Meet Chris Pelletier, LPC — Fort Collins Therapist
"My job is to work myself out of a job."
That's the promise I make to every client I work with. I'm a licensed professional counselor in Fort Collins, Colorado, with over ten years of clinical experience helping adults, working professionals, and college-aged adults work through anxiety and depression, navigate career stress and major life transitions, and manage the everyday challenges of adult ADHD — all with skills that outlast our time together.
How I Work
Therapy with me starts with understanding you — what brought you here, what you've already tried, what's keeping you afloat despite the challenges, and what "success" actually looks like in your life. I'm not here to steer you toward where I think you should go. I'm here to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with you as we figure out the path between where you are now and where you want to be.
From there, we build skills — drawing from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing — and shape them into a toolbox that's yours, not a generic one. As I tell clients often: "Therapy doesn't mean anything unless it carries impact into the other 6 days and 23 hours of your week." Every session is built around that idea.
My goal isn't to keep you in therapy indefinitely. It's to help you build a self-empowered skill set that lets you keep moving forward without needing ongoing support — on your timeline, not a fixed program length. (And if you "graduate" and want to check back in later, the door's always open.)
I work with:
- Adults managing anxiety, depression, or the weight of a major life transition
- Working professionals navigating career stress, burnout, or adult ADHD
- College-aged adults adjusting to independence, identity, and change
Curious whether your specific situation is something I can help with? Take a look at Areas of Support for a closer look at what I treat and how.
If this sounds like the kind of support you've been looking for, schedule a free consultation and let's talk.
Outside the Office
The same care I put into a session is the same care I put into a Sunday dinner — I show up fully, and I pay attention to the details.
When I'm not in the office, I'm usually at home in Fort Collins with my family — I'm a father to a wonderful daughter, with a second child arriving this summer. These days my adventures look less like backpacking trips and more like trips to the park, art projects, gardening, and the occasional round of princess dress-up (though I still love a good mountain view when I can get one).
I'm also a dedicated home cook — Beef Wellington every Christmas, a sourdough project I'm still perfecting, and homemade pasta and focaccia that my family requests more than anything else I make. My daughter's recently started "helping" with her own plastic knife set, and her rainbow pancakes are now a household favorite. Most weekends, you'll find us hosting friends and family for a big, elaborate meal — food has always been one of the ways my family shows love, and I try to bring that same intentionality into how I show up for my clients.
Fitness has been a quiet, ongoing passion of mine across adulthood — something I've built gradually rather than all at once, which is honestly a lot like the work I do with clients. These days I exercise six days a week, mixing cardio, hikes, and family walks with the thing I love most: lifting weights. There's something about the discipline and steady progress of strength training that mirrors what I ask of clients in session — small, consistent effort compounding into real change over time.
And yes, I'm a sports fan — a proud Nebraska Husker who married into CSU fandom. My daughter attended her first CSU football game before she was six months old (and slept through most of it). We're regulars at local high school games too, mostly because my daughter is convinced the band is there to play music just for her.