LORVENFAMILY - Key Persons
Alina Craven, MSW, LCSW, RPT, Referral Coordinator, graduated from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro with a Master's of Social Work with a focus on child and family counseling. She has experience in community mental health by working with children, adolescents, families, and adults. She has assisted clients with depression, anxiety, adjustment, PTSD, ADHD, behavior concerns, abuse, divorce, grief and loss, substance abuse, and several other behavioral and emotional issues. She uses a strength based approach and her training in motivational interviewing, trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectal behavioral therapy, play therapy, family therapy, parent-child interaction training, and emergency and crisis interventions to provide an eclectic approach to therapy. Alina brings enthusiasm, compassion, and a strong ethical perspective to her session to ensure the client's needs are met. She provides counseling services in the office and school settings.
David Rosser, MA, LCMHC, graduated with his Master's of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Liberty University. He provides services to older elementary children, adolescents, and adults, both individually and as couples and families. He primarily practices cognitive behavioral therapy although he uses interventions from other modalities and focuses on behavioral problems, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. David believes that the most effective counseling is found in providing a safe, supportive, encouraging environment to help his clients learn to live their best life.
Jacqueline Culler, MS, LCMHC-A, graduated with a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Western Carolina University. She has experience working with youth in foster care, as well as individuals facing challenges with substance abuse and significant mental health symptoms. Jacqueline strives to create an environment that allows clients to cultivate social and emotional skills, make meaning of their experiences, and repair family relationships. She utilizes a person-centered approach to assist clients facing challenges with grief and loss, trauma, ADHD, depression, anxiety, adjustment related to out-of-home placement, and other behavioral concerns. Jacqueline provides non-directional play therapy, individual, and family therapy in the office and in school settings.
Jim Horn, LCMHC, CRC, offers 25 years of counseling experience with teenagers and adults. Jim's counseling strengths include listening, empathy, compassion, understanding, and development of coping skills dealing with personal loss, physical disabilities, physical trauma, substance abuse, life changing events, and stress reduction. Jim uses a wide variety of resources in counseling and assessment techniques to provide quality services to each client with issues surrounding adjustment, grief loss, trauma, life changing events, career changes, anger issues, depression, anxiety and physical disabilities. Jim is Level 1 certified in EMDR and specializes in trauma with teenagers and adults. He provides counseling services within the office and high schools.
Kelly Hayes, MSW, LCSW, has a Masters Degree in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been providing counseling services and healing broken families since 1996. Kelly specializes in working with families living with mal-attachment resulting from neglect and abuse, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, mood disorders and personality disorders. In addition to providing outpatient therapy, she has also been an in-home family therapist, a therapeutic foster parent, and a therapeutic respite provider. Her therapeutic approach is based heavily in family systems theory and Christianity. Kelly's approach is very direct and yet support and loving.
Kristy Dobbins, MSW, LCSWA, earned her Master's in Social Work at UNC Charlotte. Kristy focuses on aiding children, adolescents, and adults working through their individual healing process. Her work within the community aids her understanding in how social adjustments, family situations, social economic issues, substance abuse, and both physical and mental health all have direct effects on an individual's wellbeing and create challenges in everyday life. Kristy uses a combination of play therapy techniques, person-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to treat behavioral and emotional issues.
Lydia Nance, LCMHC, NCC, earned her Master's of Arts in Professional Counseling at Liberty University. Lydia specializes in elementary school aged children, providing services both in school and in office based settings. Lydia uses a combination of non directive, child centered play therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies in her approach to treating children's issues. She serves this population with compassion, respect, empathy, and enthusiasm.
Rae Francis, MSW, LCSWA earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Rae has almost seven years experience working with children, adolescents, and families, helping persons facing anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, trauma, and foster care. In each situation, Rae partners with clients to seek hope and healing. Her methods draw from evidenced-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, and Family Systems Theory to assist in the healing process. Rae seeks to create a safe, solution-focused environment where clients are able to meet their therapeutic goals. Additionally, Rae attends Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, NC and is able to provide a faith-based approach at the client's request.
Rebecca Johnson, MSW, LCSW, has over 20 years experience working with children and families in various settings including the school and public health systems as well as inpatient and outpatient mental health in the private and community sectors. She obtained a Master's of Social Work degree in 1994 at Florida State University and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in November 2001. Rebecca has a special interest in trauma work and obtained EMDR Level I and II training with additional training using EMDR with Story, Play and Sand Tray therapy. She believes in solution-focused treatment and views herself as a partner in the healing process.
Rebecca Napier, MA, LCMHCA, graduated from Liberty University with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. Rebecca focuses on healing the brokenness in families, and mending relationships in couples. Her strengths include listening, understanding, empathy, respect, and enthusiasm. Rebecca utilizes cognitive behavioral and person-centered approaches to treat a wide assortment of emotional and behavioral issues. She assists clients with grief, loss, anger, depression, anxiety, behavioral and emotional concerns, and adjustment issues.