Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist

Kevin Leapley is the Director of the Sex Addiction Recovery program at Front Range Counseling Center, an outpatient counseling service specifically for the treatment of men who suffer from the results of sexually addictive and compulsive behavior. Counseling is also available for wives, couples and partners.

 

Kevin Leapley received specialized training in treating sexual addiction from Dr. Patrick Carnes and Kevin is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist. But Kevin did not just go to college or a training program and read about recovery from sexual addiction. He personally lived “the life” and went through his own journey of recovery. Who is better able to help you than a counselor who knows what you are struggling with and also personally knows what it will take to heal?

 

Ken Curry, MA

With open, warm and collaborative style Ken brings his life experience, educational knowledge, spiritual foundations and relational insights to your counseling experience. Make the personal investment to use your present, difficult experience as an opportunity for growth for a lifetime of healthy relationships. Ken’s main areas of focus include Couples, Men and Family.

 

Ken has earned an MA in Counseling from Colorado Christian University, a post-graduate training certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Denver Family Institute and a BA in Pastoral Studies from CCU.  He is a certified Prepare/Enrich counselor.

 

Among other work experiences Ken has had in the past he has been an associate pastor in the Denver area for 11 years and a therapeutic foster father for 8 years.

Richard Cartner, BA

Richard brings giftedness and experience as well as scriptural and psychological insights to help individuals, couples, and families.  He has the experience to help with various forms of relational struggles and personal brokenness.  Richard believes that counseling is about hope and healing.  Therefore, the counseling relationship is about finding hope, pursuing healing, and moving toward wholeness.  Richard approaches counseling through relationship.

 

Richard’s area of focus in counseling is sexual addiction recovery.  Richard has both education and personal experience in overcoming sexual addiction.  From his own personal struggle, he extends the unconditional love and mercy God has shown him.  Richard’s greatest joy is to see men experience God's transforming power and healing grace!  His counseling style includes cognitive-behavioral approaches as well as other methods that strive to address the needs of the whole person; spiritual, natural, and emotional.

Garry Nutter, MA, NCC

Garry’s counseling style has been described as “highly relational”, “comforting”, “safe”, “warm”, and even “pastoral”. What you will find in him is a very warm, caring person. He helps clients focus on how their emotions impact them, offers tools to deal with life, and helps them find meaning in their experiences. His style has been effective in dealing with sexual/internet addictions, behavioral addictions, anxiety, depression, anger management, adolescent and young adult issues, and couple’s therapy. Garry is a certified Prepare/Enrich counselor for pre-marital and marital counseling. As a former ordained minister, he brings special insight to the struggles unique to people in ministry.

 

Garry's area of counseling focus is in the following areas: anxiety, depression, anger management, sexual addictions, premarital/marital counseling, relationship difficulties and conflict, adolescent & young adult issues, sexual deviancy, and issues particular to people in ministry. Garry brings 34 successful years of marriage.

 

Andrew Jerusik, MA, LPC

Andrew helps people work through their pain in different ways. His counseling practice includes working with men and adolescents struggling with sexual addiction, as well as helping couples work through difficult problems and emotions that often accompany a spouse’s marital infidelity. Related, Andrew works with married couples to help restore and improve communication and intimacy. Andrew is also available to help men develop anger management skills that can lead to fulfilling relationships with other people.

 

Andrew is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado. All too familiar with experiencing relational pain and brokenness, Andrew has also experienced profound freedom in his life and marriage after surviving the throws of foster care as an adolescent and subsequent healing as an adult. Andrew seeks to convey to and comfort those who feel there is no hope. He is passionate about presenting truth to people and places in hearts where lies have resided for far too long.

Shannon Rants, MA, LPC

Shannon feels a specific responsibility and privilege to come along side clients on the healing journey, offering hope and understanding in the areas of gender, sexuality, and trauma. Shannon's speciality is with clients that are wanting to explore (but not limited to) aspects of gender, sexuality, and/or past trauma. She works with sexual addiction, love addiction, gender/sexual identity issues, and past trauma. Shannon facilitates women's sexual addiction/love addiction counseling groups at Front Range Counseling Center.

 

Shannon believes that there is a great need for counseling of women who struggle with sexuality, gender and addiction and that it has often been under emphasized in the counseling community - primarily due to assumed stereotypes, controversial hesitancy and lack of education.  Most clients that Shannon works with have found it difficult to find a therapist who could sit with their specific area of struggle with understanding.

 

 

Lizzy Wagner, MA, NCC

Lizzy enjoys working with individuals and couples facing their own life's realities, changes, and challenges. She believes that the counseling relationship is uniquely safe and accepting, but that it also requires engagement, honesty, and hard work.  She asks her client(s) to be active participants, and to take responsibility as the expert on their own life.      

 

Lizzy's mission is to help women and couples, wives/partners, and families in healing from: sex and pornography addiction, childhood or adult trauma and abuse, love addiction, relationship issues, depression and other of life's difficult issues. Her goal is to provide a sense of hope and healing for all of the heavy heart issues in your life.

 

Lizzy has a Masters of Arts in Counseling from Denver Seminary and is certified in Prepare/Enrich marriage counseling and is a Nationally Certified Counselor.

Claudette Siekmeier, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Claudette’s focus in counseling is to strengthen the family, which she believes is the cornerstone of our society.  The marriage relationship is the best place to begin building a strong culture, so Claudette works primarily with couples.  Her approach with couples is to help them to understand that conflicts are often driven by a negative cycle fueled by their emotions.  Her goal in counseling is that couples will learn to interact differently and understand their destructive emotional responses.

Claudette enjoys teaching and believes the counseling process involves learning new skills.  Her hope is that couples will focus on their relationship first and then learn to improve their home and family life.  To help with this process, Claudette offers workshops on several aspects of family life such as parenting, teen relationships, meal planning and nutrition. 

Trisha Swinton, MA, LPC, LMFT

Trisha works as an eclectic therapist, using client centered therapy and a family systems approach. She joins the family working as a team player to provide a nonjudgmental empathetic approach to counseling. Her belief is that if one person in the system makes a positive change, the entire system will positively change as well.

 

In working with individuals, Trisha assists her clients to determine underlying fears, gaining insight into the cause of the fear and anxiety, and beginning the healing process. She treats victims who have been abused by empowering them and helping them find their inner strength to cope in a healthy way.

 

Trisha works with adults, adolescents, children and families. She also works with people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, and victims of abuse.

 

Anne Gonsoulin, LPC, MFT, Certified Sex Therapist

Anne works with individuals and couples that struggle with sexual issues. When providing sexuality therapy, she uses one’s sexuality issues as a lens into broader relationship issues.  Her emphasis is on helping people develop the type of adult intimacy that brings self-respect and meaning to their lives, both physically and spiritually.  Anne also works with couples who have been in long term committed relationships and are struggling to keep the relationship together or trying to bring a spark back into their lives.  Anne's approach involves providing intense sessions of 2 + hours in length, with less frequent sessions needed for change and resolution to presenting issues.

 

Her therapy focuses on: Sexual Desire issues, Erectile dysfunctions, Orgasmic difficulties, Prostate cancer treatment and sexual difficulties, conflict relational issues, and sexual intimacy struggles. She has 16 years of experience providing both relationship and sexuality therapy.  Her training is in systemic therapy.

 

Abby Blacklock, MA, NCC Abby’s goal in counseling is to help her clients gain a better quality of life and interpersonal well-being while acquiring emotional and spiritual health. For Abby, counseling is about people processing through life together. Her counseling style involves allowing freedom for laughter and tears, conversation and silence, logic and emotion. Abby enjoys working with adolescents, couples, and women.

She has experience and specialized training helping clients work through: stress, anxiety, depression, boundaries, communication skills, unplanned pregnancy and parenting skills, premarital counseling, relationship difficulties, women's sexual addiction issues, and spiritual issues. In her counseling sessions, Abby uses a variety of techniques, focusing on the more creative means of self-expression (collaging, journaling, painting, drawing, guided imagery, relaxation therapy, etc.).

Linnaya Widhalm, MA, CACIII

Linnaya Widhalm has earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Community Counseling with a focus on Marriage and family Therapy. She is a National Certified Counselor and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado. Linnaya is a Certified Addictions Counselor II and has five years experience working with families and individuals with chemical abuse and dependency issues.  

 

Linnaya has a warm demeanor and holds a positive perspective toward humanity. She believes in the innate human potential to move toward growth and change. Individual therapy is present centered and focuses on the client’s immediate experience.

 

Her counseling focus is substance abuse counseling, eating disorders, grief & loss, depression, life skills, codependency, and marital discord.