COUNSELORS | Wellspring PO

Meet our team of experienced and compassionate counselors dedicated to providing the highest quality care for our clients. Each counselor brings a unique set of skills and expertise to address a wide range of mental health needs. We are committed to fostering a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone who walks through our doors.

KIMBERLY INGRAM, MA, MS, LMHC, CFRC, QS, CCTP, CPT

Owner/Clinical Director - Wellspring Mental Health Group

ICISF - CISM/CISD

As a Certified First Responder Counselor, Kimberly understands the need for a safe, confidential environment to process the unique stressors this culture experiences. She has experienced, first hand, as a responder wife and mother, the many trials and triumphs that come with these careers. Kimberly works with responders to restore peace, hope and quality of life in their day to day living.

With a multi-faceted approach based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Processing Theory for PTSD, she works with responders experiencing a multitude of mental health needs such as: anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, work struggles, relationship issues, and alcohol abuse.

Kimberly also specializes in individuals seeking recovery from traumatic events, self-esteem issues, and anxiety through a multi-modal approach tailored to best meet the needs of each client.

Kimberly is an advocate for mental health and wellness within law enforcement, leveraging her expertise to educate and reduce stigma through her roles as an instructor at local law enforcement academies and a public speaker at first responder events. Her training by the International Critical Incident and Stress Foundation in Critical Incident Stress Management and Debriefing further enhances her ability to support first responders in navigating the emotional challenges of their roles.

Kimberly is an approved clinician through the following public safety organizations: Florida Department of Law Enforcement, National Fraternal Order of Police, Cop Line, Blue Line Rescue, Red Line Rescue, Gold Line, Rescue, Warriors Rest Foundation, Warfighter Overwatch Collective, Speak Up: Tomorrow Needs You, 911 At Ease, Therapy Aid Coalition, and Survive First. Subsequently, she is a trained Traumas of Law Enforcement Clinician and holds certificates in Stress First Aid and Psychological First Aid.

Kimberly offers first responders a rate of $80/session and all other clients an income-based sliding fee scale of $90-$160. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

Kimberly is also a Qualified Supervisor for student and registered interns in Florida.

WINONA SQUIRES-PROPPER, MS, LMFT, QS

Winona believes that entering therapy is similar to summoning the courage to open an over-flowing closet that has been long ignored. Though daunting, with the right tools and an understanding guide, the task can become a manageable and rewarding experience. As your guide, Winona can help you shine a light on emotions, experiences, and relationships that you may be afraid to touch due to fear, shame, or uncertainty of how to process them. By utilizing an integrative approach, she helps her clients assess and move through their emotional experiences while also applying new skills to help them reach their innermost personal goals.

Winona specializes in individuals dealing with low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression, those moving through life transitions or on a journey of sexual exploration, as well as couples managing intimacy or communication issues.

She is also a Qualified Supervisor for both MH and MFT Interns in the State of Florida.

Winona offers clients an income-based, sliding fee scale of $90-$160 and does not accept insurance. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

BREE PORTER, MA, LMHC

Bree is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a Master's degree from Wake Forest University. Bree has experience working with children, teens, and adults to process a variety of areas such as emotional issues, hopelessness, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, trauma, and PTSD. She strives to provide individuals and families the highest quality of care with a strong commitment to working with trauma recovery, children, and relationships. She values working with sensitivity for families of divorce, co-parenting struggles, and family conflict.

Bree is in-network for Cigna, Aetna, and United HealthCare (Unfortunately no Medicare or Medicaid). She offers an income-based, sliding fee scale for private pay clients. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

VERNICIA JOHN-LEWIS, MS

Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

Vernicia offers a collaborative approach to helping individuals identify and overcome their struggles. By working together, she can help clients uncover the root causes of their emotional turmoil and develop personalized strategies to alleviate their distress.

Vernicia's specialties include interventions for: trauma, relational issues, post-traumatic stress disorders, adjustment to life events, stress management, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and mood disorders. She welcome teens, adults and couples of all ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, and sexual/gender identities to her practice. Vernicia's experience in helping clients develop effective, healthy coping skills has empowered many to maintain a quality of life that was thought to be out of reach.

Vernicia strives to walk alongside her clients with compassion and humility. By utilizing an integrative approach, she is committed to providing the clients with skills that will help unlearn unhealthy patterns, make critical decisions, and navigate life’s challenges with a renewed sense of purpose. Vernicia will help you to feel supported, informed and hopeful for a better tomorrow. You are the author of your life! Healing YOUniquely is the beginning of your new chapter. As you walk together, Vernicia will help maximize your existing potential and strengths so you can rewrite your story with new meaning and hope. Faith is your guidance; strength is your shield!

Vernicia offers clients an income-based, sliding fee scale and does not accept insurance. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

KIANNA SPIVEY, MA

Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

Entering the therapy process is the first bold step you take towards your healing process. Kianna offers a space that encourages understanding, growth, and strength while offering a listening, nonjudgmental, and safe space for you.

Kianna is passionate about helping others and is experienced in working with teenagers, young adults, and adults with concerns of self-esteem, anxiety, trauma, depression, difficulty focusing, grief, and relationship struggles. Kianna uses counseling theories such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and others based holistically on the client.

Kianna's desire is to work with you, as the client, to help you become as strong as you want to be while accumulating tools for you to use during moments that become difficulty to manage.

Kianna offers clients an income-based, sliding fee scale and does not accept insurance. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

ELLAN MAYFIELD, MA, LMHC

Ellan offers counseling services to individuals, teens, and families, utilizing a blend of cognitive and emotion-focused therapeutic approaches to address everyday life concerns. With expertise in working with anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, and relationship struggles, Ellan provides personalized support to help clients navigate their unique challenges and achieve a more fulfilling life.

Ellan is in-network for Cigna, Aetna, and United HealthCare (Unfortunately no Medicare or Medicaid). She offers an income-based, sliding fee scale for private pay clients. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

BRANDY THOMPSON

Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

Brandy is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern who approaches counseling with compassion, collaboration, and a focus on each client’s unique needs. Utilizing a person-centered and integrative approach, Brandy tailors the therapeutic experience to help clients achieve their goals in a supportive and nonjudgemental environment.

With a professional background that includes ten years as a corrections officer, Brandy has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by corrections officers and individuals in high-stress roles. She also works with individuals navigating substance use concerns, teens adjusting to life transitions, and those who need support in managing anxiety, depression, or PTSD-related symptoms.

Brandy incorporates evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to foster resilience, enhance coping strategies, drive values-driven behaviors, and encourage personal growth.

Dedicated to creating a safe and welcoming space, Brandy helps clients explore their experiences and work toward greater balance and well-being. She is committed to walking alongside each client on their path to healing and growth.

Brandy's qualified supervisor is Kimberly Ingram, MA, MS, LMHC, CFRC, QS

MALIA MILLER, MS

Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern

Malia is a passionate Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern who brings a holistic and person-centered approach to her practice. She uses a collaborative stance with her clients that honors their expertise and subjective lens. Malia recognizes the significance of planting seeds of trust and understanding within the therapeutic relationship so clients have a supportive environment for self-reflection. A warm atmosphere creates a safe space to bloom with new insights, tools, and skills. In her sessions, Malia believes in the power of humor and encouragement to foster growth and healing.

Malia earned her Master's degree in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling from Stetson University, where she developed a keen interest in the intersections of emotional health and relational dynamics. Her training includes becoming a certified PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator, completing the Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 training, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training. Through her clinical internship, she worked with clients aged 13 and above at an outpatient substance use and mental health community agency.

Malia offers clients an income-based, sliding fee scale of $70-$140 and does not accept insurance. She is available for both in-person and telehealth sessions.

Malia's qualified supervisor is Winona Squires-Propper, MS, LMFT, QS

KYLIE VANLOO, MS

Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern

Kylie believes that therapy should be a warm and inviting place where a client can process their needs safely. Making change can be challenging, and she invites her clients to work with her to reach their goals at their pace. Kylie hopes to tailor each session to the client’s specific needs by using an integrative approach looking into the client’s environment and relationships.

Kylie has experience working with a diverse population of clients. She is a registered marriage and family therapist intern. She has worked with couples and families through divorce, infidelity, grief, loss, sexual trauma, suicidal ideation, changes within the family system, integrating families/ blended families, issues with connection, anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorder. Kylie also has experience working with children and individual adults experiencing grief or loss, self-esteem issues, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She has a passion for strengthening connections within families and couples.

Kylie offers clients an income based sliding scale fee from $70-$140 per session. Kylie does not accept insurance. She accepts cash or credit card payment. She offers in-person sessions.

Kylie's qualified supervisor is Winona Squires-Propper, MS, LMFT, QS

ELIZABETH ENGLISH, MA, LMHC

Elizabeth seeks to meet clients where they are at and provide a supportive, caring and open space to process their needs. Elizabeth sees each client as the expert in their own lives, and works with them to find an individualized process that works best for them to meet their goals. Through a person-centered foundation, she works alongside clients with an integrative approach to allow clients to process grief, life transitions, depression, and other concerns that they bring to help guide them towards their goals and personal growth.

Elizabeth believes counseling is a great place to not only explore concerns and personal issues, but to also achieve personal growth. As a counselor, she works to ensure that the therapeutic process works to instill hope for clients to help them grow and achieve goals.

Elizabeth's counseling style focuses primarily on the person centered approaches of empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard in order to provide an open and caring environment for clients to explore the needs that brought them to counseling. From this foundation, she works with clients to find what will work best for them in their healing process.

Elizabeth accepts Cigna, United, Oscar, Oxford, Quest Behavioral Health and Aetna insurances. She also offers clients an income-based, sliding fee scale of $80-$140. She is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

DR. DAVID SHOOTS, DDiv, LCSW, CPT, IBCT, FFT, QS

Dr. Shoots has spent the past 25 years working with trauma, anxiety, self esteem and Veterans. He has a deep commitment in working with families and couples. Dr. Shoots is committed to providing his clients the highest quality of care using best practices to impact those suffering from severe emotional issues, hopelessness, anxiety, depression and isolation. He is nationally trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and Integrative Behavioral Couple's Therapy (IBCT).

Dr. Shoots is committed to providing the best and most ethical services available. You don't have to stay where you are. There has to be a different way to handle what is presently going on in your life. Together, our task is to discover a different way. Let's join together to discover that different way to handle those items in your life!

Dr. Shoots is a retired combat Army Veteran and worked in the mental health field for the past 25 years. With all of the changes going on in our society, we all need someone we can trust to help us through our individual challenges. Dr. Shoots believes his years of experience in teaching, training and solution focused approach can be effective in addressing your needs.

Dr. Shoots is also a Qualified Supervisor for student and registered interns in the State of Florida.

Dr. Shoots is in-network for Cigna, Aetna, and United HealthCare (Unfortunately no Medicare or Medicaid). He offers an income-based, sliding fee scale for private pay clients. He is available for both in person and telehealth sessions.

NATE INGRAM, MBA

Executive Director - Wellspring Mental Health Group

Our Director has many years of labor relations experience and brings a distinct business perspective to the mental health practice. His dream has always been to serve his community whether it has been as a member of public safety for nearly 26 years or as our Director bringing affordable mental health care to our community. Wellspring Mental Health Group, Inc. is the culmination of this lengthy desire to serve.

His formal education includes a Bachelors of Applied Science in Supervision and Management from Daytona State College. He went on to earn a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Human Resource Management from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His professional experience includes starting several successful businesses as well as previously serving as the Executive Director of a large public safety labor association. Nate has been a certified law enforcement officer here in Florida since 1997 where he has worked as a member of a street level narcotics team and as a police motor officer.

"The Wellspring Mental Health Group, Inc. , is my dream come true for my community. Access to quality health care should not be hampered by our socioeconomic status. We want to help as many as we can deal with every day problems that we all face. At the Wellspring, we want to help you hope again." - Nate Ingram

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