Network Leadership Bios

Secretary: Ashley Niemann, LMFT, MA

Term Through December 2025

Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who launched her private practice, Aspen Grove Mental Health, PLLC, in 2023. She focuses on working with kids, teens and young adults. At this time, she is currently an AAMFT Approved Supervisor in training and supervises at a MFT program in Colorado as well as provides supervision in her own practice. Ashley continues to move throughout the US, having lived in Minnesota and Las Vegas before finding Colorado Springs as her current home in 2022. She enjoys spending any time she can in the sun, outdoors or with her nose in a book with her pup and her partner. 

Technology Chair: Jolene Harrelson, MFTC, MA, M.Ed.

Term Through December 2024
Jolene Harrelson is an accredited leadership and team coach with over 20 years of experience in the Talent Development and leadership coaching field. She recently graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and launched her private practice, Therapy with Jolene, where she sees individuals, couples and families in Denver and via telehealth. Her specialty areas are sex therapy, couples therapy and building families (through fertility, fostering and/or adoption.) Jolene is also the founder and principal consultant of Redhead Momentum, LLC, serving clients across the globe for eight years. She focuses on helping clients build and strengthen healthy teams. Jolene and her husband, Jason, live in Arvada and enjoy any outdoor activities they can in all seasons across Colorado: hiking, camping, snowshoeing, and downhill skiing.

Learn more about Jolene here: https://www.therapywithjolene.com/

Member At Large - Colorado: Melissa Raddatz, MA, LMFT, LAC

Term Through December 2024

Melissa Raddatz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Addictions Counseling. She sits as a Member at Large for the Rocky Mountain Family Therapy Network. Her primary clinical focus is to work with couples who experience trauma, addiction, grief, life changes, sexual and intimate distress. She is also a clinical supervisor for students in their internship and individuals gaining their hours for licensure in marriage and family therapy and addictions. She is currently earning hours to become an ASSECT approved sex therapist, Gottman certified couples therapist, an AAMFT-approved supervisor, and certified thanatologist.

Learn more about Melissa here: https://kenosiscounseling.com/

Member At Large - Colorado: Zachariah Garney, MFTC, MA, MFTC

Term Through December 2024

Zachariah Garney is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate, who recently graduated from Regis University. He currently specializes in working with military veterans and their families whether in relationships or individually. He is pursuing training in IMAGO dialogue techniques, ACT therapy, and becoming an AAFMT-approved supervisor. His strengths include Structural Family Therapy, Brief Strategic Family Therapy, systemic conceptualization, and Internal Family Systems. He is currently working with clients at Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center and assisting in the training of interns going through their graduate programs. He enjoys finding peace and tranquility in the outdoors through solo activities, or with his wife and children.

Member At Large - Wyoming: Leilani Cullen

Term Through December 2024

Leilani Cullen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Wyoming, Colorado, and Hawaii and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She has practiced in the field for over 15 years including within community mental health clinics, private and group practices and as an internship site with different types of clients: Individuals, Couples, Families, Adolescents and Children.  She is AEDP Level III trained in the certification process, and EFT, Gottman Level I, and EMDR therapy trained. Currently she is the President of All Inclusive Counseling, Inc. in Colorado and Wyoming. She focuses on supervision of graduate students, licensure candidates, and mentoring of clinical supervisors.  Her strengths include a deep passion for learning and teaching, especially attachment neuroscience, and developing secure attachments within relationships. She has a husband, two children, and five step-children in Wyoming, Colorado, and Hawaii, and enjoys activities like hunting, hiking, and reading.

Emerging Professionals Advocate: OPEN

Two-Year Term

Student Liaison: Melanie Grundvig, MFTC

Term Through December 2024

Melanie is a recent Master of Arts graduate in Marriage and Family Therapy at Regis University, and an MFTC. Her role as a student liaison is to bridge students to the opportunities available through membership with RMFTN. 

Melanie has a background in the humanities and brings her love of culture, history, art, and literature into her clinical and professional work. She loves helping clients experience deep psychological change through insight-oriented exploration and deconstruction. She believes that mental flexibility is key to mental health and leans on postmodern frameworks that honor subjectivity and nuance in her clinical practice. As a therapist, she specializes in religiosity and spirituality, including mixed-faith marriages, religious trauma, and scrupulosity.

Outside of therapy, Melanie loves learning and likes to dabble in many hobbies, from roller skating to mountain climbing to film and theatre. 

Student Liaison: Alicia Newton

Term Through December 2024

Alicia is currently working on her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy specializing in Children and Adolescents. She is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the Rocky Mountain National Therapeutic Network. She also has certifications in Mental Health First Aid for Adults, Mental Health First Aid for Youth, and Crisis Management. Alicia also has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and an Associate’s Degree in International Relations.

Alicia has worked in the public schools for over 10 years, assisting the needs of children grades kindergarten to 12 years old and their families. She enjoys working with individuals, families, and couples to help them navigate the challenges of life, create a healthy homeostasis, and boundaries while providing clients with the tools and skills to identify triggers, notice warning signs, and find ways to better cope, tackle stressors and challenges.

Alicia actively strives to participate in supporting mental health, emotional health and financial therapy in the community. Her areas of clinical interest include family systems, parenting, attachment, relationships, and mindfulness as well as supporting clients as they navigate grief, anxiety, communication, and adjustments/transitions. She utilizes play therapy techniques, and approaches such as The Gottman Method, Emotional Focused Therapy and Systems Theory in the therapeutic process. Alicia says, “I strongly believe in providing a client-centered approach to sessions, seeing clients as the experts in their lives.”