Pathways COUNSELING

Pathways Counseling

Pathways Hospice offers individual, couples and family counseling. Counselors are licensed professionals with specialized training and experience in grief and loss. Becaue people grieve in different and uniquely personal ways, Pathways offers counseling to meet the distinctive needs of different age groups and types of loss. To support the needs unique to losing a parent, spouse, child, friend or co-worker, Pathways offers specific servies and programs themed on these relationships.

Pathways for Grief and Loss additionally offers:

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Art Therapy

PATHWAYS art therapists offer individual sessions for both children and adults in our art therapy studio. As a trusting and safe relationship develops between the client and the art therapist, individuals find ways to explore and express their experiences of grief. The art therapist supports the individual in unfolding, at their own pace, the meaning and insight held in their art making process.

About art therapy & grief (pdf)

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
Location: Pathways Hospice art therapy studio
305 Carpenter Road Fort Collins, CO 80525
Fees: Sliding scale
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

Play Therapy

Children naturally express their experiences, thoughts,problems or emotions through play. Play serves an important developmental function, assisting children with problem-solving,learning and expressing events present in their lives. Play therapy helps children cope with challenges they face.

As a child plays, with a variety of toys, imaginary people or roles they may assume, the therapist witnesses or perhaps engages in the play. A trusting relationship is created as well as opportunities for a child to process their thoughts,questions or feelings. Play can assist in processing difficult events, such as death, in a manner that is not necessarily logical or verbal. The child begins to understand life events in a way that makes sense to them.

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
Location: Pathways Hospice
Fees: Sliding scale
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

Sand Tray Therapy

In this dynamic process, children use figurines, miniature objects, trays of sand and sometimes water to create worlds in the sand. These worlds can represent the unconscious or conscious life of a child. Because sand tray therapy is primarily a non-verbal medium, it can go beyond the reach of language to tell a story of loss to a caring and attentive grief counselor.

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
Location: Pathways Hospice
Fees: Sliding scale
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

Fees and Insurance

Family members of Pathways Hospice patients are provided with their first six counseling sessions at no charge (additional sessions are available).
Community counseling clients
- Sliding scale fee based on household income
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) through your workplace
  - Cigna
  - Aetna
  - United Behavioral Health
  - ComPsych
  - Employee Assistance Service (Poudre Schools)
- Medicare/Medicaid on a case by case basis

For more information on eligibilty or to schedule an appointment, check with youyr employer's Human Relations department.

Pathways for Grief and Loss is not a crisis center and does not have 24 hour on call availability for counseling clients. Clients in a crisis situation are encouraged to call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

Resources & information

PATHWAYS books & publications
PATHWAYS Connections newsletter
PATHWAYS Community Library
PATHWAYS Healing Labyrinth

PATHWAYS brochure (pdf)

Pathways Hospice serves Larimer County and Western Weld County in Northern Colorado which includes Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor.
We offer Community Care that includes At Home Assistance for the Elderly, Sick and the Terminally Ill along with Grief and Loss Programs.