Meet our Counselors

Ingrid Wilkins, Life Coach

Ingrid Wilkins is a compassionate life coach. As a case manager, she has  15 years of experience working with children, teens, parents, adults, and families. She specializes in self-esteem building, career and life transitions, and anger management. She has worked in a variety of settings from outpatient community mental health, court-based therapeutic settings, and inpatient hospitalization. She received her Bachelor of Humans Services from Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock her Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Though Ingrid has worked with a variety of different clients, she is most passionate about coaching women. Ingrid specializes in helping women redefine their identity, unlock their inner self-confidence, recognize and dismantle unproductive belief systems and behaviors, and become the best version of themselves.

Ingrid’s coaching style is creative and client-centered. She believes in working with all of her clients collaboratively, in a nonjudgmental environment, empowering them to identify and implement healthy lifestyle habits to help them overcome their life challenges and achieve their goals.

When Ingrid is not coaching, she is baking delicious desserts for her bakery business, I Knead Some Dough and serving as a mentor for the Little Rock Police Department’s G.E.M.S (Girls Empowered by Mentoring Sisterhood) program.

James Luebben, LPE-I

James is a Licensed Psychological Examiner in the state of Arkansas. He received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Arkansas and his Masters of Science in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University. He has over 20 years of experience with Individuals, Groups, Couples counseling, and Family counseling. He has worked in a variety of settings: from outpatient to in-patient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient.

He has worked with clients with various issues including depression, anxiety, PTSD, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, grief, etc. His style is relaxed and empathetic, yet direct when called for. He primarily works with teenagers (14+) and adults.

Kristy Staton, LPC

Kristy Staton is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Arkansas. She has over 8 years of experience with Grief Counseling, Family Therapy, Couples Counseling, Career Counseling, Behavioral Issues and many more. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology as well as her Master of Science in Counseling.

Kristy’s style is relaxed and compassionate, and she fully invests in providing a judgment-free environment to all clients. She believes that with the right support, feedback and encouragement, most clients are able to make significant improvements and achieve desired goals in their lives.

Zack Coco, APRN

Zack Coco is a Nationally Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.  This gives him prescriptive authority, which allows him to prescribe and manage medications. He received his Master of Nursing Science degree from The Ohio State University and has experience treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, insomnia, and substance abuse disorders. Being certified in mental health treatment throughout the lifespan, Zack is able to see children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.

Zack’s goal with medication management is to meet his patients where they are, and help get them to where they’d like to be. He works diligently with his patients to find the best medication for them. To achieve this, he encourages open and honest dialogue, while offering a friendly, safe, and judgment-free environment. As medications can affect everyone differently, he is also interested to know how well the prescribed medication is working for you, and if you’ve had any problems or side effects from its use.

Zack believes that medication management is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to treating any type of mental illness. Having a well-rounded treatment plan including medication, therapy, and a good working relationship between the patient and provider are all pieces that are needed for the best possible treatment outcomes. For that reason, he requires that all patients receiving medication services be in therapy as well.

Mandy Tigert, LPC

Mandy is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Arkansas. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Rehabilitation Science from Arkansas Tech University and her Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She specializes in Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Behavioral Issues, etc and has over 10 years of experience with children, teens, and adults. Her services include: Couples Counseling, Family Counseling, and Individual appointments.

She is dedicated to providing compassionate, nonjudgmental care that encourages and fosters growth. Her focus is on helping others utilize their own individual personal strengths and milestones to promote healing. She gets positive results by helping individuals manage life stressors and focusing on the long-term goals.

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Jo Ann Clay, CNS, APRN

Jo Ann Clay is a Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, with Prescriptive Authority, as well as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is Adult certified, and has over 15 years experience as an APRN, and 30 years experience in the Mental Health field. She has treated a variety of disorders, including depression, anxiety, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, insomnia, drug and alcohol issues.

Jo Ann believes that Medicine management requires finding the best medication for the client. That requires diagnostics and disclosure. Second is managing symptoms and side effects. She always wants to hear how well the medication is working (efficacy) as well as problems that might arise (side effects). Third is prescription refill.

Good medicine requires trust and excellent communication. Jo Ann requires patients to be in therapy to receive medication services.

Sharon Odom, LCSW, MSW

Sharon Odom is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Arkansas. Sharon has over 20 years of experience in the mental health field serving the community in a variety of settings to include inpatient and outpatient.

Sharon provides counseling for a variety of mental health issues for adolescents and adults; such as, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, partner relational problems, personality disorders, mood disorders, bipolar disorder and more. She has experience in grief therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, couples therapy, and more.

Sharon’s style is meeting clients where they are with a compassionate, dedicated, and nonjudgmental approach. She has a passion about helping clients to help themselves.

Joshua Lee, LPE-I

Joshua Lee is an Independent Licensed Psychological Examiner in Arkansas. He graduated magna cum laude from Lyon College with his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and from the University of Central Arkansas with his Masters of Science in Counseling Psychology. He has worked for over 20 years as a paraprofessional, case manager, primary therapist, and advocate for individuals with mental health concerns. He offers over 15 years of experience providing individual and group counseling as well as psychoeducational and emergency assessment. He has worked in a variety of settings ranging from outpatient community mental health, acute day treatment, emergency services, nursing facilities, human development centers, and inpatient hospitalization and neurorehabilitation.

He provides treatment for a wide variety of individual mental health diagnoses in teens and adults ranging from major depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, anger management, partner relational problems, and psychotic disorders. He has also taught process and skills development groups in: communication, anger management, stress management, relationship skills, recovery, DBT, and relapse prevention.

His therapy style is primarily humanistic with a focus on developing a strong therapeutic alliance to gather insight into the origin of problematic behaviors and the use of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral skills development to affect meaningful change in an individual’s life. He is continually working to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in treatment and is working to incorporate more trauma-informed care principles into his practice.