Counseling Interns

Mindy Rodriguez is a graduate Clinical Mental Health student at Colorado Christian University, where she also earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Inspired by the experiences she has gone through in her own life, she is driven to help others on their healing journey and wants people to get in touch with who they are beyond their traumas. We are more than our struggles, and she wants to help be a guiding hand in that journey. Everyone deserves to feel safe and heard. Sometimes, all we need is for someone to sit in the dark with us to help bring us to healing.

Mindy is a mother of two who loves to spend time outdoors with her family. Born in Michigan, she grew up appreciating the outdoors, moved to Florida, where she met her husband in high school, and has been married to him for fourteen years. They have been in Colorado Springs for the last seven years. When they are not outdoors enjoying the beautiful sites of Colorado, they enjoy playing games, singing, dancing, laughing, and family time.

Logan Menzies is currently a graduate student at Colorado Christian University in the Clinical Mental Health program. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in psychology with an emphasis in Clinical Counseling from Colorado Christian University.

As a Christian counseling intern she loves working with adolescents, and young adults, as well as couples, and families. She has a passion for working with people suffering from anxiety and depression, as well as young adults who are dealing with the transition to adulthood. She also desires to help those dealing with work or school stress, relationships, trauma, and eating disorders. In addition, she strongly believes that changing the world starts in the home and longs to help families become all that God has created them to be.

As a former college student and athlete, she also has a strong desire to work with athletes of all ages to help them work through the effects that being an athlete can have on every area of life, including body image, confidence, and identity.

Her goal is to create a safe, judgment-free space where the toughest questions can be asked and the client can bring their most authentic self to counseling, while she seeks to do the same.

Her hope is that clients can face life’s challenges and never feel alone in them. She longs to point each person when applicable to their true identity in Christ. She uses a proactive approach to drawing out her client’s best and connecting them with the best version of themselves. She utilizes mostly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (specifically REBT) and some Solution-Focused Therapy.

Before coming to Rock Your Family, she was a leader with FCA in high school and college, a youth minister at her church for middle, high school, and college level. Helping lead her college softball team as a captain and team chaplain, giving lessons and holding mentor meetings has allowed her to help many players work through not only the mental aspect of the game, but how it is affecting their life outside.

Logan is originally from Texas. She was born and raised on ranches which has shaped her life in so many positive ways. She was able to rodeo, fish , hike, participate in FFA , have hunting dogs etc.. While interning, she will continue her love of softball by coaching high school ball and giving lessons to young girls. She enjoys anything outdoors and all kinds of sports. She likes to be spontaneous and adventurous and recently moved to Colorado Springs. She is so excited for what God is going to do in this stage of her life and is seeking to surrender to Him everyday, because she knows that every breath is a gift from Him.

Deonna Neal is pursuing her M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Liberty University. With a unique background as an ordained Episcopal priest for over 20 years, former military officer, USAFA graduate, and college ethics professor, Deonna brings a depth of experience and maturity to her work with clients navigating life transitions, relationship challenges, grief and loss, faith crises, and existential concerns.

She is particularly passionate about supporting military service members and their families, clergy and their spouses, and individuals wrestling with questions of meaning, purpose, and identity. Drawing from her theological and professional background, Deonna offers a
compassionate, thoughtful presence to those seeking clarity and healing in difficult seasons of life.

Outside the counseling room, Deonna has hobbies that range from helping adults learn to swim, flying gliders and single engine airplanes, and training for triathlons.

Sydney Spencer is a Clinical Mental Health graduate student with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics from Colorado Mesa University.

Sydney stives to provide a safe environment in which to walk alongside individuals, couples and families while they experience the healing and growth that only comes through Jesus Christ. Life can leave us feeling hopeless, brokenhearted, hurt, and overwhelmed. It takes a lot of courage to be willing to reach out and she considers it a great privilege to be trusted with her clients’ stories while helping them learn how to thrive in the richness of God’s plan for their lives and relationships.

In addition to her graduate studies, Sydney is also training in the experiential therapeutic approach of Expressive Arts Therapy, as well as the Gottman Method Couples Therapy.

As a Colorado native, Sydney was raised on the Western Slope, spending time out on her parent’s land with her menagerie of animals. Upon moving to the Denver area, she met her husband and has been married for the last six years. She enjoys hiking, playing games, doing jigsaw puzzles, and training her dogs in agility. Her favorite part of every day is watching the sunset and basking in the beauty of God’s
watercolor skies.

Mikayla Lee is currently a graduate student at Colorado Christian University’s Clinical Mental Health program. She also holds a Masters in Medieval Philosophy from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in History from Colorado Christian University.

Mikayla has received her own counseling and has seen God use her counseling experience to breakdown the negative thoughts and anxiety that used to control her life. These experiences combined with her love of humanity has cultivated a passion in Mikayla to help carry the burdens of others (Galatians 6:2). She loves working with young women as they walk through life transitions. She also has a desire to help those who have suffered trauma, anxiety, and relationship conflict. Mikayla also has spent 5 years working in a Korean church and is passionate to work multiculturally with people.

Prior to beginning her education as a counselor, Mikayla mentored numerous young women through 4-H and church. She served as a youth director and on the worship team for her church. She and her husband recently got married and moved to Colorado Springs. They love spending time adventuring, paddle boarding, playing music, or spending time with friends.