Erica Vaughn

As Bethesda Workshops’ Marketing Director, Erica helps share the hope and healing available at Bethesda. Her work includes creating our messages shared through email, social media, and on our website.

She brings experience in marketing several small businesses and non-profit organizations in the Southeast. Erica earned her BS in Business Administration in Marketing from Appalachian State University and completed a certificate program in Digital Marketing with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She and her husband have three kids. She enjoys traveling with her family to the Carolina beaches and mountains.

Shelly Gibbs

Shelly Gibbs is a nonprofit consultant and business coach who partners with organizations and individuals navigating their next season of growth. Her work centers on three pillars: strategy, systems, and staff — the building blocks of sustainable, thriving organizations.

Before launching her practice, Shelly served as Executive Director of NorthState Care Clinic and Director of Moral Revolution, two nonprofits dedicated to equipping and empowering people to live as their best, truest selves.

Shelly brings a whole-person perspective to her work, grounded in the belief that we are tri-polar beings — body, soul, and spirit — and that lasting transformation requires all three. She partners with people in their pursuit of freedom, peace, and abundance, holding firmly to this: we are better together.

She holds a BA in Liberal Studies and a Multi-Subject Teaching Credential from Simpson University. A Northern California native, she's now rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

Melissa Haas

Melissa Haas serves as the spouse-supporting therapist at HopeQuest. Melissa has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is a licensed professional counselor. Passionate about spiritual community, healthy marriages, and intimacy with God, Melissa regularly facilitates small groups and teaches and speaks on these topics in order to help the Body of Christ grow relationally with God and each other.

Melissa and her husband Troy have been married for thirty-four years and have three adult children and one grand-daughter. They have devoted their lives to helping others find hope and freedom from addiction, giving back the comfort they have received on their own journeys of healing.

Daniel Kiser

Daniel is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Tennessee. He has earned master degrees in Marital and Family Therapy and Biblical Studies from Lee University. Throughout his clinical experience, he has demonstrated clinical effectiveness working with adolescents and families through utilization of evidenced based approaches in his roles as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and behavioral health manager. He has worked with adolescents with severe suicidal behaviors, anxiety, depression, aggression, and high-risk behaviors in residential treatment. Addressed the relational distress within the parent-child relationship created by their child’s disruptive behavioral responses, helping parents through their despair, resentment, and disillusionment. He is invested in the integration of theology and psychology, believing that activation of human longings, desires, and vitality for life is based upon both disciplines. Aside from professional development, he also has experienced the profound impact of a transformative therapeutic relationship that provides accountability, exploration of underlying wounds and thoughts, and compassionate care. Counseling is oriented towards reclaiming, rediscovering, and restoring vital aspects of human development and he is eager to help others in their process as well.

Our Team

Bethesda Workshops

OUr Staff & Board

Bethesda has one of the highest percentage of Certified Sex Addiction Therapists (CSAT) or Certified Partner Trauma Therapists (CPTT) of any organization in the country. This rigorous training, developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, involves multiple training modules, supervision, and continuing education to ensure our staff remains experts in the field.

Led by Mike Vaughn, our team is known for its warmth, compassion, and excellence. One participant described our clinical leaders as “professional, incredible, and passionate,” while another noted that “the office staff were efficient and helpful from start to finish.”

Meet the caring professionals who are ready to invest in your healing.

Executive Director

Mike Vaughn

M.A., LCMHC, CSAT

Executive Director

Erica Vaughn

Shelly Gibbs

Melissa Haas

Daniel Kiser

Our Team

OUr Staff & Board

Executive Director

Mike Vaughn

M.A., LCMHC, CSAT

Clinical Leaders

Tom Barbian

Ph.D., LPC, CSAT

Todd Bowman

Ph.D., CSAT

Rainey Brown

Ph.D., LPC-MHSP, CSAT

Tim Burkholder

M.A., CSAT

Amy Croft Radeck

M.A, LCPC, CSAT

Kim Iverson

LCSW, CSAT, CPTT

Kirk McDermott

MFT, LPC-MHSP, CSAT

Jason Swinford

M.A., LPC, CSAT

Kathy Troyanek

M.A., LPC-S, CSAT

Eleah Hyatt

MA, LMFT, RPT-S

Alesha Martin

LCSW, CSAT, CCPS

Chris Pekary

M.A., LPC-MHSP, CSAT

Daniel Kiser

LMFT, MA

Administrative Staff

Tania Bodiford

Teresa Corley

Emily Husbands

Kayla Wieder

Dawn Eaton

Erica Vaughn

Board of Directors

Mike Vaughn

M.A., LCMHC, CSAT

Jim Frost

M.A., LPSE-MHSP

Jason VanRuler

M.A., LPC, CSAT, SOTP

Tom Barbian

Ph.D., LPC, CSAT

Jim Cress

LCMHC, CSAT, CPTT

Melissa Haas

MAMFT, LPC, CSAT, CMAT

Shelly Gibbs

Founder

Marnie Ferree

M.A., LMFT

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