Creative Counseling Services

About Creative Counseling Services

Creative Counseling Services is an outpatient counseling agency in Fort Collins, Colorado, offering substance use and mental health treatment across Northern Colorado since 1981, with additional offices in Loveland and Greeley. Their approach is person-centered and strengths-based, helping clients identify and change the beliefs and behaviors that get in the way of their well-being while building coping skills and resilience. Services include assessments and evaluations, individual therapy, group therapy, and DUI education and treatment, available in person or through secure telehealth. They accept Medicaid and offer a sliding scale discount based on family size and income, though they do not provide onsite crisis or after-hours emergency care.

Much of their work supports people meeting court, probation, and DMV requirements through DUI Level II Education and Therapy, which clients can begin before sentencing so that hours count toward their obligations. They can provide an Affidavit of Enrollment that may help restore driving privileges during treatment, and they offer online Level II Education along with morning and evening class times. They are also one of a limited number of BHA-licensed providers in the region for Level II 4+, a program for people with four or more lifetime impaired driving offenses that combines specialized groups with individual therapy tailored through an initial assessment. For clients seeking individual counseling, their clinicians use EMDR to address trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and substance use triggers, as well as CAMS, a structured, collaborative framework for treating suicidal thoughts and behaviors.