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 in the Fresno/Clovis area.
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 and a B.S. in Interpersonal Communication. 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, a son-in-law, and love being involved in The Well Community Church. Brad Bell, Directional Leader of The Well, has entrusted Tracy to do premarital counseling with the couples that Brad marries. Tracy is available for premarital counseling and marriage enrichment for couples in various stages of their relationship. He uses a very helpful tool, “PREPARE/ ENRICH”, which helps couples discover strength and growth areas in their relationship and then develop important relationship skills in areas such as communication, conflict resolution, and relationship dynamics. Go to: prepare-enrich.com to learn about this valuable tool.
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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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Sherri Eason, LMFT
Sherri is a licensed marriage and family therapist who received her Masters degree from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. Before becoming a therapist Sherri worked in education, special education and in Christian camping and has experience working with people of all ages. She specializes in working with children and adults with ADHD and in working with parents during difficult stages of their child's development. Sherri enjoys working with couples, families and individuals with such issues as anxiety, depression, grief, loss, trauma, anger, lack of connection, stress and phase of life problems. Sherri's clinical approach is Adlerian, which is a positive, holistic psychology that focuses on growth, encouragement and education in all areas of life.
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Stephanie Zimmerman, LMFT
Stephanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She received her Master of Arts in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno. Stephanie has worked with adolescents in a variety of settings for the past 9 years. The adolescent time of life can bring unique struggles and difficulties; Stephanie believes there is hope and healing in all situations that adolescents go through. She truly enjoys working with adolescents and their families through these transitional times. She also enjoys working with individuals, couples, parents, and families through a variety of other issues that include difficulties such as 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 towards wholeness and healing of the body, mind and spirit.
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Gerry Puga, LMFT
Gerry has extensive training in substance abuse, Dialetical Behavioral therapy, Cognitive Behaivoral therapy, Famliy Systems, Gestalt, Exsitenical and group therapy, Sex/Porn addiction, dual diagnosis, crisis, personality disorders, anxiety and depression,couples, families and individual therapy, Gerry has 12 yrs of providing Mental health services in a variety of settings, county outpatient, hospital inpatient and private practices. He believes that each indiviudal has the potential to achieve and transcend any problem that life presents, through faith and by facing the issue, no matter how difficult or painful. When you face the pain, the anxiety, the depression or whatever the issue at hand, you will grow stronger in faith and stronger in the spirit, trusting that God will always be part of the therapeutic process.
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Dave Obwald MA, Conflict and Peacemaking Studies
Mediator / Conflict Coach
Dave Obwald is the current Campus Pastor at the Fig Garden Campus of The Well Community Church. He graduated with his Masters Degree in Conflict and Peacemaking Studies from Fresno Pacific University. Dave has a passion for helping people live in unity with God and one another. A common assumption is that conflict always leads to negative outcomes of pain, alienation, tension, and confusion. What people often fail to realize is that conflict can also lead to deeper understanding, growth in relationships, reconciliation, forgiveness, and clearer communication. Often what keeps us from more positive outcomes can be a lack of vision, necessary tools, or a constructive process to enter into. The mediation setting, or working with a conflict coach, creates a space where people can clarify the issues that are present and work toward a satisfactory resolution for all parties. Dave has seen transformation occur in individuals, couples, marriages, family members, and students.
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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 individuals both men and women, couples, families and adolescents. She works with depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, grief/loss, life transitions and trauma. She has been in full-time Christian ministry for the past 17 years in the pastoral care setting, has been married for 34 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 and our significant life relationships affect our sense of self and ability to relate to others.
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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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Lacy Warne, MFT Intern
Lacy Warne 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. Lacy enjoys working with children, adolescents, individuals, couples, and families suffering from mental illness, grief and loss, marital and relational problems, trauma, substance abuse and recovery, and life transitions. She has worked with children and adolescents in school-based and ministry contexts. Lacy has a passion for seeing women experience hope and healing from the struggles and bondage they experience, including body image issues, shame, self-esteem, and relational trauma. She believes that in the context of a positive therapeutic relationship, self-awareness, insight, liberation, and the personal power to change are found. Lacy partners with others on their journey towards spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wholeness and healing.
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