Toni Kooy, LPC

Toni Kooy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 20 years of experience working in the substance abuse and mental health fields. As an LPC she is a state-licensed mental health professional trained to provide psychotherapy and support to people across the lifespan. Her training includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Counseling, both from the University of Colorado, and she has received extensive trauma-focused training that included EMDR.

Toni has supported clients in both rural and urban community mental health settings, working with people as young as four and as old as eighty. She helps individuals address a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, anxiety and panic, trauma and post-traumatic stress, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, parenting challenges, and career-related stress. Her approach emphasizes nonjudgmental listening, helping clients identify the sources of their distress while discovering personal strengths that promote resilience and wellbeing.

She integrates short-term and long-term goals to shape treatment and frequently draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to bolster emotion regulation, decision making, relationship health, and self-confidence, alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. With a varied life and work background that includes roles as a musician, construction worker, nanny, homemaker, and assembly worker, she brings a flexible and grounded perspective to therapy. Toni is not currently accepting new clients and does not work with international clients.