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 businesses.
Steven 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.
Ken 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.
Richard 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.
Sean 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.
Andrew 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.
Garry Nutter, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorGarry’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.
Christine Denlinger, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorChristine 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.
Steven 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.
Christine Denlinger, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorChristine 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.
Lizzy 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.