Brandon Miller, QMHPCrisis Counselor Brandon serves as Qualified Mental Health Professional Crisis Counselor at the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. He works with individuals from all populations and demographics within our community, in order to best help you in your time of need. Brandon works with you to help rediscover meaning and purpose in your life. He also works with you to create a safety net, to ensure you feel safe as you take steps back to recovery. ...

Breeze Thies, QMHAWRAP Care Coordinator & Family Support Partner Breeze Thies worked at the front desk at Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness for 9 months before joining the Wraparound team as a Care Coordinator and Family Partner. She came to us with experience with youth in settings such as daycares, hospitals, private care settings, and Public Services offices. Previous to joining our team she was home with her son while caring for other small children and attending college on line...

Carrise Murray, QMHPMental Health ClinicianSchool Counselor Carrise is a Master’s of Social Work intern and works as a school counselor for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. Carrise loves working with youth and helping them face the unique challenges and stressors that come with navigating through adolescence. Many adolescents experience anxiety and depression, and Carrise works with them to develop health coping skills and develop positive outlooks on life, while working through their curren...

Danielle Nash, MSW, CSWAAccess ClinicianQuality Assurance/Quality Improvement Danielle is a mental health therapist and social worker. Danielle also functions as the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QAQI) Coordinator. Danielle has experience working with various populations, including experience in school counseling, adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses, and serving as a therapist in Africa. Danielle specializes in assessments and treatment planning. Danielle believes that ...

Dr. Josh BovermanPsychiatrist Dr. Boverman (or Dr. B as he is affectionately called) is proud to be a psychiatrist and Medical Director for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. He received his medical degree from the Oregon Health & Sciences University in 1993, and completed his specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Washington and at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University. He has been in practice since 1998. He has worked as a teacher, clinician, and educator i...

Dylan Edwards, CADC ICertified Alcohol and Drug Counselor  Dylan Edwards is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor for our Substance Use Disorder Program. Dylan brings a wealth of experience working with adolescents and facilitating therapeutic wilderness experiences to his work. His clinical focus is on establishing a deep and supportive understanding of your life to help begin working toward an active and satisfying life. Dylan will cheer you on to success whatever your individual goals....

Elizabeth Casebourn, QMHACenter for Optimal Living Peer Support Specialist Elizabeth is a peer support specialist at the Center for Optimal Living. Elizabeth enjoys working with patients who need help with pain management and learning how to live more fulfilled lives. Elizabeth understands the importance of family and living in a place with so much beauty. With so many outdoor activities in the area, she loves to help individuals who suffer with chronic pain through yoga, and education so they ...

Eva Oveson, QMHAAssertive Community Treatment Case Manager Eva is one of the Assertive Community Treatment Case Managers and has been with the organization for 11 years. Eva brings a deep passion and compassion to the organization and to the clients she serves. She loves what she does and enjoys working with the clients and being another support person in their life. Eva takes time to get to know her clients so she can do her best to truly understand what they are going through and works to be...

Hilary Miller, Registered NurseAssertive Community Treatment (ACT) Nurse Hilary is a registered nurse with the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team which is a multidisciplinary team that specializes in working with individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses whom need assistance with successful, independent living. Services provided by Hilary include medication management including monitoring for side effects and medical conditions, care coordination with other providers, monito...

Jacklyn JensenWraparound Care Coordinator & Case Manager Jacklyn Jenson is the Wraparound Care Coordinator and Youth Case Manager. She will help guide teams to support the needs of individual youth and their families through a strength-based process. Using a strength-based process, youth and families will use skills and resources they already have and that will directly support their emotional, physical, and mental health needs. Jacklyn wants families to feel comfortable when working with h...

Kate ForsterPeer Support Specialist Kate is a Peer Support Specialist for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. Kate feels like she can connect with people from all walks of life, and enjoys hearing personal stories of success, tragedy and joy. ...

Kathryn KempSchool CounselorMental Health Clinician Kathryn is thrilled to be a part of the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness team as a School Counselor. She works primarily with children, youth, and families, and will be serving in the Wallowa Public School and Alternative Education programs. She is passionate about helping kids of all ages learn, grow, and become their best selves. She has 4 years of experience working with children and adolescents in the mental health field, including withi...

Kimberly BottsPeer Support Specialist, Substance Use Disorder Program Kimberly Botts is the Peer Support Specialist for the Substance Use Disorder Program. She brings a deep understanding and compassion to her role as someone who has lived with addiction and has recovered using the services at Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness. She knows first-hand the struggles individuals face in recovering from addiction and knows how challenging that road can be. Yet, she wants you to know she is here for ...

Dr. Laurence Colman, MD, MPH, FAPAChild & Adolescent Psychiatry Laurence grounds his work with children and teens in the incredible complexity of our bodies as biological and psychological/spiritual systems, and within the added complexity of our social lives. Regardless whether you’re seeing him for problems with attention, mood, excessive worrying or fears, school problems, suicidality, hallucinations, or anything else, you’ll always start with a 1 to 2-hour get-to-know-each-other sessi...

Maggie Hunt, CADC IICertified Drug and Alcohol Counselor Maggie Hunt has been an employee at Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness since 2000 and has over 20 years in the addiction’s treatment field. She is a level II certified addiction’s counselor for our Substance Use Disorder Program and is also certified in the treatment of problem gambling. Maggie believes in a motivational stage-based approach to services and meeting people where they are at in their recoveries. She works with individuals,...

Michelle McMillanAssertive Community Treatment Case Manager As an Assertive Community Treatment Case Worker Michelle strives to bring out the best in those around her. Through self-fulfillment, understanding, and involvement in the community Michelle continues to find solutions improving growth and quality of life. Through encouragement and mutual inspiration Michelle loves to engage with others to obtain everyone’s best personal potential. “Improve one, to improve all” is Michelle’s personal ...

Mollie Cudmore, LCSWMental Health ClinicianSchool CounselorClinical Supervisor Mollie is a licensed clinical social worker and the school counselor at Enterprise Schools. She enjoys engaging with children and families for 16 years focusing on challenges in loss: divorce, death of a loved one, adjustments to stressors, anxiety, depression, transitional changes, trauma processing and cultural variances. She is currently in Enterprise School 2 days a week as well as working with Veterans and their...

Olivia A. Westenskow, MS, QMHPMental Health Clinician Olivia Westenskow is an outpatient clinician for Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness who is a recent Professional Counseling master’s level graduate. She comes to the profession with a lot of passion for working with people who are trying to heal and find joy in their lives during and after difficult times. Her previous experience has been in working with high-risk youth and families in Wraparound and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Olivia ...

Peg RodgersSupported Employment Specialist Peg received her Bachelor's Degree in psychology from Denison University. Upon graduating she moved to Montana and began a career as an artisan bread baker. Her love of rural landscapes and small towns brought her to Wallowa County in 1996, where she opened and co-owned WildFlour Bakery for the next 15 years. Currently, Peg is helping to raise 2 teenagers and 3 dogs. She loves to be outside recreating at all times of the year and enjoys being in the g...

Quinn Berry, LPC, CADC IMental Health Clinician Quinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor. He enjoys helping people live better lives. He believes individuals have the ability to take stock in their lives, make decisions, and take action, in ways that will make their lives better. He loves asking people questions about what is important to them and then helping them strengthen their brains that will allow them to better attend to things that they have ...

Sandra GoreAssertive Community Treatment Case LeadVeterans Service Liaison Sandra is a clinician with the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team which is a multidisciplinary team that specializes in working with individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses whom need assistance with successful, independent living. Services provided by Sandra include medication management, counseling, case management, housing assistance, and care coordination with other providers. ...

Stephen Kliewer, LPCCenter for Optimal Living Director Stephen Kliewer, has been involved in the mental health field for around 16 years. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and the director of the Center for Optimal Living, an integrated, multi-disciplinary program that helps people manage and live with their chronic pain. Stephen believes that everyone can find improved health, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Healing comes through active support, authentic acceptance, increas...

William WeiszCase Manager Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Supported Employment (SE) William Weisz is the case manager for support employment (SE) for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team and works with both teenagers as well as adults. William is very excited and happy to be able to serve the community by helping individuals overcome their personal obstacles and struggles in order to fulfill their dreams and goals. William is very humble, easy-going, and has a very deep and profou...