Meet Our Team
About Kerri
Kerri Sterrett, MA, LPC is an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDR Approved Consultant through the EMDR International Association. She is the owner of Denver Wellness Counseling and holds a number of other professional roles, including Adjunct Professor for Regis University’s Counseling Program and an Instructor for Colorado’s Parenting After Divorce. Kerri has a great deal of experience in training, education, supervision, and consultation, including time spent as the Clinical Director of a large family agency, and teaching at both the High School and MA Graduate School level. Kerri currently provides professional consultation to growing clinicians specific to trauma work and EMDR.
Kerri has over 14 years in professional counseling, specializing in helping clients recover from trauma, PTSD, dysfunctional family systems, depression, anxiety, panic, life transitions and grief. Kerri combines expertise in EMDR with attachment-based, somatic, and ego-state techniques to best support her client’s healing journey. Kerri enjoys working with clients who perhaps have tried traditional “talk-therapy” with limited success, and who are ready to dive into deeper work of exploring their life experiences, healing emotional wounds, and breaking free from old, unhelpful patterns of interacting with the world. Kerri’s approach is engaging, heartfelt, and centers on building meaningful connections. For more about Kerri’s approach click here
About Desi
Desiree Carroll, MA, LPC, NCC is an EMDR trained therapist. She received her Masters in Counseling from Colorado Christian University in 2014 and has been working in the mental health field since 2010. Desi has expertise in helping clients work through trauma, disordered eating, dysfunctional family systems, spiritual issues, low self-esteem, life transitions, anxiety, and depression.
Her therapeutic style is integrative and tailored to meet the client’s specific needs. Her favorite part of therapy is walking beside clients as they gain a deeper understanding and knowing of their core self. She specifically views clients from an attachment-based lens and utilizes parts work. Using these therapeutic techniques; along with compassion, empathy, and connection, creates a place for individuals to grow, find hope, and thrive.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and being with her dog, Winston.
About Rachelle
Rachelle Stroh, MSW, LCSW is an EMDR trained therapist. She received her Masters in Social Work, with a concentration in adult mental health, from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2017. She has been working in the field of social work and mental health since 2014. Rachelle has professional experience in many different settings including community mental health, homeless services, integrated behavioral health in the primary care setting and crisis services. Rachelle has expertise in helping clients work through trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, life transitions, and dysfunctional family systems.
Rachelle’s therapeutic style is strengths-based and trauma informed. She uses a variety of techniques, tailored to the unique experiences, needs and goals of each person. She frequently incorporates attachment theory and parts work. Rachelle strives to create a warm, authentic, compassionate space that fosters connection and curious discovery so that you may feel safe to show up just as you are. Together, using your innate strengths, resources, resilience and wisdom, Rachelle will journey with you towards growth, balance and healing so that you may fully experience the power of your own life story.
Outside of work, Rachelle enjoys time with her dog and family. Rachelle recharges in nature and spends as much time as possible outside hiking, skiing, camping, and gardening.
About Kelley
Kelley Winters, MS, LPC, NCC is an EMDR trained therapist. She received her Masters in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Neumann University in 2015 and has been working in the Mental Health field since 2013. Kelley has expertise in helping clients work through anxiety, depression, PTSD, childhood and complex trauma, life transitions, and chronic illness and pain.
Kelley’s therapeutic style is person centered and trauma informed. She creates a safe space that encourages self-discovery, healing, and growth. In addition to EMDR, she utilizes a variety of therapeutic interventions including mindfulness, somatic awareness, parts work, strength- based, solution-focused, and holistic integration of mind, body, and spirit. Kelley compassionately respects the unique history and struggles a client has experienced. In turn, she tailors therapy to meet client’s goals by leveraging their unique combination of strengths and life experiences to promote sustained healing and wellness.
In her free time, Kelley enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, learning, exploring the outdoors, and engaging in service-oriented endeavors.
About Allison
Allison Tonini, MA, LPCC, NCC, is an EMDR and Sensorimotor (somatic) trained therapist. She received her Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Adams State University in 2023, where she gained over 1,000 hours of experience working with children, teens and adults. She specializes in helping clients work through anxiety, perfectionism, self-criticism, relational issues, life transitions, and trauma.
Allison’s warm, holistic therapeutic approach is somatic-based and geared toward helping the client understand their unique lens in life. She strives to create a collaborative, non-judgemental space where clients can explore, seek refuge, process, (maybe even, laugh?), and heal. Allison invites each client to mindfully observe their patterns, attachment wounding, nervous system activations, self-limiting beliefs, roadblocks and more, then walks with them on a path forward toward meaningful change using strengths, therapeutic interventions, resources, and whatever feels authentic to their highest self.
When she’s not in the office, Allison enjoys spending time with loved ones, fly fishing, seeing live music, and taking her dog, Clancy, on outdoor adventures.
Meet Winston!
Winston Frederick Carroll is a certified good boy. He was born in August of 2021 and shortly after, started his training to become a therapy dog. He earned his Canine Good Citizen title and became part of Professional Therapy Dogs of Colorado in the fall of 2022. Winston enhances therapy sessions by increasing comfort, offering compassion, increasing emotion regulation through play and distraction, fostering connection, and creating parallels to everyday life. In his free time, Winston enjoys playing with his littermate, retrieving toys, going swimming, sleeping, and being with his mom.
Certifications + Partnerships
Explore Our Services
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Elevated EMDR Therapy
EMDR is a method of psychotherapy that can be used alone, or in collaboration with other therapeutic techniques to resolve past trauma and heal old emotional wounds. Not all EMDR is created equal. At Denver Wellness Counseling we consider our work to be Elevated EMDR, as our therapist have training and experience beyond the basic protocol, in order to adapt to a client’s unique needs and goals.
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Counseling for Adults + Teens
Our therapists at Denver Wellness Counseling are committed to providing clients with a transformative experience. Counseling at DWC is based off of collaboration, where the therapist’s clinical expertise meets the client’s internal wisdom of healing. More than just “talk therapy,” counseling is transformative when clients can make sense of their symptoms and build trust in their own capabilities to soothe and heal hurts, both past and present.
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Our offices offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical.