The counselor for you.
Our team
Jessica Deverman, LMSW
Jessica has ten years of experience working with families experiencing trauma. She uses trauma-informed approaches with adults, adolescents, children, and families, viewing clients as experts on their own lives.
Barb Russ, LMSW
Barb has 14 years of social work experience, specializing in foster care, child protective services, addictions, and trauma-informed approaches. She holds degrees in Human Services and a Master's in Social Work. Barb uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focusing on understanding the whole person and teaching coping skills.
Laura E. Porter, MA, LPC
Laura has extensive experience counseling children, parents, grandparents, and teachers. She helps with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, grief, ADHD, trauma, and domestic violence.
Katie Erwin, LMSW
Katie specializes in Memory Care, Traumatic Brain Injuries, addiction, probation support, and general life challenges for adults, with a background in Hospice settings.
Dave Embertson, LMSW, SSW
Dave has had a successful 39-year career in Social Work, spanning private practice, schools, and state agencies. He specializes in working with children (ages 6-17) and adolescents, with a strong belief in the "power of family" and the importance of healthy parenting. His expertise includes individual, group, and family counseling, with training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Dave also works with issues like problematic behaviors, parent-child relationships, divorce, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and supports men navigating challenges in marriage, family, and culture.
Raya Olson, LMSW
Raya is a well-seasoned clinician bringing over 25 years of experience to our agency. She works collaboratively with children, teens, and adults, assisting them in determining where they feel stuck, what can be done to change those feelings, and supporting them through the change process. Raya wholeheartedly believes that every person is the expert on themselves and are completely capable of being anything that they choose to be.