Dr. Marney Earnest

Marney Earnest is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Colorado with additional certifications in school social work (SSW) and animal assisted social work (AASW). Marney has over 25 years of experience providing different clinical assessments and therapeutic care to children, adolescents, and adults seeking help with issues related to: anxiety, cancer, depression, hematology, trauma, grief and loss, traumatic brain injuries, maternal infant health care, and women with substance abuse and co-occurring mental health issues. Marney has an extensive work background including schools, nursing homes, hospitals, maternal infant health care, pediatric oncology, trauma burn, traumatic brain injured (TBI), and substance abuse with women and co-occurring mental health issues. She completed her Bachelor’s in Social Work at Eastern Michigan University and her master's at the University of Denver. Marney is known for her compassion and empathy, utilizing a strength-based, …person-centered, and collaborative approach with her clients; meeting them where they are at, at any given time. In addition, she uses mindfulness and solution- or trauma-focused therapy, along with cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, keeping in mind the current needs of the client, their flexibility and motivation, and/or needs for their future goals as well. Marney seeks first to establish a safe, warm, and caring relationship to assist you with your strengths, and your resilience identifiers. She will then collaboratively assist you with the empowerment and self-esteem you may have been previously overlooking. Her desire in working with you or your child is to meet both of your goals and aspirations in life, whether short or long term, and with a better balance for you in life’s “good times” and the more challenging or “difficult times,” when one can often feel stuck and troubled, but is desperately seeking the calm and happiness that life does have to offer. Marney likes the analogy of life being like a mountain and a valley—sometimes we feel stuck in the valley, but is it realistic to think we will always be atop a mountain? It is just as important to take care of our mental health as is our dental and physical health. Treat yourself to an opportunity to be heard. She looks forward to helping you, whether you need a different perspective or coping skills or a collaborative approach for your or your child's current concerns.