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12350 Wood Bayou Dr Houston, TX 77013
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2219 W Euless Blvd Euless, TX 76040
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440 Fischer Store Rd Wimberley, TX
Houston, Texas
Euless, Texas
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440 Fischer Store Rd Wimberley, TX 78676
DeLisa is a nationally recognized expert in trauma and trauma recovery. In a long career working with the military, the religious community and in private practice, she has extensive experience with complex addiction issues. She is a Texas licensed social worker and licensed professional counselor – supervisor.
DeLisa has developed nationally recognized programs that have been utilized by all branches of the Department of Defense. She has partnered with legislative staff on the state and national levels to address veterans’ issues and has partnered with individual and corporate donors to raise over $3 million for veteran causes.
A Texas native originally trained in family medicine, Dr. Powers’ personal experience facing addiction changed the course of his life. It led him to re-dedicate his career to helping people with addiction and their families. As a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, board certified in Addiction Medicine, he has worked passionately to help clients and their loved ones embrace the healing path of recovery for over 16 years.
Dr. Powers is on the editorial board of the Journal of Addiction and Preventive Medicine and served as a local expert for The Partnership at Drugfree.org. He is also the past president of the Texas chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Prior to joining The Right Step in 2006, he served as an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and also holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of a comprehensive book about addiction, When the Servant Becomes the Master.
Eled is a licensed chemical dependency counselor who has been with The Right Step Houston since 2012. During this time, Eled has held a number of positions, including recovery advocate, recovery advocate coordinator and residential primary counselor. Eled’s specializations include Positive Recovery, cognitive behavioral approaches and addiction treatment. Eled is devoted to helping people overcome addiction and develop healthy selves, and finds it rewarding to be part of their journey.
Eled graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a bachelor’s degree with honors in psychology and philosophy and is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to joining The Right Step, Eled was a counselor in a day treatment program in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services, as well as a counselor at a methadone treatment program at the Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan. Eled enjoys traveling and watching as much soccer as possible, as well as spending time with family.
Reanna is passionate about recovery and helping people on the journey to reclaim their lives. As someone who is 13 years sober, she hopes to be an example of what can happen if people stay sober and live their lives to the fullest. She has worked at The Right Step Houston since 2013, serving in various capacities including detox counselor, admissions counselor, weekend counselor and aftercare case manager. She serves as a Positive Recovery Trainer and is responsible for training all the staff and clinicians on the Positive Recovery curriculum.
Reanna has a master’s degree in counseling from Liberty University. Currently she teaches a drug and alcohol certification program at a local college. Devoted to helping others, she spends much of her spare time volunteering at the shelter that helped her get sober. In her free time, she loves taking her 4-year-old on trips, swimming and learning new things together.
Charles has worked in the field of chemical dependency since 2002. He began working at The Right Step in 2004 and has worked in all departments and in many different capacities for the DFW region. He has been a licensed chemical dependency counselor since 2009. Charles is married and has two children. When not at the office he spends the majority of his time with his family and the many extracurricular activities that his children take part in.
Jennifer is passionate about helping people find hope, reclaim their voices, and discover how they can use their strengths to find purpose and meaning in life. She is a licensed professional counselor who received her Masters of Education in counseling and human development from Hardin Simmons University. Her areas of expertise include addiction, mental health crisis and Narcan opioid overdose prevention training.
Prior to joining The Right Step, Jennifer worked in the nonprofit community mental health field for eight years. During this time, she worked with people struggling with dual diagnoses including substance use disorders and mental health issues such as depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. She loves spending her free time reading and playing with her daughter.
Diana is a licensed chemical dependency counselor-intern who has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Walden University. She is inspired each day by the individuals who are willing to walk through the rough roads of vulnerability to embrace the changes that their recovery will bring. Her areas of specialization are trauma-informed care, mental health crisis intervention, addiction treatment, Narcan opioid overdose prevention training and early childhood intervention.
Prior to joining The Right Step, Diana worked for four years at a leading agency for community-based mental health services for young people and adults. There, she served as a qualified mental health provider and aftercare coordinator, responsible for residential therapy groups that focused on coping skills, anger management and relapse prevention. She also helped women in crisis get emergency care and addiction services. She is bilingual in Spanish. In her spare time, Diana enjoys spending time with her family doing outdoor activities, reading, and listening to audiobooks.
Rachel has worked as a licensed clinical social worker in the field of addiction treatment for a decade. Born and raised in Hawaii, she holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Hawaii and an undergraduate degree from Southern Oregon University. She is inspired by her work in residential treatment at Promises Austin because she helps people transform their lives and become the person they want to be.
Over the course of her career, Rachel has supervised detox, residential, day treatment and intensive outpatient programs. She’s engaged in program development and grant writing. And she has travelled across the country to train treatment providers on an evidenced-based curriculum to address addiction in families with young children. She shares a home in Austin with her husband and two dogs. In her free time, she gardens, runs, bakes and crochets. She loves to go swimming anywhere she can.
Dr. Garcia is devoted to helping people change their lives for the better. He is board certified by ABPN in psychiatry and neurology and has worked in a wide variety of psychiatric settings. A native of Texas, Dr. Garcia attended Rice University and completed a combined MD/PhD program at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He pursued residency training in psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he remained as faculty until 2010. He relocated to Austin to continue his academic career with the Dell Medical School and Seton Family of Hospitals.
Dr. Garcia has cared for patients with co-occurring substance abuse and psychiatric conditions across the spectrum of treatment settings including inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization programs. In 2017, he left academics to start his own practice and has been the medical director for The Right Step Hill Country since then. He has published over 20 articles and chapters across a wide range of topics and has provided mentorship to numerous resident psychiatrists and students. In his spare time, he relaxes by playing guitar and spending time with his family.
Dr. DeGraff takes a social and systemic approach to addiction. She views addiction as a complex disease in which biological, social, psychological, and systemic forces are constantly at play, often getting in the way of the individual that is trying to find recovery. She works with a multidisciplinary team to shift each of these forces toward alignment with clients’ health and recovery. The core of her approach involves working within the family system to identify and change the family dynamics of addiction. She says it is a privilege to shift family systems and to see relationships shift so that clients can engage in healthy recovery.
Dr. DeGraff specializes in addictive disorders and recovery studies, couple and family therapy, experiential family therapy, financial therapy and relapse prevention. She holds three degrees: a bachelor’s degree in community, family and addiction services from Texas Tech University; a master’s degree in couples and family therapy from Texas Tech University; and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in human development and family science from The University of Georgia. Prior to joining Promises Austin, she served as a program therapist at The Right Step Hill Country and a therapist and research and teaching assistant at The University of Georgia. In her free time, Dr. DeGraff enjoys gardening, cooking, hiking, kayaking and painting.
