As counselors at Denver Sex Addict (DSA), we are committed, trained, and experienced to help you develop a healthy, balanced life. We obtained graduate degrees and extensive experience in a mental health field. We will guide your walk to increase the quality of your life and relationships with God, self, and others.
An important step toward a healthy life is to choose a therapist who is right for you. As you read about our therapists, pray for direction about who is appropriate to you.
We are committed to creating a comfortable and secure clinical environment, so
the client can proceed through his or her personal treatment plan with dignity,
privacy, and confidence.
The therapists of DSA are each independent mental health professionals, with their own private practices. While DSA has carefully selected each counselor, they are not employees of DSA but rather are independent counseling businesses.
Counselors for Male Sex Addiction
 Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist
Kevin Leapley has extensive experience, training and education in sexual addiction counseling. He is an expert and specialist in the Sex Addiction counseling. Kevin is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and received his specialized training from Dr. Patrick Carnes. His counseling focus is sexual addiction recovery for men.
 Charlton Clarke, MA
Charlton believes the key to effective counseling is getting beneath the surface to the core of a person's struggles. Charlton has experience working with many different issues and types of clients, but he especially enjoys working with men and adolescent males in the areas of sexual addiction, anger management, anxiety and sexual abuse recovery.
 Richard Carter, BA
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!
 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. !
 Ken Curry, MA
Ken's general focus includes Marriage, Family and Men. More specific areas include; life transitions, sexuality, fathering, parenting, boys, reconciliation, pre-marital, singles and navigating chronic disease as a family. With open, warm and collaborative style Ken brings his life experience, educational knowledge and relational insights to your counseling experience.
Counselor for Women Love/Sex Addictions
 Shannon Rants, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
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.
Counselors for Spouses/Partners of Sex Addicts
 Linnaya Widhalm, NCC, CACIII
Linnaya is a Certified Addictions Counselor II
and has five years experience working with families and individuals with chemical abuse and dependency
issues. Linnaya also works with marriages, spouses of sex addicts, codependency, depression, life skills, grief and sloss, teenagers, and eating disorders.
 Claudette Siekmeier, MA, NCC
Claudette'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.
 Kim Jones, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Kim works with children, adolescents, and families in
residential treatment facilities. She understands how stress affects relationships and other areas in life. She
helps people with parenting skills, communication skills, depression, anxiety, life transitions, stress reduction,
and children affected by trauma.
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