About

COMPASSION

CURIOSITY

COMPANIONSHIP

Mountain City Christian Counseling, LLC

Founded in 2021 by Megan D. Owen, MCCC is a trauma informed, Christian counseling practice serving both women and men looking for healing & support. The practice currently has one full time clinician offering individual & marital sessions, and one administrator on staff. We offer virtual appointments for those in the United States and Canada. We do not take insurance at this time.

Meet MEGAN OWEN, MAR

Fully-certified since 2012 as a crisis pastoral counselor (MAR, Pastoral Counseling), Megan has been successfully companioning clients all over the country while facilitating their self-growth. She offers crisis & spiritual process groups and individual christian therapy, specializing in abuse, trauma, and dissociative disorders, utilizing therapeutic models such as Development Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).

Additionally, she is certified in bereavement therapy, crisis response with the AACC, trauma therapies and suicidology with CAMS. She is also a Chaplain, certified with the ACPE.

Megan has written curriculum for a domestic violence non-profit advocacy program, spiritual processing groups & identity based therapeutic course. She has also been featured on many podcasts & conferences, such as Courage 365 with Ashley Easter, etc.

Megan resides in Denver, CO, with her four adored and adoring children. She loves her job and will walk through the fire to help a client find healing. You can find her drinking hot coffee and breathing in the fresh mountain air, every chance she gets!

Meet Trauma Advocate Karen DeArmond Gardner

Karen is a survivor of a 30-year abusive marriage. She escaped December 26, 2004, she walked through the aftermath of abuse with few resources. Learning the hard way that no one understood the emotional roller coaster she was riding. Though surrounded by her family, often their words did more damage.

Most people were uncomfortable with her pain, so, she eventually shut down her emotions just to survive. She became the great pretender, putting on a façade that most people found acceptable.

In 2013 she discovered it was possible to heal, to feel, to live and not just survive.Over the next few years mask after mask fell off as she embarked on her journey to
discover her true self. 2019 was a pivotal year, her hidden emotions exploded and sent her into a season of grieving lasting 8 months.

Karen is a certified trauma advocate, she walks with survivors as they navigate through their emotional and spiritual wounds in aftermath of abuse and trauma. Helping women comprehend what is normal and necessary as they sit in their pain. She offers
reassurance and reflection as they process their trauma and as they reinterpret experiences and scripture that kept them trapped in toxic beliefs.

Karen is the author of Hope for Healing from Domestic Abuse. The book she needed when she left her abusive marriage. She lives in Texas with her husband Tom Gardner. Karen is the founder of Another One Free, that includes mentoring and inner healing.