Meet Our Team

Amanda Woodard, MA, LPC is the owner of Original Path Counseling and a Licensed Professional Counselor that has a passion for helping her clients find a way to discover happiness in a challenging and stressful world. Amanda loves working with adolescents (12-18) and adults (18+) for individual, couples, or group therapy. Amanda’s experience in counseling is wide ranging with years of experience working with at-risk teens and adults with suicidal ideation, self-harm, depression, and severe anxiety. Amanda also enjoys working with those struggling with eating disorders, self-esteem, relational conflict, and life transitions.

Specialty areas include:

• Severe Depression and Suicidal Ideation
• Severe Anxiety
• Adolescents and Adults
• Healthy lifestyle changes (including weight loss and eating disorders)
• Sex Therapy
• Couples Therapy
• Life transitions (career, divorce, etc.)

Amanda is also an active board member for 2 amazing non-profit organizations, please click on the links below to learn more and see their upcoming events:

• Catalively
• Healing Our Youth

Hours of availability: Tuesdays 12-5pm, Wednesdays 12:30-5:30pm, and Thursdays 12-5pm.

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Hannah Minter, MA, LCSW recognizes that effective therapy is a collaborative process of exploration where together, solutions can be found. Her fundamental goal is to help her clients build confidence and feel empowered to ultimately become happier and more successful in their lives outside therapy. Hannah graduated with her master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Denver with an emphasis in supporting high risk youth. She is passionate about working with adolescents (ages 12-17) and adults (ages 18+) in individual, group, or family counseling. Hannah has worked in a variety of settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, and community-based mental health facilities, and has extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, chronic and acute illness, trauma, life transitions, and grief and loss.

Specialty areas include:

• Adolescents and Adults
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Chronic and Acute Illness
• Grief and Loss
• Life Transitions (career, divorce, etc.)
• Coping Skills and Positive Self-Regard

Hours of availability: Mondays 10 am – 7pm, Tuesdays 10am – 6pm, Wednesdays 11am – 7pm, and Thursdays 10am- 6pm.

“The fastest way to get to the truth is to make the truth bearable” – David G. Martin

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720-805-9500

Atsede Scarseth, MA, LPCC  is an avid nature and animal lover that was raised in NY (both Manhattan and Ithaca), and attended Alfred University in western NY, to study Clinical Counseling Psychology. She recently completed her Masters of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from  Northwestern University. She had the idea of working with people in an intimate yet professional way for a long time, but every year since she began her undergraduate career, the idea has been molded into a concrete career path. She has seen her professional path all the more clearly since moving to the mountains. Her hope is to guide those in need towards healthy lifestyle choices and increase the enrichment of people’s lives. She feels that everyone deserves the chance to function as his or her own advocate and feels grateful to have the ability to facilitate that opportunity, one person, couple, and family system at a time. Her ultimate goal is to help people reconnect with nature in a meaningful and sustainable way, which provides opportunities for wellness outside of the therapy room.

Specialty Areas Include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Couples Counseling
• Adolescents and Adults
• Life Transitions

Hours of availability: Open to see clients Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 5:30pm-8:30pm, and every other Saturday from 10am-2pm

“Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusions of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.” -Marsha Linehan

[email protected]
720-735-7444

Morgan Fenner, Executive Assistant, our executive assistant who is currently attending Metropolitan State University of Denver working to receive her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Social Work. Morgan’s goal is to work in an environment with children, possibly in a school setting. For the past four years Morgan has worked in an elementary school in a before and after school program, an extended kindergarten program, and working directly with children with special needs. Morgan is working towards becoming fluent in Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL).

Morgan is currently supporting the therapists here with administrative duties. She is working to learn and help the practice as it continues to grow.

“To open our heart like a Buddha, we must embrace the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows.”

-Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book