Our Team

Meet the Founding Partners

Linda McGrew, MA, LCMHC

Linda enjoys working with adults on individual and marital issues. Her special areas of interest include women struggling with life changes and spiritual development. She has graduate degrees in both counseling and theological studies. She is passionate about integrating the Christian Faith with the care of the soul.

Patti McMillan, MEd, LCMHC

Patti joined the group after working in agency, school, church, and university settings. She specializes in therapy for school-age children, adolescents, and women. Her experience leads her to focus on anxiety, depression, and women's issues. Additionally she offers educational and psychological assessment.

David Russ, PhD

Dr. Russ is a licensed psychologist who began practicing in 1985. He specializes in and limits his practice to helping individuals of all ages (6+) with severe anxiety, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), emetophobia, panic, social anxiety, phobias, separation anxiety, and related issues.

Meet the Clinicians

(Listed in alphabetical order by last name)

Roblynne Bostic, LCMHCA

Roblynne enjoys working with children, teens, women, and families. She specializes in helping individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, communication, identity, and self-esteem. Her aspiration is to foster a safe, compassionate environment–in which she provides her clients with the tools to rediscover their inner potential to overcome various types of personal struggles.

Christy Braman, MA, LCMHC

Christy specializes in working with adults who have experienced abuse in childhood (sexual, verbal, physical, or emotional). Her work also includes grief, anxiety, codependency, divorce recovery, women’s issues, and internal conflict. She focuses on understanding how past experiences and relationships influence current difficulties.

Mackenzie Hawisher Brown, LCMHCA

Mackenzie works with premarital couples, couples in crisis, spouses grieving betrayals (affairs, etc.), and individuals experiencing anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, spiritual doubt and abuse, and family conflict. She desires to create a compassionate and safe environment for all of her clients, helping them see their own resiliency.

Carly Burrows, MA, LCMHCA

Carly enjoys working with children, teens, and adults. She has experience counseling young girls through sexual trauma and assault. She also works with children who are experiencing loss and grief, as well as assisting parents in providing a supportive home environment. Carly also works with adult women who are living with depression or anxiety, as well as a range of postpartum issues.

Scott Carpenter, D. Min., LCMHC

Dr. Carpenter enjoys working with couples and individuals (men ages 15+, women ages 18+).  He focuses on emotional well-being, integrating faith, and physical awareness as clients address a variety of mental health concerns like anxiety, depression, faith uncertainties, family issues, grief, infertility, life transitions, pre-marital and marital care, pornography addiction, self-esteem, and trauma. 

Amanda Cherry, MA, LCMHC

Amanda specializes in helping adults who struggle with difficult life transitions, high stress/crisis, conflict, depression, anxiety, and women's issues. Amanda has expertise in treating both substance and process addictions.. Amanda approaches each client with empathy and compassion, welcoming individuals to feel validated and empowered. 

Bryan Franklin, MACC, LCMHCA

Bryan works with adult individuals and couples. With more than 20 years in the corporate world, he works with executives to improve work-life balance, rebuild career-damaged relationships, navigate life transitions, and temper perfectionism/workaholic tendencies.   Bryan is passionate about helping couples rebuild trust after infidelity, improve communication, and love more effectively.

Kristina Franklin, MACC, LCMHC, LMFT

Kristina specializes in working with couples to improve communication skills, resolve conflict and rebuild marriages after an affair. Her unique and extensive experience is in working with law-enforcement officers, rescue workers, military personnel and their families. Kristina works with anxiety and panic disorders as well as grief and loss.  She is also comfortable helping people work through cancer. 

Marissa Grant, MA, LCMHCA

Marissa specializes in working with children (ages 3+), adolescents, and adult women. Because each client’s needs are different, she incorportates various therapy techniques to best fit the client’s needs and goals. She believes in the client’s resiliency and is passionate about providing a safe and genuine environment for them to process how they would like to grow and change.