Kevin specializes in therapy using a solution-focused approach. He has worked extensively with adolescents, single-parent families, blended families, and court mandated clients. He has provided supervision for over seven years using a model that emphasizes a strength-based, ecological, empirically validated approach stressing family therapy and parent training. During the past 10 years, he has provided training for therapists in MST Therapy and related treatment models.

Kevin's Background

Counseling

Kevin received his under-graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado in 1993. He worked for four years in individual finance and small business finance and operations management. Concurrently, Kevin began a fifteen-year coaching career with several local high schools. Through this involvement, Kevin discovered his passion for working with adolescents and families and returned to school earning his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Denver in 1998. Kevin had experiences in school social work and agency practice prior to working as a Multi-Systemic Family Therapist. After a year and a half as a therapist, Kevin was promoted to the MST Supervisor role. Kevin became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2005 and a Certified Addictions Counselor in 2007. He has provided training in the Multi-Systemic Therapy model for the University of Denver, Denver Family Institute, and Center for Effective Interventions.

Kevin specializes in therapy using a solution-focused approach. He has worked extensively with adolescents, single-parent families, blended families, and court mandated clients. He has provided supervision for over seven years using a model that emphasizes a strength-based, ecological, empirically validated approach stressing family therapy and parent training. During the past 10 years, he has provided training for therapists in MST Therapy and related treatment models.

Supervision

Kevin enjoys providing supervision and helping therapists improve their knowledge base and in session micro skills. Kevin provides supervision with the understanding that he works best within a solution-focused framework. He is also versed in motivational interviewing, strategic family therapy, structural family therapy, behavioral parent training, dialectical behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. He offers a strength-based perspective that is grounded in reality. He helps clinicians see that each session with a client contains multiple points of possible intervention, which lead to clinical choices. Kevin helps therapists choose appropriate interventions by assisting them in identifying which framework is the best fit for that client at that point of time. Josh Hahn described Kevin's supervision as follows: "Kevin has taught me more about the field of counseling than any other person I have been around and continues to offer great insight into difficult cases."