Littleton Office Counselors

 

As counselors at Denver Family Counseling (DFC), 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 DFC are each independent mental health professionals, with their own private practices. While DFC has carefully selected each counselor, they are not employees of DFC but rather are independent counseling businesses.

 

 

Steven Marks, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Steve's counseling focus includes marital/pre-marital counseling, healthy communication and conflict resolution, infidelity, relationship brokenness and restoration, addictions/co-dependency, anger management, boundaries in life and relationships, grief and loss, life transitions and depression.  

 

 

 

 

Christine Denlinger, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Christine Denlinger is a Licensed Professional Counselor, passionate about helping individuals, couples, and families, through life's struggles and transitions. She works with clients to provide new tools for communicating more effectively and improving relationships, to support and encourage individual growth, and to help individuals work on healing past hurts.

 

 

Suzanne Lewis, RN, MS, Ph.D., Licensed Professional Counselor
Suzanne's work experience as a Registered Nurse in both Critical Care and Psychiatric Care, coupled with her education and experience as a doctorate-level counselor, provide her clients a unique perspective. She encompass both the medical and psychological areas of mental health.

 

 

 

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.

 

Kathy Taussig, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Kathy enjoys working with individuals and couples as they sort through issues in their lives.  Kathy has had considerable experience working with depression and anxiety and addressing aspects of personality that can interfere with relationships and intimacy.  Kathy’s area of focus is in teaching individuals and couples how to communicate, resolve conflict, and work on individual identity issues.

 

 

Michael Ballard, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Garry Nutter, MA, NCC
Garry's 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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Andrew Jerusik, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Andrew's counseling focus includes working with men and adolescents struggling with sexual addiction, as well as helping couples work through difficult problems that often accompany a spouse’s marital infidelity. Andrew is also available to help men develop anger management skills that can lead to fulfilling relationships with other people.

 

 

Claudette Siekmeier, MA, NCC
Claudette enjoys working with couples who are seeking premarital or marriage counseling.  She is also interested in working with adult singles, divorce recovery, and life transition concerns.

 

 

 

Brooke Epperhart, MA, NCC
Brooke works with young women ages 13-29 dealing with life controlling issues such as depression, self-mutilation, unplanned pregnancies, eating disorders, and severe psychotic disorders. Brooke also works with adolescents, vocational counseling, relationship coaching, singles issues, women's issues, grief and bereavement and child counseling.

 

 

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.

 

 

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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