About Libby

For 30 years, Libby has maintained a passion to see the brokenhearted come to a greater experience of love. She has been trained on many approaches including over 20 years coaching in heart ministry, as well as a Master’s Degree in Counseling; with Licensure in both Addictions and Professional Counseling. All of this aimed at supporting restoration of each one’s true heart after various traumas, losses, and most of all, relational disappointments and pain.

Physiological dysregulation, pain due to attachment rupture, struggles to attune with self or others, shame, powerlessness, depression, anxiety, dissociation, addiction, identity issues, circular thinking and a loss of a sense of agency, she believes are connected to hidden beliefs or sequences of belief, which often feel inaccessible.  Through internal curiosity without judgment story work in groups, and support to increase relational capacity, firmly held beliefs are about to be challenged. Libby partners to guide individuals to see how experiences in younger years brought about defensive postures that, if not initially attended by wise adults with grace, perpetuate relational brokenness.

Offering kindness and greater connection to your own heart, as so many experts affirm, is the pathway to greater trust in relationship both within and with others. .

ACADEMIC AND CAREER HISTORY 

  • BA in Human Biology from Stanford University 

  • Career as a missionary 1991 to 2006 with a focus on personal and group discipleship, heart transformation, as well as providing cultural education, experiences and trainings.

  • MA in Clinical Counseling at University of Northern Colorado, 2011 followed by 8.5 years as a Licensed Clinical Counselor in Colorado, both in Addictions and as a Professional Counselor  

  • In 2020, she decided to drop her licenses, maintaining the principles, but no longer under state requirements, due to her passion for community.

Trainings and Influences

  • Healing the Wounded Heart Seminar, Dr. Dan Allender, 1996

  • Introduction to Biblical Counseling, University of the Nations, HI, 6 months, 2005

  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Certified, 2005

  • Trauma Model Therapy, 2010, Colin Ross

  • Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 2012, Daniel W. Smith, Ph.D.

  • Reaching Children Through Experiential Play Therapy, 2011, Byron & Carol Norton, Ed.D.

  • License in Addictions Counseling, approximately 250 hrs. of trainings & tests. 2013, State of Colorado.

  • License in Professional Counseling, Groups, Individuals and Couples, over 700 supervised hours, 2013.

  • Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change, 2014, Bennie Lombard, MA, CAC III

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level II, 2015, John & Julie Gottman

  • Trauma and Attachment: Effective Strategies for Helping Challenging Clients, 2018, Terry Levy

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level II, 2015, John & Julie Gottman

  • Jefferson County Drug Court Director of Treatment and Counseling Supervisor, National Institute for Change, 2014-6.

  • Trauma and Attachment: Effective Strategies for Helping Challenging Clients, 2018, Terry Levy

  • Immanuel Approach and Pandora’s Problems Trainings, 2018, Life Model Works, Jim and Kitty Wilder

  • HeartSync Ministries International, 2 years, Qualified, 2019, Rev. Andrew Miller, LCSW

  • Fern and Audrey, LLC.  Year 1: The Treasure of Being Me; Year 2: Trauma that Hid Me. 2024-5.

  • The Center for Being Known. Group Facilitator, Dr. Curt Thompson, 2025.

  • Spiritual Abuse Foundations for Professionals, BeEmboldened.com Naomi Wright, 2025.

    Modalities I was trained to utilize, but no longer use:

    EMDR, Deliverance, Restoring the Foundations, Sozo, and Splankna, and Theophostics.