Meet The Team: Counselors

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Grant Williams- MS, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Grant Williams is a Waco, Texas native. He attended school at Abilene Christian University where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Counseling Psychology. His passions are psychology, guitar, movies, and illustration.

His focus is on anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and PTSD, utilizing psychotherapy techniques that are primarily focused on addressing the client’s needs from a Cognitive-Behavioral perspective. Everyone deserves a space where they are free to express themselves and it’s his life’s work to provide that service for his clients. Grant is also trained in EMDR.

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Katherine Smith, Ms, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Katherine Smith received her Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN and undergraduate degree from Baylor University. Katherine utilizes a Cognitive Behavioral framework and an attachment lens to help get to the core needs impacting individuals mental health and produce relief in painful symptoms. 
 

Katherine’s clinical speciality is in Anxiety Disorders and impacts of chronic stress on burnout and cultivation of wellness to prevent burnout. She has additional training in EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, CBT for Insomnia, and child-centered play therapy. 

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Amanda Cooper, M.Ed., LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Amanda Cooper attended Texas A&M University where she earned a Master of Education in Counseling. She has over 15 years experience working with children, adolescents, and families in school and community-based care setting.

She is experienced in working with those dealing with childhood trauma; foster and adoptive families; parenting and supporting kinship caregivers; families in transition; youth with learning or academic challenges, and trauma-informed care across the lifespan.

Amanda utilizes techniques from the Cognitive-Behavioral and Solution-focused psychotherapeutic perspectives; incorporates mindfulness and EMDR to address client needs; and offers play-based therapy. Amanda is also trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

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Lindsey Crelia, LCSW, RPT

Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Board Approved Supervisor and Registered Play Therapist

Lindsey Crelia received a Bachelor of Social Work from Baylor University and continued her studies at University of Texas at Austin where she earned a Master of Science in Social Work, Clinical Concentration.

Lindsey’s clinical practice has focused on the impact of complex attachment trauma, as well as other behavioral and mental health concerns including anger, anxiety, and depression in children, teens and young adults. She provides support for parents and caregivers including those adjusting to the beautiful and difficult new role and encountering challenging new patterns of behavior or facing a stressful transition in the family.

Her guiding clinical framework is strengths-based, person-centered, and rooted in attachment theory. She utilizes trauma-informed and neurobiologically-based interventions and experiential therapies including: play, art, sandtray, yoga, and outdoor therapies. Lindsey is also trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and EMDR.

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