Meet Your Compassionate Therapists in Arvada
At 70 West Counseling, our mission has always been clear: to provide accessible mental health care in Arvada. Originally established as Crossroads Counseling over 28 years ago, the practice is here to help you Build a Bridge to Mental Wellness, One Step at a Time. Furthermore, financial barriers shouldn’t prevent anyone from finding healing.
Serving the greater Colorado Front Range, 70 West Counseling offers a welcoming space for transformation where compassionate support meets evidence-based practice. We invite you to Meet Your Compassionate Therapists in Arvada to begin your work. Today, our training program has helped over 100 counselors develop their skills across Colorado, underscoring our commitment to the future of mental health care. Rooted in Christian values yet deeply committed to honoring all belief systems, the faith-sensitive team provides a nonjudgmental environment where you decide whether and how to integrate spirituality into your healing.
Whether you are navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, or relationship challenges, the diverse team of licensed professionals and interns utilizes specialized approaches—including EMDR and Interpersonal Neurobiology—to support individuals, couples, and families.
Beyond traditional therapy, 70 West Counseling fosters community through free support groups for grief, boundaries, and codependency. Ultimately, this ensures that if you feel overwhelmed or stuck, you never have to walk alone.
Meet our Founder and CEO
Maryellen Stipe, MA, LPC
70 West Counseling began as Crossroads Counseling over 28 years ago and was founded with a vision to serve the community, making counseling affordable for all. Today, our training program has helped over 100 counselors develop their skills across Colorado.
Maryellen Stipe LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Maryellen specializes in couples counseling, anxiety, and depression through an integrative approach, utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), positive psychology, and Family Systems. Her sessions focus on self-discovery, clarifying core values, and highlighting existing personal strengths to cultivate resilience. She empowers clients to create a path toward an authentic life and achieve lasting, meaningful change.
Kim Logan, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Kim specializes in ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Women’s Issues through an evidence-based, integrative approach, utilizing CBT, DBT, and EMDR. Her sessions prioritize building a judgment-free, safe therapeutic relationship where clients can be authentic and vulnerable. She helps clients discover what is keeping them from living their best life, guiding them to deeper insights, meaningful growth, and healing.
Connor Holien
Counseling Intern
Connor specializes in Anxiety, Depression, Relationship Challenges, and Grief & Loss using a holistic, integrative approach, drawing from Existential and Cognitive-Behavioral therapies. He creates a safe, supportive space built on compassion and unconditional regard. His sessions empower clients to explore values, reframe beliefs, and re-author their story to achieve lasting, meaningful change.
Marissa Meyer, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Marissa Meyer specializes in Anxiety and Depression, Grief and Loss, Women’s Issues, and Life Transitions through an integrative lens, blending approaches like CBT, DBT, and Existential Therapy. Her sessions utilize a whole-person approach, focusing on exploring life’s purpose and core values, and on building emotional resilience, empowering clients to flourish and live fully and freely.
Jesse Spaun, LPCC
Licensed Profession Counselor Candidate
Jesse specializes in Anxiety and Depression, Couples Therapy, Men’s Issues, and Codependency through an integrative approach, applying CBT, Family Systems Theory, Person-Centered, Existential, and Psychodynamic modalities. His sessions are focused on fostering a transformative relationship in which he comes alongside clients to walk with them through life’s struggles, believing that they deserve to feel great and achieve meaningful growth.
Laura Smith
Counseling Intern
Laura specializes in Anxiety and Depression, Stress and Burnout, Mindfulness, and Building Healthy Boundaries using a strengths-based, integrative approach. She utilizes Narrative Therapy to help clients re-author their stories, as well as Mindfulness and Grounding practices. Her sessions, which are informed by her background as a certified yoga teacher, focus on the mind-body connection, aligning life with core values, and fostering unconditional positive regard to empower clients toward flourishing and meaningful change
Kevin Clark, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Kevin Clark specializes in Aging and Life Transitions, Anxiety and Depression, Eating Disorders, and Couples and Family Issues through modalities like Narrative Therapy, CBT, and Gottman-Informed Couples Work. His sessions focus on discovering a greater understanding of self, aligning life with core values, and exploring the deeper questions of life’s meaning, empowering clients to create lasting, meaningful change.
Dan Meyer, LPCC
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
Dan Meyer specializes in Trauma & PTSD, Grief & Loss, Anxiety & Depression, and Emotional Dysregulation, working from a trauma-informed, client-centered approach. He integrates Narrative Therapy, CBT, and powerful, evidence-based modalities, EMDR and IPNB. His sessions are focused on creating a safe and brave space for clients to process distressing experiences, reclaim their life story, and shift focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” to promote hope and lasting healing.