Toni Kooy, LPC

Toni Kooy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado who brings decades of experience in the substance abuse and mental health field. She approaches therapy with the conviction that, even when life feels overwhelming, thoughtful support and practical strategies can help people move toward greater well-being and resilience. Toni emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening-based stance that helps people clarify the sources of their distress while identifying personal strengths they can use to cope and grow.

She uses a blend of short-term and longer-term goals to shape treatment direction and tailor strategies to each person. Toni has found Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - DBT - particularly useful for building self-esteem, enhancing independence, improving decision making, strengthening relationships, and supporting emotion regulation and mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - is another core tool she uses to help people recognize and replace unhelpful thinking patterns that interfere with their goals and emotional health. Her training also includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - as well as Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and client-centered approaches.

Toni earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Counseling from the University of Colorado and has worked in the field since 2004, developing a 21-year career as a therapist. She has served clients across rural and urban community mental health settings and has worked with people from early childhood through older adulthood, spanning ages four to eighty. Her background includes extensive training and practical experience addressing mood and emotion-related concerns, trauma, and grief, including EMDR-informed care for trauma symptoms.

Before and alongside her clinical career, Toni has worked in a variety of nonclinical roles - musician, construction worker, nanny, home-maker, and assembly worker - experiences she says contribute to a flexible, nonjudgmental perspective in therapy. She welcomes the opportunity to support individuals who are ready to continue their journey toward a life in which they can thrive.