Jennifer Winkelmann, MA, LPC, NCC

FOUNDER

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Jennifer Winkelmann, MA, LPC, NCC is the Founder of Inward Bound, LLC. As a family therapist, Jen’s primary clinical focus is adoption and foster care issues, including the impact of early trauma and the spectrum of relationship difficulties that result from disrupted attachments.  She is a TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) practitioner and trainer. While Jen specializes in work with children who have suffered attachment trauma, she also offers services for couples addressing marital issues and to adult individuals seeking help with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, stress, and grief/loss.

Her approach is family-centered, using a combination of psycho-education and regulatory therapy. She completed her graduate studies in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Colorado at Denver.  Her clinical experience includes:

  • Therapy, consultation, and coaching for families with attachment challenged children (both international and domestic adoptions)

  • Intensive attachment and regulatory therapy

  • Clinician for treatment foster care programs

  • Training for parents, educators, and mental health professionals on facilitating healing for wounded children

  • Served as the Clinical Director at a metro-Denver agency

  • Counseling for Couples and Adult Individuals

  • Residential and day treatment facilities for high-risk youth

  • Clinical Supervision and Consultation Services for other mental health professionals

Annie Leibowitz, LCSW

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Family Therapist

Annie Leibowitz, LCSW received her degree in Psychology from Creighton University, which prompted further study resulting in a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. Annie has experience working with adults, children and families in a variety of settings including hospitals, schools, and through intensive in-home services.

Annie’s passion and clinical focus is with childhood trauma, relational difficulties, parenting skills and adoption. She strongly believes in the power of healing through relationship and utilizes attachment-based techniques, narrative therapy, experiential interventions and is informed in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  Further, Annie realizes the importance of each individual's journey and is especially gifted as a clinician working with avoidant and “resistant” teens.

Annie is approved for telehealth outside Colorado, specifically in South Carolina (https://llr.sc.gov/TeleHealth/SocialWork.html).

Kim Van Auken, LCSW

Family Therapist

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Kim Van Auken, LCSW earned her Masters of Social Work degree at the University of Denver. She has worked in the profession of social work for the last sixteen years serving youth in residential treatment, foster care, youth corrections, and community mental health. In addition, Kim has experience with school social work and adoption. Her primary focus and passion is working with children and their families facing challenges that stem from traumatic experiences, which in turn, impacts attachments and contributes to relational difficulties. With her own story of adoption, Kim is uniquely positioned to work with parents who have adopted or who are in the process of embarking on this journey.

Kim is trained in Motivational Interviewing, and since 2011, has been a member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers). With this credential, she enjoys training mental health professionals and businesses who want to strengthen relationships and increase collaboration with the individuals they serve.