Apex Counseling
Discover a life you desire while experiencing peace and contentment.
At Apex Counseling, we seek to guide and support you through your counseling journey.
Counseling is a process toward understanding yourself and how you operate.
Discovering and identifying values helps develop an integrated worldview.
Learning to live within our values and prioritizing choosing the life we want to live increases harmony and serenity in our day-to-day interactions.
Counseling is a lifelong voyage of continually recovering one’s life and helps enhance the tools utilized by adding diverse coping strategies.
As we trust and listen to ourselves with compassion, we allow wounds to heal and embrace a life of vitality and passion.
Discover a healthier you.
Although we live busy lives, we can live a balanced and embodied life while creating peaceful spaces in our daily life. Even if nothing really “bad” is going on, it is ok to seek support in our lives that we feel we “should” have everything under control. You may be experiencing anxious feelings, lack of sleep, overwhelming or irrational emotional responses, or persistent tiredness when engaging in your daily routine, social activities, or viewing social media and news.
I am here to aid you in your journey to discover how to reclaim peace and contentment in your daily life.
Clients now have the opportunity to receive support via HIPAA-compliant telehealth and in-person counseling sessions. I can select from various empirically researched treatment methodologies during free consultation sessions to offer the best treatment. By supporting clients, they can maintain a peaceful and purposeful lifestyle throughout their lifespan. During sessions, I seek to restore the mind-body connection to allow negative associations to be released through the nervous system, which helps clients gain awareness, alleviate symptom severity, and reduce stress.
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best”
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Psychiatrist
I incorporate my theoretical orientation by encouraging clients to evaluate how they would like to employ their choices and prioritize their values.
I help clients construct relationships and a worldview that offers peace and compassion for themselves, humanity, and the broken state of the world.
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During the intake session, I help clients identify their values, which helps me understand how they view their current reality and the constructs of their worldview. Helping clients’ cognitive representations reflect reality accurately and in accord with values is an essential process within sessions.
I conceptualize psychological concerns as an internal processing distortion that requires the counselor to help distinguish and modify such reasoning. Therefore, Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are action-oriented therapeutic techniques that I use to motivate clients toward the change they desire and overcome obstacles that may arise when pursuing therapeutic goals.
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It is a partnership
A Therapeutic Alliance
Reaching out for support can be intimidating; however, investing in yourself is always worth the commitment. As we journey through life, each person can prepare, develop, and change according to reality. As the counselor, I consider myself a guide who highlights exploration, compassion, and curiosity along the voyage of life.
Within sessions, I function from an understanding that humans can increase self-awareness which enhances one’s ability to take ownership of their choices and destiny.
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Meet
Shawnna Stuntz
I have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling from Colorado Christian University. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) in Colorado. As a professional counselor, I will support the client in discovering and solving complex life issues by guiding clients to empirical resources and techniques. I operate primarily from a client-centered approach which can integrate a wide range of therapeutic strategies and techniques.
Specialized Training & Certifications
QUALIFICATIONS
I am a life transition specialist whose background includes diversity acculturation training, clinical counseling, motivational interviewing, toxic shame training, neuropsychology, and medication administration and psychopharmacology implementation within sessions.
She has advanced training in assessing and managing suicide risk, trauma and crisis, grief and loss processing, neurobiological feedback, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). I have enhanced expertise in career planning, development, and transitions, including burnout prevention in the workplace. Lastly, I have over eight years of experience working with teens and young adults in a pastoral setting with advanced leadership training.
"I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story"
Irvin D. Yalom
American psychiatrist
cost PER SESSION
I offer safe, affordable, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed counseling to Coloradans across the state via HIPAA-compliant Telehealth. Sliding scale offered on all services, please inquire for more details. Available Services Include:
- $225 per Diagnostic Evaluation Appointment
- (70 min session).
- $150 per Individual/Couples/Family Appointment
- (50 min session).
Apex Counseling Services (ACS) policy is to provide quality behavioral health services to all persons in need of care. If clients want to receive counseling services from an LPCC, their insurance may not provide coverage. In that case, we offer counseling sessions at a discounted rate. However, the clients are responsible for verifying which providers are in-network and the current policies when seeking counseling services on a sliding scale based on or outside their current network.
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Statement of Theoretical Orientation
I will explore Meaning-Centered Philosophical-Psychological Counseling (MCPPC) as an integrative theoretical creation from a logo-existential perspective.
Philosophical-Psychological Counseling (PPC), a creative integrative orientation that utilizes both philosophical and psychological models as a synthesized hybrid practice, is my preferred conceptual base (Egbekpalu, 2022).
My tactics to follow the plan God has for me can be sifted with a marred cognizance “…it is often the currents beneath the surface of consciousness that have the most power and bring the most troubles in personal adjustment and interpersonal relationships” (McMinn & Campbell, 2017, p. 228).
While maintaining a logo-existential orientation, one must redesign and prioritize values such as living as an embodied individual meant for relationships with others (Tellinghuisen & Moes, 2014).
I incorporate my theological orientation by encouraging clients to evaluate how they would like to employ their choices and prioritize their values.
Statement of Theological Integration
Additional information
Resources
Apex Counseling would like to provide an inside look at the paperwork you will fill out during the intake session and additional handouts to help you understand the counseling process. Please click on the link to see additional information and resources for your convenience.
Resources
Workshops
Throughout the year, Apex Counseling provides various psychoeducational seminars to the community to help enhance local and global relationships. Please see the links below for more information or to book a psychoeducational seminar.
Rolling with Resistance
Burnout Prevention
Career Pathways
Cultural Diversity & Acculturation
Services
Individual Therapy
Individual sessions are one-on-one with a counselor and seek to provide personalized treatment plans.
Couple Therapy
We offer couples counseling weekly or as weekend intensives. Couple sessions are designed to develop a treatment plan for the couple and seek to grow and strengthen the partnership. All couple sessions require both partners to have an individual counselor and are conducted in a quadratic style (two partners and two counselors).
Family Therapy
Family therapy is conducted from a systems approach and seeks to enhance the family's functioning.
Group Therapy
Group sessions are open to 12-15 clients seeking intensive treatment around specific areas of concern, such as grief and loss, depression and anxiety, or recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Is apex counseling accepting new clients and do they offer online appointment requests?
Apex Counseling is currently accepting new clients and can be booked by clicking here. Apex Counselingalso offers a free consultation.
Does Apex Counseling offer telehealth appointments?
Apex Counseling does offer telehealth appointments. You can request to book a telehealth appointment with us by clicking here.
What areas does Shawnna Stuntz specialize in?
Shawnna Stuntz specializes in the following areas: Abandonment, Abortion Issues, Adjustment Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Racial Identity, Social Anxiety, and Trauma.
Where is Apex Counseling office located?
Apex Counseling exclusively offers virtual appointments via telehealth until JANUARY 2023. In-Person sessions will be offered in Arvada, Littleton, and Golden.
Does Apex Counseling accept insurance, if so, what types?
Apex Counseling does not accept insurance, however you may want to reach out to them directly to inquire about sliding scale options.
What is Apex Conseling rate per therapy session?
Shawnna Stuntz's out of pocket fee structure is a follows:
- Counseling ($50 - $280)
What treatment approaches and services does Shawnna Stuntz offer?
Shawnna Stuntz offers the following approaches and services to their clients:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Person-Centered
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Emotionally Focused
- Neurofeedback
Supervision & Mentor Meets
Supervision
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Mentor Meets
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Consultations
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Careers
Family Counseling
Do you have a passion for helping families heal? Click here to fill out an application now!
Couple Counseling
Do you have experience helping couples heal and grown closer together? Click here to inquire about upcoming opportunities!
Individual Counseling
Do you enjoy helping individuals reach their therapeutic goals? Click here to find out more!
Business Hours
Please check the updated holiday & training hours here.
Tuesday-Friday
9:00 AM- 7:00 PM
couple therapy WEEKEND INTENSIVES & Retreats by request only
Offering telehealth sessions
Arvada, Golden, and Littleton offices open in JANUARY 2023!
Discover a life you desire while experiencing peace and contentment.
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our locations opening JANUARY 2023!
Arvada, CO 80002
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14143 Denver West Parkway, Suite 100, Golden, CO 80401
Littleton, CO 80120
apexcounselingservices.co@gmail.com