Christy has been with Adoption Choices of Colorado for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices of Colorado and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.

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.

Brittany is the Office Manager and Paralegal for Adoption Choices of Colorado. Brittany is the newest member of the Adoption Choices family and has loved every minute of it! Brittany first became involved in adoption while working at an adoption agency in Utah. She started as a child care provider to the birth mothers, worked up to birth mother helper and lastly worked as Administrative Assistant, answering phones, having constant communication with adoptive families, maintaining the adoptive family files and running a monthly adoptive family training. Brittany traveled all over for adoptions in different states and would be there to support both sides during this amazing experience. It was through working at the Utah adoption agency that Brittany discovered her love for adoption and legal work. Her career path had been decided, Brittany moved to Colorado in 2010 to go back to school to become a Paralegal. At Adoption Choices of Colorado, she does all of the filing for adoptive parents and birth parents, preparing documents and supporting the staff with any task given to her. She is in daily contact with families, and loves helping each and every one of them on their journeys through adoption. Each day is different and that is the biggest thing that she loves about adoption. There is always something new and a challenge to overcome. Brittany sees the true meaning in adoption and the real “why” in the work that is done with adoption agencies. Seeing an adoptive family with their baby is the best feeling, knowing that a dream came true for that family! In her free time Brittany enjoys each moment with her husband and 2 daughters. Brittany also enjoys camping, hiking, vacationing, baking and reading.

Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor.  Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam.  Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field.  Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001.  Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families.  Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.

Her passion for adoption was sparked when she adopted her two sons through private, domestic adoption.  She has been working in adoption for over twenty-three years and it has always been her desire to give back to the process that created her family.  In her work Brenda counsels birth parents and provides support and guidance to adoptive parents.  For the past thirteen years, she has also worked as a contractor in international adoption, including assistance with the COA (Council on Accreditation) Hague accreditation for two agencies.  She is an innovative advocate for her clients and encourages them to truly participate in and take charge of the life event of adoption, a process that will profoundly affect them.   It is her belief that in an atmosphere of honesty, respect, and support, it is possible to experience the process with realistic expectations about the challenges and joys of adoption.  Brenda is an adoption educator and trainer and works as a confidential intermediary for the Colorado courts, locating and contacting sought-after relatives (birth parents, adoptees, and birth siblings).  She has served on the Boards of Directors for several local adoption agencies and volunteers her time to Gift of Adoption.   A Colorado native, she is an avid runner, loves doing yoga, enjoys reading, and creates jewelry.  Brenda resides in Golden, Colorado, with her husband, her two sons, and Carmen the labradoodle.