Counseling Services
Individual Counseling
Individual counseling provides a safe, confidential space to explore personal thoughts, emotions, behaviors and issues. Together, we'll work to understand challenges, enhance self-awareness, identify coping and adaptation strategies, and improve the elements and actions that support mental wellness and personal growth.
Men's Counseling
Men’s counseling provides a supportive, judgment-free space to explore stress, relationships, life transitions, and the challenges of balancing personal and professional responsibilities. If you are navigating a difficult period of life or seeking personal growth, counseling can help you gain perspective, build resilience, and move forward with greater confidence, clarity and purpose.
Parent-focused Counseling
Parent-focused counseling provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space to navigate the unique stress and challenge of parenting. We'll work to understand your and your children’s emotional and behavioral needs, improve communication, establish healthy boundaries, and develop practical strategies for managing difficult moments and family transitions.
Adolescent and Teen Counseling
Adolescent and teen counseling provides individual counseling that bridges the gap from play therapy to traditional talk therapy, and meets teens where they are developmentally. We integrate expressive resources, games and creative media to create a relaxed environment where young clients feel safe and supported. The therapeutic process is grounded in CBT and strengths-based approaches, but tailored to feel relatable, relevant and useful to adolescent and teen issues and goals.
Approach
***All counseling sessions are remote and conducted using secure and HIPAA-compliant video communication.***
***Dave is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate practicing under the clinical supervision of Paul Wozniak, LPC #12726.***
Big Shoulders Counseling is dedicated to helping individuals - from early adolescents through elderly adults - navigate diverse mental health issues and concerns that arise throughout life. While we integrate different approaches and techniques as needed, our process is rooted in a person-centered relationship, strengths-based resources, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy interventions.
Insight into why issues arise is important, but change is most effectively brought about by applying focused and consistent cognitive and behavioral frameworks. Clients can expect a compassionate, empathetic and non-judgmental environment; a structured, organized and collaborative process; and a candid, transparent and accountable relationship.
Together, we focus on building the tools needed to understand and address challenges, and foster long-term emotional well-being through a compassionate, evidence-based lens.
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You at the center.
A shoulder for support.
Big Shoulders Counseling is dedicated to helping individuals navigate life's issues, challenges and transitions.
Life events, stress, grief and loss, professional challenges, burnout, anxiety, depression, loss of meaning - whatever brings you here, you've found a place for support, guidance, collaboration and growth.
Our counseling alliance will be built to address your unique and specific needs and goals.
Dave Farr, LPCC, MA, JD, MBA
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
About Dave
I came to counseling as a career changer. After 20+ years as a healthcare executive (including business development, strategy and law), I craved a closer connection to patients and clients. Counseling blends elements of personal relationships, listening and understanding, strategic and structured thinking, collaboration, and advising that I have used in my prior work. Applying these skills as a counselor allows me to help individuals work through complex issues and challenges, build strength and resilience, and achieve goals for their mental health and lives.
My counseling approach integrates complementary elements of person-centered therapy, strengths-based perspectives, CBT and existential theory, among other modalities. I have particular interest in helping clients work through life changes and challenges, including: managing stress and anxiety; balancing personal, school and professional responsibilities; understanding and managing emerging emotions and behaviors; navigating family and peer relationships; parenting; and experiencing grief and loss.
I completed my MA in Counselor Education, with a focus on Clinical Mental Health, from Adams State University in May 2026. I earned JD and MBA degress from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2009, and a BS from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2001.
I grew up in Colorado and spent most of my adult life in Chicago and Michigan before returning to Colorado in 2022. With my wife and two kids, we make the most of living in Colorado - hiking, running, skiing, youth sports, and other outdoor adventures. I love reading, and enjoy incorporating discussion of relevant books and resources into my work with clients.