Our Counselors

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
Accepting:
  • BCBS
  • Health Advantage
  • HMO Baptist
  • Municipal Health
  • True Blue

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
Accepting:
  • Aetna
  • AMbetter
  • BCBS
  • Cigna
  • Champ VA
  • Commercial Travelers
  • Health Advantage
  • HMO Baptist
  • Municipal Health
  • True Blue
  • United Behavioral Health (optum)
  • UMR

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
Accepting:
  • Aetna
  • Allwell
  • Ambetter
  • BCBS
  • Champ VA
  • Cigna
  • Commercial Travelers
  • Health Advantage
  • Medicare
  • Medipak FFS
  • Municipal Health
  • True Blue
  • United Behavioral Health (optum)
  • UMR

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
Accepting:
  • Ambetter
  • BCBS
  • Cigna
  • Health Advantage
  • HMO Baptist
  • Municipal Health
  • True Blue

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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JoAnn Clay
Accepting:
  • Aetna
  • Allwell
  • Ambetter
  • BCBS
  • Champ VA
  • Cigna
  • Commercial Travelers
  • FEP
  • Health Advantage
  • Medicare
  • Municipal Health
  • QualChoice
  • TriCare
  • True Blue
  • United Behavioral Health (Optum)
  • UMR

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
Accepting:
  • Aetna
  • Allwell
  • Ambetter
  • BCBS
  • Cigna
  • Champ VA
  • Commercial Travelers
  • FEP
  • Health Advantage
  • HMO Baptist
  • Medicare
  • Medipak FFS
  • Municipal Health
  • True Blue
  • United Behavioral Health (optum)
  • UMR

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
Accepting:
  • Ambetter
  • BCBS
  • Champ VA
  • Commercial Travelers
  • FEP
  • Health Advantage
  • HMO Baptist
  • Municipal Health
  • QualChoice
  • True Blue

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.

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Better than I imagined!!!

★★★★★
I cannot say enough good about this place. They honestly do strive to get you in to see a practitioner quickly. And the importance of being seen soon to someone who is at a bad psychological point cannot be understated. It can, literally, mean the difference between life and death. After years of no longer being able to trust mental health providers due to so much misdiagnosis I reached out to Thriveworks. I asked for a particular practitioner, and they had me in to see her the following day. Kristy's approach was welcoming, empathetic, friendly, and down-to-earth. She did not speak down to me as a patient, but she made a comfortable effort to connect from the beginning. Gaining my trust over several weeks she was able to start showing me some things no one ever took the time to extract. She found me at the precipice of a terrible situation and worked me back from the ledge. Her input to Zack, along with his personable and empathetic personality, finally got me on medications that actually have improved my situation more than I could have ever imagined. The combination of her therapy and the medications have me, for the first time in decades, recognizing a hope for the future. All I can say is if you are that person who has lost hope and feels as though you have no purpose, let the Thriveworks team have a chance to show you a you even you didn't know existed. Without hyperbole I can honestly say I owe my life going forward to Kristy and Zack.
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★★★★★
After working with Zack for a year I would say that he is very dependable and does show concern for his patients. There is never any problem with following hospital policy. Always a good man to have on your team.
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Zack’s Great

★★★★★
Zacks a wonderful guy to see. He really listens to all your concerns and explains your treatment options in detail. Anyone that sees him is going to feel comfortable talking to him and not have that feeling as if your talking to a stranger.
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Relief FINALLY

★★★★★
I've dealt with severe anxiety and depression for as long as I can remember, and have seen multiple providers to try and get control of my emotions. I thought I was a lost cause until I found Zack. He was the first "medicine guy" that I met with that actually got me! He has a calming demeanor and had me very comfortable from the very first appointment. He's easy to work with and actually cares about how I'm feeling! Seeing Zack was the best decision I could have made. Now I'm feeling much better and finally feel like I can breathe. Thank you Zack and Thriveworks for all you do!
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Awesome

★★★★★
I would like to thank you for helping out a family member in need. North Little Rock isn't far away and that made everything easy for a depression/anxiety patient. Office was easy to get to.
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Speaking engagement

★★★★★
Curtiss Robinson gave an excellent presentation at the Senior Services Network meeting this month. He was very engaging with the group and we all learned something to improve our relationships.
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Senior Network

★★★★★
We had the privilege of having Curtiss Robinson speak at our Senior Services Network lunch, he did a great job. Excellent speaker, kept everyone engaged, his message on building relationships was timely and practical.
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Ms. Buffington Works

★★★★★
Ms. Tenethrea Buffington is the best! I went in telling her that I didn't believe in coaching/therapy, well I was wrong. She help me in my difficult situation and I could not be more happy with where I stand with it.
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Curt robinson

★★★★★
Curt was very helpful when helping me cope with my problems. During our sessions he helped me gain my confidence back and not only helped me with my codependency especially but also helped keep my head up while trying to find employment
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Priceless

★★★★★
Outstanding! Curtiss helped me navigate my way through a challenging career melt down. He taught me how to create a successful positive out of a negative situation...a valuable life skill...I can't than him enough for all he did to help me find my inner calling .
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New location

★★★★★
extremely excited the new location is opening this week.
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Most Talented Coach in America

★★★★★
I have worked closely with Curtiss as my Coach for 2 months. Curtiss is the most talented individual I have ever met. He has the skills, employs them in his life, and knows how to transfer his skills and abilities to make it relevant and fun. The administrative aspects of Thriveworks, such asheduling is excellent, efficient and accessible. Anyone is privileged to be able to work with Curtiss and his staff. I consider myself most fortunate to be working with Curtiss.
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Healthcare Media Specialist

★★★★★
My experience with was excellent! I had a neighbor that was in desperate need of assistance. We brought her to and they were able to get this lady pointed in the right direction very quickly. I have also recommended to some of my co workers for family and life coaching. This company really cares and I would recommend them to anyone. Great Job Thriveworks.
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really cares!

★★★★★
One of the things that stands out to me about is how much they care about their clients. Being able to book an appointment within 24 hours is exceptional service. I'm so glad they opened up a new office in Maumelle.
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Business Coaching

★★★★★
Curtiss Robinson and his staff at are very professional and treat me with courtesy and respect each time I go for an appointment. I have used many times for business coaching sessions, and their personalized plan not only grew my business, but also helped with time management in other areas of my life.
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WORKS!!!

★★★★★
One of the most important factors when searching for counseling is finding counselors who are genuine and who truly care. The team has always been dedicated to each clients fullest potential in improving their outlook on their every day life. Each client is treated with utmost respect and hospitality. Each coach/counselor works with each client to build personal, multiple step, processes to reach each goal set into place. You will not find a more dedicated team to assist with anything and everything that you may be experiencing.
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