April Brooks, a crisis clinician and therapist at the Aspen Hope Center, has been helping people struggling with mental health during this difficult year in the Roaring Fork Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, fear and uncertainty defined 2020 — and shaped the landscape of mental health services this year. “A lot of people aren’t leaving their home, and they’re scared, and it’s affecting mental health completely,” said April Brooks, a crisis clinician and therapist at the Aspen Hope Center. “You walk past someone on the street and they kind of jump off the sidewalk. How do we respond to that?”