Julie Kittredge, MA, LPCC

Professional Counselor

Julie Kittredge is a Fort Collins therapist for women who are working through identity issues, emotional challenges, and difficult relational patterns.

Meet Julie

Mary Oliver said, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

We get one chance at this and sometimes life goes off the rails, relationships are challenging, our coping mechanisms aren’t helping, and we find ourselves disillusioned and disconnected.

You may be dealing with a difficult or destructive marriage, anger, resentment, skeptical faith because of hurt from the church, relentless anxiety or grief, feeling like you’re trapped, or struggling with the unspoken shadows of the past. Relational conflict may feel like a never-ending cycle and you’re beginning to wonder if it will ever get better.

By reaching out, you are reaching for change. You have strengths, purpose, and meaning that are more authentic to you yet hard to touch right now. I specialize in helping women rediscover their strength and identity, restore lost parts, and untangle from patterns that are just not working. You can work toward a hopeful future in authentic-to-you ways.

You are one-of-a-kind, and you don’t have to figure it out alone. Together we can recover the you that you are meant to be in the world with a sense of wholeness, self-acceptance, inner knowing, resilience, confidence, and strength. Life can get better and you deserve to engage in kind and compassionate care. I would love to partner with you in that journey!

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Specialties Include

  • Relationship Issues

  • Marriage & Divorce

  • Parenting

  • Women’s Issues,

  • Life Changes & Transitions

  • Women’s Identity

  • Codependency

  • Religious Trauma

  • Anxiety

  • Emotional Abuse

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  • Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC), State of Colorado

    M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Colorado Christian University)

    Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 and 2 Training Certificate of Completion

    Certificate of Completion from ReStory™ Institute Level I

    B.S. Business Communications (Calvin University)

    Small Creative Business Owner & Coach

    Motivational Interviewing

  • I believe in the hard work of change and restoration and I believe in the therapeutic process. My work is rooted in an existential and psychodynamic framework but I have a strong interest in attachment theory, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and narrative therapy. Because you and your story are unique, there is no one-size-fits-all. We will work collaboratively to develop your therapeutic goals. I believe in the mind-body-spirit connection where we can consider, together, all parts of your life that help make you unique and healthy as we journey through the process of change toward living more whole.

  • My journey has taken some twists and turns in the process of finding who I was created to be and owning my story. An artist at heart all my life, I was discouraged from attending art school. I received my undergraduate degree in business because I was supposed to do something that would be successful. I lost sight of listening to my inner voice, I didn’t know I could own my own story. Through marriage and motherhood, I felt restless and struggled with my sense of purpose, identity, and a difficult relationship. I pursued my love of art and the restoration of my identity as an artist by building two creative businesses, photography & ceramics (separately), which led me to coaching other business owners and public speaking. In this same season, I spent time in and out of therapy working on the painful parts of my story, relationship struggles, trauma experiences, and spiritual disillusionment. In that process, I learned how to own my story, I learned to listen to my inner voice, and I learned how to use it.

    The truth is I am still a work in progress. I am a fellow traveler. But the reason I’ve chosen to become a counselor is because I want to give back much of the gift I have received in the therapeutic process and in the work of change. I understand pain and hopelessness. I understand hard life circumstances. I understand difficult relationships. I understand seasons of life change. I understand stories that have been left dormant in the shadows that need to be heard in order to be healed. I understand spiritual doubt and wrestling and the enduring faithfulness of a God who never lets us go. And I understand that there is hope, resiliency, personal change, and something better on the other side of owning our story and walking through the pain with the support of someone by your side.

    I am a Colorado transplant from the midwest, a very intentional move for the lifestyle. I have three kids ranging in age from late teens to young adult. I love art, adventure, hiking, paddle boarding, camping, fresh flowers, friendship, coffee, and all of the Colorado sunshine. I can't wait to get to know you!