Dr. Joanne Burgio, Ph.D., is an in-network TRICARE provider in Colorado — serving active-duty service members, military retirees, and military families. 40+ years of psychodynamic experience, working with the deeper patterns underneath what military life asks of you.
Dr. Burgio is an in-network TRICARE provider for her Colorado practice. Covered sessions are billed directly to TRICARE — you're responsible only for any applicable copay or cost-share under your plan. There's no need to file out-of-network claims or submit superbills yourself for TRICARE-covered care.
We recommend confirming your specific plan's mental-health benefits and any referral requirements with TRICARE before your first session — coverage details vary by plan and beneficiary category.
Beyond the standard list — depth-oriented therapy for the patterns military life intensifies.
The disorientation of starting over again. Children adjusting. Spouses pausing or pivoting careers. The pattern of investing then leaving, repeated, that shapes how you do attachment.
What deployment does to relationships, to identity, to how the body holds vigilance. The work of coming back — to a household, to a partner, to civilian rhythms — that often takes longer than the homecoming itself.
Retirement, separation, medical discharge. The identity shift from "the mission" to "what now." The grief and the disorientation that often hit hardest in year 2-3 after the uniform comes off.
Communication patterns that worked during deployments but stopped working in garrison. Intimacy that's hard to recover after long separations. Parenting differences that surface when both partners are finally in the same room.
The standard list — but worked from underneath, not just managed. Military spouses carrying years of secondary trauma. Service members whose anxiety presets as anger or numbness. The depression that hits after deployment ends and the adrenaline goes flat.
Long-term depth work, not a 6-session protocol. Most trauma needs more space than EMDR alone gives it. Particularly for the trauma that pre-dates service and the trauma the service compounded.
Colorado's military community is large — Fort Carson alone has 26,000+ active-duty service members and supports roughly 125,000 total military-connected residents across the Front Range. Add USAFA, Buckley Space Force Base, Peterson Space Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain, and Schriever, and the Colorado Springs Military Health System serves over 172,000 beneficiaries.
The TRICARE West Region transition to TriWest (January 2025) left many beneficiaries searching for new providers. Dr. Burgio is an in-network TRICARE provider in Colorado — covered sessions are billed directly to TRICARE, so the path to depth-oriented care is straightforward for military families who've struggled to find an in-network mental-health provider.
I practice psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy. That means we work to understand the patterns underneath the symptom — not just to manage what's hard, but to understand why it keeps showing up. For military families especially, the patterns are usually older than the service. The service didn't create them; it intensified them.
Sessions are 50 minutes, weekly, in-person at my Cherry Creek office or by secure HIPAA-compliant video from anywhere in Colorado. Psychodynamic work is open-ended rather than time-limited. The published outcome literature describes change developing over months of weekly sessions, with significant individual variation. This kind of therapy asks for consistency and a willingness to sit with what's underneath; the clients who tend to do best with it are the ones who feel ready to understand the patterns underneath their experience.
I work with individuals, couples, and adult family members (parents and adult children, military and civilian both).
Cherry Creek office
8337 Cherry Creek N Drive, Suite 801
Denver, CO 80209
Or secure telehealth from anywhere in Colorado — covering Fort Carson, USAFA, Buckley, Peterson, Cheyenne Mountain, Schriever, and statewide.
In-network with TRICARE in Colorado
Covered sessions billed directly to TRICARE
You pay only your plan's copay or cost-share, if any
Self-pay (non-TRICARE) rate: $150 individual / $225 couples
Call or message to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. We'll talk briefly about what you're looking for, confirm your TRICARE coverage, and check whether we're a good fit. No commitment.
Schedule NowYes. Dr. Burgio is an in-network TRICARE provider for her Colorado practice. TRICARE-covered visits are billed directly to TRICARE — you're responsible only for any applicable copay or cost-share under your plan. We recommend confirming your specific plan's mental-health benefits with TRICARE before your first session.
Because Dr. Burgio is in-network with TRICARE in Colorado, we bill TRICARE directly for covered sessions. You pay only your plan's copay or cost-share, if any. There's no need to submit superbills or file out-of-network claims yourself for TRICARE-covered care.
Yes. Dr. Burgio works with active-duty service members, military retirees, and military family members. Active-duty members generally need a referral from their Military Treatment Facility or Primary Care Manager before TRICARE will cover outpatient mental-health visits; family members and dependents typically do not require pre-authorization for outpatient care, though plans vary. We recommend confirming your referral requirements with TRICARE before scheduling.
Dr. Burgio is licensed in Colorado and sees clients statewide via secure telehealth, which includes families connected to Fort Carson, the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), Buckley Space Force Base, Peterson Space Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, and Schriever Space Force Base. In-person sessions are available at the Cherry Creek office in Denver.
For TRICARE patients, covered sessions are billed directly to TRICARE — you pay only your plan's copay or cost-share, if any. For self-pay (non-TRICARE) clients, individual sessions are $150 for 45 minutes and couples sessions are $225. A free 15-minute consultation by phone is available before committing.
This practice is not a crisis service. If you're in immediate danger or having thoughts of harming yourself, please call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) and press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line, or go to your nearest emergency room. Military OneSource also offers 24/7 confidential crisis support for service members and military family members at 1-800-342-9647.