LEADERSHIP TEAM
Michele Coleman, Ph.D., LMFT
Founder and CEO
Dr. Michele Coleman has worked in the field of foster care and adoption all her life, beginning with personal childhood experiences with informal foster care and formal adoption. These early experiences prepared her for work as a therapist in the field of attachment. As an adult, she has worked full-time as a business manager and has regularly volunteered with troubled youths who were living in group homes. As an adult, she adopted two sisters with emotional needs from the foster care system in Virginia, and then 14 years later she and her partner adopted a son with emotional needs from New Mexico.
At the age of 42, Dr. Coleman went back to school for her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her thesis was titled A Chance for Change: The Role of Trust in Foster Care and involved in-depth research on ways to help children who have been removed from their home — on ways to help them learn to heal, grow, and adapt to a new family. A graduate of Dr. Dan Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology certification program, Dr. Coleman used this knowledge to develop the model of treatment used for healing attachment issues at Attachment Healing Center, Healing in Resonance. Michele received her PhD in Counselor Education from the University of New Mexico in 2016.
Terry Morris, Ph.D., LMHC
Educational Director
Dr. Terry Morris has been with the Attachment Healing Center for a number of years as both a therapist and as part of the management team. He has dedicated most of his career to working with children and their families. He was an award-winning inner-city teacher in Chicago and Dallas for 16 years before attaining his counseling degree from the University of New Mexico. He believes that through love, positive interactions, and looking for the good in each other, the world can be a better place for us and our children. Morris earned his PhD in May of 2017 in teacher education at the University of New Mexico and is interested in helping new teachers form close, positive relationships with their students and families. He spends part of his time presenting workshops to teacher groups on the importance of teachers in the lives of children.
ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM
CLINICAL TEAM
Hannah Hyman, LMHC
Hannah was adopted from Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1994, and while she spent many years of her life working with kids in school, camp, and home settings, settling on doing therapy with them and their families did not happen until much later. She got her majors in Psychology and Spanish, and minor in Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University in 2013 and also studied Studio Arts throughout high school and college. She got her master's in art therapy and counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe in 2016 and spent time after that traveling and exploring her career interests before settling on coming back to the field of psychology. Gratefully, AHC feels like the perfect place to be, considering her personal experience of healing attachment wounds, and her education. In her free time, she likes to cook, polish stones on her lapidary and silversmith, and go out in nature.
Kari Jacobs, LMSW
Kari Jacobs is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) who started at Attachment Healing Center as an intern in the fall of 2017. Kari attended New Mexico Highlands University for her master’s in social work and graduated with her MSW in 2018. Kari was born and raised in Maryland where she graduated with a bachelor’s in psychology. Kari has always been passionate about helping people, learning more about psychology, and breaking stigmas of mental health services. As a child, Kari was interested in exploring her own feelings and decided to study psychology in college to understand more about herself and others. After exploring different jobs, such as working overnight on a crisis hotline and being a Behavioral Management Specialist, Kari recognized the need to support in a different and more encompassing way. Kari then went into social work with the desire to learn more about systems and became interested in addressing attachment, working with the whole family, and using relationship to help address real healing and empowerment. Kari enjoys incorporating games, art, and other activities into therapy to assist with healing, trauma, and connection.
Paul Bugyi, LMSW
I am originally from Buffalo, NY, and spent many years living on Long Island teaching Sociology at various colleges there. In 2014, I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Stony Brook University, conducting research on the links between childhood family experiences and chronic illness. In my research, I realized that early childhood trauma made chronic illness extremely difficult for these individuals, and I wanted to use my expertise to provide support to this population. In 2018 I moved to New Mexico to pursue my master's in social work at New Mexico State University and received my degree in 2020. I interned at Attachment Healing Center for the 2019-2020 year and loved my experience here so much that I decided to stay and be a clinician. I like gaming, reading, and making pottery. I love the food, landscape and people here in New Mexico.
Philip Casady, LMSW
Hello! My name is Philip Casady, and I usually go by Phil. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and started my journey in New Mexico at UNM where I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a concentration in creative writing. After I graduated from UNM, I worked within education field as a math interventionist/educational assistant. Throughout my time in education, I noticed an increasing importance within the connections and relationships shared with students, parents, teachers, and the community. I observed through positive relationship and positive connection, my students succeeded and were able to carry positive relationship throughout their student careers. My direction in life changed when I began to see how powerful relationship and connection can be for others. I decided to go back to school for a Master of Social Work degree in order to expand my horizons on how to help others in other ways. I discovered through my master's program at New Mexico Highlands University, a multitude of approaches and ways to support others through difficult times. I had my first job at another agency, but I felt I could be doing more to support families in need, and decided to seek further opportunities to help provide positive relationships and connections in families and in the community. I found myself at the Attachment Healing Center and I felt connected to the model and approach in more ways than one. I am a positive person with calm attitude, who enjoys seeking out the goodness around us and having fun doing so. I also thoroughly enjoy cultivating and scanning for positives within others and working with families to bring out strengths and empowerment in connection.
David J Ebeling, LMHC
I'm a dedicated and caring therapist, with over 13 years of experience helping my clients to heal, grow, and positively transform their lives. Most of us already know what to do, but all of us do better when we have the support necessary to follow through and do what we know is best! I specialize in working with adults, teenagers and children (ages 8 and older) who are struggling with Life Challenges, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, PTSD, Unhealthy Habits, Addictions and Challenges Coping with Difficult Situations. My approach to counseling is caring, insightful, supportive and integrative! I help each client I serve by meeting them where they are at in an accepting and non-judgmental way, and then, helping them grow towards where they want to be so that they can live a life that is aligned with the values, dreams and goals. My personal history plays a significant role in informing a supportive understanding for those struggling with life difficulties, emotional pain, and challenging situations that test one's resolve and resiliency. I'm looking forward to working with you and helping you to live your best life by closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCE TEAM
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