Meet The Team
Meet Hilary
A statement from our founder:
Hilary Sparrow
Welcome to Denver Psychotherapy Group.
We are experts in PTSD, trauma resolution, and anxiety.
We dissolve and defuse trauma networks in the brain. Then we rebuild.
We grow peace, hope, and clarity.
Meet Chloe
Chloe
Therapy Assistant
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Chloe is our therapy assistant. Her clinical experience includes practice management, in the Denver area. She enhances the patient experience, every step of the way from the first session, to the last. With every patient interaction, she brings warmth, compassion, and efficient scheduling.
She really makes scheduling, a breeze!
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Chloe has a cat, named Lola.
She is also passionate about health and fitness, and adheres to a daily workout routine.
What We Value
1. Brain Health
We gently and effectively treat anxiety, stress and trauma.
We grow peace, hope, and optimism.
Then, we build the path to something new.
2. Treatment
We teach your brain new ways of thinking to establish permanency and maintain long term clinical gains.
We fix old problems with new solutions.
3. Solutions
We don’t just offer mental health treatments, we offer brain health solutions, to strengthen the organ that is creating symptoms of distress.
Why?
You are not beholden to the brain you were born with. Our brains are receptive to change. Therapy is a lovely way to get there!
How?
Our quick 5 session protocol gives us enough information to take a look at your brain, and overcome unwanted anxiety or stress.
Hilary Sparrow, MA, LPC
Practice Owner, Clinical Therapist
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Hilary Sparrow is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and clinical psychotherapist. She is the founder, and owner of Denver Psychotherapy Group.
Hilary has over 10 years of experience with clinical psychotherapy. She is trained in evidence-based practices including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), stress inoculation training (SIT), mindfulness, and desensitization therapies.When trauma and PTSD dysregulate the nervous system, her patients “bounce back” and build resilience when life throws unexpected curve balls.
Hilary also provides forensic evaluations (functional capacity evaluations, return to work plans) for workers' compensation and personal injury patients. She has extensive clinical experience and expertise in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) secondary to mTBI.Her patients resolve unpleasant symptoms of PTSD. They identify triggers and eliminate the trauma response. Additionally, she is trained in subject matter expert work, deposition, and psychological evaluation to assess readiness to return to work.
Additional she offers services to corporate professionals in high performance roles (executive leadership, attorneys, finance professionals) to excel in their work, home, and everything in between.
Hilary has been a guest lecturer at University of Colorado Anschutz Biomedical Engineering Department and University of Denver's Graduate School of Psychology. She has helped graduate students learn about how neurobiology relates to psychiatric and neurological diagnoses. She even shared the stage with Dr. Bruce Perry on neuroimaging analytics at the annual conference on childhood trauma.
She received a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2013. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from University of Colorado at Boulder (magna cum laude) in 2011.When Hilary is not in the office, she enjoys spending time outside, taking nature walks, and photographing wildlife.
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Exposure therapy, PTSD recovery
Concussion, mTBI
Athletic performance optimization (high school, colleague (D1), athletic scholarship recipients, professional)
desensitization and successive approximationanxiety and stress management
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✓ Telehealth appointments
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US Department of Veterans Affairs (Golden, CO) (08/2016)
Utilizing SPECT Imaging in Differentiating TBI vs. PTSD
University of Colorado Anschutz Biomedical Engineering Guest Lecturer (06/2017)
Data Analytics: Enhancing Diagnostic Clarity and Reducing Misdiagnosis
University of Denver Graduate School Of Psychology Guest Lecturer (06/2018)
Neurophysiology of Psychological Conditions: How Different Conditions Appear in the Brain (CT, fMRI, qEEG, SPECT, PET)
*Rocky Mountain Nuclear Medicine Technology Conference (09/2018)
SPECT Imaging and Analytics Algorithms in the Diagnosis of Brain Based Conditions
*Bruce Perry's Child Trauma Academy Conference (Denver, CO) (04/2019)
SPECT Imaging in the Diagnosis of Brain Based Conditions*BrainSpotting Phase 5 Master Class with David Grand, PhD and Patricia Alexander, PhD, case presenter - Boulder, CO (05/2020)
Fixed Eye Position, “Gaze-spotting,” and Bilateral Activation for Athletic Performance
State of Colorado Department of Criminal Justice Annual Crime Victim Board Conference (05/2019)
Therapeutic Modalities to Diagnose and Treat Emotional Trauma and PTSDInternational PTSD Psychedelic Science Conference 2023 (06/22/2023) -
Ketamine for Sex, Success, and Self Actualization*
Physician co-panelist: Dr. Molly Maloof, Matt Zemon, MSC
Workshops and Case Presentation:
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (08/2022)
*Enhancing Medical Ethics for Non-Binary, Genderqueer, Minority, and People of Color (POC) identified patients
Denver Psychotherapy Group and Presenter, Manasvi Khullar
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Medical Editor, WIRB Peer Reviewer, and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Ketamine Science and PTSD treatment:
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy - Where Did My Body Go?
Somatic Psychotherapy and Ketamine in the Treatment of PTSD
