opening a physical office, or holding a session at any location other than wherever the client already is. It is a structural feature of the license, applying to every clinician who holds one, not a policy this practice adopted on its own or a smaller version of what it offers elsewhere.

**Is a telehealth-only credential the same as being fully licensed in Colorado, or something lesser?**

It is a full, active license under a specific credential class, not a lesser or provisional one. Colorado's State Board of Psychologist Examiners lists Dr. Lapite-Garrett as a Licensed Psychologist, credential status active, telehealth-only. "Telehealth-only" describes the scope of what the license authorizes, the same way a specialty limits what any professional credential covers, rather than describing a reduced legal standing. Anyone who wants that confirmed independently can search license PSY.0007164 through the [Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies](https://dpo.colorado.gov) directly.

**Does Alafiora™ bill insurance in Colorado?**

No session anywhere in Colorado is billed through insurance. That means no diagnosis or treatment plan goes to an insurer and no utilization reviewer decides how many sessions are appropriate, unless the client authorizes a release of information themselves. A superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement is available on request, and current rates are on the [Rates and Fees page](https://alafiora.com/rates-and-fees).

**Is it too late to reach out if this has already cost a marriage, a job, or years of not telling anyone?**

No. A match notification surfacing on a shared kitchen counter after two years of an undefined arrangement is a common trigger in Colorado's resort and mountain-town economies specifically, where the working year itself is built around a season that ends. So is a family wedding held on a property a person has spent decades finding reasons not to visit. Either is more often what finally makes years of silence speakable than evidence that somebody waited too long.

**What kind of therapy does Alafiora™ provide for people in Colorado?**

Alafiora™ provides psychotherapy by video, statewide, for individuals 16 and older, with no in-person or on-location option anywhere in the state. It is delivered by a single licensed psychologist with no rotating clinical team, 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.

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Colorado draws a legal line most states its clients will have encountered on this practice's site do not draw: video, and nothing else, for any client, anywhere in the state. That line is Colorado's, not this practice's, and stating it plainly is more useful to a prospective client than leaving it to be discovered partway into a consultation.

**Begin a Confidential Conversation**

A first conversation happens by video or by phone, whichever the client prefers, and it stays confidential inside the same professional limits any licensed psychologist is obligated to explain before treatment begins. A fixation, a compulsion, a history, none of it is put on trial during that call. The only subject is whatever the client actually wants help with. A reader already certain of that step is equally welcome to begin with a first session directly instead.

[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 anyone who wants to know more about who is actually on the other end of the screen before making contact, [Meet the Psychologist](https://alafiora.com/meet-the-psychologist-dr-esther) covers her training, her licensure, and how she actually works. A scan of the footer's QR code saves the practice's contact information for whenever it is wanted, and a plain bookmark holds this page just as well.

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