Elizabeth and Leslie started Willow Grove based on their immense passion as well as their extensive experience working with healthcare professionals including physicians, residents, nurses, pharmacists, PA’s, PT’s, and AMC students.
Since 2018 they have cultivated a strong team of providers who bring expert care to the community and experience in specialtized areas including EMDR, Sex Therapy, Mindfulness, and Medication Management.
Elizabeth is a Colorado native dedicated to serving individuals across the life span. She obtained her nursing degree in 2006 from Regis University.
She spent her nursing career working at Children’s Hospital Colorado throughout the hospital. After several years, she went to the University of Colorado to obtain her Master’s in Nursing with a specialty in psychiatry.
In 2013, she started working in private practice to help children and adults with therapy and medication management. In 2015, she joined the University of Colorado Student Mental Health team at the Anschutz Medial Campus. There, Elizabeth developed a passion for supporting healthcare professionals throughout their education and practice.
In 2017, Elizabeth decided to focus on her private practice to bring all that she has learned to broader patient population. She has a unique perspective about what it means to care for the caregiver, being a caregiver with a family herself. Her therapy style adjusts for the needs of each individual patient to provide the most effective care possible. She has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults providing effective medication management while keeping in mind the whole person.
Elizabeth enjoys cooking, eating the things she cooks, has a guilty pleasure for young adult literature and feels very passionately about the 3rd Harry Potter book.
Lori-Ann’s passion is for helping others work through the stressors that can sometimes make life difficult to navigate. Her work focuses on giving patients the tools to find their authentic selves and tap into the joy each of us holds within ourselves using a variety of empirically validated treatments.
Lori-Ann hails from New England where she earned her MSW in Clinical Social Work from Boston College in 2000. Lori-Ann’s initial clinical practice work took her to Denver, Colorado and later to SW GA where she began working with generalized adult and military populations and their families.
Lori-Ann has specialized in work with trauma, anxiety, depression, and various sexual disorders.
Lori-Ann returned to Colorado in 2013 to combine her clinical practice work with research initiatives involving clinical healthcare providers, which is her second passion. She has conducted social policy, forensic, and military based research throughout her career. Her clinical and research experience with multiple adult populations as well as her training in CBT from the Beck Institute on Cognitive Therapy, EMDR from the EMDR Institute and Prolonged Exposure from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety make her particularly well suited to treat trauma, anxiety disorders and depressive disorders amongst healthcare, veteran and general adult populations.
Lori-Ann joined the Willow Grove Mental Health practice in the fall of 2018 following work at Fort Carson and the Anschutz Medical Campus. In her free time Lori-Ann enjoys travel, live music, traveling for live music, and spending time with her two pups. She does all this with traditional New England Charm.
Anna is most fulfilled when she is connecting with and helping others, which drove her to get a dual Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan.
The thread throughout Anna’s work is helping people lead their life with meaning, where they feel good about themselves. Anna's approach to working with clients includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Behavioral Activation, and Motivational Interviewing.
Anna has worked domestically and internationally in settings ranging from after-school and wilderness therapy programs to outpatient and HIV clinics. Through these experiences she developed specialties working with sexual health and intimacy concerns, intimate partner violence, trauma, emergency responders, and adolescents. Through Anna’s undergraduate coursework and proceeding extensive travel in Latin America she has become fluent in Spanish.
Anna moved to Colorado in 2016 so she could have more opportunities to rock climb, hike and ski than possible in her native Michigan (which she still holds dear to her heart). She joined Willow Grove part time in the Spring of 2019.
Erin moved to Denver in the summer of 2020 having spent most of her life as a northern Californian.
Her earlier experiences working in behavioral research on HIV prevention led her to a career in nursing. She attended UCSF where she finished her master’s degree in nursing in 2008. She was trained both as an adult primary care nurse practitioner and also as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, which was particularly helpful when she started her first nursing job in a very busy ED in Washington DC. She found herself gravitating towards psychiatric care and decided to practice mental health exclusively.
Since that time she has worked in mental health in various roles and settings, both inpatient and outpatient, in high acuity contexts as well as in primary care and prevention. Her most recent work was providing integrated behavioral health care to adult outpatients attending primary care clinics in Santa Cruz, CA. There she worked closely with MDs, NPs and others, across various specialties, in order to increase utilization and improve outcomes in behavioral health care. This work led her to her current interest in caring for healthcare providers themselves; she feels strongly that the cultures of medicine and nursing could benefit from greater awareness around the needs of caregivers, whose mental health can go overlooked.
She also has a particular interest in working with women, transitional age youth, and LGBTQI populations. She has experience working with medically complicated/fragile patients and those with co-occurring substance use disorders.
When she is not working, you can find her on a yoga mat, watching an independent film, or dreaming about scuba diving. Her favorite place in Denver so far is the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Audrey has a genuine passion for helping others find joy and fulfillment, and because this search for happiness isn’t necessarily easy, she enjoys working alongside others to help them manage the difficulties that come with life.
Audrey focuses on finding tools and shifting mindsets in order to influence positive change and forward movement.
Audrey is a Colorado native who graduated with a master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Denver and is now dually qualified as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker as well as a Licensed Addictions Counselor. She has most recently dedicated her effort to working with those who struggle with both mental health and addiction and has experience working with adolescents, young adults and adults who have concerns with anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship dynamics.
Audrey uses strength based and person-centered models as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI) in assisting her clients move through the stressors that life can bring.
To relax and recharge Audrey enjoys time with her energetic dog Ollie and time in the mountains. Audrey also enjoys creating art, traveling and spending time with friends and family.
Michelle has a passion for connecting to client’s authentic self and helping to identify their strengths and challenges. Michelle’s goal is to create an open, safe environment where clients can share their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
From Virginia, Michelle received her Master’s in Social Work degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. She has experience working with a diverse population, including clients coping with depression, anxiety, substance use issues, social isolation and lack of motivation. Michelle is trained and utilizes research based theories including cognitive behavioral theory, motivational interviewing and strengths based theory. Michelle practices telehealth therapy only.
Michelle has seen her clients make positive life changes after using thought reframing techniques and implementing emotional coping skills. Michelle’s clients have had success reducing negative self-talk and recognizing unrealistic life expectations in order to live a happier life.
In Michelle’s free time, she enjoys fostering kittens, seeing live music, practicing yoga, and spending time in beautiful Colorado.