COUNSELORS

Licensed counselors are available for students and their families as needed. Various types of counseling support are integral to Catalyst. Because supporting our students’ ultimate health and well-being is of utmost importance to us, our counselors create a “bridge” between any therapeutic work a student is doing outside of school and their daily lives at Catalyst High School. We communicate with students’ therapeutic supports to ensure that we are all working as a team to support students as they work through social and emotional challenges so that they can succeed academically. Although licensed counselors are on staff and available for students and their families as needed, referrals may be made to outside services if more support is necessary.

Michelle Kaye, MA, LPC
Counselor, Educator, Consultant
Teacher of Passages, Communications, Post Secondary Options and College Preparation
Email: michelle.kaye@catalysths.org
Phone: (303) 604-6512 x 209

With over 20 years of experience in the “people business,” Michelle Kaye has dedicated her life to helping students re-discover their strength, their own unique voice, and their passion for learning, as well as helping them access their own innate ability to communicate in healthy and productive ways. Michelle was instrumental in helping to create the Academy of Urban Learning : an alternative, charter high school in Denver that focuses on at-risk youth who are nontraditional learners, many of whom are homeless or living in highly unstable living conditions. Michelle’s tenure at AUL included the role of interim principal when AUL earned a rare five-year charter renewal. Michelle also operates a private therapeutic counseling practice for all ages, with the option to incorporate Equine Assisted Therapy, where horses help facilitate the healing process. Michelle is an amazing professional and brings experience, maturity, humor, positive energy and problem solving skills to Catalyst. Michelle earned her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology at University of Colorado-Denver and her undergraduate degree in Sociology at Colorado College . She also has an Associate of Arts in Theater, which not only assists her in being able to teach theater and direct plays, but also to keep a foot in her “other life” as a professional actor.

Harmony Barrett Isaacs, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Director of Catalyst Coordinated School Health Initiative
Teacher of Health and Independent Living Skills
Email:  harmony.isaacs@catalysths.org
Phone: (303) 604-6512 x 105

Harmony received a Master Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. She has been working with children, adolescents and young adults for many years in a number of agency and residential settings. Harmony was instrumental in the development of the Teen Advisory Board for Pregnancy Prevention and Adolescent Self Esteem programs in Portland , Oregon . Upon returning to her hometown of Boulder , Harmony worked as a milieu staff at Attention Homes Youth Shelter, and was the Senior Clinical Case Manager for AIM House, a private transitional living program for adolescents, young adults and families in recovery. She provided case management, guidance and therapeutic support, clinically supervised a team of mentors and was influential in program development. She also developed an emotional health and independent living skills curriculum that was taught at the Watershed School and now at Catalyst. Currently, Harmony has a private psychotherapy practice working with teens and young adults.