Meet Our Providers

Deborah Woodard LCSW, LISAC.

Clinical Supervisor

My career has been marked by scaling business operations, bringing new life into projects through strategic redevelopment, and introducing innovative practices. Recognized for my ability to navigate diverse business areas, I've built a reputation among C-level executives as a strategic 'fixer', adept in identifying and realizing opportunities that enhance leadership and organizational impact.

With a multifaceted background, I've spent 13 years at the executive level in a behavioral health service provider organization with additional experience spanning marketing, strategic communication, public speaking, and business analysis. I've taught leadership and organized conferences and events.

Latoya Edwards, MS

Certified Trauma Professional

I am a highly motivated professional who believes that we all have the innate potential to be who we were created to be, sometimes we just need that support, encouragement, and guidance on discovering who that is. I believe that we are not what we've experienced, but who we choose to be. I continuously engage in professional development through training, continued education, and weekly supervision with my clinical supervision to ensure safe, appropriate, and effective services for clients. I am dedicated to creating a safe, empathetic, and non-judgemental therapeutic environment for clients to work through unresolved trauma as a Certified Trauma Professional (CTP), challenges with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, emotional regulation, and the day-to-day stressors of life. My theoretical approaches of choice are person-centered and strength-based, using CBT, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Solution Focused therapy.

Ari Wolfe, MS

(He/Him/His)
Bio and work history:
The mental health field has been the most rewarding profession I have ever been able to work in. I have worked with little kids from age 2 up to 50+-year-old adults. My favorite part of working in this field is my impact on the LGBTQIA+ community and its members. I am here to grow and change along with my clients and develop further by implementing cognitive-based therapeutic interventions while being person-centered in the work I am doing with my clients.

The theoretical orientation of my journey has led me to take bits and pieces of different therapeutic interventions such as Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and understanding of Cognitive skills that allow a person to find themselves within the therapeutic journey.

Working with all ages and many personality types has given me an awareness of my skills to practice what I teach to clients daily in my own life to keep my skills sharply honed. I love to learn about the intricacies of how a person ticks, which causes great curiosity in me. I find people's minds to be incredibly fascinating and I can't wait to apply all that I have learned in my Clinical Counseling Degree, which will be completed in December of 2024.

Using a Trauma-Informed Approach, Therapeutic Crisis Interventions, Extensive familiarity with various mental health disorders. He has a Cognitive Behavioral approach with experience in Substance Use Assessments, Comprehensive/Risk Assessments, Crisis and Safety Plans/ Discharge Plans, Case Management Creating Programs, and Treatment Planning. He works and has experience in aiding marginalized communities such as LGBTQIA+, Child Welfare Populations, Minorities, ect.

Certified Trauma Professional

Shannon Quinn, MS, C-DBT

Professional Therapist

Shannon is based in the greater Phoenix/Scottsdale area. She received her Bachelors of Science from Arizona State University and her Masters of Science in Family, Marriage, and Human Dynamics from Arizona State University. She is currently completing her Doctoral degree at Northern Arizona University -North Valley Campus for her PsyD in clinical psychology. She has experience working with PTSD/complex PTSD and trauma-related concerns, anxiety, depression, grief, and loss, eating disorders, addiction, relationship concerns, and other life experiences. She believes that each person has their own story that has shaped what they are currently experiencing. She blends compassion with evidence-based therapy techniques to nurture human resiliency and enable clients to move forward from past trauma. She utilizes a Client-Centered approach to therapy to help promote a safe environment in which the therapist is empathetic and nonjudgmental. The goal is for the client to experience a sense of acceptance, openness, and unconditional positive regard. She likes to bring a sense of fun into therapy sessions as laughter is not only a great medicine, but people learn more and are engaged when having an enjoyable experience. She is an eclectic therapist who draws from various disciplines to use a range of proven methods to determine the best therapeutic tools to help clients. Through her work, she strives to foster a safe space where clients can tell their stories, gain insight into how their life experiences have impacted them, and then create a new reality that is more fulfilling. She utilizes various therapeutic approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), play therapy, EyeMovement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, music and art therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and narrative therapy. She has worked in clinical and in-home settings with adults diagnosed with severemental health illnesses (SMI), individuals, couples, families, and group counseling. She enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with family and her pets in her spare time. When she is not working, you can find her reading and enjoying the scenic beauty of Arizona.