Our Staff

Lisa A. Follmer, LCSW

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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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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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Jennifer Poulos, LCSW, SUDC

Jen is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Social Work and also is a Licensed Substance Use Disorder Counselor. She has been working with substance abuse and trauma for the last 9 years. She is a challenging, but supportive therapist, who loves working with clients to redirect thinking into more positive and empowering patterns. She believes in creating a compassionate, non-judgmental, supportive environment where clients are free to explore their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to gain insight and self-acceptance. Jen has a lot of experience working with codependency and teaching boundary setting with others and self. She is trained in EMDR and has experience working with many client concerns including trauma, abuse, sexual assault, challenging relationship dynamics, depression, anxiety, and self-esteem.

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Travis Worwood, LCSW

Travis Worwood, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with an endorsement in school social work. He has applied for registration as a clinical supervisor. Travis is studying behavioral interventions to treat insomnia. He has experience working with children in foster care and their families. Travis earned his bachelor’s degree in social work from Utah State University in 2008 and his master’s degree in social work from Boise State University in 2010.

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Brandon Jenson, LCSW

Brandon Jenson is a Utah native and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience. He graduated from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts with his Masters in Social Work. He specializes in mood disorders, including depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder and also has experience working with addiction, trauma, and PTSD. He also enjoys working with couples and helping them improve their relationships. He is passionate about working with the LGBTQ population. Brandon loves working with his clients to accomplish their goals and reach their potential.

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Erin Perez, LCSW

Erin Perez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience working in the field as a Social Worker. She received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Hawaii, specializing in mental health. Erin has extensive experience providing mental health and or substance abuse treatment, family therapy, couples/marriage counseling, domestic violence for perpetrators and victims, pornography addiction, anger management, PTSD, and crisis counseling. She also works part-time as a crisis worker and care manager in the Emergency Department for Intermountain Healthcare and has been doing so for approximately six years. Erin works with clients who struggle with Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Substance Addiction. Erin is a very genuine and caring individual who is passionate about helping others work through their challenges and enjoys seeing them progress in the therapy process.

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Karem Garza-Solis, LCSW

Karem has specialized experience in working with addiction and mental health in both adults and adolescents. The last four years she focused on the complex field of opioid addiction. She has extensive experience with working with individuals involved in the criminal justice system, as well as those diagnosed with anxiety, and depression. She believes in teaching, encouraging and empowering others by being a catalyst for change, striving to provide individualized and personalized treatment based on each client’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. She speaks Spanish fluently.

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Joseph Tenney, LCSW

In the last 15 years, Joseph Tenney has provided over 10,000 hours of therapy. He worked extensively with LDS Family Services, a non-profit Counseling, and Adoption Agency. He has his own private practice and has also worked in multiple residential treatment centers, directed social work in a hospital, a skilled nursing facility, and for an IOP program treating substance abuse and domestic violence. He also has years of experience providing counseling in Spanish. He is very experienced in helping clients heal from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), emphasis on sexual trauma, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety, depression, anger, and addictions. Joseph has a passion for helping his clients change and thrive. Using his natural therapeutic ability, Joseph assists others by removing barriers to success in life and relationships. He has a wide variety of therapeutic practices that include Experiential, Rogerian, Mindfulness, Humanistic, Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. Outside of work, Joseph enjoys building character in youth as a volunteer basketball coach. Other things that make him smile are his family, sports, spirituality, gardening, music, theater, literature, and technology.

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Jonathon Voigt, LCSW

Jon has over 15 years of experience specializing in mental health. He has taken an interest in serving a variety of populations and settings including; outpatient treatment, residential treatment, at-risk youth and families, crisis work, medical social work & hospice, serving as a Reserve Mental Health Officer, and dual diagnosis counseling. He has enjoyed working with those who struggle with addiction, depression, anxiety, psychosis, ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder, trauma, parenting, and couples and family conflict. He takes a special interest in multiple treatment modalities including; DBT, CBT, Solution Focus Therapy, Family Systems, Person/Relationship-Centered Tx, Mindfulness, Mind-Body Bridging, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, EMDR, Exposure Therapy, and Addiction Recovery Training. Helping individuals who have unresolved trauma is a major priority for Jon. He is an individual who sees every moment and every situation as an opportunity and is passionate about helping others do the same, to be able to live with joy, confidence, and courage, and without fear or shame. He has completed a DBT Skills publication, and in this way is expanding how he shares many of the keys to success and happiness that have been given to him over the years.

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Jamee Dobson, LCSW

Jamee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has been working in the field as a social worker for 17 years. She completed a Master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Utah. She’s certified in Domestic Violence perpetrator assessment and treatment as well as forensic sexual abuse interviews. In the beginning 7 years of her career, she worked at Child and Family services rendering her extensive experience in working with children and families in crisis specifically children with significant attachment disorders and victims of neglect, physical and sexual abuse. She specialized in adoptions, home studies and facilitating treatment interventions for troubled teens. She’s taught parenting classes and engaged in individual and group therapy specializing in substance abuse and domestic violence assessment and treatment as well as psycho-educational groups. She has experience in the application of psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, and DBT. She works as a crisis worker in the Emergency Department at Utah Valley Hospital where she specializes in evaluating and assisting patients in crisis and identifying interventions that prove to be most beneficial yet tailored to their specific needs. She works with patients that suffer from Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Dissociative Identity disorder, substance abuse problems, personality disorders as well as somatoform disorders.

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Linda Lasley, LCSW

Linda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience working with adults in outpatient settings. She believes in creating a compassionate, positive, supportive environment while providing a safe, healthy setting for clients to explore their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to gain insight and self-acceptance. Client-centered therapy focuses on mindfully gaining coping skills necessary to manage life challenges and building confidence to reach their goals. Linda has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, mindfulness and stress reduction. She has a special interest in working with women having difficulty with changing roles and expectations in their current lives while resolving painful issues from their past.

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