Speakers

Joann Aronow MS, LPCS, LCDC, NCC, CHST, CSAT, CPTT, EMDR Trained, and Brain Spotting Practitioner.

Joann has experience working with with alcohol addiction, drug addiction, sex addiction, and dual diagnosis issues. In addition to anxiety, depression, trauma, and PTSD.

She formerly worked at Santé Center for Healing as an Residential and Outpatient Therapist and is now in private practice. Joann also had the opportunity at Santé to facilítate family therapy sessions, family night presentations, ran groups, and present at Santé held workshop's.

Joanne has her Masters Degree from TWU in Community Counseling. She loves to travel, dance, read, spend time with family, and volunteer.

Emilee is the founder and owner of Living Perspective Counseling, Inc., where she has served the Flower Mound community for more than 10 years. Emilee created Living Perspective with a simple goal: to build a collaborative practice filled with clinicians she knows, trusts, and genuinely enjoys working alongside. Together, they support one another so they can provide their clients with thoughtful, personalized care.

Emilee is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and is EMDR Certified through EMDRIA. She earned her master’s degree in Counseling from Texas Woman’s University and her bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Studies from the University of North Texas. She is also trained in Animal-Assisted Therapy and occasionally works with Si, her standard poodle and the sweetest—and fluffiest—member of the team. He takes his role very seriously, especially when treats are involved.

Her primary areas of focus include substance and alcohol use, eating disorders and disordered eating, trauma resolution, self-harm, and relationship or life transitions. Her counseling style is warm, collaborative, honest, and sometimes sprinkled with humor. Therapy can involve difficult work, but Emilee believes it can also be a place where clients feel comfortable, understood, and able to be fully themselves. Emilee is an LGBTQ+ affirming counselor and ally committed to providing a welcoming and respectful space for every client.

In addition to private practice, Emilee serves as a clinician and treatment-team member for the Denton County Drug Court. Her career began at Santé, where she worked as a graduate intern “up on the hill” before transitioning to Intake and Admissions. She is also trained in Critical Incident Stress Management and enjoys staying connected through professional networking and community involvement.

Kimberly Parker is the CEO of Revive to Thrive Wellness Center and Founder of The Healthcare GreenBook™: Your Care Compass, a tech-enabled equity audit and certification system designed to strengthen accountability for culturally affirming mental health care.

She is a counselor, clinical supervisor, educator, and national continuing education trainer whose work focuses on decolonizing therapy, culturally responsive care, trauma, recovery, and behavioral health equity.

Kimberly is passionate about helping clinicians and organizations move beyond performative inclusion toward practices that improve trust, retention, and healing outcomes for BIPOC and marginalized communities.

Taylor believes in the healing and restoration of relationships, relationships with ourselves and the relationships with those whom which we love. She came into this field with a passion for helping others with wounds from ruptured attachments, those with childhood trauma, and those with struggles in the ability to regulate intense emotion. Taylor believes that each individual can live a life worth living, and enjoying. Her practice is to gently walk along side the client in their journey, equipping with skills to live in a functional role in life. She believes that in the journey of healing our wounds, we are able to grow and thrive as authentic individuals who then become healthy parents, partners, and friends.

Taylor received her Masters in Counseling at the University of North Texas. She has gained experience in a variety of clinical settings including running counseling groups in a psychiatric hospital, and as primary therapist and case manager for a residential treatment center for addiction and trauma. She has been in private practice since 2014.

Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is EMDR - trained, DBT- trained, and PIT-trained (The Meadow’s Model) and Advanced trained in Somatic Experiencing. She specializes in attachment and adoption issues, childhood trauma, DBT skills, and addiction issues (both chemical and process).

She is an owner of Highland Village Counseling in Highland Village, TX.