FRONT RANGE COUNSELING CENTER
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Offices in Denver Southeast & Littleton

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DENVER SOUTHEAST / AURORA WEST OFFICE COUNSELORS
Staff 1Michael Ballard, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Michael enjoys working with individuals, groups, and families to help build better relationships and work through issues of conflict and trust. Michael's philosophy of therapy is based on the belief that being disconnected from healthy, supportive relationships is the cause of almost all human problems. Michael encourages his clients to take charge of their lives by learning to understand their anger, forgive themselves and others, and make better choices.

 

Michael specializes in issues relating to anger, depression, forgiveness and reconciliation and has received focused and specialized training in these areas. He works with all populations, but has particular interest in adolescents, couples, and families. He completed two years of post-graduate training in Family Therapy through the Denver Family Institute, and has facilitated a number of parenting seminars and classes.

 

Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor and has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Denver Seminary and a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgetown University.

Staff 1Ken Curry, MA, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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.

 

Staff 1Garry Nutter, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

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.

 

Staff 1Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor

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?

 

Staff 1Isaac Archuleta, MA, Registered Psychotherapist

Isaac graduated from a CACREP accredited program at Denver Seminary, earning a Masters degree in Community Counseling.

Since Isaac has dealt with personal issues in a therapeutic setting, he knows the value of feeling safe, accepted, and understood within the counseling relationship. In addition, his personal experiences have been refined and conceptualized through his formal education, allowing Isaac the ability to offer efficient professional care to clients and family members who deal with the variety of issues life can produce.

 

Isaac works with men's issues, anger management, sexual addiction, emotional wounding, and other issues underlying the struggle with anger.

 

 

 

 

Staff 1Richard Cartner, MA, Registered Psychotherapist

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.

 

Staff 1Sean McDonald, BS, Registered Psychotherapist

Sean is passionate about helping men and women experience freedom and joy in their lives. His desire to help people find hope and healing comes from his faith in God and his personal experience of going through recovery for sexual addiction. His journey of recovery led him out of the business world and into full-time ministry and graduate school so that he could be better equipped to help others.

 

Sean works with individuals who struggle with anger issues and rage, addiction issues, anxiety and depression. He also works with spouses of angry men. Sean is currently finishing up his Masters of Arts in Counseling from Denver Seminary and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.

 

Sean spent the last four years working in a leadership role of a church. He directed the recovery ministry and gained valuable experience working with individuals and couples that were experiencing a wide range of issues.

 

Staff 1Trisha Swinton, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor, 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.

 

Staff 1Linnaya Widhalm, MA, Registered Psychotherapist

Sarah’s counseling practice is dedicated to equipping clients to LIVE EMPOWERED LIVES.  Sarah’s creates an environment of HOPE through her compassionate, encouraging, knowledgeable and optimistic outlook. Her goal is to collaborate with you to empower you to create the life of HEALTH, WHOLENESS and FREEDOM you desire.  She works with teenagers through late adulthood and offers individual, couple, group and family counseling.

 

To Sarah, collaboration is paramount.  There is no one in the world that knows you like you!  During the initial phases of treatment Sarah will work with you to develop a customized treatment plan suited to your goals and desired outcomes. 

Sarah utilizes a wide variety of techniques and theoretical approaches that are combined to formulate a personalized approach to your treatment. 

 

Sarah has a Masters in Clinical Mental Health from Argosy University Denver and works with both anger and depression issues.

Staff 1Cathy Wilson, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Cathy’s approach to counseling is to create a safe and healing environment in which each person’s individuality is honored and valued.  She believes that each person holds the power to decide what is most important to achieve for herself or himself in counseling and that by providing a compassionate and honest environment, each client is best able to grow, recover, and bring about a sense of well-being. With these guiding principles, she works with clients to build their resilience, improve well-being, and to create meaningful and positive change in their lives.

 

She has worked with clients on many issues, including: depression, anxiety, life transitions, relationships, domestic violence, Caregiver concerns for those caring for aging relatives, Divorce, Trauma Recovery, Brain Injuries, Grief and Loss, Anger Control, Spirituality – all religions and beliefs. Cathy has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Regis University and works with clients to provide individual, couples, family, and group counseling.  She works with both adults and adolescents.

 

Staff 1Rachel Moses, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Rachel is passionate about helping individuals know themselves better, to experience both inner- and interpersonal- growth through their brokenness and their strengths.  She believes deeply in building healthy relationships, where trust, compassion and grace abound, so that healing and hope can occur.

 

Rachel takes a holistic approach, believing that there are many factors that affect an individual’s well-being.  She looks at the person’s past and present experiences and how this affects their emotional, cognitive, psychological, social, physical and spiritual well-being.

 

Her counseling focus is premarital counseling, grief and loss, depression, relationship issues, play therapy for children, trauma, teens & kids, aspergers, cross cultural issues, and spiritual issues.

 

Staff 1Lizzy Wagner, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

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.