Telehealth Psychiatry in Colorado

MindMorph's founder, Maria "Masha" Steiner-Renoir, is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner licensed in Colorado, and we see adults anywhere in the state by secure video: psychiatric evaluation, medication management, therapy, and integrative care. The only parts of our practice that require a visit to Lakewood are the treatments that must be monitored in person, Spravato and ketamine dosing, which begin there December 1, 2026. Everything else, from the first evaluation to a routine refill visit, works the same whether you are in Denver, Grand Junction, or a town with one stoplight.

Why so much of Colorado psychiatry has moved to video

Coloradans run into the same three walls: long waits for a first appointment, few psychiatric prescribers outside the Front Range, and schedules that do not bend around a mid-afternoon drive to an office. Telehealth takes those walls down. A video visit gives us the same things an office visit does, your face, your history, your medication list, and a conversation long enough to matter, without the commute. For most people, that is the whole difference.

What we offer Colorado patients by video

• Psychiatric evaluation. A 90-minute first appointment that covers symptoms, history, sleep, nutrition, stress, and the biology underneath, so the plan rests on something more than a questionnaire.
• Medication management. Prescribing, monitoring, and adjusting psychiatric medication, with pharmacogenomic testing when past medications have failed for reasons nobody explained.
• Integrative psychiatry. Evidence-based treatment alongside the things that move mood from the outside in: sleep, nutrition, movement, and the nervous system itself.
• Therapy and counseling. Individual therapy, trauma-informed and mindfulness-based, with parts work and somatic attention woven in.
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, the parts that can happen remotely. Screening, preparation, and integration sessions by video. The dosing session itself is in person.

What has to happen in person

Spravato (esketamine) is given only in the office, under the FDA's REMS program, with at least two hours of monitoring after each dose. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy dosing sessions are in person as well, with a clinician in the room and your vitals checked. Both will take place at the Lakewood office, which opens for in-person appointments December 1, 2026; telehealth patients in Colorado are being accepted now. Many Colorado patients mix the two modes: video for follow-ups and preparation, Lakewood for the sessions that need a room.

Conditions we treat across Colorado

Our practice is built around the problems that often do not respond to the standard first try: treatment-resistant depression, complex trauma from childhood or chronic stress, anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety, panic, and social anxiety, PTSD, and OCD. If the first two antidepressants did nothing, or the last therapist ran out of ideas, that is the conversation we want to have.

What you need for a telehealth visit

• A phone, tablet, or computer with a camera and microphone
• A reliable internet connection
• A private space where you can speak openly; a parked car counts
• To be physically in Colorado at the time of the visit, which is what Colorado licensing requires
• The secure invitation link that arrives before each appointment

Visits run on HIPAA-grade encrypted video. No session is ever recorded. Prescriptions go electronically to the pharmacy you choose, and under current federal rules, controlled medications can be prescribed by telehealth through at least the end of 2026, when clinically appropriate and after a thorough evaluation.

Where in Colorado

Licensure follows the patient, not the office, so the service area is the state line. In practice, patients join from across the Denver metro (Denver, Lakewood, Aurora, Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Golden, Arvada, Castle Rock), from Boulder and Fort Collins along the northern Front Range, from Colorado Springs, and from the Western Slope, including Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction, where a psychiatric prescriber can otherwise be a long drive away.

Insurance for Colorado patients

We are in network with Colorado plans for psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and therapy, including Health First Colorado (Medicaid). The current Colorado list is below. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is off-label and self-pay, with a superbill on request; the details are on the insurance and payment page.

How care here is different

You see one provider, every visit, who remembers your story and does not need the recap. We look for causes before we treat symptoms, which sometimes means a lab panel or a genetic test before a new prescription, and we would rather build something that holds than hand you a quick fix. Healing means restoring your capacity to feel fully alive, not forcing happiness. Individual outcomes vary.

Getting started

Book a complimentary consultation, by video, to describe what is going on and hear whether this practice fits. If it does, the next step is the 90-minute evaluation. We try to schedule first visits promptly, because when someone is finally ready to ask for help, a six-week wait is its own harm.

If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911. This practice does not provide emergency services.