Counseling Center
The purpose of the Counseling Center is to be an extension of The Well Community Church pastoral staff, providing affordable and professional counseling from a Christian worldview.
We do not guarantee that counseling will solve all your troubles or that you will be happier at the completion of therapy; however, many people benefit from counseling and find resolution to specific problems, improving their outlook on life and allowing them to focus beyond themselves.
For more information, review our Frequently Asked Questions or call the Counseling Center at 559.325.8600.
OUR COUNSELORS
Christine Field, LMFT
Christine Field is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. She received a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Counseling from Notre Dame de Namur University. She has many years of experience helping individuals find freedom from depression, anxiety, loss, grief, domestic violence, childhood trauma, anger, addictions, and marital issues. Christine’s approach to therapy is holistic and includes understanding how an individual’s past can influence current behaviors. She enjoys working with young adults, adults, and couples as they work through their current difficulties toward self-awareness, empowerment, and healing.
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Tracy Hearnsberger, MDIV
Tracy is an ordained minister with a Master of Divinity degree. He is the senior pastor of The Little Church in the Pines in Bass Lake, CA, a role he has held since 1999. He has been in pastoral ministry since 1978. He and his wife, Rhonda, were married in 1976, have two daughters, and a son-in-law, and they enjoy being involved in The Well Community Church. Brad Bell, Directional Leader of The Well, has entrusted Tracy to do pre-marital counseling with the couples Brad marries. Tracy has a deep heart for providing pastoral counsel for individuals, couples and families who are walking through various life issues. He believes in helping people learn how to let the Lord help them with matters of marriage, family, communication, forgiveness, and conflict resolution. He loves to watch as God brings the wisdom of His Word into the heart of a situation to transform lives and bring about wholeness in spirit and soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
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Gina Ornelas, LMFT
Gina Ornelas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master of Science degree in Marital and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. She is also a Certified Domestic Violence Advocate and a Certified Family Wellness Instructor. She specializes in helping individuals and families recover from domestic violence, emotional abuse, and childhood trauma. Gina also has experience in working with those struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, anger/stress management, parenting issues, grief and loss, divorce, and adolescence. Her goal is to empower people while they are on a journey toward healing and wholeness. Gina’s therapeutic approach assists families in creating healthy boundaries, encourages awareness of how our thoughts affect our feelings, and helps people see how past experiences impact their present lives.
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Susan Gravette, LMFT
Susan Gravette is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works to help people experience wholeness and healing, counseling couples, families, and individuals in all stages of life. She has a special interest in working with individuals and families impacted by eating disorders. She also has experience helping people struggling with depression and anxiety, addiction, mental illness, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, boundaries, and marital issues. Susan treats clients from a holistic approach that recognizes the complex relationship between our spiritual, emotional, physical, and cognitive aspects.
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Patricia Behrens, LMFT
Patricia (Patty) Behrens is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in grief, trauma and all types of losses. She has experience helping others manage depression, anxiety, bipolar, addictions, trauma, grief and loss, marital, relational and family struggles, life transitions and mental illnesses. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, families and children. Patty approaches therapy by helping people heal from past wounds that affect the present and find balance mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Her personal journey through widowhood, single parenting and remarriage has helped her relate to others’ life struggles and understand the impact they have on relationships and families.
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Wendi Mooney, MFT Intern
Wendi Mooney is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, who graduated from Fresno Pacific University Biblical Seminary with a Master of Arts in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. She enjoys working with children, adolescents, couples and families. She has been in full-time Christian ministry for the past 15 years in pastoral care settings, has been married for 32 years, and is a mother of two. Her clinical approach integrates Biblical truth with the field of psychology, with an understanding that each individual is shaped by one’s experiences, both past and present.
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Jodi Mitchell, MFT Intern
Jodi Mitchell is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, who has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a background in Recreation Therapy. She believes that establishing healthy boundaries and having a balanced lifestyle help foster emotional health. She specializes in helping individuals, couples, families, and children identify their emotions and work through cognitive distortions, utilizing a cognitive behavioral therapy approach. Jodi has experience working with individuals who are suffering from depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, stress management, and phase of life issues. Throughout treatment Jodi encourages physical, spiritual, and emotional health, as well as a strong focus on the empowerment of each individual to promote healing.
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Sherri Eason, MFT Intern
Sherri is a registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern who received her Masters degree from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. Sherri has worked in education, special education, and Christian Camping for the past eight years, and has experience working with people of all ages. Her budding specialties include helping people struggling with ADHD, and working with children with autism and their families. Sherri's clinical approach is Adlerian, which is a positive psychology that focuses on growth, encouragement, and education in all areas of life.
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Jennifer Brazil, MFT Intern
Jennifer Brazil is a registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, who has lived in Fresno with her children for the past nine years. She received her Master’s degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno. She experienced aid through the therapeutic process in her own journey of parental grief and loss, and her personal experiences enhance her ability to connect with individuals, parents, children, families and couples. Jennifer works from a client-directed family system and attachment perspective. Additionally, Jennifer is a member of the Horticultural Therapy Association and a Master Gardener. She finds working in nature to be a healing process, not only physically, but spiritually as well. She brings this holistic understanding of the body, mind and spirit to the therapeutic process.
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Stephanie Zimmerman, MFT Intern
Stephanie is a registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern. She received her Master of Arts in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno. She has worked with adolescents in a variety of settings for the past nine years, and has enjoyed working with them and their families through that transitional time, believing there is hope and healing in all of their unique struggles and difficulties. She also works extensively with individuals, couples, parents, and families struggling with issues that include anxiety, depression, relationships, trauma, grief, loss, anger and stress. Every individual and family comes with their own counseling needs, which is why Stephanie works from a client-centered approach to empower her clients toward wholeness and healing of the body, mind and spirit.
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