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Restorative Peace Counseling Team

Meet Our Therapists

A small team of counselors who care about culture, relationships and trauma, seeing clients by telehealth across Texas.

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Connect With Our Therapists

Read the profiles below and notice who you feel drawn to. You don't need to pick perfectly. In your free 15-minute consultation, we listen to what you bring and suggest a good match.

We honor preferences on gender, race, age or belief wherever we can. If the first fit isn't right, switching is normal and we make it easy.

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Get to Know Us

Our Team

All of our team are trained in multicultural issues and trauma-informed care. Our life coaches are solution-focused and provide supportive feedback to help guide clients to effectively problem-solve with specific issues. Our therapists are able to help guide a discovery of self and generational cycles to find root causes of issues, and aid in lifestyle changes that will allow growth and long-term changes throughout one's life and the lives around them.

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Whitney Harper

LPC, BSN, MA

Clinical Director

Not accepting new clients

Whitney is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background in nursing and 9 years in counseling. She works with teens, adults and older adults and looks at the whole person: spiritual, physical, emotional and mental. She specializes in trauma, grief and loss, depression and anger management. With couples and families, she helps identify the cycles that keep affecting the relationship.

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Georgia Lovell

LPC-S, MA, Clinical Supervisor

Georgia is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor with over a decade of experience in the mental health field. She is one of our clinical supervisors and is passionate about mentoring new therapists as they grow into confident, independent practice.

Not accepting new clients.

Dominick Crane

LPC-S, MA, Clinical Supervisor

Not accepting new clients.

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Melisa Smith

LPC, MA

Licensed Professional Counselor

Melisa has 8 years of counseling experience and works with adults only: couples, marriages, families and relationships. Her style is person-centered, and she uses motivational interviewing to help partners and family members say what they need and hear each other. She offers Christian counseling for clients who want their faith included, drawing on her background in Christian ministry and more than 20 years in community relations, nonprofit work and training. She sees individual adults only when they are in a relationship or their main concern is a relationship.

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Tara Franklin

LPC, MA

Licensed Professional Counselor

Tara has 14 years of experience. She primarily facilitates our groups and our intensive outpatient program (IOP) and also sees adults one-on-one. She works with veterans, aging adults and seniors, LGBTQIA+ clients, bariatric and weight issues, and substance use recovery. Tara sees private-pay clients only and does not bill insurance.

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Demetria Flowers

LPC Associate, MA

LPC Associate

Practices under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S).

Demetria has 4 years of experience and works with families, couples, teens and adults. She helps with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma and life transitions, and offers faith-based counseling for clients who want it. She also works with aging adults and seniors, veterans, first responders, and adoption and parenting concerns. Her style is warm and supportive.

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Lyndsay Dawson

LPC Associate, MA

LPC Associate

Practices under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S).

Lyndsay has 4 years of experience and works with families, couples, teens and adults. She helps with anxiety, grief and loss, depression, trauma and life transitions, and offers faith-based counseling for clients who want it. She also works with aging adults and seniors, veterans, first responders, and adoption and parenting concerns. She is honest, open and collaborative, supportive yet willing to challenge you.

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Jason Sherman

LCDC, MA

Life Coach

Jason is a life coach with a master's degree in mental health counseling and an LCDC credential. He works with teens and adults on life transitions, substance use recovery, anger, conduct and behavioral issues, and adoption. His style is collaborative and strengths-based. Coaching is different from therapy, and Jason can talk with you about which fits.

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Rithika Sekar

Graduate Counselor Intern

Practices under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S).

Not accepting new clients.

She works with the same clients our associates and interns see.

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Debbie Vidana

Graduate Counselor Intern

Graduate Counselor Intern, Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Practices under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S).

Debbie is bilingual in English and Spanish and is pursuing her master's degree in counseling. As a Graduate Counselor Intern, she is in training for every treatment we offer. She has experience with children and families and brings a culturally responsive approach to every session. Clients who prefer Spanish can work with her in their own language.

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Why Choose Restorative Peace?

Licensed and Supervised Clinicians

All of our clinicians hold a master's degree in counseling or a related field, and our Graduate Counselor Interns are completing theirs. Our interns receive guidance with clients from supervisors with at least 10 years of experience.

Culturally Sensitive

We started this practice for people who want to be understood without explaining their whole background first.

Flexible Telehealth

Secure video from anywhere in Texas, with evening and weekend appointments available.

Join Us and Make a Difference

Are you a counselor who wants to serve people of color and families across Texas by telehealth? We would like to hear from you. Send a short note and your resume to Counseling@restorativepeace.com.

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Find Your Fit

Not sure who to choose? Book a free 15-minute consultation and we will suggest a counselor based on what you share.