Steven Marks, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Steve's counseling focus includes marriage counseling, premarital counselng, healthy communication and conflict resolution, infidelity, relationship brokenness and restoration, addictions/co-dependency, anger management, boundaries in life and relationships, grief and loss, and life transitions.  

 

Steve combines a warm, engaging relational style of counseling with the ability to challenge clients in changing things that can be changed and accepting things that cannot.  Steve's compassionate heart and gentle spirit allows his clients to feel encouraged and empowered as they work through their struggles. Steve enters into a healthy relationship with his clients using existential therapy (client choice, freedom and responsibility) and person centered therapies (relationship and client focused) combined with cognitive- behavioral therapies that work together in developing an awareness of distorted untrue beliefs that negatively impact feelings and behavior.  

 

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.

 

 

Christine Denlinger, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Christine has worked for over twenty years in the area of human development.  Prior to moving to the Denver area five years ago, she worked in international missions along with her husband. Christine is passionate about facilitating growth and reconciliation in relationships. She believes that all people can gain insight and learn skills that will help them live a balanced and fulfilled life. Her warm and caring style along with a developmental and insight oriented approach to counseling promotes the health and well-being of her clients.

 

Her therapy focuses on: depression, anxiety, marriage and relationship counseling, trauma, spouses of sex addicts counseling, female sex and love addiction, cross cultural issues, and spiritual issues. Christine speaks fluent spanish. Christine did her undergraduate work in behavioral science and psychology.  She holds a masters degree in counseling from Denver Seminary and is a National Certified Counselor. She has been married for 20 years and has two teenage children.

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.

 

Kim Jones, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Kim has worked in private practice with individuals, couples and families.  She also facilitates a Women's Depression support group.  She has worked with children 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.

 

Kim approaches individuals from a whole-person perspective: examining their past and present situations and taking into account how these are affecting their emotional, physical, social, and spiritual dimensions in their lives. She motivates her clients towards productive communication and healthy boundaries within their relationships.  Kim’s ability to connect with people empowers and encourages her clients to resolve conflict and move toward desired change in their lives. Kim also has a certificate in Life Coach Training and utilizes these skills in counseling.

 

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.).

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.