Steve Marks, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorSteven Marks is the Director of the Marriage-Relationship and Spouses/Partner Recovery Program at Front Range Counseling, an outpatient counseling service specifically for the treatment of couples, men and women recovering from the impact of sexual addiction, infidelity, and intimacy disorders.
Steven has received focused and specialized training that assists couples develop healthy and intimate relationships, and recover from the impacts of sexual addiction and infidelity. Steven works with couple’s through private therapy sessions as well as conducting couple’s recovery groups. He helps couples learn healthy boundaries and communication and conflict resolution skills. He works with clients in helping them understand their emotional needs and the deeper issues and desires in a healthy relationship. Clients are empowered to take responsibility and accountability in making healthier choices in their lives and relationships.
Steven also is specialized in working with spouse’s/partner’s of those struggling with sex addiction and intimacy disorder. He develops a strong therapeutic bond with the spouse in normalizing the emotion and pain they are experiencing. He works to assist them in grieving, processing and communicating the pain, hurt and sadness they are experiencing. Steven also assists the spouse to grow in their own health and recovery through developing healthy boundaries, having a healthy voice, self-care and developing healthy support networks. He helps the spouse/partner move forward in realizing their own self-value and worth.
Sarah Houy, MA, Registered PsychotherapistSarah’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.
Education: Masters in Clinical Mental Health : Argosy University Denver; Gottman Relationship Training Level 1;
Certified P.R.E.P. Instructor : Relationship Education Curriculum;
Certified Prepare and Enrich Facilitator
Ken Curry, MA, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Relationships are designed to provide a deep source of fullness, joy and passion in our lives. However, during many seasons of life, because of varied reasons, most people experience confusion, pain or brokenness in their relationships. You are not alone.
Navigating these disruptive seasons may require purposefully using resources in your community, like developing a counseling relationship. This investment requires active participation, honesty and some challenging personal work Right now you may not feel hopeful, however just starting this process brings more hope than you may realize. It is amazing how people have the resilience, courage and strength to come alive during these life changing times.
With open, warm and collaborative style Ken brings his life experience, educational knowledge and relational insights to your counseling experience.
His 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.
Claudette Siekmeier, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorClaudette has a Master’s degree in counseling from Denver Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts teaching degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor and holds certifications in Couples Communication and Prepare/Enrich programs.
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. Groups are also available for couples counseling and post-abortion healing. Groups last about eight to ten weeks. Claudette has been married for 27 years and has five children.
Kim Jones, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorKim has her Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has worked for over 8 years in a variety of counseling settings. She has worked 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. 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. Kim and her husband of 19 years have 2 children and reside in Littleton, Colorado.
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.
Christine specializes in treating individuals who are experiencing distress internally and in their relationships with others due to depression, anxiety, marital and relationship difficulties, trauma, sexual addiction, spouses of sex addicts, cross cultural issues, and spiritual or faith issues.
She holds a masters degree in counseling from Denver Seminary and is Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado. Christine is also fluent in Spanish. She has been married for 21 years and has two teenage children.
Andrew Jerusik, MA, Licensed Professional CounselorAndrew believes nearly all counseling-related issues stem from a breakdown in relationships – in a person’s marriage or in one’s relationship with their family of origin. We were created for relationships. We are aware of that design in our innermost being and all too familiar when that design does not work the way it should. When such realizations reach the surface of our hearts, pain is sure to follow. Consequently, our pain tends to manifest itself in a variety of ways.
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 and he holds an MA in Professional Counseling from Colorado Christian University. Andrew lives with his wife, Mary, in Highlands Ranch, CO. He is an avid backpacker in the Colorado wilderness, enjoys physical fitness, and enjoys spending time with his four children.
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. Kathy is a Licensed Professional Counselor and is currently working with clients at Colorado Christian University. She has been married to her husband for 35 years. She has three grown children; two are married and she has four grandchildren.
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.
Richard Carter, MA, Registered PsychotherapistRichard 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.
Richard works with men whose thoughts or behaviors are inconsistent with who they really are. Richard helps his client to understand where those unhealthy thoughts and behaviors came from, and then help them learn new thought patterns and behaviors to replace the dysfunctional ones. He also works with couples to help restore trust and health to their relationship.