Ms. Hartman grew up in multicultural Los Angeles, California. She began her undergraduate work at California State University, Northridge and after moving to the Midwest, completed this study with a BA in Human Relations. She went on to earn her MA in counseling from Doane College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

For nearly a decade, Ms. Hartman has educated, coached, counseled and been an advocate for individuals, families and groups in a variety of settings including schools and churches, clinical practices, private practices, in-home therapy-based agencies, hospice settings, and non-profit community-based agencies.

Her counseling experience with children, adolescents and adults is diverse. The requisite and often unpleasant clinical aspects of mental health counseling are tempered and made more effective with her judicious and creative therapeutic approach known as A “Kitchen Table” Approach to Counseling. Ms. Hartman is now in private practice in Loveland and Fort Collins, Colorado and pursuing LPC designation. She is also pursing certification in Addictions Counseling, and Play Therapy and further education in health psychology.

Ms. Hartman uses client-centered and eclectic therapies including, but not limited to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy, Rationale Emotive Therapy and Analytical Psychotherapy. These therapies can be implemented with children, adults and families.

Areas of special interest and research she has participated in include: Attention Deficit Disorder and Co-morbidities in both children and adults, Female-to-Female Relational Aggression in Peer Groups, Schools and the Work Place, loss issues, behavioral issues, mood disorders and conversion disorders.

In her time away from A “Kitchen Table” Approach to Counseling, Ms. Hartman enjoys time with her family which now includes a grandbaby, bakes “secret family recipe” brownies and “special ingredient” chunk cookies. She writes for secular and Christian publications and volunteers as a victim advocate.
She has been known to ride a mechanical bull for fun and relaxation, can Wii tennis with the best teen players in the Midwest, and sing backup with her son’s band (when he doesn’t see her sneak into the basement!).

If you are in the armed forces, Ms. Hartman’s voice may be familiar to you. She is “the voice” in the helicopter flight simulators used for flight training.

You may see Ms. Hartman in local retail stores merchandising magazine and book displays. She believes it is important to work in, and be a part of the community of persons with whom she may counsel.