Our Team

Fayetteville Office

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CEO/Certified Clinician

Ryan Freeman-Burchfield

“What is the bravest thing you’ve ever said? asked the boy.’Help,’ said the horse.
‘Asking for help isn’t giving up,’ said the horse. ‘It’s refusing to give up.”

~ Charlie Mackesy,
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

Director of Policy/Certified Clinician

Leeanne Rhodes

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

~ Abraham Maslow

Fayetteville Team Leader/Certified Clinician

Makenzie Smith

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

~ Albus Dumbledore

Clinical Training Coordinator/Certified Clinician

Dewey Dykes

“Change is the essential process of all existence.”

~ Spock

Certified Clinicians

Shannon Keever

“No matter where you go, there you are”

~ Buckaroo Banzai

Mental Health & Relationship Therapist | Fayetteville, Arkansas

Hayley Paape

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”

~ Charlotte Bronte

Registered Play Therapist

Temple Carson

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”

~ Albert Einstein

Mental Health Therapists

Katrina Cooks

“If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

~ Maya Angelou

Lexi Madle

“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”

~ Prentis Hemphil

Ruth Abbey

“In my early professional years I was asking the questions, How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” 

~ Carl Rogers

Cody Davis

“Inviting our thoughts and feelings into awareness allows us to learn from them rather than be driven by them.” 

~ Dr. Dan Siegel

Mental Health Therapist/Internship Coordinator

Terry Shott

“We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do”

~ Gordon Livingston

Mental Health Therapist Intern

Kourtney Toellner

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”

~ David Richo

Aaron Wayne

“The best way out is always through.” 

Robert Frost

Director of Human Resources

Freeman-Burchfield Institute Staff | Fayetteville Therapy

Jehiah Burchfield

“Our fears do not stop death, they stop life.”

~ Rickson Gracie

Admin Specialists

Shannon Obersteadt

“Nothing is absolute, everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves and everything flies away.”

~ Frida Kahlo

Cami Beath

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

~ Helen Keller

Diana Castillo Borbon

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”

~ Helen Keller

Kerri Hixson

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

~ Christopher Reeve

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