Clinical Director

Dr. Lise Mckenzie

Lise has been working in the human services field for over twenty years. She provides mental health and emotional support services to females. Her goal is to support females' emotional growth, mental stability, and personal development through the development of the skills needed to lead healthy lives. 

Lise also supports women with substance use challenges in reaching their goals.

"I believe there are multiple pathways to recovery and recovery is best defined by the individual in recovery. My work is to assist women in identifying their pathway."

Lise is a Licensed Social Worker Associate, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. 

Social Worker

Jewell Simmons

Jewell's human service career began 23 years ago as an Advocacy Coordinator working at a teen living program for homeless pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children.

During her tenure there, Jewell returned to her studies and completed her BSW in 2000 and MSW in 2001 and received her LCSW in 2005.

Her expertise includes facilitating groups for self-esteem, personal empowerment, independent living skills, and anger management, with females and co-facilitated Intimate Partner Abuse and Education Program groups for perpetrators of domestic violence.

Additionally, she served as a Field Advisor for students and employees using the Empowerment Model curriculum for Children's Trust Fund. As a Domestic Violence Advocate, she provided therapy sessions for individuals, trainings for employees and facilitated groups.

Currently she is a Domestic Violence Specialist and provides support, direction, and trainings for employees, collaborations with local DV and IPAEP programs and participates on High-Risk Teams.

Jewell has received certification from Simmons College in Relational and Multi-Contextual Treatment of Trauma and am CANS Certified to work with youth and adolescents.

Social Worker

Marie Saint Cyr 

Marie offers a secure, private, and encouraging environment for clients to explore their mental health issues and navigate life's difficulties. Together, your needs will be assessed and we will create a personalized treatment plan to address your specific concerns. Her approach involves helping you build effective coping strategies to manage your mental well-being and ultimately enhance your overall quality of life, empowering you to achieve your desired goals.

With over 25 years of experience in the social work field, Marie has worked with individuals from many different backgrounds. She assists clients facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, loss, and various other factors affecting their daily lives. She is dedicated to the therapeutic journey and is eager to support you in reaching your identified treatment objectives.

Social Worker

Frantzces Lys

With over two decades of experience in the mental health field, I support individuals who feel stuck despite their efforts to move forward, and help them reconnect with a life that feels purposeful, peaceful, and true.

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My approach blends clinical expertise with spiritual insight, honoring the full complexity of your healing journey. Together, we’ll explore the emotional patterns, protective parts, and limiting beliefs that have kept you in survival mode and begin to gently shift them. Through a holistic process that includes mindfulness, somatic awareness, cognitive reframing, and spiritual reflection, we’ll cultivate meaningful, lasting change from the inside out.

Whether you’re navigating a life transition, grief, anxiety, or an inner sense of disconnection, I offer a grounded space where both your psychological needs and spiritual longing are supported.

For those called to deeper work, I also offer private and group retreats, including plant medicine integration, to help you access clarity, connection, and profound emotional healing.

You deserve to feel whole, grounded, and free. I’m here to support your healing journey and help you move forward with purpose and confidence.

Social Worker

Martha Florestal

Highly experienced, dedicated, and resourceful social worker over 30 years and provide pastoral care/Christian. Expert in assessing clients' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritualconditions. Case management, teamwork, collaboration, good listener, empathetic, treatment planning, strong work ethic, and advocacy, ability to work in crises situations. 

My goal is to work with non-judgmental lenswith care, compassion, empathic, and reflection.I have vast experience in the field of mental health and spiritual health. A lot of my work has been supporting individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma PTSD, grief, oppositional defiance ODD, mood disorders, emotional disturbance, ADHD, life adjustments and changes, relationship issues, separation, attachment, family conflict, spiritual disconnection, and substance abuse. I am skilled in group therapy, couple therapy, individualtherapy, crisis intervention, addiction recovery, chemical dependency, and cognitive restructuring, and CBT. 

As faith-based and a bilingual therapist I am helping those with spiritual and mental health issues and immigrants to adjust and integrate in the community. I am fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole.