​Jackie Vonfeldt, LMFT​
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Founder, Executive Director, Clinical Supervisor
Jackie is a clinical supervisor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, practicing in the State of Colorado. Originating in Kansas, she founded and passed on West Wichita Couple and Family Counseling, which continues to serve her hometown community. She is also the practice owner at Heart Space Counseling Center, where she currently serves Lakewood and the surrounding areas. She is working towards a Doctor of Philosophy in Marriage and Family Therapy in order to deepen her clinical skills, supervise, teach, and conduct research in the mental health field. She received her prior education in Kansas through Friends University with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy and a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy.  She has completed 17 credit hours towards a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision and is 15 months from completion of her PhD in MFT.

​Jackie specializes in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals, couples, and families struggling with relationship and marital distress, sexual intimacy, family conflict, trauma, parenting and child issues, and mood disorders. Jackie has additional training in Emotion Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT), premarital counseling, marriage enrichment, substance abuse counseling, the Gottman Method, nature-based therapy, sand tray therapy, and the treatment of trauma through EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

​Her passion for helping others has developed through overcoming trauma within her own life, as well as experience in many professional roles in the mental health field. In addition to her higher education and experience in private practice, she has previously worked as a crisis, intake, and outpatient therapist at a community mental health center; facilitated spiritual counseling; and taught group classes for survivors of domestic violence. Jackie also has extensive experience working with children and teens in a variety of roles, including working as an educator and house staff at a group home for teen girls. Jackie's warmth, compassion, and empathy drive her love for serving people from all walks of life through individual, couple, and family therapy. ​

​Christina Abood, LCSW​
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
A message from Jackie -

"I am so honored and privileged to be able to work with such an incredible team of clinicians.  We are a goofy, fun-loving bunch who love to banter while learning from each other.   Each and every clinician has been chosen for this team based on their hearts of compassion, yearning for knowledge, passion for this field, value of personal growth, and love for the people we have the blessing of serving.  Even as a clinical supervisor, I learn from this bunch every day as we work together to provide the best care for our clients.  Each one of them has unique and admirable qualities that I believe are such an asset to the people they reach.  I only hope that you will gain as much from working with them as I have."
Christina Abood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who shares office space at Heart Space Counseling Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Social Work from Southeast Missouri State University and earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Saint Louis University. 

She has extensive experience working with children and adolescents who are challenged by behavioral issues, as well as supporting parents and families struggling with family members of all ages who have experienced traumatic and stressful events. Additionally, she works with individual adults and couples in healing from trauma, anxiety, self-esteem/confidence, depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation, separation and divorce, communication and chronic stress.  She utilizes approaches in play therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, attachment theory, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), narrative therapy and the Gottman Method.

Christina has a passion for helping others to improve their lives and become the best version of themselves. When working with Christina, you can expect your sessions to be inspiring, warm, funny, comforting, and insightful.   Her optimistic and empathetic energy is contagious as she thrives on bringing her authentic self to each session.  Christina encourages her clients in their self expression and challenges them to look at things from a different perspective.  Knowing how uncertain it can be to begin a journey in therapy, Christina will meet you where you are with a listening ear, comforting presence and knowledgable guidance. Her warmth, empathy and compassion will enable her to support you through overcoming difficulties and making lasting changes in your life.
Holly Sperling, LPCC​​
Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate
Holly is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate who shares space at Heart Space Counseling Center. She received her first degree through Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.  In 2015, Holly graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Holly is an approved evaluator and treatment provider by the SOMB in working with adults, juveniles, and individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. This experience has allowed her to broaden her clinical scope through the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to work through trauma; grief and loss; conflict resolution; general life transition; stress management; boundary concerns; long-standing unhealthy behavioral patterns; and negative perceptions. Her goal is to offer a comfortable, supportive, and yet lovingly challenging environment to help individuals develop self-awareness and attain the personal growth for which they strive.

Having resiliently overcome challenges in her own life, she has always sought to understand the mind and the factors behind the choices people make.  As she continued to follow her heart's intentions and grow in her passion for working in the field of mental health, she knew she was called to help others with their own struggles.  Her work with a variety of clients, including court-ordered clients and people with severe mental illness, she has developed a strong and dedicated skillset in working with  a vast array of clients from a place of compassion, empathy, and genuine caring in order to assist individuals, couples, and families in overcoming life's greatest challenges.
Erica Johnson, MFTC
Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate
​Erica is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate sharing space with Heart Space Counseling Center. As a Denver native, Erica has lived most of her life in Colorado with the exception of the two years she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Indonesia. As a seasoned traveler and a trained, professional actress, she has always held a deep curiosity for how cultures, communities, families, and intimate relationships mutually influence how people relate to themselves and their worlds.

Erica received her Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Regis University with a certification in Counseling Children and Adolescents. She is currently working toward her Certification as an EFT Therapist from the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). In her therapeutic vocation, Erica has supported children, adolescents, couples, families, and individuals find healing  from depression, anxiety, trauma processing/recovery, communication, separation and divorce, parenting, suicide, self-harm, stress management, reverse culture shock, and challenges in sexuality and sexual identity (LGBTQIA+ inclusive). Her approach often draws from humanistic and systemic principles, attachment theory, family systems theory, mindfulness interventions, experiential therapy, sand tray and play therapy interventions, and emotionally focused therapy. 

At times life can leave many feeling helpless, unlovable, unwanted, and lonely.  While Western culture tends to promote emotional independence and even isolation, the science of human connection proves to be discovering quite the opposite: humans are biologically wired to experience relationship, connection, and vulnerability in community with one another.  From this science-based and heart-centered foundation, Erica’s first priority is to build a genuine connection that fosters openness, trust, and compassion with you at your own pace - to provide a safe haven where you can begin to develop curiosity and awareness around patterns that are no longer serving you while helping you uncover a more authentic story and way of engaging with your emotions, relationships, and even yourself! Recognizing that you are the expert of your own experience, Erica looks forward to collaborating with you and supporting you in cultivating deeper connections with yourself and those people in your life who matter most.
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Nick Nocera, MFTC
Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate
Nick Nocera is a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate who shares space at Heart Space Counseling Center. He grew up in South Florida and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Florida Atlantic University. He then moved to Texas and attended Abilene Christian University, earning a Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy while interning for multiple therapy clinics and running a relationship support group for couples.

Nick provides therapy services for individuals, couples and families experiencing issues with anger, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, divorce/separation, communication, emotional regulation, identity issues, life transitions, trauma and relationship distress. He has previous experience providing ABA Therapy for children with Autism, counseling young adults at the Medical and Counseling Care Center, and facilitating groups for couples marriage support. His further training includes premarital counseling, anger management and The Gottman Method couples therapy.

He believes everyone has a unique journey and finds his calling in helping others navigate their own path through life’s toughest challenges. He brings compassion, acceptance and motivation into the therapy room and believes that individuals have the ability to solve their own problems when given the right support. He also has a passion for relationships and has dedicated himself to helping others be better together.
"The openness of the soul, the feelings of freedom, joy, love are natural expressions of the awareness of the Heart [Space]... 
It is a simple way to tune ourselves with the infinite dimension of our being."
~Hridaya-Yoga