Denver Southeast Office Counselors
As counselors at Denver Christian Counseling (DCC), 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 DCC are each independent mental health professionals, with their own private practices. While DCC has carefully selected each counselor, they are not employees of DCC but rather are independent counseling businesses.
(To learn more about the below counselors, click on their name)
Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist
Kevin Leapley has extensive experience, training and education in sexual addiction counseling. He is an expert and specialist in the Sex Addiction counseling. Kevin is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and received his specialized training from Dr. Patrick Carnes. His counseling focus is sexual addiction recovery.
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.
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.
Shannon Rants, MA, LPC
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.
Rachel Moses, MA, LPC
Rachel is passionate about helping individuals know themselves better, to experience both inner- and interpersonal-
growth through their brokenness and their strengths. She works with teens, children, grief and loss, depression, relationships, trauma, aspergers in children, and spiritual issues.
Garry Nutter, MA, NCC
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.
Abby Blacklock, MA, NCC
Abby enjoys working with adolescents, couples, and women. Abby’s goal in counseling is to help her clients gain a better quality of life and interpersonal well-being while acquiring emotional and spiritual health. For Abby, counseling is about people processing through life together. Her counseling style involves allowing freedom for laughter and tears, conversation and silence, logic and emotion.
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!
Anne Gonsoulin, LPC, MFT, Certified Sex Therapist
Anne has 18 years of experience providing both relationship and sexuality therapy. She works with with individuals and couples. Anne's emphasis is on helping people develop the type of adult intimacy that brings self-respect and meaning to their lives, both physically and spiritually.
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.
Trisha Swinton, MA, LMFT, Licensed Professional Counselor
Trisha works with adults, adolescents, children and families.
She also works with people who are suffering from depression, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders, and victims of abuse. Trisha assists her clients to determine underlying fears, gaining insight into the cause of the fear and anxiety, and beginning the healing process.
Linnaya Widhalm, NCC, CACII
Linnaya is a Certified Addictions Counselor II
and has five years experience working with families and individuals with chemical abuse and dependency
issues. Linnaya also works with marriages, substance abuse and dependency, codependency, depression, life skills, grief and sloss, teenagers, and eating disorders.
There are two ways to setup an appointment with one of our counselors: 1) Fill out the Contact Form and a counselor will call you with 24-hours; 2) Call our offices at 303-933-5800.