WHO YOU’RE WORKING WITH.

I didn’t start in therapy. I started as a paramedic and a career firefighter, working in environments where people needed real help fast and nobody had patience for pretense. That’s still how I work: direct, grounded, and focused on what actually helps.

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Mental Performance Consultant candidate through AASP. Licensed in Colorado, in person and by telehealth. I work with individuals, couples, athletes, teams, and crews — anxiety, burnout, trauma and critical incident aftermath, grief, identity and transition, substance use, disordered eating and body image in sport, and the psychological side of injury and return to sport or duty.

I don’t run one method. I pull from several and match them to who’s in the room. Somatic work, IFS, DBT, CBT, ACT, and Motivational Interviewing all show up, in different proportions depending on the person and the problem. I’m trauma-informed and crisis-trained. The format changes what’s useful too: one person, a couple, a team, a whole crew. What helps a firefighter three weeks after a bad call isn’t what helps an athlete six weeks post-op, and neither is what helps a couple who’ve stopped talking.

I’m a social worker before I’m anything else, which means I look at the whole environment: the crew, the team, the household, the schedule, the system somebody is operating inside. Most of what makes a job or a season hard isn’t happening inside one person’s head.

In plain terms: I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m going to help you figure out what you actually want and build the capacity to go get it. Sessions have a point either way. We work specific problems with specific tools, track whether they’re working, and change the approach when they aren’t.

Not all of it is one-to-one. I do clinical advising for peer support programs, continuing education and psychoeducation for first responder agencies, critical incident response, team mental performance work, and consultation for clinicians and coaches who want a clinical voice in the room.

You don’t need a badge or a sport. Plenty of the people I see aren’t in either world. They’re getting through a hard season, working out who they are, or trying to stop white-knuckling everything. All of that belongs here.

When I’m not in session I’m usually at Alpine CrossFit in Wheat Ridge, the gym my wife April and I own together. That, or outside with the dogs.

Credentials & Specializations

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker — Colorado
• CMPC-Candidate (AASP)
• NREMT Paramedic, former career firefighter
• RYT-200, Sound Healing
• Trauma-Informed, Crisis-Trained
• NCI Nutrition Coach Specialist L1
• Approaches: somatic, IFS, DBT, CBT, ACT, Motivational Interviewing — adapted to the individual, couple, team, or crew

April is the owner and operator of Alpine CrossFit in Wheat Ridge, the gym we took over in 2026. She runs the floor, the staff, and the programming.

Before Alpine she spent over five years as a Division I Director of Sports Performance, coaching softball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and track and field. She opened her first CrossFit gym in Denver in 2013 and later expanded it into a larger space, then owned and operated a second affiliate in the Conifer area, selling both to coach collegiately full time. She was an athlete well before she was a coach: collegiate rugby, softball, and basketball, then CrossFit Games Regionals as an individual and on a team.

She writes sports performance programming for individuals and for teams. Offseason and in-season training, speed and power development, strength progressions built around a competitive calendar, and testing and monitoring so a program can see whether what it’s doing is working. She has coached athletes at every level, which means she knows the difference between an athlete who needs more work and an athlete who needs a different kind of work.

Credentials

• Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS, NSCA)
• Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC, CSCCa)
• Certified CrossFit Trainer
• 5+ years as a Division I Director of Sports Performance
• Owner and operator of CrossFit affiliates since 2013
• CrossFit Games Regionals, individual and team