For Care Providers

15 years

of mentoring

300+

families served

2 Days

from referral to first session

Clinically overseen. Mentor-delivered.

If you would like to talk further about how referrals work and how we might be of support to your client. We’d be happy to have a call.

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WHO WE PARTNER WITH

Support at every level of care

Therapists and Counselors

OUTPATIENT

Weekly session work extended into the rest of the week — skills practiced in real life, with observations reported back the way you prefer.

Psychiatrists and Prescribers

MEDICAL

Between appointments, someone is alongside your patient in daily life — watching real-world function and follow-through, and flagging what you need to know.

Treatment Programs

IOP · PHP · RESIDENTIAL

Step-down and aftercare support. When clients discharge back into real life, a mentor holds the structure, routines, and momentum the program built.

Supporting Your Clients Beyond the Office:
A Resource for Care Providers

How Therapeutic Mentoring Can Extend and Deepen the Work You’re Already Doing

If you’re a care provider and sense that your client could benefit from more support outside the therapy office, therapeutic mentoring may be the missing piece.

Therapeutic mentoring extends the healing and growth process into the client’s real, day-to-day life. It’s designed to align with your therapeutic approach, creating a powerful, complementary partnership that supports and deepens the work you’re already doing.

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How Mentoring Supports Therapy

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A True Team Approach

We’re here to collaborate—not duplicate. Based on your preferences and the needs of the client, we can coordinate regular team calls to keep communication open and ensure that all support is aligned and intentional. We can be as involved as you’d like, adjusting the level of integration to match your vision for the case.

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Structure and Accountability

We often work with clients who are in transition or struggling with follow-through. Whether they’re moving from a treatment program back into life, stepping into college or independent living, or feeling stuck and avoidant, a mentor can offer grounded structure, routine, and consistent accountability to help them move forward.

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Exposure Practice

Using mindfulness-centered techniques—including ACT, CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing—we accompany clients into situations that may trigger anxiety or avoidance. We help them take values-driven action, even when uncomfortable feelings arise, reinforcing the work you’re doing in session.

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Bringing Therapy Into Real Life

While therapy offers the insights, mentoring focuses on application. We help clients turn what they’re learning in session into daily action—whether that’s practicing new skills, confronting fears, or simply navigating life with more intention. These real-world experiences become valuable material to bring back into therapy.

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Real-World Feedback

Therapists often tell us how helpful it is to gain perspectives they wouldn’t see within a clinical setting. Because we work with clients in a variety of real-world environments, we’re able to observe patterns and provide meaningful, relevant feedback to support the therapeutic process.

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Family Coaching and Support

We can take the lead on family communication, allowing you to focus fully on the client. We help parents and caregivers understand what’s happening developmentally, set and hold healthy expectations, and navigate challenges from a supportive and well-informed perspective.

How Mentoring Supports Therapy

A true team approach graphic

A True Team Approach

We’re here to collaborate—not duplicate. Based on your preferences and the needs of the client, we can coordinate regular team calls to keep communication open and ensure that all support is aligned and intentional. We can be as involved as you’d like, adjusting the level of integration to match your vision for the case.

Bringing therapy into real life concept

Bringing Therapy Into Real Life

While therapy offers the insights, mentoring focuses on application. We help clients turn what they’re learning in session into daily action—whether that’s practicing new skills, confronting fears, or simply navigating life with more intention. These real-world experiences become valuable material to bring back into therapy.

Structure and accountability concept graphic

Structure and Accountability

We often work with clients who are in transition or struggling with follow-through. Whether they’re moving from a treatment program back into life, stepping into college or independent living, or feeling stuck and avoidant, a mentor can offer grounded structure, routine, and consistent accountability to help them move forward.

Real world feedback concept image

Real-World Feedback

Therapists often tell us how helpful it is to gain perspectives they wouldn’t see within a clinical setting. Because we work with clients in a variety of real-world environments, we’re able to observe patterns and provide meaningful, relevant feedback to support the therapeutic process.

Exposure practice concept image

Exposure Practice

Using mindfulness-centered techniques—especially those rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—we accompany clients into situations that may trigger anxiety or avoidance. We help them take values-driven action, even when uncomfortable feelings arise, reinforcing the work you’re doing in session.

Family coaching and support illustration

Family Coaching and Support

We can take the lead on family communication, allowing you to focus fully on the client. We help parents and caregivers understand what’s happening developmentally, set and hold healthy expectations, and navigate challenges from a supportive and well-informed perspective.

WORKING TOGETHER

How a referral works

1

You reach out

A call or a short intro email — about a specific client, or just to explore whether we would be a good resource for your practice.

2

We match and coordinate

We meet the family, match a mentor by fit, and agree with you on the collaboration level — team calls, session notes, or a simple check-in. Clinical questions along the way can go straight to our Clinical Director, Joseph DeNicholas, LCSW.

3

Mentoring begins

A first session within days, and a feedback loop that keeps you in the picture. We take a limited number of families at a time so mentors can go deep.

The match is free until it is right

Every mentee gets free, hour-long meet-and-greet sessions — and can meet as many mentors as they like before choosing one. If none feel like the right fit, none of that time is charged, and we will gladly offer other referrals for their support.

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WHO WE HELP

The struggles we walk beside

Every tile is a door into how mentoring supports that struggle. Ages 9 through 29, childhood to young adulthood.

WHO YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH

Real people on the other end of the referral

James Farmer

James Farmer

Founder and Director

Fifteen years of mentoring. James trains and personally supervises every Noble Mentor, and stays close to every case.

Joseph DeNicholas, LCSW, Clinical Director at Noble Mentors

Joseph DeNicholas, LCSW

Clinical Director

A licensed clinician overseeing the model. Joe consults on cases, trains the mentor team, and speaks your language. Author of Seeking Sanity.

Colin Tyssowski

Colin Tyssowski

Outreach Coordinator

Your first point of contact. Colin is actively engaged in building referral partnerships and collaboration opportunities.

Isaiah Hill

Isaiah

Kate Wood

Kate

Jake Favor

Jake

Kristin Walker

Kristin

Andrew Walsh

Andrew

Jazmine Gatt

Jazmine

Adam Skolnick

Adam

Felice Oltuski

Felice

Jacob Goldberg

Jacob

Lauren “Lolo” Doyle

Lauren

Elan Boxley

Elan

Mynessa Ball

Mynessa

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Questions families ask

Therapeutic mentoring works alongside therapy, not instead of it. Where therapy happens in the office, mentoring happens in the client’s real world — at school, in the community, doing the things that reveal who they’re becoming. James and his mentors work with teens, young adults, and older adults on the specific challenges therapists refer them for: building independence, developing social skills, navigating transitions, re-engaging with life. They coordinate directly with the referring therapist.

Yes. Our Clinical Director, Joseph DeNicholas, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker. He provides clinical oversight and consultation on select cases, trains and develops the mentor team, and helps coordinate care with therapists and other providers. Mentors are not clinicians and mentoring is not therapy — Joe’s role is to keep the mentoring around your client clinically informed and well coordinated with your work.

Primarily teens and young adults (9–29) in the Colorado Front Range — Denver, Boulder, Broomfield, Lafayette, and surrounding areas. We also work with adults who are stuck in patterns of dependency and need support building independence — age isn’t the barrier, readiness is. Common presentations: failure to launch, anxiety and depression, executive function challenges, substance recovery support, major life transitions.

Simple. Email contact@noblementors.com or call 720-730-2424. Briefly describe the client and what you’re hoping mentoring can address. James will respond within 24 hours, schedule a call with you if needed, and then reach out to the family directly. You’ll receive a coordination note when services begin.

We can customize this based on whatever would be most helpful for you in the therapeutic process. It could be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly updates — whatever fits the case. We can also hop on a 15-minute call if something comes up that needs a real-time conversation. You’re the clinical lead. We’re here to support that, not go around it.

All Noble Mentors mentors are trained and supervised directly by James Farmer, with clinical oversight from our Clinical Director, Joseph DeNicholas, LCSW. The majority of our mentors are currently in graduate programs to become therapists — they bring both academic grounding and genuine relational presence. Mentors are selected for lived experience, emotional maturity, and mentoring aptitude — not just credentials. They’re not therapists, and they don’t pretend to be. Their value is in authentic relationship and real-world accompaniment.

Sessions run an hour and a half or longer, out in the real world. A session might look like meeting at a coffee shop to work through a job application, taking a hike to process a hard week, driving to a new neighborhood to practice independent errands, or sitting side by side at a library to build a budget. The structure follows the client’s goals and what they need that day. The relationship is the intervention.

Noble Mentors does not bill insurance, and we do not provide documentation to support out-of-network claims or HSA/mental health benefit reimbursements. Our rate is $125 per hour. We also offer sliding scale options and mentoring packages at different levels for families who need more flexibility. Rates and packages are discussed during the intake call.

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No. We offer free, hour-long meet-and-greet sessions between the mentor and the mentee — and the mentee can meet as many mentors as they like before choosing one. If they meet a few and none feel like the right fit, none of that time is charged, and we will gladly offer other referrals to make sure they get the support they need.

A simple way to put it: therapy is where the insight happens, and mentoring is where it gets practiced. A mentor meets your client in real life — not in an office — and helps them practically apply what you are working on in session: using the skills, building the routines, and stepping into the situations they are learning to face. For parents, a mentor is consistent, positive support between appointments, working from the same plan as the therapist.

No pressure at all — readiness matters. We are happy to offer a free session with your client, just to meet, give them a real sense of what mentoring is, and show them how we could be of support. If now is not the time, that is completely fine: when the time is right, they already know us — and they know exactly what support is available to them.

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Therapeutic mentoring acts as an extension of your care—helping your clients move from insight to action and from intention to growth.

If you’re curious about how we might work together, let’s talk. We’d love to be part of your extended team.