Our Clinicians

Leisa Watkins

Leisa is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Idaho Family Court reunification therapist who works with couples, families, and individuals with trauma. She believe in strengthening communication skills and addressing traumas through Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy to promote healing and better functionality in the unit or individual. In her years of experience working with families and couples, she has found that issues resulting in relationship trauma stem from a lack of strong communication skills between the participants in the relationship and that most individual trauma related issues stem from unhealed and unresolved traumas that impact a person’s ability to function from a place of health in the present. Trauma is not something you have to continue to live with and it is possible to live a life free from traumatic responses and the aftermath of triggering behaviors.  You can be a better you through trauma work.

Leisa has successfully assisted clients to heal from sexual and abuse traumas, medical trauma, workplace traumas, and have experience with traumas that have developed into dissociative disorders. She is a certified EMDR therapist and a Consultant with EMDRIA ( EMDR International Association). She is also an Idaho Supreme Court trained mediator. Conflict resolution is also one of my strengths. She employs elements of narrative, CBT, DBT, IFS, and family systems therapies as well as EMDR therapy to assist her clients.

You have the potential to be the best possible you, individually and in your relationships, where past traumas no longer dictate your interactions with others in your life. Leisa looks forward to helping you on your journey.

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Beth Holt, LMFT

Beth Holt has been working as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over 14 years. She started working in New York at Metropolitan Marriage and Family Therapy where she ran anger groups and helped people who were struggling with anxiety, depression, and grief. A large population she worked with then also included couples . With couples she focused on using Imago therapies as well as Gottman. Beth still enjoys working with couples today as well as people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, and grief. Beth uses Solution Focused Therapies, CBT, DBT, Bowen , and feels it is also important to incorporate mindfulness and gratitude. Beth’s main goal when working with others is to help empower them to live better lives.

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Janae Moss, LMFT

Janae Moss is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who believes in a strength-based and collaborative approach with her clients. Janae has been working with children, adolescents, and adults for over 10 years as well as providing clinical supervision for over 5 years. She has worked in outpatient care, school-based programs, intensive need programs, and residential care. Janae is certified in Seeking Safety and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) as well as trained in using Expressive Arts. One of the most important aspects of therapy for her is ensuring her clients feel heard, understood, and supported as she works collaboratively with them in reaching their goals.

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Esperanza Hobby, LMFT

Esperanza’s interests are in helping those who come from difficult backgrounds to establish healthier patterns in their relationships and to be happier in their families. She enjoys helping parents of young children to develop confidence in their parenting, and to experience more success in establishing the type of family that they would like to have. This may include helping separated or divorced parents to co-parent successfully; grandparents who are raising their own grandchildren to manage the unique demands of their situation; or parents who struggle with mental illness to navigate the challenges of fulfilling family responsibilities, while also managing their own symptoms. Esperanza also enjoys working with individuals to improve the quality of their relationships with “toxic” or overbearing family members, and to establish more appropriate boundaries.

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Michael Thompson, LMFT

Michael has a passion for helping people. That passion led him to couples therapy, which is one of his main specialties. He also works with children, addictions, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in Marriage, Family, and Human Development; masters degree from Loma Linda University in Marital and Family Therapy; and his doctoral degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University. He has been practicing Marriage and Family Therapy for almost 15 years.

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