our Team
founder
Rebecca Kase
MSW, LCSW, RYT
CEO, Owner, Lead Trainer & Consultant
Rebecca Kase is a licensed clinical social worker and yoga instructor, living in Gig Harbor WA. She is an EMDR Consultant & Basic Trainer, and owner of Kase & CO. She is the author of Polyvagal informed EMDR: A neuro-informed approach to healing.
Rebecca is a force of nature. She’s a compassionate and authentic consultant, who has a keen sense for holding space, bringing levity to the heaviest of topics, and creating engaging learning experiences. Rebecca incorporates yoga, throughout her clinical work and training, and has specialties in mind-body techniques, dissociation, complex trauma, and ego-state work. Rebecca values creating shame-free spaces for learning in training and consultation, and believes in teaching clinicians the values of humility and curiosity as vital elements to the healing process.
Rebecca has worked in a variety of settings and with a variety of populations. She began her career as an MSW working with children and adolescents. She has worked in community mental health centers, nursing homes, private practice, shelters, crisis centers, community-based work, and internationally. She has been teaching in professional and academic settings since 2009.
Abby Howard
MSW, LCSW, CPCC
Training Faculty
Abby is a licensed clinical social worker and owns a private practice in Boulder County, CO on the unceded territory that belongs to the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Ute People. Abby’s work is grounded in culturally responsive, trauma informed, and relational psychotherapy. She is certified in EMDR and has extensive training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). She works with adults and specializes in the LGBTQIA+ population, particularly those who identify as bi, pan, queer and questioning. Additionally, she provides consultation and clinical supervision. She received her Master of Social Work from Washington University
in St. Louis and is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.
Alison Leslie
LCSW, SEP
Alison is a licensed clinical social worker who lives in Bloomington, IN and owns her own private practice, Empower Healing. Alison approaches therapy through the lens of presence and attunement and believes in being a guide to help clients find their own internal healing powers. She has a background in animal-assisted therapy and is an EMDR Approved Consultant, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Transforming Touch modalities. Alison works with both children and adults who have experienced developmental and shock traumas, among other life challenges. In consultation, Alison believes in meeting the consultee where they are at and supporting the continued growth of EMDR skills with openness, compassion, and curiosity.
Beth Halverson
MS, LPC
Training Faculty
Beth is a licensed professional counselor based in Eugene, Oregon. She is a practicing therapist in Community Mental Health at Looking Glass Community Services. Beth provides consultation and training through Oregon Consultation Associates. She has specific training for working with complex trauma, adoptive and foster families, and focuses on integrating multiple approaches with EMDR: internal family systems, relational interventions, polyvagal theory, and dialectical behavioral therapy to support clients and clinicians through a holistic lens. She believes authentic connection and radical acceptance are important parts of the many pathways to healing. She has worked with clients from ages 3-65, bringing experience from positions in inpatient treatment, residential programs, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient settings, multiple community mental health programs, and clinical supervision for intern clinicians. She loves finding what makes clients and clinicians feel hopeful and using this as a tool for growth.
Cassie Krajewski
MSW, LCSW, LAC, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Training Faculty
Cassie is a clinical social worker, addiction counselor, and relationship & sex therapist based in Denver, Colorado. She provides works with clients through her private practice, Inner Atlas Therapy, which centers her belief that everyone has everything inside needed for healing and wholeness. Her practice specialties include the treatment of complex trauma, sex and intimacy, couples and relationships, disordered eating and body image issues, and substance abuse and addiction. She is currently completing Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 training and incorporates EFT and attachment-focused approaches into her EMDR practice. Cassie holds space for shame-free learning spaces and exudes warmth and compassion in everything that she does.
Christine Pardos
MSW, LCSW
Christine Pardos is a licensed clinical social worker based in Lakewood, Colorado. Christine owns a telehealth-only private practice and EMDR consultation business, New Roots Therapy LLC. Christine has worked with diverse populations and ages in New York City and Colorado within private and group practices, outpatient facilities, community mental health programs, schools, career readiness and GED programs, and behavioral health hospitals. Currently, Christine works with adults navigating complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and grief and loss. Christine also integrates Ego-State Therapy into her EMDR work and provides EMDR via virtual weekly, extended session, and intensive-style formats. Christine is passionate about EMDR consultation and fosters EMDR community development in Colorado via free monthly consultation groups, in-person meet-ups, and the Colorado EMDR Therapists Facebook Page. Christine believes in providing a nurturing and shame-free learning environment for therapists to feel heard and to develop their EMDR skills with confidence, empathy, and authenticity.
Crystal Hines
EdS/MS, LPC, IFS Level 2
Training Faculty
Crystal is a licensed professional counselor with Align Therapy and Consultation based out of Firestone, CO. She provides virtual EMDR and IFS therapy, and EMDR consultation with an IFS/parts work orientation. Crystal has a brain-body-heart approach to healing. She is both direct and compassionate in her work with clients and knows the importance of doing her own healing. Crystal is a complex trauma survivor and is passionate about helping others along their healing journeys. She has experience working in community mental health and private practice, and loves supporting other therapists and healers. At the start of her career she worked with kids, teens, and families, and now works primarily with older teens and adults. Crystal specializes in working with complex trauma, attachment trauma, dissociation, gifted individuals and high achievers, and anxiety. She has a gift of connecting with the inner child who lives in all of us.
Crystal Wildes
PsyD, LP
Training Faculty
Crystal Wildes is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has over fifteen years of experience working, training, and providing supervision/consultation in a variety of settings, including residential treatment, community mental health, outpatient clinics, non-profit organizations, and private practice. She has worked with individuals and families of all ages, including adjudicated youth, at-risk teens, families involved with social services, and victims of crime. Crystal has specialty areas of trauma recovery, including having been trained in EMDR in 2012, which forever changed her clinical work. She prides herself in being authentic and genuine in her approach to facilitate the learning experience.
Erika Yourdan
MA, LMFT-S, LAC, LCDC
Training Faculty
Erika is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed addiction counselor, and a licensed chemical dependency counselor. She is also a doctoral candidate at Northcentral University. Erika is licensed to practice in both Texas and Colorado. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved Consultant as well as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Erika teaches part time for Abilene Christian University and owns her own private practice in Abilene, TX. In the therapy room, she holds space for individuals and families working through relational issues, addiction, attachment wounds, and complex trauma. Erika enjoys spending time outdoors soaking in nature, camping, kayaking, hiking, and connecting with her large farm full of rescue animals. In both therapy and consultation individuals can expect to be feel safe in a shame-free supportive environment.
Evelyn Wright
MSW, LCSW
Adjunct Faculty
Evelyn is a compassionate and highly respected trauma expert. After obtaining a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California (USC), Evelyn became involved in trauma and play therapy while at UCLA’s Department of Pediatrics. Since transitioning to private practice in 2003, she continues to work with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as an EMDR Certified Therapist, and currently an adjunct faculty member at Kase & CO. Evelyn is the former President of EMDRIA and served on the EMDRIA Board of Directors for 5 years. She has specialties working with adults, children, and adolescents. Her clinical focus includes Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Eating Disorders, and ADD/ADHD, as well as individuals and families with grief and loss, stage of life/adjustment, behavioral, attachment, domestic violence and abuse issues.
Evelyn utilises research-based treatments to ensure clients achieve optimal well-being. She views clients’ experiences from their perspective to facilitate exploration and discovery of new understandings that help achieve their goals. Her emotional and cognitive approach includes EMDR, mindfulness, and spirituality to promote personal growth and healthy relationships. Explore more about Evelyn and her expertise at her website.
Jessica Downs
MSW, LCSW
Training Faculty
Jessica is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker residing in Grand Junction, CO. Before her second career as a therapist, she worked as a high school teacher among a highly traumatized population in Houston, Texas, where her inclination toward healing really took root. Jessica left her position as a teacher to earn her degree in order to more acutely participate in the resolution of trauma. She discovered the power and effectiveness of EMDR early in her therapy career, and is now a Certified EMDR practitioner and Consultant, offering individual counseling and consultation through her private practice Live Well Counseling Center. Jessica specializes in use of ego state work in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. She is bi-lingual (English and Spanish) and strives to support her clients in embodying healing and working towards becoming “whole”.
Julie Martin
MA, LPC, DVM
Training Faculty
Julie is a bilingual (Spanish & English) Licensed Professional Counselor residing in the Rocky Mountains, in Carbondale, CO. Julie’s first career was as a dancer with Oakland Ballet. Her second, and still current, career is as a veterinarian. Julie went back to school to pursue her third career, earning her MA in Counseling and then pursuing EMDR. She has worked with children, teens, families, immigrants from Mexico & Latin America, and currently sees adults. She uses an integrative mind-body approach, integrating EMDR therapy with her training in trauma recovery, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Behavioral Activation, dissociation, PolyVagal therapy, and special interests in chronic pain, illness, headache, and migraine. Julie has worked in community mental health, with the department of family services, in a research program as a consultant/trainer serving depressed Latina, Spanish-speaking moms, and now in private practice. Julie is certified in Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy through EAGALA, and will soon be trained in Equine-Assisted EMDR therapy, bringing together her passion for the healing of the human-animal bond, EMDR, and the intuitive wisdom of horses. She loves supporting therapists learning EMDR and other therapies and has a deep passion for teaching and consulting.
Laurel O’Neal Thornton
MA, LPC, ALPS
Training Faculty
Laurel is a licensed professional counselor in Morgantown, WV. Laurel has been passionate about EMDR since she was introduced to it during her Master’s studies in Counseling at West Virginia University. She attended EMDR training in 2011, and has been practicing EMDR ever since. She now owns her own private practice, Whole Brain Solutions, which utilizes EMDR as its primary theoretical approach. She focuses on offering therapy, consultation, and trainings focused on helping people increase their awareness and understanding of how Adaptive Information Processing can be applied and felt across settings. Laurel enjoys the practical application of neuroscience. She attended Emory University, majoring in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuro-Psychology. She strives to integrate neuroscience into her consulting and counseling.
Wendy Llamas
LCSW, PPSC
Adjunct Faculty
Wendy Llamas is a licensed clinical social worker in North Orange County, California. She is an EMDR Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant and the owner of Growing Glimmers Child, Family, Trauma Therapy. Wendy has worked in community-based mental health, school settings, and in child welfare services. It is Wendy’s upbringing and experiences as a first-generation Latina growing up in a community of color that drew her to the helping field. She uses the knowledge she has learned from her own healing journey, along with all of her education and trainings, to offer therapy services that are grounded in the belief that she is not much different from her clients, and will compassionately walk alongside them as they go through their own processes. Wendy is passionate about helping children, their caregivers, and adult women of color break cycles of intergenerational trauma. Through EMDR, parts and attachment work, and a social justice/holistic lens, Wendy helps her clients heal childhood wounds by aiding them in identifying, releasing, and shifting the beliefs and behaviors that might be blocking their ability to fully be the highest version of themselves.
Administrative Team
Ana Hughes
Training Liaison
Ana is a training assistant located in Texas. During her college years, she found herself working at an animal clinic as a receptionist in Houston. From there, Ana realized she enjoyed working with and helping people with, their four-legged friends. Ana then found herself in the graphic design industry where she continued to apply her customer service experience with clients. Ana is currently enrolled in school and loves being able to work from home.
Crystal Owens
Operations Administrator
Crystal is our Operations Administrator. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland but was born and raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland. She’s a wife and full-time stepmom. Crystal loves to create and enjoys working in spaces that allow her creativity to flow. In college, she studied Communications and has worked in the film/video industry for over ten years as a Producer. She’s a natural planner, very organized, and enjoys taking ideas and projects from concept to completion. Her food blog Margaritas On The Rocks is her pride and joy. She started the blog about eight years ago as a foodie. The blog quickly grew from a hobby to an actual business. Crystal partners with various food brands to create recipes using their products. She is a self-taught food stylist and photographer. She is a huge advocate for mental health and wellness. She is always willing to lend a helping hand, so please do not hesitate to ask. She enjoys spending time with her loved ones and watching reruns of her favorite television shows. Crystal is new to the wellness industry but is very excited to work with Kase & CO.
Kryss Dutt
he/she/they
Operations Administrator
Kryss is our Operations Administrator. They have worked in digital marketing and project management for seven years. Reflecting on their career and personal life during a fulfilling spiritual journey, Kryss is now pursuing their aspiration of becoming a therapist. They decided it was time to achieve a lifelong goal. Kryss believes therapy saves lives and draws inspiration from helping people. Kryss enjoys reading, is a yoga teacher and enthusiast, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, a parapsychology nerd, has a Master of Science in Digital Marketing and is vegan. Kryss is also currently enrolled in a graduate counseling program at Adler Graduate School. Kryss enjoys the enlightened and fulfilling experience of working at Kase & CO.
Tiffany Peeler
Operations Manager
Tiffany is our Operations Manager located in Canton, GA. She started her career working in small offices while attending college at MTSU. Starting out in reception she quickly advanced to an administrative assistant role, where she gained vast computer, operations, marketing and accounting knowledge. As well as 15+ years experience with administrative work in various industries. After having her children she took her skills to the virtual space and found her home as an excecutive assistant for Kase & CO. As the company and her skillset grew, she was promoted to Operations Manager. Tiffany is a proud mom of 3 and stepmom of one. Having multiple children on the autism spectrum and a stepson who experienced trauma at a young age, she has seen the power of therapy first hand. Therapy has helped her family navigate those challenges and she welcomed the chance to work within the industry.
