FRONT RANGE COUNSELING CENTER
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Offices in Denver Southeast & Littleton

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LITTLETON 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 1Steven 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.  

 

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 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 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.

 

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Kathy Taussig, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Kathy enjoys working with individuals and couples as they sort through issues in their lives.  She especially enjoys working with the partners of sex addicts.  Kathy’s area of focus is in teaching individuals and couples how to communicate, resolve conflict, and work on individual identity issues.  She also specializes in teaching the partner of a sex addict how to establish healthy boundaries.

 

Kathy's compassionate heart and gentle spirit allows clients to feel encouraged and safe as they work through their struggles in therapy.  Kathy believes a healthy relationship with God and others is vital to living an abundant and joyous life. Kathy Taussig has a Master of Arts in Counseling from Denver Seminary and has an Elementary Education degree from the University of Northern Colorado.   She has been married to her husband for 34 years. She has three grown children; two are married and she has three grandchildren.  Her family continues to be a top priority in her life.

 

Staff 1Christine 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.

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 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 1Kim 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.