**All Therapists are independent practitioners.
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, LPC (clinical psych, MA Somatic body-centered psychology). Certified EMDR/EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Arielle provides specialized treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and facilitation/consultation for trainees in EMDR. She offers a client centered approach for adults and children. Specializations include: play therapy, collaborative care for chronic illness/chronic pain, women’s health during pregnancy, and postpartum. Arielle (as a certified yoga instructor) has taught for: Naropa University , University of Colorado, and the City of Boulder. She integrates mindfulness meditation and yoga into therapy. Psychotherapy: Arrielle combines the intuitive art of therapy with the knowledge of effective techniques and interventions. Her 14 years of experience includes helping people cope effectively with grief, depression, anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and bipolar mood disorders. She specializes in working with pregnant/postpartum women experiencing adjustment difficulties or postpartum depression. Child and teen work helps improve self-esteem and social skills, develop coping tools for difficult life experience, and find healthy ways to express feelings. Arielle provides nondirective play therapy to assist young children to express themselves, access inner resiliency, and resolve trauma. She supports parents whose children express anxiety, challenging behaviors, and emotional problems.
Psychological Testing: Comprehensive testing assesses cognitive/personality functioning,
academic achievement, learning disabilities, diagnostic clarification, and includes treatment recommendations. Play-based assessment
for preschool age children is available as part of a Trans-Disciplinary Team with other services providers at the Colorado Therapies
and Aquatic Center.
Kenneth Suslak, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with forty years of experience working with children, families, couples, and adults. He has directed mental health clinics, served private practice clients, and taught doctoral level students. He is a core professor at the Union Institute and University, a distance learning graduate program for midlife adults. He serves as an international consultant in countries where children have been impacted by war, political violence and social unrest helping to set up programs to meet the many needs of these traumatized children and their families. He loves supervising other therapists and imparting his knowledge, experience, and compassion to others. Ken has extensive training and experience in “traditional” and “non-traditional” approaches and has been the co-director of the training program at the Gestalt Institute of Denver and the Rockies. He utilizes non-verbal expressive play therapy as well as family systems approaches to working with children. He specializes in the impact of separation, loss, abuse and other trauma on children and adults. He believes that we all have an innate capacity to grow and develop, that trauma and other life experiences interfere with that natural process, and views clients as being stuck rather than as sick. He lives in the foothills of Boulder with his wife and occasionally his grandson. Ken is available for therapy, assessment, and supervision appointments at: 303-817-9963. email: suslak@comcast.net
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST Holly Brown, Ph.D is a licensed clinical psychologist with 30-years of experience working with children and families. She graduated from the University of Denver and has provided multi-modal psychotherapy to behaviorally involved, multi-handicapped, head injured, and psychiatrically involved children, adolescents, and adults. She has worked in residential treatment, public and private schools, and outpatient settings. Holly has overseen a female head injury acute care unit, designed a therapeutic residential treatment program, and supervised many psychologists, therapists and behavior specialists. In the public schools and across many states, Holly has helped to developed a district wide protocol & training program for responding to violence and threats, provided comprehensive psychological evaluation services, developed district protocol to improve parent advocacy, acted as a parent advocate, provided crisis intervention, supervised and mentored new teachers and interns, and provided comprehensive behavioral services. Seven years ago, Holly opened The Center for Learning and Psychological Services, an outpatient practice in Portsmouth RI with over fifteen providers. She is now bringing those services to Colorado as well. She provides comprehensive psychological/neuropsychological evaluation, counseling, parent advocacy, risk assessment, crisis evaluations, and behavioral and learning support services to children, adolescents, adults and their families. She has extensive training and experience in multi modal therapeutic approaches and she is well trained in empirically based interventions. She specializes in treatment for; behavior management, anxiety, parenting strategies, improving memory, social skills training, anger management, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and conflict resolution. Her pre-doctoral & post-doctoral work has been completed at CM Rehabilitation Center for dual diagnosed children and head injured adults, St. Vrain Valley School District, The Community Infant Project providing diagnostic & psychotherapy to at-risk families, and The Blindbrook School District. Holly believes that health and wellness takes a community of support. Holly lives in Boulder County with her husband and they have three children and a number of pets. Holly is available for therapy, assessment, and supervision appointments at: 720-883-8849. email: hsbrown3@comcast.net.
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