Meet The Team
Who We Are
Terry Norman
MA, LMFT
Terry is a competent, caring therapist who thrives on working with individuals, couples and families. She has the gift of transforming difficult situations into opportunities for healing and hope. Her clients call her “empathetic, humorous and kind”.
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Terry has extensive training in Relational Life Therapy (Terry Real) and the Gottman Method. Her passion and effectiveness in working with couples in Intensive Therapy has helped heal multiple couples in crisis. Terry is well known for helping her clients heal from the past, find help for today and hope for the future. No problem is too big.
Anna Steidl
MA, LPCC
Anna is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who has a love for helping people work through difficulties that they may be experiencing. Her lens of healing is a holistic approach incorporating Eastern ideals through yoga, meditation, energy, and sound healing. Additionally, most of her experience is in early intervention trauma work with children. Her other scopes of knowledge include individual therapy, family therapy, parent coaching, play therapy, children and teens with Autism, ADHD, anxiety, and depression. She is state certified in the DC 0-5 diagnostic criteria. She is open to working with anybody that is ready to travel along the path of healing and wellness. In her free time Anna enjoys staying busy with activities like swimming, biking, reading, snowboarding, and hiking. She loves nature and hanging out with family and friends.
Tina Saunders
MA, LMFT
Tina is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate about growth and healing. She is committed to helping clients build and strengthen their relationships with themselves and others. She sees individuals, couples and families and specializes in relationship issues and trauma. She is trained in Pia Mellody’s Post Induction Therapy (PIT) model which she weaves into much of her work with individuals and couples. She also facilitates a 3-day Women’s Intensive centered around the PIT model and healing relational wounds from childhood. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) which she utilizes to work on healing traumas and emotional wounds.
Shlomo Schloss
LICSW
Connection with others is an important force which drives us to be who we are from birth to death. There are many barriers to achieving connection; stress, fear, sadness, or loneliness just to name a few. In this space, we create an atmosphere of acceptance and authenticity in order to move from a place of loneliness to feeling hope and you guessed it – connection.
Shlomo specializes in people. Shlomo has clinical experience in treating symptoms of depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and chronic pain/illness. Generally, he works with couples, teenagers, and adults. His approach utilizes psychodynamic principles and targeted behavioral changes to guide sessions through the process of self discovery and the removal of barriers to feel connected.
Erica Falconer
MS, LMFT
Erica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who is dedicated to growth and healing for individuals and couples. She views the concerns that people come to therapy with from a systemic viewpoint, with the idea that people are influenced from their family of origin, their significant relationships and the people around them. Erica enjoys people and learning their unique perspectives with the idea to challenge, encourage, support and advocate for her clients. She offers a warm and supportive approach while utilizing many therapeutic models to assist her clients toward their growth. She is trained in the Post Induction Therapy (PIT) model by Pia Melody and incorporates this into her therapeutic work. Erica also offers intensive therapy for couples as well as women’s intensives. These intensives focus on processing and healing from past traumas, assisting clients in becoming more functional in their lives as they heal from past relational wounds, and exploring better ways to more effectively communicate, to love, and to be more authentic in their lives.
Emily Rudert
MA, LMFT
Jeffery Nelson
MA, LMFT
Jeff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who strives to help others foster a path of healing toward their desired goals. He is determined to meet clients where they are at in their therapeutic process. He works with individuals and couples and is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. He has worked extensively with individuals in crisis and with those with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI). Jeff is not one to shy away from a difficult topic and is ready to work with his clients to process through any and all difficulties they face. Jeff has the professional capacity and willingness to work with you on your journey through the therapeutic process.
Breana Foley
MS, LAMFT
Bre is pursuing licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy (LAMFT). Bre is passionate about what she does and it shows in her work. She has a growth mindset so she is constantly learning new ways to help. She has a holistic background (yoga, Reiki) and is deeply empathetic. She believes that change starts by knowing our nervous system and uses psychoeducation and Polyvagal theory to help clients create change quickly.
Bre is trained in Polyvagal, Tapping, Brainspotting, Healing our Core Issues, The Gottman Method, and Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy. Bre has a passion for working with all ages, individuals, couples and families. Bre believes that therapy should be special to each client. It is important for the client to create an alliance with the therapist! Therapy changed Bre's life for the better and she hopes to help others achieve the same. Bre looks forward to embarking on a journey of discovery with you!
Lisa Watson
M. Div, MA, LMFT
Lisa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and works primarily with individuals and couples in areas of anxiety, depression, parenting, trauma, medical trauma, chronic illness, grief and loss, healthcare workers, infidelity and betrayal. From a 20 year career as a hospital chaplain, Lisa has extensive work with end of life issues, grief and loss, and cultural, religious, racial, economic and gender diversity. Lisa believes in meeting her clients where they are at and walking with them on their journey of healing and wholeness. She is not afraid of the “hard stuff” or the “hard conversations” and she approaches them with deep care and compassion for her clients.
Lisa has training in the Gottman Method, Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy (PET-C), Pia Mellody’s Post Induction Therapy (PIT) and is Brainspotting Certified. Lisa believes in helping each client be their authentic selves in all areas of their lives by healing the wounds and traumas of childhood and developing healthy skills of self-care, self-love and self-acceptance. Lisa is able to join with clients quickly, uses a systemic lens to identify underlying issues and develops treatment plans that use a variety of methods and therapies as unique as each client to move them forward on their healing journey.
Michele Owens
MA, LMFT
Michele is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with individuals and family systems.
Coming from a place of empathy and solution-focused practices, she strives to provide a comfortable
empathic therapy experience. Throughout the course of her career, Michele has worked with a variety
of clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and attachment concerns. She believes that change
is ongoing and the journey for each person is individual. She views therapy as a joint experience utilizing
both skills and what the client brings to each encounter.
Emily is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist using trauma-informed and relational therapies to help her clients move through all manner of challenges. Emily recognizes each individual brings a unique set of lived experiences and readily invites her clients to bring their whole, authentic selves into the process. With training in Brainspotting, Post-Induction Therapy (PIT), The Gottman Method, and Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy (PET-C), Emily is comfortable accompanying her clients through their heaviest challenges and remaining there with them until things get resolved.
Unique to Emily is her ability to connect with her clients, bringing equal parts honesty and levity in her approach. She values integrating practical steps while still seeing the whole picture of a person or couple to move towards a desired future. Emily has a passion for working with individuals, couples, and adolescents (13+). Hey, sometimes life can be messy, but Emily stands ready to jump into the deep end. So, come on in, the water’s fine.
Jenna Lange
Office Manager
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Jenna helps ensure that the day-to-day operations of West End Therapy run smoothly. If you have any questions about scheduling an appointment, billing, and/or insurance please don’t hesitate to reach out to her. When Jenna is not working she enjoys spending time with her wife and daughter.