Brandy joined the Adoption Choices family in 2017. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor and has experience providing counseling and advocacy to birth mothers, adoptive parents, and children and families in the foster care system.
Her education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and a Master’s degree in Clinical Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado. When looking for her graduate school internship, Brandy heard about an intern position at the adoption program at Catholic Charities. Her ears perked up, her heart swelled, and she immediately knew that was the internship she wanted to do. While she can’t point to a particular event or connection to adoption that led her to have this reaction, something moved within her and spoke to her about assisting women through the process of their pregnancy and adoption, and helping create new families. During her internship, Brandy was a pregnancy and adoption counselor, as well as an adoptive family caseworker. She absolutely loved the time she spent with the women and families she worked with and was heartbroken when her internship ended. Since then, she has worked as a counselor at a family counseling center, and with birth parents, foster parents, and foster-adopt parents in the foster care system. She is excited to once again be working in private adoption. Brandy has experience teaching birth education classes, Nurturing Parenting classes, foster and adoptive parent CORE training, and trauma-informed parenting classes. In addition to her work at Adoption Choices, Brandy has a small private practice and she is a consultant and trainer at CASA of the Pikes Peak Region.
Brandy lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two children. She enjoys spending time with family, cooking, eating good food, walking in nature, camping, attending her children’s activities, travel, and she is a beekeeper.
