DENVER SOUTHEAST OFFICE COUNSELORS

 

As counselors at Aurora Sex Addict.com (ASA), 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 ASA are each independent mental health professionals, with their own private
practices. While ASA has carefully selected each counselor, they are not employees of ASA but
rather are independent counseling businesse
s.

 

 

Counselors for Male Sex Addiction

 

 

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

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 1Ken Curry, MA, Registered Psychotherapist

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 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 1Andrew Jerusik, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Counselor for Women Love/Sex Addictions

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Counselors for Spouses/Partners of Sex Addicts

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Staff 1Claudette 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. 

 

 

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 1Brooke Blanciak, MA, NCC, Registered Psychotherapist

Brooke received her Master's degree in Community Counseling from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. After graduating she accepted a residential counseling position with Mercy Ministries of America in Nashville, TN. Mercy Ministries works with young women ages 13-29 dealing with life controlling issues such as depression, self-mutilation, unplanned pregnancies, eating disorders, severe psychotic disorders, etc. During this time she learned a lot about the current issues plaguing our young people today.

 

Eventually she made her way back to Colorado continuing her work with children, teens and young adults. Other areas of interest and experience that Brooke offers are: vocational counseling, relationship coaching, singles issues, women's issues, grief and bereavement and child counseling. In her free time, Brooke enjoys traveling (over 10 countries), producing, writing, reading, down time with friends, movies, working out, and learning anything new.

 

Staff 1Linnaya Widhalm, MA, CACIII

Linnaya Widhalm has earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Community Counseling with a focus on Marriage and family Therapy. She is a National Certified Counselor and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado. Linnaya is a Certified Addictions Counselor II and has five years experience working with families and individuals with chemical abuse and dependency issues.  

 

Linnaya has a warm demeanor and holds a positive perspective toward humanity. She believes in the innate human potential to move toward growth and change. Individual therapy is present centered and focuses on the client’s immediate experience.

 

Her counseling focus is substance abuse counseling, eating disorders, grief & loss, depression, life skills, codependency, and marital discord.