Trauma-Informed
Care
Trauma can influence nearly every part of your daily experience. Our approach is not about minimizing what you have been through, but understanding it and working with it in a safe, respectful way.
What are the signs that trauma
is affecting my daily life?
Trauma can show up in ways that feel unpredictable or disconnected from what is happening in the present. Many people describe it as feeling like their nervous system reacts before they can think through what is going on. Select what resonates.
Insurance & Payment
Need-based sliding scale available · No Medicaid or Medicare
Serving Colorado Telehealth In-Person Available
Trauma Can Affect Your Brain, Body, and Emotions — You Deserve Support That Handles It Gently
Trauma can influence nearly every part of your daily experience, including mood, focus, sleep, energy, relationships, and your sense of self. If things feel harder than they used to, there may be deeper nervous system patterns at play.
At Fresh Path Integrative Psychiatry, we provide thoughtful, integrative medication management and holistic support designed to help you feel more steady, clear, and supported. Our approach is not about minimizing what you have been through, but about understanding it and working with it in a safe, respectful way.
A Whole-Person Approach to Trauma & Mental Health
We look at trauma through multiple layers instead of focusing only on symptoms. Hover each to learn more.
Medication Management
Medication management when appropriate — carefully selected to support nervous system regulation without overriding the body's natural healing process.
Herbal & Supplement Supports
Herbal and supplement-based supports chosen for clinical evidence and how they support nervous system regulation, sleep, and stress response in trauma recovery.
Nutrition & Lifestyle Guidance
Nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress regulation as active parts of trauma recovery — specific guidance, not generic wellness suggestions.
Psychotherapy-Informed Approaches
Psychotherapy-informed approaches and coordination with therapists and other providers to support the full picture of healing — not just symptom reduction.
A Whole-Person Approach to Trauma & Mental Health
At Fresh Path, we practice integrative psychiatry, which means we look at trauma and mental health through multiple layers instead of focusing only on symptoms. Your evaluation and care may include:
- A comprehensive psychiatric assessment
- Review of hormone levels and relevant lab work when appropriate
- Collaboration with your primary care provider or other clinicians
- Consideration of genetic testing when indicated
- Exploration of trauma history, stress patterns, sleep, nutrition, and nervous system health
There is no hierarchy in how care is approached. Your treatment plan is built around your body, your history, and what feels safe and sustainable for you.
A Modern Approach Meets
Traditional Wisdom
There is no hierarchy in how care is approached. Your treatment plan is built around your body, your history, and what feels safe and sustainable for you.
Evidence-Based Medicine
integrates
both
Nervous System & Whole-Person Practices
Trauma-Informed and Safety-Oriented Care
Trauma does not happen in isolation. It often intersects with identity, culture, relationships, and ongoing stress in ways that shape how symptoms show up and how they are interpreted.
If you have ever felt dismissed, rushed, or not fully safe sharing your story in a medical or mental health setting, this approach is intentionally different. Fresh Path provides inclusive, trauma-informed care for adults of all genders, sexual orientations, racial and cultural identities.
"Your experiences matter. Your symptoms matter. Your voice matters."
We are queer-affirming, neurodiversity-affirming, and committed to care that respects the full context of your lived experience — not just your symptoms in isolation.
Can trauma-informed care help me feel better and more stable?
While trauma can feel destabilizing, healing becomes more possible when your care is consistent, supportive, and tailored to your nervous system. With the right support, symptoms often become easier to understand and manage. Together, we build a collaborative care plan working toward the same goals: stability, resilience, and a greater sense of safety in your day-to-day life.
We assess the full picture before reaching any conclusions — psychiatric history, how trauma has shaped your daily experience, what you've already tried, and what you're hoping for. Trauma presents differently for everyone, and a careful evaluation is what allows care to be genuinely tailored rather than generic.
Medication can support nervous system regulation, reduce the intensity of hyperarousal, and create more stable biological conditions for healing. When it is part of your plan, it is selected carefully — for your neurobiology and your history — and monitored over time as your needs evolve.
Several herbal and supplement-based options have meaningful clinical evidence for nervous system regulation, sleep, and stress response — all of which are disrupted by trauma. We review every option for evidence, safety, and how it interacts with your existing treatment.
Trauma lives in the body as much as the mind. Sleep quality, nutrition, movement, and stress regulation directly affect how the nervous system functions and how much capacity it has for healing. We incorporate these as specific, practical parts of your care — not generic advice.
Chronic stress and trauma have measurable biological effects — on cortisol regulation, inflammatory markers, thyroid function, and hormonal balance. We review what's relevant to your picture and use this information to inform a care plan that addresses the underlying biology alongside the psychological dimensions.
Trauma recovery works best when psychiatric care and psychotherapy are coordinated rather than siloed. We work alongside therapists and other providers to ensure every part of your care is supporting the same goals — and that the biological work we do creates better conditions for the therapeutic work to take hold.
Three steps to getting better.
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Contact us through the form below. Let us know what you're looking for and we'll follow up to confirm availability and answer any questions.
Initial consultation
Your first appointment is a comprehensive evaluation. We review your full history, discuss your goals, and begin building a clear picture of what's contributing to how you feel.
Your personalized plan
Together we create a treatment plan that reflects your unique biology, experiences, and goals. This is care designed around you, not a standard protocol.
Accepting new patients in Colorado. Available via telehealth statewide and in-person.
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We are accepting new patients across Colorado. Fill out the form and we will be in touch shortly to confirm availability and next steps.
Location
Serving all of Colorado
How we meet
Telehealth statewide · In-person available
Insurance accepted
Cigna · United · Aetna · BCBS · Self-pay
Need-based sliding scale available
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