The Restore Team
Scott Reall, Executive Director/Founder
Rebecca Griffith, Senior Program Director/Counselor
Laurie Little Lokey, Counseling Area Program Director/Counselor
Alissa Anderson, Counseling Area Program Director/Counselor
Lynn P. Spaw, Counseling Area Program Counselor
Samuel Rainey, Restore Counselor
Christie Thalhimer, Development Director
Lindsey Castleman, Program Coordinator
Charity Mulhern, Area Program Coordinator
Lindsey Campbell, Area Program Coordinator
Marla Thompson, Area Program Coordinator
Susanna Powers, Area Program Coordinator
Meghan Smith, Clerical Administrator
Scott Reall, Founder
Scott Reall is an author, recovery coach and teacher. He is founder and executive director of Restore Ministries of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee in Nashville. Scott began his journey with the YMCA over 20 years ago when he became the Senior Wellness Director of the Green Hills YMCA. In this position he found his passion for helping people change their lives by overcoming life controlling issues so they can achieve their full potential in spirit, mind and body. In 2000, he began Restore Ministries. He is now the author of five books in the Journey to Freedom series published by Thomas Nelson. Journey to Freedom is now being used by YMCAs, churches, corporations, and prisons all over the USA and other countries across the world. Journey to Freedom has been translated and published in Russian. It is currently being translated into Spanish. Through Restore Ministries, he has helped close to 10,000 people overcome obstacles of change in their lives truly making Restore a life changing program of the YMCA. You may contact Scott about seminars, audio programs, groups and other resources of life change at:
Restore Ministries
4041 Hillsboro Circle
Nashville, TN 37215
For more on Scott and Journey to Freedom, visit www.journeytofreedom.org
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| Bring in Scott to share stories of hope and restoration, as well as how to build a healing community in your city. Contact Lindsey at lcastleman@ymcamidtn.org to request Scott to speak at your next event. |
Rebecca Griffith, MA, Senior Program Director/Counselor
Rebecca is the full-time Senior Program Director for the Restore Counseling Center. Rebecca is responsible for hiring and supervising Restore therapists, area coordinators and the masters level student interns. Rebecca also manages all tracking and reporting for the Restore program.
Rebecca received her MA in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College and worked as a counselor in private practice for 9 years in Columbia, SC before moving to Nashville in 1998. She is the mother of 4 daughters, ages 9 -19. Rebecca is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the Association of Play Therapy.
Her approach to therapy is deeply spiritual as she believes our deepest needs are met in relationship to our creator. She uses a Christian 12 step model in both her group and individual work. She also enjoys work with couples, helping them to explore the core needs and vulnerabilities that have led them to a place of pain and conflict and helping them understand how knowing their core value can lead them to a place of healing and restoration in their marriage.
Laurie Little Lokey, MA, LPC, Counseling Area Program Director/Counselor
Laurie works for Restore Ministries as a full-time counselor. She is passionate about the healing process for her clients and continues to attend trainings and seminars to stay abreast of the latest studies that are available to help in the healing process of trauma. She also enjoys participating in the trainings of new and old facilitators and in sharing various forms of treatments with the interns and practicum students.
Laurie received her MA in counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University. She did both her counseling practicum and internship working with Restore Ministries. Laurie has almost completed the licensing process and will be licensed sometime in the year of 2010. As a part of her ongoing training to help those who have experienced trauma, she has attended the Psychodrama and Experiential Institutes at ONSITE. She attended the Charles Figley Institute on Trauma and received her EMDR Level I training. And she studied under Lee Norton, PhD. studying specialized treatments for trauma resolution.
Laurie’s passion is to continue to know and understand the effects of trauma and how they get “played out” in addictive behaviors. Her areas of specialty include sexual abuse, eating disorders, addictions, and couples work. She is a mother of two grown daughters and a grandmother. She is a member of Christ Community Church and longs for all to know their “belovedness” in Christ.
Alissa Anderson, Counseling Area Program Director/Counselor
Restore Ministries is privileged to have Alissa Anderson join the counseling staff team. Alissa brings over fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit sector, and most recently her own private practice. Alissa received her undergraduate degree in Social Work from Belmont University and her masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Trevecca University. She has extensive experience leading small groups, as well as a professional background working in ministry specifically with adolescents.
Alissa often draws on her own personal recovery experiences as well as her role as a wife and mother to offer help and hope to individuals, couples and families.
Alissa is an asset to the Restore team because her passion is to partner with people in the Isaiah 61 way.
Lynn P. Spaw, MSN, APN-BC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Lynn received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Family Nurse Practitioner & Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner degrees from Vanderbilt University.
Lynn is able to diagnose and prescribe medications for conditions such as Depression, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, BiPolar Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Eating Disorders and others when appropriate.
Her paradigm for counseling is in accordance to Pia Mellody's (author of "Facing Codependence") model which identifies five Core Issues of our Perfectly Imperfect Human Condition: Self-Esteem, Boundaries, Reality Perception, Dependency and Moderation. Understanding that everyone's childhood was perfectly imperfect, symptoms may emerge later in life around: Relational Esteem, Enmeshment & Avoidance, Dishonesty, Problems with Interdependence, and Intensity Issues respectively.
She is able to evaluate and treat pediatric, adolescent, and adult clients.
Samuel Rainey, Restore Counselor
Samuel is a staff counselor at Restore Ministries. He also maintains a private counseling practice in the Franklin area. He completed his undergraduate degree in Communication from the University of Arkansas. Prior to pursuing his graduate degree, he counseled premarital couples, created and facilitated marriage mentoring groups, and led men through issues of sexual integrity. Samuel graduated with a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA.
His focus is on individuals and marriages struggling with depression, abuse, and other relationship issues. Additionally he has led Domestic Violence treatment groups for men as well as Marriage workshops for refugee churches to help strengthen marriages. He is the co-author of "So You Want to be a Teenager", a book focusing on issues that preteens experience as they become a teenager. Samuel is deeply passionate about helping others to find their voice.
Christie Thalhimer, Development Director
Christie serves as the Development Director of Restore Ministries and the Margaret Maddox Family YMCA. She helps run Restore's We Build People campaign and helps plan the annual fundraising events, including Celebration of Hope and The Restore Ministries and Green Hills Family YMCA Golf Tournament.
Christie received her BA in Sociology and her BFA in Studio Art at Wake Forest University. She has worked for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee since she moved to Nashville in the summer of 2006 from Richmond, Va. She also serves on the board of Recovery Community in East Nashville.
Lindsey Castleman, Program Coordinator
Lindsey works full-time for Restore Ministries as a Program Coordinator. Her main focus is on communication and awareness with Restore programs as well as the national expansion of Journey to Freedom. Lindsey has been with the YMCA of Middle Tennessee since 2000. She began her career in YMCA membership and came to love Restore through facilitating Journey to Freedom classes.
Since working with Restore, Lindsey has facilitated Journey to Freedom, Healthy Steps to Freedom, and Freedom in Relationships.
Lindsey received her BS in Public Relations from Middle Tennessee State University with a minor in English and marketing. She is married to Kevin, her high school sweetheart, and they have a dog named Bono. Kevin and Lindsey love their church home at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood. They love to camp, travel, be with friends and family and see people come to know and love Christ in their own lives.
