Dr. Joanne Burgio, Ph.D., welcomes TRICARE patients to her Colorado practice — 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 not currently credentialed in-network with TRICARE or TriWest. She welcomes TRICARE patients on an out-of-network basis and provides superbills you can submit to TRICARE for reimbursement of covered services.
We recommend calling the number on the back of your TRICARE card to verify your out-of-network mental-health benefits and deductible before scheduling. Most TRICARE plans cover a meaningful portion of out-of-network outpatient mental-health care, but specifics 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 not in-network with TriWest, but she actively welcomes TRICARE patients out-of-network and provides the superbills you need for reimbursement. For families who are willing to navigate out-of-network care to find a depth-oriented therapist, this can be a real option when in-network availability is limited.
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.
Out-of-network; payment due at time of service
$150 per 45-minute individual session
$225 per couples session
Superbills provided for TRICARE out-of-network reimbursement
Call or message to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. We'll talk briefly about what you're looking for, walk through the TRICARE OON billing flow, and check whether we're a good fit. No commitment.
Schedule NowNo. Dr. Burgio is not currently credentialed in-network with TRICARE or TriWest (the TRICARE West Region contractor). She welcomes TRICARE patients on an out-of-network basis and provides superbills you can submit to TRICARE for out-of-network reimbursement. Coverage varies by plan — we recommend verifying your out-of-network mental-health benefits with TRICARE before scheduling.
After each session, we provide a superbill — an itemized receipt with the diagnosis codes and procedure codes TRICARE needs to process an out-of-network reimbursement claim. You submit the superbill directly to TRICARE; reimbursement amounts depend on your specific plan and deductible. Many TRICARE plans cover a meaningful portion of out-of-network mental-health care once the deductible is met.
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 reimburse outpatient mental-health visits with an out-of-network provider; family members and dependents typically do not require pre-authorization for outpatient care, though plans vary.
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.
Individual sessions are $150 for 45 minutes. Couples sessions are $225. A free 15-minute consultation by phone is available before committing, to discuss what you're looking for and whether the fit feels right. For TRICARE patients seeking out-of-network reimbursement, we provide superbills after each session.
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.