Licensed Professional Counselors
Addy Bethe
MA, LPC-S, Clinical Director, Founder
Couples and Family Therapy
Addy is passionate about couples therapy and has completed Level 3 Practicum Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Focusing on building friendship, effective conflict management, and creating shared meaning, Addy helps couples strengthen their connection on multiple levels. Offering couples workshops further extends her impact, providing a supportive environment for partners to learn and grow together.
When working with families, Addy skillfully navigates complex family dynamics—whether its helping families cope with disconnection, navigate co-parenting after a divorce, or guide adults in reconnecting with their family. Her keen ability to attune to the subtle ways family members influence each other’s behaviors and emotions helps families regain their balance.
As a parenting expert, Addy tailors positive parenting plans to each family’s unique needs. By providing practical tools to resolve challenges, she empowers families to build a stronger foundation for the future. Her focus on creating a harmonious home environment fosters an energy of cooperation and growth, making a significant difference in reducing stress and conflict.
Addy’s straight forward yet compassionate approach strikes a powerful balance. She’s not afraid to challenge what isn’t working, but she does so with empathy and understanding. This balance creates a safe space for clients to explore and grow.
In her free time, she enjoys the Colorado outdoors, traveling with her husband, and as a recent empty-nester finding time to connect with family.
Jennie Iverson
MA, LPC-S
Trauma informed counseling for all ages
Jennie brings a wealth of expertise to her practice specializing in trauma informed care and individual counseling for all ages. She is a clinical supervisor for graduate students and prelicensure candidates. She believes in guiding those to be successful in their life’s journey working with clients. Jennie’s approach is deeply rooted in evidence-based methods and she has completed extensive training in trauma informed approaches to effectively treat children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to her counseling sessions, Jennie also works in the school system and has vast experience with bridging school, home, and community in order to support the whole child.
Her experience encompasses working with individuals of all ages facing challenges such as transitions, depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma, in both school and private practice settings. Jennie’s approach is grounded in social emotional components like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and good decision-making. She values relationship building as a cornerstone to the therapeutic process. Her belief is through a nurturing and trusting relationship clients can be guided and at times challenged to reach their goals.
Rachel Bernard
MEd, MA, LPC-S, NCC, RPT
Trauma-informed therapy for children, teens, and adults
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
Holly Marks
MA, LPCC, NCC
Adolescent and adult counseling
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
Trauma focused counseling for adolescents and adults
Makaela works primarily with adolescents and individual adults, supporting those navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, sense of identity, or significant life transitions. Her goal is to collaboratively explore ways to infuse life with meaning, belonging, and a renewed sense of purpose. She recognizes that each person is a unique symphony of selves and sensitivities, aiming to weave exploration and discovery into every session.
Makaela meets clients where they are, illuminating their innate strengths and helping them blend their individuality into the gifts they share with the world. She honors the interconnectedness of life by fostering present-moment awareness and creating a space where clients feel truly seen and supported.
Believing in the transformative power of pain, Makaela helps clients understand the stories shaping their behaviors and uncover the wisdom within those experiences. She approaches therapy with wonder and curiosity, creating a sacred, collaborative space tailored to each individual’s needs. Makaela views therapy not as an exploration of “what is wrong with you,” but rather, “what has happened to you” and how to grow from it.
In Makaela’s sessions, all aspects of who you are, are welcomed and accepted. As author Ann Voskamp beautifully states: “Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.”
Nicole Loyd
MA, LPCC
Somatic counseling approach to trauma and ADHD
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 earned her 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 Intern
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.
Alona Pence
Master’s Level Intern
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