Maria Droste Counseling Center

The options program at Maria Droste Counseling Center provides in person and telehealth psychotherapy to individuals across the lifespan, as well as families, couples, and groups, regardless of wealth or ability to pay. This program utilizes licensed providers from the therapist group, postgraduate fellows, as well as clinical interns to provide quality, comprehensive outpatient behavioral health Services for a variety of presenting concerns and diagnoses. In 2022, the options program also partnered with a number of community organizations including the denver actors fund, Colorado village collaborative, and the yess institute to provide individual therapy to the members of these community-based organizations.

Integrated care - we value socially responsible partnerships and work to colocate in places where people live, work, and receive Services to reduce barriers to care. Our newest partner, women's bean project, also recognizes the very real barriers that individuals face in efforts to change their circumstances, and addresses this by providing a robust transitional employment program that includes job coaching, onsite healthcare, financial literacy, and more. Together, we are able to offer therapy sessions to women in their program free of charge while they are on the job, ensuring that stress and trauma don't get in the way of their success.

Children first assists children and families facing adverse circumstances by providing Counseling, mentoring, and support at more than 18 metro denver pre-k-12 schools. To ensure that youth with the highest behavioral health needs and decreased access to resources receive care, most mdcc partner schools have high percentages of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and/or are english language learners. Counselors help children age three and up who are in crisis, at risk for school failure, and/or need more consistent and individualized attention than school counselors can offer.

Our survivors mental health program provides mental health Counseling, crisis intervention, and resource navigation to survivors of trauma, including sexual assault, childhood physical abuse, and domestic violence. The goals of our survivors mental health program are to: 1. Provide financially accessible, culturally competent, and comprehensive care to survivors of trauma with serious mental health concerns 2. To eliminate or significantly reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms over time 3. To achieve high ratings of client satisfaction 4. And serve as a resource to other community victim service providers regarding mental health issues for survivors of violence this program specifically focuses on providing support to survivors of trauma who are uninsured, underinsured, have unaffordable annual deductibles or copays, do not have medicare or medicaid, are ineligible for crime victim compensation, or are otherwise unable to afford the cost of Services. Smhp prevents individuals from falling through the cracks of the existing mental health and victim Services systems and is designed specifically to address post-traumatic stress, severe depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicidal impulses.