Adeola Quintero, MFT Graduate Intern (accepting new couples and families only)

It is easy to feel misunderstood. At times life can be a whirlwind of emotions, difficulties and loneliness. Relationships can be wounded through attempts at connection, and at times you may feel stuck. The tension we carry around for years can create unhealthy connections we have with ourselves and those we love. During these times, having someone walk through those difficulties with you, and help you see the best parts of yourself, can be healing. Also, learning what unhealthy coping mechanisms and patterns you may be operating in can lead to insight and clarity.

Using a systemic approach, Adeola will work with you to improve communication, raise self-esteem, connect with your experience and heal your wounded relationships. She is currently a graduate student at Regis University for Marriage and Family Therapy. Adeola has worked with couples, preschool aged children, and young adolescents. She has experience as a student-therapist, elementary teacher and preschool teacher. She has worked with populations such as blended families, interracial couples, faith communities, young adolescents, foster care agencies and has written extensively on Multigenerational Trauma within the Black community. She works with issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship issues, racial issues, self-esteem, life-transitions, spirituality, parenting.

Approaches:

• Experiential, Satir Human Validation, Bowen Family Systems, Gottman, Mindfulness, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Play Therapy.

Education:

• B.A. Psychology, California State University Fullerton
• M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Student (Expected Graduation, Spring 2021)

Ages Treated: 4+ (with a parent or guardian present), teens, adults

Session Format: Individual, Child, Adolescent, Couple, and Family Therapy

Affiliations:

• American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, AAMFT
• Delta Kappa Honor Society, DK

Publications:

Quintero, Adeola (2020) "The Multigenerational Transmission Process of Healing Social Cultural Wounds within the Black community: A Comprehensive Analysis," Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 8. 
            Available at: https://epublications.regis.edu/cftsr/vol3/iss1/8

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Co-pay Matching Program
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)

Email:

• [email protected]

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• (719) 428- 1474

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Ashley J. Winslow, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT.0001431) providing individual (adolescent and adult), couples and family therapy providing client-centered therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Motivational Interviewing, and Systems Therapy in her private practice located at 7710 N. Union Blvd. Suite 100E, Colorado Springs, Colorado. She collaboratively works with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, relationship problems, and sexual issues. 

Ashley J. Winslow is joining All Inclusive as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor Candidate, under the mentorship with Leilani Keator, LMFT, providing supervision to graduate students and post-graduates. When working with Ashley you will experience a collaborative process where you will talk about your experiences and process core, underlying feelings that influence your thoughts and behaviors. Ashley can help you identify negative patterns in your life, work, and relationships in order to gain insight and identify alternative ways to respond in order to get better or more desired results. We do the things we do for a very good reason and you will be able to understand yourself more fully throughout the therapeutic or supervision process as your perspective changes and you find new ways to cope or deal with your challenges. During your sessions she will build a safe, healing atmosphere for you to share and be yourself. You will feel understood, accepted, and cared about during the sessions which will allow you to process difficult thoughts and feelings that may be hard to talk about. 

Education:

• Graduated in 2012 COAMFTE accredited Capella University with Master of Science in Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy

License, Certifications & Awards:

• LMFT MFT.0001431
• Certified Basic ART Practitioner 

Additional Training:

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy Basic Training 
• Gottman method Level I & 2
• Therapy Mastermind Circle
• Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship & Core Skills I, II, III, & IV 

Professional Activities and Memberships:

• AAMFT Clinical Fellow
• International Society of Acccli
• elerated Resolution Therapy (IS-ART)
• ICEEFT (The International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Lifetime Member
• NAADAC (National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors)

• ​​​​Website:

• https://counseling-office-of-ashley-j-winslow.business.site/ 

• Direct Phone # for scheduling patients or supervision:

 

• 719-229-0159

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Crystal King, PCs, (Not accepting new patients) is a graduate student at CCU working toward her LPC. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, family, adolescents, and children.

It is very difficult to heal the things we don’t allow ourselves to feel. Learning to feel our emotions without judgement can deepen our relationship to ourselves and to others. Observing our intense emotions with curiosity rather than shame can open up doors of healing that have been blocked. Focusing on awareness of ourselves, our impact on the world, and the effects of our perceptions and experiences can lead us to a greater understanding of our true selves. Authenticity prevails when emotions are something to understand and work through rather than something to avoid. Dismissing core emotions can create a buildup of anxiety and depression that we struggle to get out of. Having the support to process these emotions in a non-judgmental environment can produce growth, freedom, insight, and can take the lid off of years of destructive beliefs we unfortunately grow to accept about ourselves over time. Talk therapy with an emotional focus can be a step toward freedom from lifelong destructive patterns.

Session Format: Individual, Child, Adolescent, Couple, and Family Therapy. (Exploring oneself through the lens of the enneagram or walk therapy are both available.)

Treatment Approaches: Student in training for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy, Reality therapy, 12-Step work

Education: Crystal is a Master Student at Colorado Christian University (CCU ca-crep accredited) completing her degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Her undergrad was in Psychology at NNU and she shadowed a counselor in individual, family, and child (play therapy) counseling.

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)
• Co-pay Matching Program

Email:

• [email protected]

Direct phone for scheduling: 

• 720-608-9919

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Cynthia Aragon (Not accepting new patients) is a Marriage and Family Therapist graduate student at NCU who enjoys working with individuals, couples, family, adolescents, and children. Her focus is to enable them to achieve the healthy relationships that they desire. Cynthia truly believes in creating a client centered approach, by means of empathy and connection, consequently, creating a journey with her clients that is both solution based and empowering. Cynthia had the privilege to work on a Behavioral Team within the Exceptional Child Department serving school aged children with growth in personal development skills, adjustment to transitions, and promoting self- advocacy. Cynthia worked as a Program Coordinator, managing residential care for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. While there, she developed a strong person-centered approach as a driven interdisciplinary team member, always with the health of the individual at heart. 

Session Format: Individual, Child, Adolescent, Couple, and Family Therapy

Treatment Approaches: Student in training for Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy. 

Professional Membership: American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi.

Education: Cynthia is a Master Student at North Central University (COAMFTE accredited) completing her degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)
• Co-pay Matching Program

Email: 

• [email protected] 

Direct phone for scheduling: 719-749-1573

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Heather Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW CO #1295) whose expertise lies in working with children and youth.  She provides individual (child, adolescent and adult) and family therapy.  She has vast experience in the school setting and has insight when working with the social, emotional and behavioral challenges in key environments. 

Heather offers services through the implementation of cognitive behavioral techniques, solution focused discussions, and the development of accountable strategies. The goal for every client is to attain positive and meaningful changes though age-appropriate approaches, collaborative dialogue and measurable goal setting.  Expect a safe, nurturing and positive environment where struggles can be shared and empowerment will be explored.

Education:

• Westminster College, BS in Psychology
• Washington University, MSW with emphasis in Children and Youth

Direct Phone # for scheduled patients:

• 719-649-9778

Insurances:

• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield 

• Beacon/Kaiser Out of Network

• Cigna

• Cigna EAP

• ComPsych

• Connections EAP

• Crime Victim Compensation Program

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• Mutual of Omaha  EAP

• Optum

• Triad EAP

• Tricare

• United Health Care

• WorkPlace Options EAP

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Heather Proulx, MA, LPCC

My goal is to assist in your discovery and integration of your authentic self and in improving your mental/emotional health. Why? I believe that emotional and mental health is part of the trilogy of optimal health: physical, spiritual and mental/emotional. It is essential. It’s a major piece of the puzzle. A dear friend of mine, Becky, recently stated “Knowing yourself is half the battle...and laughing at yourself is the other half.” Truth. Discovering, becoming, transforming, and being yourself is a forever evolving process; a process of becoming authentically YOU. Life is what we’re here to live, but how often are we living consciously, intently and with full awareness and presence as our authentic self? Therapy can help with this process. We think, feel, & behave according to our own experiences, values, & beliefs, thus seeing life through our own lens of perspective and operating from our own personal life experiences. What if such patterned operations are preventing you from living a fulfilling, joyful life? How are you programmed and living life on autopilot and out of conditioned responses and coping means that may be functional at the time, but are ultimately dysfunctional and destructive? Perhaps you have been living in ways that no longer serve you or are living according to other’s beliefs or from your childhood wounds or traumas. Maybe you’re stuck, confused and repeatedly face the same dilemmas or circumstances. The process of therapy can help you:

• Gain insight into your maladaptive, patterned thinking errors and behaviors in response to certain situations in your life, including trauma
• Understand the WHY behind your behaviors- the emotional and behavioral problems created by unconscious (hidden) internal conflicts
• Learn to harness emotional energy and change the course of your emotions (internal coping abilities).
• Shed that which no longer serves you, what you’ve outgrown or something that didn’t align with you, but you adopted anyway
• Reprogram yourself from the automatic, patterned, and maladaptive thoughts and behaviors from which you’ve been living
• Gain freedom from the deception and lies that were spoken to you that you believed and internalized.
• Discover what you are protecting, defending, or trying to control in yourself or in others
• Learn to dance and flow within relationships by increasing interpersonal effectiveness
• Experience how conflict can lead to intimacy &/or strengthen relationships

It’s time to heal and to become authentically you. I’m here to create a space where you can feel safe, heard, supported and validated through this process of finding your own truth and authenticity, and ultimately, to guide and support you through your healing journey so that you can know you, BE you and, yes, laugh at and love YOU!

Session Format: Couples, Individuals (18+), Family

Specialties: Conflict Resolution (interpersonal and personal), Anxiety/Depression, Life Transitions or Stagnation (divorce, separation, loss), Trauma, Healthy Communication, Spirituality (inclusion of, discovery of, or abuse from), Contentious Custody, and Parenting children/teens with difficult behaviors Treatment Approaches & Modalities: My therapeutic approach is Eclectic Therapy, which is a combination of therapies tailored to the needs of the client: Person-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solutions Focused Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Family Systems/Systemic, Trauma Informed Care (TIC), Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), and Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT).

Education: I have 22 years of combined experience as a therapist from child placement agencies (foster care and adoption), acute psychiatric behavioral health, private practice and school counseling.

• Master’s in Professional Counseling from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) 2003
• Bachelor's degree in Psychology from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) 1998

Direct phone # for scheduled patients:

• 719-650-4571

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Ingrid Morath is a fellow traveler for those navigating internal and external hardships. She considers a person’s experience and concerns within the context of their systems, with awareness of trauma, and from the perspective that all people seek meaning and freedom in their lives. Discovering our own purpose and living from our own values can help us find deep satisfaction and relief, and we can grow into new thought, emotion, and behavior patterns that support our best lives and best selves. This work starts with awareness—mindfulness—and being heard. Ingrid believes we all have wisdom and healing within us, and she is committed to being a partner in the process of self-discovery and transformation.

Practice Specialties or Areas of Interest: Ingrid welcomes all clients and concerns, including but not limited to those struggling with depression, grief and loss, and body image issues; navigating life transitions and sexuality; and exploring crises of meaning, values, and spirituality.

Ages Treated: children ages 6+, teens, adults

Session Format: Individual, Child

Treatment Approach: Person-Centered and Existential Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, and Narrative Therapy.

Education:

• Ingrid graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2020 with a masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has a background in education, writing and creative arts, and science.

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)

Email:

• [email protected]

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• 719-425-8742

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Keith Green is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate. Keith has years of clinical experience with children, adolescents and adults. Keith received his undergraduate degree from the United Stated Air Force Academy, and then spent 5 years on active duty. He went on to receive his graduate degree, Master of Social Work, from Eastern Washington University. Keith has a huge empathetic, non-judgmental heart that allows him to thoughtfully listen and help clients navigate their road to the life they envision for themselves. Keith has experience helping clients find the other side of depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, OCD, trauma, and other mental health issues. With regard to treatment modalities, Keith tends to use an eclectic approach, tailoring his therapy to the needs of each person.

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• 719-216-4947 

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Kevin Taylor (Not accepting new patients) has a heart for people who are struggling and feel as if they are broken, damaged, misunderstood, or worse, that nobody cares. He believes that everyone has the right to be heard, to heal and to live beyond the issues they currently face. His perspective is that people each have worth and can find strength in the midst of tackling life's challenges starting with discovering one's voice. He wants to hear that voice and listen to your story, meeting you where he is needed, and walk with you as you reach your goals.

Practice Specialties or Areas of Interest: Kevin intends to work in areas where individuals are suffering from anxiety, past trauma/PTSD/sexual abuse, and men's issues.

Ages Treated: 20-40

Session Format: Individual, Adult, Group

Treatment Approach: Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, Existential Therapy, Client-centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy

Professional Activites and Membersips:

• American Counseling Association

Education:

• Graduated from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology 2018
• Currently a graduate student in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Masters program at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Co-pay Matching Program
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)

Email:

• [email protected]

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Kyle Bridgman (Not Accepting New Patients) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) providing individual (child, adolescent, and adult), couples and family therapy utilizing an eclectic style integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, evidence-based practices, trauma-informed care, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Transgenerational Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, EMDR and Gottman method, taking a family systems approach to healing in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Kyle Bridgman enjoys working with a wide range of clients, including, but not limited to those struggling with ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, relationship problems, eating disorders, and self-harm.

As a relationally based therapist, Kyle Bridgman maintains a sense of optimism and hope that no matter how difficult the issue, resolve can be found. One of the primary goals of therapy for individuals, couples, or families is to strengthen, inspire, and renew. 

Education:

• 2018 graduated from COAMFTE accredited Northcentral University master’s degree program with major in Marriage and Family Therapy

Professional Activities and Memberships:

• LMFT #1770
• AAMFT

​​​​Website:

• http://www.ProjectEmberCounseling.com

Insurances:

• Aetna
• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Blue Cross Pathway
• CHP+/COAccess
• Cigna
• Cigna EAP
• Crime Victim Compensation Program
• GEHA
• Medicaid
• Optum EAP
• United Healthcare
• UMR

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• 719-246-5693

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Leilani Keator MA LMFT (Not Accepting New Patients) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (#913) who provides individual (child, adolescent, and adult), couples and family therapy integrating evidence-based, trauma-informed, relationship-centered, culturally-sensitive, strengths-honored Emotionally Focused Therapy, Attachment Focused EMDR therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology approach, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Gottman method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and systems therapies incorporating the latest neuroscience in her expanding private group practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  

Leilani Keator MA LMFT enjoys serving a broad spectrum of clients including those with ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar, PTSD, relationship problems, and eating disorders.

A prominent relationship therapist, Leilani Keator MA LMFT has presented at local regional workshops, supervises graduate students and post-graduates, and provides peer consultations on the topics of EMDR therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and the Gottman method.

Education

• 2000 Graduated Argosy University MA with emphasis in marriage and family therapy

License, Certifications & Awards

• LMFT 913

Additional Training

• AAMFT Approved Supervisor
• Gottman method Level I
• EMDR therapy trained
• Emotionally Focused Therapy externship completed
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Level I

Professional Activities and Memberships

• AAMFT
• EMDR Pikes Peak Region
• Emotionally Focused Therapy lifetime member
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Rocky Mountain member
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute member

Direct Phone # for scheduled patients:

• 719-632-5033

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Martina Mettes, BA, MFTC. I strongly believe that therapy can help you function at your best, individually, and relationally. Therapy helps to address psychological, behavioral and emotional obstacles that stand between you and how you want to be. It also can help you face difficulties with more ease, work toward resolutions and solutions, and experience more joy.

When people are not at their best, they know and feel it, but often can’t pinpoint why. They feel sad, anxious or depressed, or feel they don’t fit in or not understood by others. This can be a lonely place. Many have been stuck in their situation for a while, even years, before they look for help. It can be overwhelming. The good news is that people can and do change. Sharing and voicing your issues with a therapist can be a great starting point.

As a therapist I will be on your team. I will listen attentively and be there to help you find and express your voice that has been kept down for so long. If you come in as a couple or family, I am there to help everyone to be heard and understood and then team up with all to have healthier and more productive relationships with each other and yourself.  You, as an individual or part of the family or couple, can learn to see what is going on. You can learn to make yourself understood and understand others, you can learn to see your thinking, behavioral, emotional and belief patterns that have kept you unhappy for so long. What is great is that you can find and implement new patterns that will make your life more productive and more joyful.

Everyone starts were they are, today, no matter where that may be. It doesn’t matter where you start. What matters is that you want to go forward to where you want to be. I feel excited and privileged that I may support, encourage and accompany you on this exciting and challenging journey.

I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and am working on my masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Regis University (Denver). I have worked with clients at the Regis University MFT center in Thornton. I have worked with Gottman Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and Solution Focused Therapy.

Currently I am working on my certification in EFT. I have worked with teens, adults, elderly, couples and families. I know that many (if not all) of us have experienced trauma and that determines a lot of our obstacles. I am familiar with somatic experiencing, and brain spotting and mindfulness.

Beside my studies and certifications, the greatest teacher has been life itself. I have learned from being a mother and a spouse, from divorce and re-marriage. I am the mother of three (mostly grown) kids and stepmom of three grown step kids. Each of those journeys have given me joys and challenges and the learning continues, since none of us is ever final in our growth. I have experience with LGBTQ challenges through one of my kids, their friends and as a parent.

Things I enjoy and that have taught me also are music (listening, playing and teaching), nature, reading, foreign languages (I wish I could speak more of them), Youtube, (my) kids and stepkids, reading, traveling and talking with and listening to people.

Insurance: 

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Self Pay

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Nina Dippon- Seeking help with relationship and family conflict is often the first step toward change. Maybe you are tired of having the same fights over and over. You know that something has to change, but you don't know where to start. You probably have tried ignoring the problem, escalating the problem, demanding change or just becoming depressed by it all. You have talked to friends, coworkers, and family but nothing really takes hold. Most of all, you are seeking relief from the burden of worry, the strain of conflict with those you love the most, or the weight of depression or other difficult emotions. 

As a marriage and family therapist, I work with you to foster positive changes. We will work together to create goals based on the values you hold dear. We will look at the patterns in your relationships, evaluate them and rebuild as needed. This work is collaborative. It takes focus and dedication on your part and mine. I value your intention for a better life, so I commit to being present and focused in our work together. 

I come to this work as a mother of seven, a small business owner, and adoptee, and an immigrant. I have experienced divorce, remarriage and step-parenting. I have experienced the early loss of family members. I am active in my faith community. I really enjoy hiking, hunting and spending time outside.

Your experience isn't the same as mine, but please know it is normal to feel alone, confused, afraid and unloved when challenges arise. Trust that there is great dignity in seeking help. I look forward to working together. 

Remember, action is bravery. 

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• 719-453-6244

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Stevi Stephens-Martin Therapists are like shoes; you have to find the one that fits.  Having a therapist that doesn’t “get” you is like hobbling around your workplace in shoes that are 4 sizes too small...doesn’t make sense, does it?!  Fortunately, there are lots of shoes out there to choose from; maybe I’m a good fit for you.

I like to help clients slow down and do things with intention. I believe that being with the people you love, reveling in nature, and embracing the present, is, in itself, healing. I have a healthy sense of humor and use it, when appropriate, to provide levity in session. I am a proponent of creating a connection between the mind, body, and spirit. Being outdoors, traveling, exploring, practicing yoga & mindfulness, and laughing with my favorite people is how I connect

Practice Specialties or Areas of Interest: 

I enjoy working with military folks, people of color, interracial couples, and cultural / religious minorities. I have a keen interest in ecotherapy (therapy outdoors) and yoga therapy, and would be thrilled to go outside with you, or practice some breathing techniques. 

I help couples & families resolve conflict, have uncomfortable conversation, agree to disagree, enjoy a better sexlife, recover from deception, stay together / break up, navigate adoption, foster parenting, family blending, difficult life transitions, and parent kiddos who struggle with academics, teachers or friendships. 

I assist individuals in refocusing efforts and finding deeper meaning in life, forging more meaningful connections with others, exploring and creating a lifestyle that is more congruent with their personal philosophy, and easing symptoms of anxiety / depression. 

Ages Treated:

• children ages 6-12 (with a parent or guardian present), teens, and adults

Session Format:

• couples, families, individuals, groups & workshops

Treatment Approach:

• Emotionally Focused, Solution-Focused, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.

Education:

• Graduated from Capella University for Marriage and Family Therapy 2019, MEd from Lipscomb University, and BS in Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Insurances:

• Crime Victim Compensation Program
• Medicaid

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• 971-361-4899

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Vanessa Fagnant, M.T.S., MFT Student Therapist  (accepting new couples and families only)

I am a Marriage and Family Therapist graduate student at Regis University, a wife, and mother of two young children. I know the struggles of Marriage and Family, but I also know the joys.  Not only have I completed a Masters in Marriage and Family Studies (M.T.S.), I have been on my own personal journey of embracing joy with every challenge of life.  Sometimes the positive CORE emotions can be overlooked in therapy.  I believe in expanding both positive and negative experiences as outlined in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy.  I look forward to accompanying other families, couples, and individuals in their journey to find hope and joy in whatever life brings.

My masters in Theological Studies gives me a profound respect for all humans.  I have integrated the  philosophy of “Being as Gift” into the Human Validation Model of therapy. This philosophy highlights who we are as humans, and shifts the value from what we do to who we are. So often we do not learn this message in today’s society or from our Family of Origin. Sometimes we need help shifting our view and learning to validate and affirm our unique selves.

Practice Specialties or Areas of Interest: 

I enjoy working with couples and families from all backgrounds.  I have a special heart for Latino families (since I grew up with a step-father from Peru).  I am also able to offer a unique experience for Christian and Catholic couples and families wishing to integrate God as an attachment figure (as outlined in Dr. Johnson’s book Created for Connection). I help couples and families resolve conflict by identifying the underlying emotions and cycles or patterns (using EFT).  Identifying “the cycle as the problem” helps resolve conflict and move into positive patterns and ways to communicate.

I have worked with teens for over 7 years in youth ministry (large and small group settings).  I worked with children from preschool to 8^th grade in a private school setting, so I am comfortable and willing to see families of all ages.  I use play therapy (available for all ages) and imagery to engage integration of right brain to aid processing of anxiety, depression, and relational trauma.

Ages Treated: Teens ages 12+ and Adults

Session Format: Individual, Adolescent, Couple, and Family Therapy

Treatment Approach:

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (Completed EFT externship)
• Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
• Play Therapy

Education:

• Vanessa is a Master Student at Regis University (COAMFTE accredited) completing her degree in Marriage and Family Therapy (expected graduation is August 2021)
• Graduated from Masters in Theological Studies, Marriage and Family from The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in 2015
• Graduated with B.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications, UNLV

Insurance:

• Cigna
• Medicaid (Colorado Community Health Alliance)
• Co-pay Matching Program
• Self-pay/sliding scale (no insurance)

Email:

• [email protected]

Direct Phone # for scheduled clients:

• (719) 362-0097