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Gordon is a community employment coordinator for the VAs Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program. Gordon has graciously offered to tell his story of recovery, sobriety and connecting with that “little voice inside of you that’s constantly trying to guide and direct...
Roger St Julian is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice in Washington state. He is an Army Veteran, having served in the 82nd airborne with a deployment to Iraq in support of operation OER. He is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach...
About Alan Basham Alan Basham is a recently retired faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Washington University, where he helped to train Mental Health Counselors and School Counselors for over twenty years. He has presented multiple times at the...
Dr. Young is an Associate Professor at Gonzaga University where he serves as Director of the Marriage and Family Counseling program in the Department of Counselor Education. His research interests are healthy couple relationships and live supervision. He has written...
Presenters: Tara Carter (Case Manager), Jill Walker (Administrative Support Specialist/Referral Lead), Misty Griffith (Therapeutic Courts Coordinator) Misty has been in her current role as the Spokane County District Therapeutic Courts Coordinator since 9/16/24. She...
Executive Director, Margot Petersen Margot was born and raised in Spokane and is proud to call the Pacific Northwest home. She spent most of her career in the financial service industry, and her passion to pursue a new opportunity with heart brought her to Free Rein. ...
Heather Hesse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She earned her Bachelor’s in Social Work from the University of Kentucky and her Master’s in Social Work at the University of South Florida. Heather has over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She...
Heather has been part of the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA) since 2011, first joining the Brain Injury & Recovery Team as a contractor before transitioning to full-time staff in 2019. She initially served as the Program Specialist for the Brain...
I'm Dr. Pritchard. I'm a mama to three, wife to Jon, an outdoor-enthusiast, a terrible cake-baker, a writer & an advocate for movement and nutrition. I also happen to be a board-certified Family Medicine Doctor. After almost a decade of work in an...
Psychology Professor Russell Kolts is garnering international acclaim for his research in compassionate-based therapy for anger and other powerful human emotions. He is the author of The Compassionate Mind Approach to Managing Your Anger: Using Compassion-Focused...