Our Team
Andrew Geller, Licensed Professional Counselor
Andrew Geller is a Licensed Professional Counselor. His primary goal is to encourage his clients to identify their own strengths, resiliency, and ability to tackle life’s challenges head-on. Andrew’s clinical approach is informed by Mindfulness-based therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Jungian Psychoanalysis, Eastern principles and philosophy, and Narrative Theory. He received certification in 2020 for teaching yoga and meditation. He works primarily with individual clients (ages 16+).
Jenny Lindsey, Professional Counselor Associate
Jenny offers a compassionate, supportive space for adults navigating life transitions, grief, anxiety, and trauma, especially from childhood or harmful relationships. Her approach blends Emotionally Focused Therapy with body-based techniques to help clients reconnect with their emotions and build deeper self-awareness and connection. Jenny brings candor, humor, and cultural humility to her work, honoring each person as the expert of their experience. Outside the therapy room, she enjoys nature, fiction, art, and hot tea.
Adam Mendel, Counseling Intern
Adam Mendel is completing his Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Oregon State University–Cascades and is an intern at MRCC. With a background in education and small business ownership, he brings a grounded and relational approach to counseling. He works from a person-centered foundation to collaborate with clients in exploring their experiences, relationships, and patterns. Outside of counseling, he enjoys traveling, being outside, and art. Adam offers pro bono and reduced-fee therapy for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
Will Tyler, Professional CounselorAssociate
Will brings 11 years of experience in teaching, camp counseling, and wilderness therapy guiding to his work as a counselor. He is compassionate, collaborative, and curious, and enjoys working with children and adults. Drawing from an eclectic orientation including person-centered, CBT, CPT, MI, emotion-focused, mindfulness and meditation, and play therapy approaches, he works with a wide range of concerns and experiences. He hopes to create a space where clients feel understood, validated, and comfortable being themselves, allowing for meaningful healing and growth.
Hayley Crosby, Professional Counselor Associate
Hayley offers a warm, down-to-earth counseling approach with options for outdoor sessions, in-person, or telehealth. Using EFT and mindfulness, she helps clients reshape relational patterns through presence and connection. With a background in agriculture and natural resources, she especially supports clients in rural areas, as well as neurodiverse individuals, youth, adolescents, and those navigating life transitions. Outside of counseling, she enjoys whitewater boating, archery, trail running, and hands-on projects.
Alanna Fraser, Professional Counselor Associate
Alanna fosters a warm, supportive, and collaborative therapeutic space where clients are met with empathy, compassion, and respect. As a person-centered counselor, she integrates approaches such as existential, person-centered, gestalt, narrative, exposure, and somatic therapies to support each client’s unique process. She works with adults facing grief and loss, anxiety, life transitions, aging, relationship challenges, and trauma. Alanna affirms LGBTQIA2S+ identities and approaches counseling with cultural humility, honoring each person as the expert of their own life. Outside of her work, she enjoys spending time with her dog, exploring nature, and reading.
Stefanie Obregozo, Counseling Intern
Stefanie Obregozo’s counseling approach is rooted in warmth, curiosity, and a somatic, solution-focused lens. She provides culturally sensitive, collaborative support to help clients process difficult experiences and move forward together. Committed to accessible care, Stefanie offers low-cost and pro bono sessions both in person and via telehealth. A Master’s student at OSU-Cascades, she begins her MRCC internship in June 2026.
Donna Blankenship, Professional Counselor Associate
Donna, with over 20 years of experience, is a passionate advocate for children and families. Holding dual master’s degrees in Education and Counseling, she understands the unique challenges they face. Donna is a certified Synergetic Play Therapist and is working on her Registered Play Therapist (RPT) credential. Donna creates a welcoming playroom that fosters creative, developmentally respectful processing. Her extensive background with diverse students equips her to support families in building resilience and strong relationships. She collaborates closely with children, caregivers, and individuals to enhance communication, manage stress, and develop personalized treatment plans that highlight their strengths.
Dylan Gassert, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Dylan Gassert is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Oregon who works with individuals and couples through a relational, strength-based lens. Dylan draws on Emotionally Focused and Solution-Focused therapies to help clients access their emotional world, recognize patterns, and move toward meaningful, lasting change. While he welcomes clients of diverse backgrounds and identities, he holds a particular passion for supporting adult men in exploring emotional expression and building more connected, authentic relationships.
Megan Benner, Clinical Social Worker Associate
Megan offers a compassionate, nurturing space for adults navigating chronic pain and illness, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and major life transitions. She brings a biopsychosocial, person-centered perspective that honors the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Trained in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, she is especially passionate about helping clients understand how the brain, nervous system, emotions, and persistent pain and other symptoms interact, so they can move beyond mere symptom management toward greater freedom and engagement in their lives. Warmth, curiosity, cultural humility, and critical awareness of intersectionality shape how Megan builds trust and works collaboratively with clients. Outside of the therapy room, she can be found with her hands in the soil or feet on the trail, seeking sunshine, and soothing waters.
Virginia Earwicker is a Liberty University graduate student and counseling intern at MRCC. As a person-centered therapist in training, she provides an empathetic environment where clients can build resilience and self-awareness. Virginia is passionate about supporting individuals through grief, loss, relational pain, and major life transitions. She values a collaborative approach to well-being and is happy to integrate a faith-based perspective for clients who wish to include their spirituality in the counseling process.
Virginia Earwicker, Counseling Intern
Dr. Edward Ewe, LPC, Approved Clinical Supervisor, Owner
Dr. Edward Ewe is a licensed professional counselor and certified ICEEFT Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist based in Bend, Oregon, serving clients throughout Oregon and Washington. He specializes in helping couples rebuild trust, de-escalate conflict, improve communication, and heal from infidelity. Dr. Ewe also provides individual counseling, supports clients navigating grief and loss, and offers clinical supervision to associate counselors. Additionally, as a dedicated counselor educator at various universities, he actively trains students and supervise new clinicians.