Meet Our

Counseling Staff

Our highly skilled and experienced professional staff treat children, adolescents, adults, and older adults for emotional concerns and other life challenges. Our counseling staff has the following areas of specialization.

Debbie Mayer, LCSW, CT

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Director of Counseling and Mission Services
Child, adolescent, adult, and older adult counseling. Grief & mourning, deployments, divorce & remarriage, school & behavioral problems, parenting, illness & caregiver stress, faith relationships, infertility, depression, and stress & anxiety.

Michelle Fenley, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Child, adolescent, and adult counseling. School & behavioral problems, Asperger’s/Autism Spectrum disorders, parenting, depression, anxiety, families coping with illness or disability, relationships, grief & mourning, divorce & remarriage, and miscarriage/pregnancy loss.

Carolyn Lempert, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Adult and older adult counseling. Chronic illness, terminal illness, family & caregiver stress, relationship issues, depression, stress & anxiety, widowhood, retirement, long-term care needs, dementia, and grief & mourning.

Dennis Patterson, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Child, adolescent, adult, and older adult counseling. Family conflicts, child/teen behavioral problems, depression, stress, trauma & illness, PTSD, ADHD, issues related to ethnicity, and serves as a Military Family Life Specialist/Consultant.

Arnold Unterbach, LCSW, BCD

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Adult and older adult counseling. Depression, family relationship issues, severe and persistent mental illness, borderline personality disorders, trauma, medical illness, caregiver stress, and addictions (alcohol, drugs).

Michelle Walter, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Adoption Specialist

Adult and older adult counseling. Grief & mourning, depression, stress & anxiety, relationship issues, LGBT issues, inter-faith relationships, infertility, intellectual & physical disabilities issues, and divorce & remarriage.
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