Meet our Team

Shelby Adler

MACMHC, LPCC

Shelby has worked with all walks of life and has supported each individual in whatever challenge they were faced with. Through this work, she has found a passion in supporting clients during their reproductive experiences.  Shelby acknowledges the toll pregnancy, postpartum, and infertility can take on the wellness of a person or couple, and emphasizes the importance of the mind and body connection to enable a state of healing, serenity, and joy in the counseling setting.

Experience:

• Provided therapeutic services as a Mental Health Counselor at Centennial Peaks Hospital 
• Worked as a Counselor in Training at North Colorado Family Medicine providing counseling and support

Qualifications & Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies (2018)
• Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (2023)
• Assessing and Managing Perinatal Patients with Severe Symptoms (2023)
• Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (ASMR): Core Competencies for Health and Behavioral Health Professionals in Outpatient Settings (2021)
• Attachment Based Concepts and Skills for Perinatal Patients (2023)
• Differentiating Between Postpartum Depression and the “Baby Blues” in Primary Care Setting (2023)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Trained (2023)
• Essential Psychosocial Education for Patients with Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders (2023)
• Intrusive Thoughts and OCD in the Perinatal Period (2023)
• Perinatal Trauma and Stress- Next Steps (2023)
• Reproductive Loss and Grief vs. MDD (2023)
• Transforming Trauma Informed Care- How to Screen Perinatal Women for Trauma and What to do with a Positive Screen (2023)
• Postpartum Depression and Related Disorders: Clinical Strategies to Identify and Treat Mothers Who Are Suffering in Silence (2023)
  

Emery Erhart

M.Ed., LPC, PMH-C

As the founder of PPF Counseling, Emery has worked diligently in providing mental health services to those who are struggling with their experience in reproduction. Her therapeutic approach to helping support her clients to healing is through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She has seen the importance of addressing not only the mental toll infertility, pregnancy, and postpartum takes on an individual, but also healing the nervous system dysregulation as well. 

Experience:

• Worked as a Surgical Technician on Labor and Delivery alongside medical professionals assisting in the birthing process
• Assisted in medical care on the local Postpartum Women's Care Unit, Pediatric Unit, and NICU
• Provided counseling services through a public entity to individuals
  ages 13 - 21
• Served as a mental health counselor to at-risk communities 
  

Qualifications & Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies (2013)
• Master of Education in Education and Human Resource Studies (2017)
• Perinatal Mental Health Certified through PSI (2021)
• Completion of Fertility Counseling Post Graduate Course (2021)
• Somatic Experiencing Professional Training Beginning Level: Module I & II (2021)
  

Due to the significant need for perinatal and fertility counseling in our community, Emery will be stepping into a supervisory role with the clinicians on staff at PPF Counseling. This will mean Emery will have limited availability on her caseload. It will also mean she will get the opportunity to share her expertise with not only the staff at PPF Counseling, but with the community as well. PPF Counseling will take into account your specific needs and experiences when placing you with a therapist.

Tara Burns

MAMHC, LPCC

Tara has a wide variety of experience working with clients in both in-home and outpatient therapy settings. Through her clinical experience she has supported families in creating healthy parent-infant and child attachment while navigating trauma, grief, loss, depression, and anxiety. She focuses on creating a space where clients learn to feel safe while addressing trauma responses to increase emotional regulation. 

Experience:

• Provided services as an LPCC in an outpatient setting to individuals and families across the life span
• Administered clinic and in-home based parent and infant interaction assessments while also supporting these families through psychotherapy
• Educated and supported expectant moms on long-term antenatal bedrest and families in the Level IV NICU
• Previously facilitated support groups for antepartum moms and facilitated the NICU - 101 class for families who were anticipating a NICU stay
  

Qualifications & Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Psychology (2009)
• Masters of Art in Mental Health Counseling (2019)
• Liberty University as a Doctoral Student in Community Counseling and Traumatology (Current)
• Bereavement Training Certificate Wishbone foundation (2015)
• Bereavement Coordinator Training Certification Wishbone Foundation (2016)
• PSI Perinatal Mood Disorders Components of Care Certificate (2018)
• National SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Sharing and Caring (2018)
• DBT Trained (2019)
• DIR Floor Trained (2019)
• Synergetic Play Therapy Trained (2020)
• Watch Wait Wonder (2020)
• SAFE EMDR Trained (2021)