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Runyan Resigns

Nicholas Runyan, a counselor with Soccer Chaplains United, has announced his resignation after serving for one year. His service was marked by offering counseling especially for the young athletes and their families in the Developmental Academy and others within the Colorado Rapids organization and several area youth club players.

Runyan wrote,

Thank you for the opportunity to join your team and for including me to serve the Rapids and other local soccer organizations. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to work more closely with and support the Rapids organization.

Nicholas Runyan, Counselor

Runyan leaves with a need to consolidate his extra commitments. The additional time will allow him to offer more availability as he looks to grow his private practice.

Soccer Chaplains United continues to seek to grow and add chaplains and counselors to its group to serve all levels of soccer. If you or someone you know might be an interested and a qualified candidate, please email us at info@soccerchaplainsunited.org.

Cody Baker To Step Away After 5 Years

Unfortunately, this season will see the end of Cody Baker serving as a counselor with Soccer Chaplains United. Cody, has been there from the beginning with us and was an integral part of our organization growing. He has served well and really helped us, especially in the early years and through the transition from CrossTraining to Soccer Chaplains United.

I’d like to personally thank Cody for the contributions he has made over the years — including putting up with me and working hard to figure out how we can integrate chaplaincy and counseling service for a soccer team!

In recent months, Cody has been feeling a draw and call away from private practice and into helping young people in the school setting. Additional studies at Denver Seminary and an internship at a local elementary school have helped cultivate some of what Cody has been sensing might be a change.

I told Cody, the door’s wide open to return should it be something he wants to consider in the future. The beauty and challenge of growing a network and organization is sometimes saying goodbye, even good goodbyes.

Along with the distinction of being the first counselor to serve with Soccer Chaplains United, Cody also provide support for the Board of Directors conducting a personality and group profile as well as servicing athletes, coaches, staff, and family members connected to the Colorado Rapids and others within the soccer community. With Cody, we came up with some of the current structure that is part of our counseling network including free consultations and income-based sliding scale fees for those who needed help.

Cody will continue to coach at Arapahoe High School and stay involved in the soccer community. He and wife, Heather, are expecting to welcome another daughter early next year.

Soccer Chaplains United is always looking to grow and add chaplains and counselors to its group to serve all levels of soccer. If you or someone you know might be an interested and qualified candidate, please email us at info@soccerchaplainsunited.org.

Soccer Chaplains United Announces Addition of Nicholas Runyan

Meet Nicholas Runyan. Runyan is the latest addition to the Soccer Chaplains United counseling network. He works at Mental Health Center of Denver and operates a private practice in Littleton, Colorado called Aim & Action Counseling Services. He becomes the third counselor on the team and is part of the growing desire to see the establishment of a network of counselors that are cognizant of sport-specific needs and issues for the athletes and their families of the teams that are being served.

Runyan, has an MA in Counseling and specializes in working with adults and adolescents on issues like anxiety, depression or low motivation, spiritual growth, addiction, family dynamics, and life transitions.

We live in a world that caters to our nature to be consistently dissatisfied. Becoming addicted to a substance, or a behavior, or an activity, can happen to anyone, and I have the tools to help you figure out why you can’t stop, the skills to decrease your problem, and the hope for a different way.

The addition of Runyan also shows a bit of a track record that is beginning to form as our three counselors, Cody Baker, Brooke Ewert, and, now, Nicholas all have training and connection back to Denver Seminary. The seminary has a great counseling program which goes through a rigorous process to earn its CACREP accreditation.

I am so excited to be joining Soccer Chaplain’s United. As an avid soccer fan and a counselor that enjoys helping people thrive, I am grateful that we are building a community of counselors to equip and support the Colorado Rapids community and beyond.

As a counselor who is part of Soccer Chaplains United, Nicholas is available to serve athletes and family members belonging to the various teams being served up and down the Colorado front-range area. Whether members of the Colorado Rapids, Colorado Springs Switchbacks, Valor Christian High School, or any of the other teams and entities being served by Soccer Chaplains United, our counselors offer clinical counseling featuring a sliding scale to make counseling affordable no matter what income an athlete or family may have.

Check out Nicholas’ profile page here to learn more about him as one of the newest members of the team.

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