Empowered Path Counseling and Coaching
Therapy for Women | Sex Therapy for Individuals and Couples in Fort Collins, Colorado and wyoming
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3003 East Harmony Road, Suite 120
Fort Collins, CO 80528
Therapy for people who are tired of holding it all together.
You may look capable on the outside, but inside you feel overwhelmed, disconnected, guarded, ashamed, or exhausted from carrying so much alone.
You do not have to perform being okay here.
Therapy with me is a space to slow down, exhale, and begin understanding the patterns, protections, wounds, and longings that have shaped your life — so you can move toward more clarity, connection, self-trust, and aliveness.
You deserve support to heal, feel at ease, and find a way to accomplish your goals.
Awaken and Reclaim Your Authentic Self
I founded Empowered Path Counseling and Coaching to do just that—EMPOWER you to take ownership of your authentic self and leverage the strength and solutions you’ve always had within.
I provide in-person therapy for women and sex therapy for individuals and couples in Fort Collins, Loveland, Wellington, Windsor, and Timnath. I also offer these services all around Colorado and Wyoming via online therapy.
Seeking counseling is a difficult yet brave decision—I know because I’ve done it. It opens the door to valuable insight, guidance, and resources to create lasting change.
Let’s collaborate and venture on a quest of discovery, healing, and growth to build the future you dream of.
Empowering You With…
Therapy for Women
You may be used to caring for everyone else while quietly losing touch with your own needs, voice, boundaries, or sense of self.
Therapy can be a space to slow down, understand the patterns that keep you stuck, and reconnect with the parts of you that are ready for more clarity, confidence, and aliveness.
Sex Therapy
Sexuality is connected to your body, your story, your relationships, your safety, your shame, and your desire.
Sex therapy offers a compassionate space to explore what may be getting in the way of intimacy, pleasure, connection, or confidence — so you can begin creating a sexual life that feels more authentic, safe, and alive.
EMDR Therapy
Painful experiences can stay with you long after they are over.
EMDR therapy helps your brain and nervous system reprocess unresolved memories so they feel less overwhelming in the present. We move carefully and at the pace of safety, helping you feel more grounded, steady, and connected to yourself.
Kristen Cochran-Ward
LSW #00000329
About Kristen
My name is M. Kristen Cochran-Ward — the “M” is for Michelle, but only my grandparents call me that, so we can skip it.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Colorado Natural Medicine Facilitator, offering therapy for adults and couples throughout Colorado and Wyoming. My work is warm, relational, trauma-informed, and deeply human.
For more than 25 years, I have supported people navigating trauma, anxiety, shame, relationship struggles, sexual concerns, body image, self-esteem, and life transitions.
I am not here to fix you. I am here to help you feel safe enough to understand yourself more deeply, reconnect with what has been buried or protected, and move toward a life that feels more grounded, connected, and true.
Why Work With Me as Your Therapist?
Therapy with me is warm, relational, trauma-informed, and deeply human.
You do not have to arrive polished, certain, or ready to explain everything perfectly. You can come in exactly as you are — overwhelmed, guarded, disconnected, grieving, ashamed, hopeful, angry, exhausted, or unsure where to begin.
I bring advanced clinical training, years of experience, honesty, curiosity, humor, and real presence into the room. Our work may include EMDR, parts work, attachment-focused therapy, somatic awareness, sex therapy, psychedelic preparation or integration, and other approaches that support deeper healing.
But more than anything, our work is built on connection, safety, and trust.
You are not a problem to be solved. You are a person to be understood.