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Contact Information:
Parker, CO
303-317-3088
des@parkercounseling.org

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Dr. Desiree DelMonte, ThD

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”  ----Norman Vincent Peale.

Desiree’s professional academics include a doctorate in Theology from Holos University Graduate Seminary, Fair Grove, Missouri.  Under the tutelage and supervision of  Dr. C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., she conducted the first randomized, controlled 6-month clinical study of the effects of Nutrienergetics Systems (NES) on stress.  Interested in the energetic and transpersonal aspects of the person, her other coursework included therapies used to address siginficant emotional, mental, and spiritual counseling techniques to shift life’s bumps in the road.  Ordained as a minister with the International Science of Mind Church for Spiritual Healing, Dr. DelMonte sees a variety of clients for myriad issues, compassionately and prudently providing spiritual support. 

Interested in mainstream psychotherapy, Desiree is currently enrolled in the Colorado School for Family Therapy for licensure as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT), certified addictions counselor (CAC).  Proficient in EMDR therapy, sandplay, art therapy, and regression therapy, she continues to add to the tools and techniques in her repertoire in order to truly provide the best in counseling and psychotherapy.  

As a child and family investigator, a role prescribed in Colorado statutes that requires a judicial order of appointment Dr. DelMonte is especially adept at thoroughly investigating and making  recommendations to the Court in the areas of Parenting Time and Parental Responsibility.

Working in the corporate environment for over 29 years, Desiree has attained a number of professional certificates which include Project Management Professional (PMP), ITIL Foundations Certification, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microst Certified Trainer (MCT).  As a retired U.S. Navy veteran, Desiree has extensive experience with people from diverse cultures and ethnic backgrounds and has provided counseling and guidance to persons of all ages and religious backgrounds. 

For most of us, change is not easy.  We live in the patterns we’ve created and find comfort in the familiar, no matter how difficult or dysfunctional.  Desiree decided to become a psychotherapist because she felt that she could help facilitate change in people’s lives, mixing both traditional therapy with complementary therapy to provide clients with the tools to grow. 

Professional Affiliations:
Associate Member, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists
Member, Project Management Institute
Member, EMDRIA                                 
Member, Sandplay Therapists of America



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Contact Information for Kris:
Parker, Colorado. 
303-317-3088
kris@parkercounseling.org

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Kris Kistler, CHt

"Absorb what is useful" ---- Bruce Lee 1940-1973

Kris is a Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHt) with training based at the Denver School for Hynotherapy. A retired Firefighter and Paramedic, Kris brings a wealth of personal knowledge and experience in dealing first hand with both trauma victims and First Responder personnel to our practice.

Kris has a deep interest in helping clients suffering from short or long term trauma memories, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and abuse in addition to helping clients with generalized anxiety, depression, stress reduction, smoking cessation, weight control, and sports performance enhancement/motivation.

With over 10 years of forensics and investigative experience, Kris frequently works closely with law enforcement to provide services related to on-going investigations, and also to support victims and survivors of crime or catastrophic events in their emotional and physical healing process.

Kris has worked as an industry leader in the Information Technology field for over 15 years providing services to many of the top Fortune 500 companies. In addition to his CHt Board Certification, Kris has achieved numerous other professional technical certifications which include Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), ITIL Foundations Certification, and SANS Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC). Kris can understand and empathize with today's busy professionals and parents trying to juggle work, school, and family against the stressors of daily living.

With a background and specialized training in Cognitive Therapy, Reality Therapy, Regression and Past Life Therapy, in addition to other traditional tools, Kris enjoys bringing his love of technology and cutting edge solutions together with well researched and modern methods of therapy. This results in a unique combination of tools and methods combined for a synergistic effect that are customized individually for each client.

By combining traditional therapeutic techniques with the hypnotic trance state, many client issues can be overcome in a much shorter timeframe than with traditional therapies alone. This can provide clients with a new hope of resolution, even those with long standing issues or those that have been resistant to other forms of treatment. 

Professional Affiliations:
American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE)
International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA)
Colorado Counseling Asscociation (CCA)
International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2)

 


Contact Information for Jessica:
Parker, Colorado. 
303-886-5556
jessica@parkercounseling.org

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Jessica Russell, MAC, LPP, CFI, CSST

"We must become the change we want to see."   ~Ghandi

Jessica works with both adult individuals and adolescents. Her therapeutic orientation is integrative, allowing her to draw from more than one psychological theory and technique. While Jessica has been trained in Transpersonal Psychology, she also uses Existential & Psychodynamic modalities. Jessica has ran groups for high risk adolescent girls focusing on her training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.  Jessica believes each client is unique which is why specific techniques used in therapy will always be tailored to meet the client's needs in order to get the client where they want to be.

Licenses & Certifications:

~M.A. Counseling, Regis University, 2010
~Certified Systemic Sandplay Therapist, CO School for Family Therapy
~Child & Family Investigator, CO School for Family Therapy 
~B.S. Business & Marketing, Upper Iowa University, 2002

Area of Passion: Grief and Loss Counseling
Jessica was trained in Jungian counseling around grief and loss issues. As human beings we are surrounded by loss on a daily basis. Such personal losses could include loss of a child, parent, relative or friend. Other cultural losses include job loss, moving, loss of a pet and loss of fertility. These areas all fall under grief and loss and this is Jessica's main area of concentration as it relates to working with individuals and families. She has volunteered for organizations like Mount Evans Hospice and Home Health Care over the past three years and is also a volunteer buddy at Camp Comfort every summer. Please see their website for more information if your child has gone through a recent loss and lives in Colorado.
You can learn more at: http://www.mtevans.org/campInfo.htm

Career Counseling:
Career counseling is Jessica's personal passion.  She was trained at Regis University in Denver, CO allowing her to utilize different tests to see what works best for the individual looking to make a change in their career path. After having worked in corporate settings for over twelve years, and having obtained her undergraduate degree in Business, Jessica pursued formal training in Career Counseling, integrating her love for working with professional adults with her Psychotherapy Practice. She has worked for large corporations holding Management positions in Marketing, Business Strategy, Sales and Engineering. Jessica enjoys leading groups around:  Renewing Passion for Career Paths, Reduction in Force and the Effects of Employee Morale, as well as Imminent Change in the Workplace. Jessica has also been influential in the final stages of the hiring process in both medium and large sized companies.

Sand Tray Work:
In addition to Jessica's integrative approach, Jessica offers her clients the opportunity to make use of Sand Play as a therapeutic technique. By using sand tray, the client uses a large, carefully chosen collection of miniatures to build a scene in a sand tray under Jessica's guidance. From here, the client explores his/her personal meaning of the scene. Using this unconscious tool, the healing comes from 'within the client' and a very deep level of work begins. Sand tray is a useful mode of therapy for children and adults, and was derived by Dora Kalff in the 1950's and 60's.  Sand tray methods can also be used with groups of people and has specifically been found helpful for the grieving.  

Professional Affiliations & Memberships:
American Counseling Association, since 2008 (ACA)
Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)
Colorado Counseling Association, since 2009 (CCA)
The Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
National Career Development Association (NCDA)