Sequoia Counseling Collective

Introducing Sequoia Counseling Collective

By Ryanne Giorgione, LPC

If you’ve crossed paths with my previous practice, Ryanne Giorgione PLLC, hi again — I’m so glad you’re here. And if you’re brand new, welcome. Either way, I wanted to properly reintroduce myself and share what’s been happening.

I started my private practice in 2023 after moving from San Diego to Denver. Honestly, I didn’t have a fully formed vision yet. I just knew I wanted to work with clients in a way that felt intentional and meaningful, and that I needed to do it on my own terms. Before that, I’d spent years in community mental health, schools, universities, nonprofits — settings that shaped me in ways I’m genuinely grateful for. But they also wore me down in ways I couldn’t keep ignoring. I felt my passion for this work starting to dim, and that scared me. So I took the leap.

The goal was simple: more autonomy, better balance, and the ability to actually show up fully for my clients instead of running on empty.

This past year was the first time I’ve practiced full-time without juggling other roles to make ends meet — and at one point I had five jobs simultaneously, so that’s saying something. A lot happened in that year. I moved from telehealth-only to also having a physical space, settling into an office in LoHi that I really love. I became a supervisor and brought on my first contract therapist, which turned out to be one of the most fulfilling parts of this whole journey. Watching her make the transition from graduate school to real-life practice and grow into a truly exceptional clinician was inspiring. 

That experience got my wheels turning. My love for mentoring, my desire to build real community with other therapists, and — let’s be honest — my entrepreneurial streak all pointed in the same direction: a group practice built on ethics, intention, and collaboration. That’s where Sequoia Counseling Collective came from.

Why Sequoia Counseling Collective? 

The name took me an embarrassingly long time to land on, but I kept coming back to sequoias — and eventually I stopped fighting it.

Most people don’t know that sequoias don’t actually survive alone. They grow in groves, roots intertwined underground, quietly holding each other up. The biggest, oldest living things on the planet got that way because of what surrounded them, not just what was within them. There’s something in that I find really beautiful — and really true about good therapy, and about what a good practice should be.

But honestly, it became personal too. During one of the harder seasons of my own life, I found myself solo camping among these trees. I know how that sounds. But there was something about being surrounded by that kind of stillness and scale that just… shifted something. These trees have weathered drought, fire, storms across thousands of years. And they actually need fire to release their seeds — they regenerate because of the hard thing, not in spite of it. I sat with that for a long time.

That’s how I think about healing now. It’s rarely fast, rarely linear, and the most meaningful growth usually happens in the hard seasons — the ones that crack you open a little. At Sequoia Counseling Collective, we’re not interested in rushing that process. We believe in the kind of growth that’s rooted and slow and built to last.

And the collective part matters too. A group of therapists who genuinely support each other, hold high standards together, and because of that, can show up more fully for the people who come to us. That’s the grove I’m building.

So here we are. Sequoia Counseling Collective has been launched, and I’m slowly, carefully building out the team. The therapists who join will be people I know and trust — the kind I’d refer my own family to. Quality and ethics aren’t things I’m willing to compromise on as we grow, so we’re not rushing it.

If you’re a current client, nothing about our work together is changing — same sessions, same everything. This is purely about where the practice is headed, not a disruption to what we’ve built.

If you’re new here, hi! I’m really glad you found us. We offer individual therapy for adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship stuff — all of it. The best first step is just reaching out, and you can do that over at sequoiacounselingcollective.com.

And if you’re a fellow clinician looking for somewhere you can refer with confidence — I’d genuinely love to connect.

This has been a long time coming and I’m so excited to finally share it. Thanks for being here for it.