The staff at The Center are educated psychotherapy professionals who are committed to Jesus Christ as the foundation of their work and the center of their lives. All are members of local churches and are active in the local Christian community.

KEVIN C. RANDALL, CLINICAL DIRECTOR                                                      

Kevin is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He has over twenty years experience working with people in crisis in South Central Wisconsin. Kevin worked for seven years as part of an inpatient psychiatric unit. He assessed and treated individuals with various serious mental health difficulties. These difficulties were serious enough that the individual required twenty-four hour inpatient treatment. Kevin worked on both the child/adolescent and adult units. He also worked two years for a partial hospitalization program. This was an intensive treatment program that worked with individuals who were struggling with severe mood disorders. This included depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD and eating disorders. Many of the patients were also struggling with suicidal ideation. At The Center, the main population Kevin works with is adult men and women. He provides both individual and couples counseling. He is also a skilled group facilitator. Currently these groups include: Anger Management, Couples Relationship Skills~ Women's Forgiveness and a group for men struggling with sexual addictions. At the present time, Kevin specializes with individuals with sexual addiction. Kevin has a national certification as a Clinical Sexual Addiction Specialist.  The majority of his work is with couples, pre-marital and marital, with an emphasis on couples in crisis. 

 JUSTIN BANGERT, MS MFT
Justin is a master's level therapist, having earned a graduate degree in marriage and family therapy from the University of Wisconsin Stout and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.  He holds membership with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy as well as membership with the American Association of Christian Counselors.  His therapy experience includes working with families, couples, individuals, children and adolescents in multiple settings including day-treatment centers, in-home facilities and outpatient service agencies.  Justin is devoted to helping others bring harmony and satisfaction into their interpersonal relationships, and their intrapersonal and spiritual relationships.  More specifically, he has a deep passion for working with couples and utilizes multiple strength-based approaches to couples therapy models aimed at helping pre-marital and marital couples prevent and endure times of relationship crisis.  Justin is also developing his practice with a special focus on young men and spouses who struggle with sexual integrity issues.

FREDERICK W. COLEMAN, M.D.
Fred is the psychiatric consultant at the Center.  He has over 30 years of experience in psychiatry, with expertise in many areas, including trauma, emergency mental health, psychopharmacology, cross-cultural psychiatry, treatment of personality disorders, grief, bereavement, religion and spirituality.  Presently employed at the Mental Health Center of Dane County, working in the South East Asian project/Kajsiab House and the Yahara House, Fred is active in a private consulting practice. He has been a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Wisconsin since 1982, and is affiliated with a number of hospitals in the Madison area.  Fred holds membership in both the American Psychiatric Association and the Wisconsin Medical Society.
 

 
SHAUNA EZELL, MA, MSW, LCSW
Shauna has over fourteen years of experience serving individuals of all ages and from all walks of life, Shauna currently focuses her therapeutic services on the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and parents.  She provides play therapy for children, individual counseling for adolescents, and parent management training for parents.  Trained and experienced regarding issues of attachment disruptions, separation anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, child abuse, and neglect, she also provides counseling for adults. In addition, she organizes and facilitates a parent management training group.  She also enjoys working with women and does an adult women's depression and anxiety group.  Her education began with a Master's in Social Work from the University of Iowa.  She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology and certification as a registered play theraplist supervisor.  She is a member of the National Assocation for Social Workers and the Association for Play Therapy.

RIDLEY N. USHERWOOD, M. DIV, D. MIN                                                                                                       

Dr. Ridley N. Usherwood is an adjunct professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Edgewood College. Ridley is an Ordained Bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN) and also holds credentials with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America. He has a rich background of 42 years of combined ministry as a Senior Pastor, consultant, pastoral counselor, university professor, USAFR Air Force Chaplain and Missionary Educator. He did his clinical internship at the Hiwassee Mental Healthy Center in Cleveland  TN, he is a founding member of the Manna House Counseling Center in Northamptom England, and served as a Staff Counselor for the Washington Pastoral Counseling Service in Silver Springs MD. Ridley provides individual, couple, group, and family grief counseling. He also does training and consulting in Pastoral Theology and Biblical Counseling, leadership development, diversity, cultural competence, and reconciliation training. Understanding faith traditions, God's Plan for the Church, calling, missions, and personal evangelism, he also provides spiritual direction in the development of Christian growth and maturity.

  RON JOHNSON, PH.D.    

Ron Johnson is a clinical psychologist specializing at the Center in psychological testing and evaluation. He is experienced in personality, neurological, intellectual, cognitive testing as well as vocational, relational, and parenting style testing. His training includes graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Denver Seminary as well as post doctoral work in neurolopsychological. His passion in psychology is what he calls "friendly diagnosis," or the finding out what is right about people before looking at what might be wrong in their lives. He integrates his psychological work with his Christian faith, science, and philosophy.

AMY VINCENT, MS, CADC II

Amy Vincent has been working in the counseling field since 1993.  She has experience working in a variety of settings, including outpatient and residential treatment.  In the past 10 years she worked at Dane County Mental Health in the Mentoring/Youth Crisis Unit and in the Child and Family Unit, all on an outpatient basis.  Amy has also worked in an adolescent residential treatment center, an adolescent group home, and in private practice outpatient therapy.  She is a master's level Marriage and Family Therapist, who specializes in teens and young adults. Amy is also a state certified alcohol and drug counselor. She comes from a "strengths based" model of therapy with her clients. Amy sees clients with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, abuse, addiction, eating disorders, relationship and family issues. She conducts teens/young adults groups for alcohol and drug issues as well as girl and young woman's groups.