Deborah Bauers

Dr. Deborah Bauers is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado with over twenty-five years of experience in the field of mental health as a clinician, speaker, un...view moreDr. Deborah Bauers is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado with over twenty-five years of experience in the field of mental health as a clinician, speaker, university professor and published author. Her highest degree is in the field of counseling and psychology. Her career portfolio includes a wide variety of expertise and includes triage and assessment of the severely mentally ill in the community setting and administration of lay counseling and life safety ministries within the local church. She has been in private practice since 1986. Deborah's areas of clinical expertise include marriage and family, anxiety, mood disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, self-harm and post-traumatic stress disorder. She is also a trained critical incident stress debriefer and been present during two church shootings. She has been actively involved in community disaster response on a number of occasions including the Columbine H.S. shooting and Colorado's Hayman and Waldo Canyon Fires and Black Forest fires. She is the co-founder of Threefold Cord Ministries, a non-profit that exists to strengthen marriages and families through direct intervention, education, and equipping church and para-church organizations to mobilize and minister in the aftermath of a critical incident. She is the author of "Three Questions to Heal a Marriage," a paradigm and workbook for Christian marriage. She has recently co-authored the e-book, "Freelance Blog Writing: Writing Better Web Content," with colleague and friend, Ken Bradford. . Although Deborah enjoys writing articles related to mental health and works of fiction, she is also a skilled technical writer. Her writing portfolio includes production of white papers on a variety of academic and health-related subjects. Dr. Bauers balances a busy professional life with over forty-three years of marriage. She is a loving grandmother and is purposeful about spending quality time with her children and grandchildren.view less