Meet Marilynne
I have worked doing therapy and evaluation, obtained licensure, and taught college at the graduate and undergraduate level. As a native of Colorado, my education has largely taken place here. I graduated with a B.A. from the University of Colorado with a major in Sociology. I studied at the University of Denver for my Master’s of Social Work (MSW) and graduated two years later. I became licensed in the state of Colorado in applied psychotherapy in 1987. I am still licensed as a social worker in Colorado and was also licensed while in Indiana when working there.
After my daughters were grown, I returned to D. U. for my Ph.D. in 2004. While a grad student, I worked on call, off hours, at the Aurora Community Mental Health Center in Aurora’s hospitals doing evaluations in their emergency rooms. After graduation I worked as a clinician/therapist in the new Community Mental Health Centers that were just being established.
I worked in several mental health centers. First was in Nebraska in 1975 at the Panhandle Mental Health Center. Next, I worked at the Bethesda Community Mental Health center in Denver in 1977, doing psychotherapy, group, family group, and day treatment. I practiced privately in Denver from 1980 through 2005. I worked with the Psychological Resource Center in geriatrics. In Indiana, while teaching, I practiced psychotherapy in three colleague’s practices.
After earning my Ph.D. I took a job as associate professor at Indiana University South Bend, teaching in their MSW program, which I did for 9 years. In 2007 I became the Program Director of the Master’s of Social Work Program at Indiana. I have taught at Westwood College, Regis University, Metropolitan State College, and as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver. Following my years of teaching, I returned to Denver to work at the Mental Health Center of Denver (now named WellPower), until my retirement in 2023. Now in 2024 I am opening a new private practice.