About Our Community Counseling Program

Clinical Director

Crystal Gardiner is a Licensed Professional Counselor- Supervisor. She attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University where she obtained her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Crystal has worked with individuals, groups, couples, and families with clients ranging from children to adults who come from varying cultures and backgrounds.

Crystal’s style of counseling is very collaborative. She believes you are the authority on your life. She is there to meet you where you are and help you make sense of your knowledge and experiences. Foundationally, she works from a person-centered framework. The therapeutic relationship is key to any successful treatment. Crystal is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and often utilize TF-CBT as it provides a clear framework for understanding, empowering, and implementing change. She believe that counseling can be beneficial for any person at any stage of life. She is happy to be able to be a part of helping people achieve hope, healing, and an overall better quality of life for themselves, their families, and their community.

Crystal enjoys learning, crafting, traveling, trying new foods, reading psychological thrillers, and adventuring with her dog. She fills her spare time with all of the above, in addition to podcasts, documentaries, writing, and laughing.

Therapist

Dr. Arnold is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), and a Registered Play Therapist (RPT). She is a state board approved supervisor for individuals seeking full licensure (LMFT and LPC). She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Family Therapy and a Master of Science in Counseling and Development from Texas Woman's University.

Dr. Arnold has worked with families and children in counseling and casework capacities since 1993. She has additional experience and training in play therapy, and in couple and family therapy. Dr. Arnold holds a strong systemic view of individuals and families, believing that individuals are best understood and healed within the contexts of their lives. Her primary clinical and research interests are counseling with with trauma affected families and couples, the parent-child relationship, high conflict litigation involving children, and counseling children within the family therapy context.

In addition to her professional work and volunteer work, Dr. Arnold is actively involved with her friends and family. Her self-care includes many things that “turn her brain off” including listening to music, working on scrapbooks, watching movies, audiobooks, doing puzzles, playing with her cat, and doing Pilates

Counselor

Elliott is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Associate under the supervision of Martha Brock, LPC-S. He hold a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Management from the University of North Texas and a Master of Arts in Licensed Professional Counseling from Dallas Baptist University. He works with individuals, families and communities in areas of: Trauma & PTSD, anxiety/depression, anger management, grief and loss, men’s issues, relational boundary issues, children and adolescents, play therapy, teens, adults, geriatric, underinsured and uninsured client populations.

Elliott’s approach is to counseling is to empathetically walk with and honor clients through their difficulties and hardships. He focuses on helping clients develop healthy coping skills, gain effective emotional regulation skills and develop a healthy outlook on life. He partners with clients to create uniquely specific goals to restore, mend and heal what is broken. Elliot enjoys the process of walking with clients through their counseling journey to seek healing in broken places and provide hope. Elliot also Utilizes play in therapy as appropriate with children

In his spare time, Elliott enjoys exercising, camping with his wife, mountain biking, rock climbing, reading Stephen King novels, wood carving, and gardening. Overall, he tries to enjoy the life by actively staying present in the moment.