Licensed Professional Counselors
Addy Bethe
MA, LPC-S, Clinical Director, Founder
Specializing in couples and families, parenting support and social and emotional wellbeing in children and adolescents.
Addy brings a wealth of expertise to her practice specializing in couples and families, individual counseling for all ages, as well as parenting support. She is a clinical supervisor for graduate students and is passionate about supporting the positive growth in the field of mental health. Addy’s approach is deeply rooted in research-based methods. She has completed Level 3 Practicum Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, the premier couples intervention that focuses on three primary areas: building friendship, effective conflict management, and creating shared meaning within relationships. In addition to her counseling sessions, Addy also facilitates Gottman Couples Workshops throughout the year, sharing her knowledge and skills with couples seeking to enhance their relationships. For families, Addy employs a systems lens framework to guide members through the various phases of growth and development.
Her experience encompasses working with families of all ages facing challenges such as disconnection, divorced families seeking to navigate co-parenting, as well as adult families in the process of repair and re-establishing connections. As a parent support expert, Addy collaborates with families to tailor positive parenting plans, equipping them with practical tools to support individual family members and foster a harmonious yet vibrant home environment.
Addy is deeply committed to supporting the social and emotional well-being of children as they navigate the ever-changing world around them. Her approach is grounded in key principles like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and good decision-making. She is a hands-on and directive practitioner, aiming to teach and empower her clients during each session.
Her goal is to leave clients with extension activities to practice between sessions, ensuring ongoing growth and development. Addy is known for her straightforward and compassionate approach. She believes that therapy is about shaking up what isn’t working and reinforcing what is. She speaks her mind with empathy and respect. In her view, the therapeutic relationship is key to success, and she encourages potential clients to reach out for an initial session to determine if there’s a good match between therapist and client.
Rachel Bernard
MEd, MA, LPC-S, NCC, RPT
Specializing in child play therapy.
Rachel Bernard is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, and Clinical Supervisor. She received her Bachelors in Psychology and Masters in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas and Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Regis University along with her Child and Adolescent Counselor Certification. She brings over twenty years’ experience to the counseling relationship, and specializes in treating school-aged children and teens, providing play and expressive arts therapy, and treating adults who have experienced trauma.
Her areas of expertise with children include mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and trauma; neurodevelopmental issues such as ADHD; and adjustment issues such as grief and loss, divorce, and family blending. She is a Level 2 provider of Theraplay and also works with attachment issues including adoption, foster care, and attachment disruptions. She is a Level 1 provider of EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a modality used to help individuals reprocess traumatic events and foster a more regulated nervous system.
Since 2001 she has worked with diverse children and families across residential, educational, community mental health, and private practice settings and has spent the majority of her career providing bilingual services. Rachel uses a prescriptive, integrative approach with clients, tailoring her specific interventions and modalities to best meet the needs of each individual’s presenting concerns and goals. She is firmly rooted in both Humanistic/Existential and Feminist Theories and provides a Polyvagal Theory informed approach to therapy. She weaves in Attachment-Focused, Cognitive Behavioral, Internal Family Systems, Solutions Focused, Assertiveness Training, Therapeutic Drumming, and Mindfulness practices depending on the unique needs of her clients. Her goal is for clients to feel safe, seen, heard, held, deeply understood, radically accepted, and empowered by the therapeutic relationship. She aims for all clients to develop a deeper sense of self-awareness, insight, self-compassion, and to tend and befriend their nervous systems.
In her free time she enjoys spending time hiking, skiing, and visiting hot springs in the Colorado mountains. She is a devoted yoga and Pilates practitioner, avid drummer, and voracious reader.
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidates
Rachel Scott
MA, LPCC
Specializing in play therapy and other experiential approaches to work with children.
Rachel is strongly grounded in a Child-Centered Play Therapy approach and pulls from Synergetic Play Therapy to deepen her work with clients. She believes in the transformative power of play as the primary language through which children can process big feelings and traumatic experiences.
Rachel prioritizes meeting each client exactly where they are, establishing a sense of safety, and forming a solid therapeutic relationship. Playful, compassionate, and empathetic, Rachel enjoys interacting with and experiencing the playroom from the child’s perspective to understand their world and needs.
Rachel places importance on the relationship between therapist and the client’s parents/caregivers. She understands that they are the experts on their child and hold a necessary piece of the puzzle in generating lasting, sustainable change beyond the playroom. When working with Rachel, you can expect her to regularly meet with parents and caregivers to discuss themes, allow time for feedback, and support the integration of play therapy into everyday life.
Her areas of expertise and interest include: emotional regulation, anxiety, grief, gender expression and identity, and attachment.
Holly Marks
MA, LPCC, NCC
As a therapist, Holly adopts a person-centered approach that honors each person’s unique values, experiences, and cultural backgrounds. She empowers her clients through mindfulness, strength-based, and somatic-informed approaches which help individuals become aware of their emotions, celebrate their strengths, and learn skills to work through challenges. She helps her clients develop a deeper sense of self-compassion, insight, self-confidence, and the awareness to embrace and find balance within their own nervous systems.
Holly is also a teacher who works with students with social, emotional, and learning challenges. She has taught and mentored children and adolescents in different capacities for 15 years. She is passionate about creating safe and supportive spaces where her clients can be vulnerable, honest, and able to grow.
Holly grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and enjoys climbing 14ers, long-distance backpacking, photography, theatre, and raising a Beagle puppy with her partner Scott.
Makaela Bamonti
MA, LPCC
Makaela works with children in child-centered play therapy settings, adolescents, and individual adults. Makaela aims to foster collaboration with clients to weave different types of exploration and discovery into each session.
Makaela takes part in meeting humans where they are, illuminating their superpowers, and blending their uniqueness into the gifts they share with the world, honoring the intricately interconnected web of life through present-moment awareness. Makaela believes that we can turn our pain into sources of strength and aims to help clients understand the stories that fuel behaviors and find wisdom through their impact on our lives. Makaela approaches all of her clients with a sense of wonderment and curiosity at what will unfold in the sacred therapeutic container. She believes that therapy is meant to be constructed for each individual’s needs as everyone has their own stories, perspectives, and life experiences that shape who they are, and why they are. It is not about “what is wrong with you”, it is about “what has happened to you” and how we work with that. All of who you are is welcomed and accepted in each session.
“Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.” (A. Voskamp)
Nicole Loyd
MA, LPCC
Nicole understands that moving through this world can be difficult at times. She believes Therapy is a space where clients can bring their challenges and develop skills to work through them. As a somatic practitioner, Nicole utilizes the body (soma) in various ways. Her work with clients includes reuniting and tapping into the vast wisdom and information present within the body. Nicole believes that highlighting the body/mind connection can be a valuable resource, a source of information, and an entry point to understanding our past and present.
Nicole may be a good fit for you if you are looking to improve your relationships, regulate your nervous system, lean into rest, understand yourself better, have better boundaries, express creatively, tap into vulnerability and emotion, and move towards an empowered way of showing up in the world.
Nicole works with people experiencing a variety of challenges through a social justice lens. These challenges include but are not limited to ADHD, complex trauma, major life transitions, depression, and anxiety. Her approach utilizes many resources within somatic psychology, arts-based therapy, person-centered therapy, nature-based therapy, parts work, attachment theory, and yoga therapy.
Nicole tailors her sessions to each individual client based on their goals and circumstances. Clients have the space to be exactly who they are while exploring their growing edges. Outside of the therapeutic space, Nicole is a nature lover, music enthusiast, yoga practitioner, and poet. She is in her third year of a Masters of Body Psychotherapy degree at Naropa University.
Nicole wholeheartedly believes that therapy is a relationship based on trust. She thanks her clients for trusting her with their deep work and true selves and genuinely feels it is an honor to witness their process and be a part of their journey.
Interns
Kate Maegley
Master’s Level Student Therapist
Individual therapy for adults, adolescents, and children, play therapy.
I am a master’s-level graduate intern at Regis University studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Denver, and have experience supporting families to young children as a nanny and supporting survivors of sexual violence.
As a counselor, I’m honored to build relationships in which I walk alongside individuals through some of life’s darkest moments. I value authenticity, openness, and connection, and see the therapeutic space as an opportunity to build deeply healing relationships. My approach to counseling is rooted in Person-Centered Therapy, while bringing in tools from various therapeutic approaches to best serve the needs of each individual. My goal is to help individuals come to greater levels of self-awareness and to empower them to live more authentically in alignment with their true selves, creating meaningful lives.
I am committed to creating a safe space for folks of all backgrounds which affirm their many intersecting identities, and am especially passionate about working with members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Makayla Johnson
Master’s Level Student Therapist
Children, adolescents and adult therapy, play therapy.
Alona Pence
Master’s Level Student Therapist
Alona provides individual therapy to young adults and adults.
Alona is a master ’s-level graduate student studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regis University and a Gottman Level 1 practitioner. As a therapist, Alona operates from a person-centered perspective, honoring and making space for each person’s unique backgrounds and experiences. Her work is also informed by narrative, creative, strengths-based, mindfulness, and depth psychotherapeutic approaches.
Alona strongly believes that each person has a story to tell. While individuals all have unique ways of flourishing, life has many ways of disconnecting people from their inherent wisdom. Alona strives to walk beside clients, helping them connect with their inner voices and uncover their authentic truths while accepting the fluctuations and evolutions of life. Within therapy sessions, Alona welcomes clients to peel back layers and explore multiple aspects of themselves, including their histories, values, and dreams. She makes space for many approaches, including nature-based, somatic, creative arts activities, as well as traditional talk therapy, and is committed to working with clients to discover which therapeutic approaches most resonate with them.
Alona is passionate about working with young adults, individuals facing major life transitions, grief or bereavement, LGBTQ+ individuals of all ages, and relationships of all kinds. She welcomes clients of all faiths, ethnicities, relationship structures, genders, and sexualities.
Outside of the therapeutic space, Alona enjoys reading, writing, spending time in nature, playing music, trying out new recipes, and sharing meals with loved ones.
Liz Hartmann
Master’s Level Student Therapist
Children, adolescents and adult therapy; play therapy.
The Admin Team
Jamie Flower
Office Manager / Practice Coordinator
Jamie our dedicated Office Manager with a passion for holistic well-being. She ensures efficient operations and fosters collaboration with clients and staff to support a harmonious healing environment.