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Meet The Team
Aaron Jacobson, M.S., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor Gottman Method Level 2 for Couples
"Together, we create a sacred space for healing, growth, and discovery. As a counselor, hearing your story is one of my greatest privileges. It is my hope that as your life story unfolds, we can better prepare you (the main character) to face and embrace the challenges, opportunities and events that shape you".
Rosa Ruales, LPC, LAMFT
Licensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Assoicate Marriage and Family Therapist
Bilingual Therapist (English/Spanish)
Rosa Ruales is a Licensed Professional Counselor providing child, adolescent, individual, couples, and family therapy in both English and Spanish. She grew up in Lima, Peru, and her bilingual, bicultural background shapes her work with Spanish-speaking clients and families. She creates a safe, compassionate environment where clients can build self-understanding and self-empowerment, and she supports lasting, meaningful change. Rosa works with couples in English and Spanish, including those facing communication difficulties, ongoing conflict, a sense of disconnection, or the aftermath of infidelity. She helps couples navigate affair recovery, rebuild trust, and decide how to move forward. She holds Level 3 training in the Gottman Method, a research-based approach to couples therapy, and uses it to help partners strengthen trust, communication, and connection. Rosa is also trained in StoryPlay play therapy, sandtray therapy, and clinical hypnosis, and she draws on Jungian approaches. Rosa also provides mental performance work with athletes. She serves as a mental health provider for a professional baseball organization and is completing graduate coursework in applied sport and performance.
Dianna Isles, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Dianna has experience working with individuals of all ages experiencing depression, anxiety, life transitions, and interpersonal issues, values that every client is an individual with unique circumstances, and strives to meet them where they are. Her approach is person-centered and strengths-based, focusing on empowering the individual. Dianna believes that the most essential component to client growth and healing is a safe, nonjudgmental therapeutic environment.
Chelsey Wisehart, LAC
Licensed Associate Counselor
Chelsey is a Licensed Associate Counselor. She enjoys activities like hiking, gardening, cooking, and spending cherished time with family and friends. Chelsey is originally from the state of Nebraska where she received dual bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Communication Studies. She graduated from ASU with a master’s degree in Counseling. She has experience helping clients heal from trauma and has worked with a wide range of individuals including adults, children, LGBTQ+ persons, groups, and more. Chelsey is a certified Trauma Support Specialist through the Arizona Trauma Institute, is trained in DBT Level 1, and is currently receiving training in Story Play indirective play therapy. Chelsey strives to create a therapeutic environment that is safe, warm, and accepting. She values learning about her clients’ background, culture, and strengths in order to help them find the answers and solutions that are right for them. Her approach is centered around the client’s experience, the therapeutic alliance, self-empowerment, and understanding. She draws from methods and techniques including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), attachment theory, and narrative therapy
Terry Barrett, LAMFT
Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Terry uses a systemic, Gottman-informed, and solution-focused approach to help couples, individual adults, and families navigate concerns that affect emotional well-being, relationships, and daily functioning. Whether clients are facing communication difficulties, ongoing conflict, stress, trauma, or a sense of disconnection from themselves or others, Terry works with them to identify their strengths and build practical, lasting solutions. Terry's goal is to help clients strengthen communication, deepen relationships, process difficult experiences, and establish healthier patterns that support long-term growth and fulfillment. Terry also offers discernment counseling for couples who are uncertain about the future of their relationship, including those considering separation or divorce. Terry is committed to providing a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard, respected, and understood, believing that meaningful healing and growth take place through a strong therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, compassion, empathy, and collaboration. LAMFT (Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist), CMIP (Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional), Gottman Trained Therapist, Level 1
Karissia Stringfield, LMSW
Licensed Master Social Worker
Karissia currently serves as a Licensed Master Social Worker. Upon completing her Masters degree in 2021 from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), She relocated to Arizona to pursue her purpose in clinical social work. Karissia brings a wealth of knowledge in behavioral & general mental health services across an array of populations and specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) Modalities. Specialized Client demographics: Adolescents (13-17) and Adults (18+).
Lucinda Foster, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Lucinda holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master's Degree in Counseling from Wichita State University in Kansas. She is a National Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Her career has spanned a wide range of clinical and community settings. She began her work in a day program serving individuals with severe and chronic mental illness, and later worked as an academic advisor and welfare officer. After relocating to the Phoenix area, she served as an outreach counselor and Special Education Counselor supporting the Reservation and surrounding communities in Pinal County. In this role, she partnered with children, parents, and schools on relationship and communication concerns, parenting, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and anger management. Her experience also includes work with addiction and marital difficulties. She has pursued extensive continuing training throughout her career, including Levels I and II of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), gambling addiction treatment, Rational Emotive Therapy, Reality Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, and multiple Play Therapy modalities. She also holds a credential in Distance Counseling
Kimberley Pontious, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
With twenty-five years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Kim specializes in helping individuals break free from stuck patterns and heal their relationship with food, body image, and self-worth. Her approach is rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a compassionate, evidence-based modality that teaches you how to make peace with difficult thoughts and feelings while taking active steps toward what truly matters to you. Kim also treats anxiety disorders and works with those caught up in unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and emotions that feel overwhelming and are negatively impacting their lives. Having spent over two decades navigating complex clinical spaces, Kim is deeply committed to social justice, cultural humility, and equity in mental health, ensuring every client's unique background is honored and integrated into the healing process. Her goal is to provide a grounded, supportive space where you can drop the struggle with your internal world and reconnect with your values.
Desirai Browning, LAMFT
Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Desirai Browning is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with both a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Arizona State University. Presently, she works with couples, individuals and families with adult children. During her time as a therapist, Desirai has worked with diverse cultural groups and marginalized populations, and provides an inclusive atmosphere to the broad spectrum of adult concerns. She believes in providing holistic care for clients and focuses on all aspects of a person’s life in her therapeutic approach. As a therapist, Desirai understands the enduring stigma related to seeking treatment for mental health and is devoted to opening the doors for discussion and normalizing ‘asking for help’.
Lindsay Walker
Clinical Intern
Lyndsay Walker is a graduate student completing her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University. Before entering the counseling field, she worked in special education, where she gained experience supporting a diverse range of students across many ages and needs. That background shapes how she approaches therapy today, with a genuine passion for helping people navigate life's challenges. Lyndsay works with children, adolescents, young adults, and couples, and enjoys the variety that comes with treating clients across the lifespan. Her approach is person-centered and strength-based, and she is intentional about building a strong therapeutic alliance and creating a welcoming space where clients feel comfortable being themselves.
