Leadership Team

Elected Leadership

  • Chair - Rosemary Leone, MA, MFTC

    Term ends December 2024

    Rosemary is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate, a Gender and Family Therapy Researcher, novice grant writer, and advocate for intersectional identities. She hopes to train in Somatic Experiencing, Sex Therapy, and become an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Her strengths include Brief Strategic Family Therapy and Contextual Family Therapy. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

  • Interim Chair Elect - Leilani Cullen, MA, LMFT, AAMFT-AS


    Term ends December 2024

    Leilani is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who provides individual (child, adolescent, and adult), couples and family therapy to clients in CO, WY, and HI. Her practice is evidence-based, trauma-informed, relationship-centered, culturally-sensitive, and strengths-honored. Leilani serves clients who experience relationship problems, loneliness, insecurity, anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders, and relationship or substance addictions.

    Leilani Cullen is also an AAMFT Approved Supervisor who provides supervision for MFTCs, LPCCs, and graduate interns in WY and via Zoom in CO and HI. Find her at: allinclusivecounseling.com.

  • Secretary - Ashley Niemann, LMFT, MA

    Term Ends December 2025

    Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and owner of Aspen Grove Mental Health. She focuses on working with kids, teens and young adults. She is currently an AAMFT Approved Supervisor in training and supervises at a MFT program in Colorado and provides supervision in her own practice. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

  • Treasurer - James Childress, CPA

    Term Ends December 2024

    James is a seasoned profitability and growth advisor who specializes in empowering mental health business owners. He provides tailored strategies delivering tangible results for private practice therapists focusing on high level decision making, accounting s and interactive reporting. Find out about how he can help propel your practice at CAC Advisors or learn more about him on LinkedIn.

Appointed Roles

  • Executive Director & Technology Chair - Jolene Harrelson, MFTC, MA, M.Ed.

    Term Ends December 2024

    Jolene is an accredited leadership and team coach with over 20 years of experience with a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and is owner and clinician at Therapy with Jolene, working with individuals, couples and families in Denver and online. Her specialty areas are sex therapy, couples therapy and building families (through fertility, fostering and/or adoption.) Connect with her on LinkedIn.

  • Member at Large (CO) - Melissa Raddatz, MA, LMFT, LAC

    Term ends December 2024

    Melissa Raddatz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Addictions Counselor. 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 interns and individuals gaining licensure in marriage and family therapy and addictions. She is currently earning hours to become an AASECT approved sex therapist, Gottman certified couples therapist, an AAMFT-approved supervisor, and certified thanatologist studying the psychological effects of death and loss.

Student Liasions

Melanie Grundvig, MFTC

Term Ends December 2024

Melanie is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate who loves helping clients experience deep psychological change through insight-oriented exploration and deconstruction. She believes mental flexibility is key to mental health She specializes in religiosity and spirituality, including mixed-faith marriages, religious trauma, and religious OCD.

You can find Melanie at Modern Love Counseling.

Alicia Newton, MFTC

Term Ends December 2024

Alicia graduated with her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy in May 2024, specializing in therapy for children and adolescents. She also has certifications in Mental Health First Aid for Adults, Mental Health First Aid for Youth, and Crisis Management.

Alicia has worked in the public schools for over 10 years, assisting children in kindergarten up to 12 years old and their families navigate challenges, create a healthy homeostasis, and boundaries while providing tools and skills to identify triggers, notice warning signs, and find healthier coping mechanisms.

New board members to be announced, starting January 2025:

  • Chair - two-year term

  • Chair Elect - successor to the Chair

  • Social Media Chair - one-year term

  • Advocacy Chair - one-year term

  • Emerging Professionals Advocate - one-year term

  • Student Liaison (1 for CO and 1 for WY) - one-year term