Hi, I’m Shelley

RESILIENT. RESOURCEFUL.

STRAIGHT FORWARD.

and FUNNY.

Hi, I'm Shelley Brannon, a relational therapist, proud Gen Xer, and middle-aged mom who has been doing this work long enough to know that what brings us into therapy has something to do with relationships. With others and with ourselves.

I founded In Balance Counseling with the knowledge and experience that healing happens in connection. Whether you're trying to repair a relationship, make sense of where you are in midlife, or get support for the kind of tired that comes with becoming a mom later in life, I see you.

Relationships Humans are wired for connection, and when our most important relationships are strained, everything else feels harder. I work with couples, adult siblings, parents and adult children, friends, and roommates — anyone who wants to show up differently in a relationship that matters. As a relational therapist, I don't just help you manage conflict — I also help you understand and change the patterns underneath it, making your relationships less draining and more fulfilling.

Middle-Aged Women Midlife has a way of surfacing everything you've been too busy to look at. Identity shifts, relationship changes, career pivots, the quiet grief of doors closing. I work with middle-aged women who know something has to change, even if they can't name it yet.

Motherhood & Later-in-Life Moms As a woman who became a mother later in life, I know this territory from the inside. The joy is real. So is the exhaustion, the guilt, and the sense that you're somehow behind or doing it wrong. I bring both clinical training and lived experience to this work, and I'm honored to walk alongside you in it.

Colorado Access Medicaid accepted.