photo by Gary Alsum
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
Welcome
Welcome to Hope Heals Counseling. We are glad you are here because being here is evidence that you are poised to move forward in your life. You are experiencing the stirrings of hope, and that hope will lead to your healing.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

Carolyn Newman

Shar Alsum
Who we are
We are professional counselors with 17 years of training and counseling experience, and have been co-counseling together for 16 of those years. We have seen how powerful it can be for a client to discover hope in the midst of incredible pain, and we have witnessed many lives change as that hope gave birth to transformation. We know that choosing hope can change your life, and we are ready to equip you for your journey into the healing that will come as hope emerges in your life. No matter how desperate your situation feels right now, there IS hope, and we will help you find it.
Our Credentials
- We are Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC).
- We received our master’s degree in counseling at Colorado Christian University.
- We were lay counselors for 9 years before pursuing our master’s degree.
- We are members of the American Counseling Association.
- We are members of the Colorado Counseling Association.
- We are trained Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioners.