Our Staff

Lisa A. Follmer, LCSW

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Angela Hinkle, LMFT

Angela has been a Marriage & Family Therapist since 2013 and has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults through providing individual, couples, and family therapy. She is experienced in working with clients who have faced some of the most difficult life challenges such as separation or divorce, grief, family problems, substance abuse, and mental illness. Her specialties include anxiety, anger management, behavioral issues, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, career counseling, coping skills, depression, family conflict, infidelity, parenting skills, relationship issues, self-esteem, spirituality, substance abuse, and transgender issues.

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Max Dahmen, LCSW

Max has been working in the mental health field for 10 years. He received his Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Utah in 2014. His career has provided him experience working with a variety of challenges people face including trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, damaged relationships, and spiritual discord. This has led to an approach that the mind, body, and spirit are linked in the path to healing. Max brings with him a passion for nature and adventure. The wilderness is where Max feels at home and he is happy to share that with the people he serves.

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Jessica Bradley, CMHC

Jessica believes in the potential and power of the individual to overcome and navigate struggles that impede peace, healing, and change. She works to create a warm, compassionate environment allowing clients to self-explore along their journey toward healing, empowerment, and self-acceptance. She has experience serving individuals who suffer from childhood sexual abuse as well as depression, loss, various anxieties such as PTSD, and other traumas. She is trained in trauma-sensitive yoga, eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and has basic training in neurofeedback. She offers services in both English and Spanish. All ages

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Lacey Hancock, CMHC

Lacey has a passion for helping others with life’s problems and frustrations, in order to find peace of mind, stability, healthy relationships, and joy in this life. She specializes in treating depression, anxiety, mood disorders, adjustment issues, and trauma. Lacey is trained extensively in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), EMDR therapy, DBT, play therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). Lacey is very in tune with the needs of her clients and can adjust to a unique pace or style of an individual according to their personality. Her approaches offers a non-judgmental environment that feels safe and caring in order to find wholeness and clarity. Lacey’s methods of counseling are very versatile and can extend from reprocessing trauma, teaching new coping skills, listening to life struggles, and implementing proven techniques in order to help improve overall functioning. Lacey enjoys meeting with adults, teens, and children of all ages. Lacey graduated with her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Therapy from the University of Phoenix in 2012.

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David Walker, CMHC

David Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor that has a decade of experience in providing mental health counseling and psychotherapy. He uses a client-centered empathic approach while working with clients to alleviate the root causes of emotional discomfort or distress. The hope is to promote a collaborative resolution and empower personal growth. Healing and healthy functioning means confronting unhealthy behaviors, rediscovering ones self-worth, learning to regulate emotions, being honest and accountable, and living a life of purpose. David takes a non-judgmental, compassionate approach towards those that he works with. He has experience working with a broad range of clientele and diagnoses including: Trauma, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Survivors of Physical/Sexual/Psychological Abuse, Substance Abuse, Relationship Issues, and Grief/Loss. David typically utilizes many modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy but has also been trained and certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). This is a form of psychotherapy that works directly in reprograming the way in which distressing memories and images are stored in the brain so that they no longer trigger strong emotional and physical reactions…Keep the memory and lose the pain! Unlike traditional talk therapy, ART does not require in-depth details of the traumatic event to resolve it. Self-care is valued and promoted to clients as he enjoys working with his hands in a variety of contexts including: working on vintage vehicles, tinkering in his at-home shop, building, repairing, and completing satisfying projects. He loves providing for and actively spending time with his wife and children.

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Isaac Steele, APRN

Isaac started his nursing career in January of 2012 at University Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI) after graduating with his bachelor’s degree from Roseman University of Health Sciences. While at UNI he gained experience working with those in need of inpatient care for mental health. He continued to work full-time at UNI after starting his graduate studies at the University of Utah, and in 2017, he graduated from the U of U with a Doctorate of Nursing Practice to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. He started at Valley Behavioral Health in January 2018, where he entered their specialty program for 3 months to help prepare him for providing care and services for our increasingly diverse population of all ages.

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Rebecca Kirschner, CMHC

A graduate of Walden University, Becca is a fully licensed clinical mental health therapist; she has specialized experience in working with children, adults, and families. She has extensive experience with autism, trauma, victims of abuse, anxiety, and depression. Becca uses Dialectical behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, Solution-focused therapy, play and sand tray therapies to help clients find themselves.

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Tamara Vitela, LCSW

Tamara views therapy as a collaboration to create growth despite life challenges and uses the philosophy “people are not their problems.”  Tamara is an LCSW with twenty-five years’ experience in supporting individuals in their healing.  Areas of treatment focus are anxiety, depression, substance abuse recovery, trauma / PTSD related issues, adoption, and identity formation, life, and career transitions, creating healthy relationships, and associated attachment issues including how our past comes up in our present.  Tamara enjoys using narrative therapy (story) in healing past traumatic events and assisting others to “re-author” and reclaim their story.  Tamara explores how global, local, and familial narratives can influence our sense of identity and encourages others to create helpful personal narratives for creating identity even if that differs from the voices of the dominant culture. Tamara graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Utah and a master’s in social work degree from the University of Washington with a specialization in Family Preservation practice.  Tamara completed a post-masters fellowship from The Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences focused on trauma treatment and associated attachment issues.

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Stephanie Valeri, APRN

Stephanie graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) with a  Bachelor’s in Psychology. She received her associates in nursing from Northern Virginia Community College and her Master’s as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Gonzaga University. She also holds a master psychopharmacologist certificate from the Neuroscience Education Institute. She is board-certified to treat patients across the lifespan and has worked with patients of all ages in her 12 years as a nurse across multiple settings. She has a strong interest in mood and anxiety disorders and has experience diagnosing and treating schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, substance use disorders, and personality disorders. She emphasizes patient education in her practice and is focused on a patient-centered collaborative approach to treatment.

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Lisa Stevens, APRN

Lisa is an AANP Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner who specializes in mental health. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2012 with her nursing degree and later received her Doctorate from Nebraska Methodist College. As a registered nurse, she worked in a variety of settings, from pediatrics and maternity to geriatric psychiatry. While completing her graduate studies, she fell in love with the field of psychiatry and started to focus her training on treating mental health disorders. Before starting at Valley, she gained experience at a clinic treating mental health disorders in children and adolescents as well as adults. To further prepare her for caring for our increasingly diverse population of all ages, Lisa completed an intensive training program upon hire with Valley. Lisa is experienced in treating all age groups, but especially enjoys working with children and teens.

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Victoria Jacobs, Ph. D, APRN

Victoria Jacobs, Ph.D., APRN received her Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from Westminster College in 2003. While employed in an Emergency Department as a Registered Nurse, she worked with those who are in need of mental health support. She received a master’s degree in Nursing as a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner in 2006 from Westminster College. Subsequent to that she worked as a Nurse Practitioner in a Cardiology clinic, and in 2011 she received an additional Board Certification as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner. Victoria graduated with her Ph.D. in Nursing in 2016 from the University of Utah, which allowed her to work on various research studies. She graduated with a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Certification from Regis College in December of 2019. Victoria started working at the Valley Behavioral Health in May of 2019 where she entered a 6 months psychiatric specialty preparation program and now is working at the Highland Springs Clinic, treating patients with various psychiatric disorders. Victoria has graduate experience in the diagnosis and treatment of all ages, across the lifespan. She is interested in a variety of psychiatric diseases, including anxiety, trauma, depression, mood disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Victoria is interested in prevention, patient education, evidence-based practice and a collaborative practice approach, which allows for the development of individualized treatment plans for each patient.

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