Our Local Roots

Diane is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who received her Master’s in Counseling with a double emphasis in Clinical Mental Health and School Counseling. Diane works with children, teens, and adults. In addition, she is a Licensed School Counselor and a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).  She finds it rewarding to work with both children and adults who are experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief & loss and has attended comprehensive training in CBT, DBT, Prolonged Exposure, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. She utilizes Child-Centered, Gestalt, Sand Tray, and other interventions with children. 

As a long-term resident of the Reno/Tahoe area, Diane loves the outdoors and spending time with her extended family. Diane loves to travel with her husband, enjoys walks with her dog Toby, and explores her creativity.  

Janet completed her MSW at the University of Kansas, with a concentration in advanced clinical practice after her completion of a bachelors in Social work with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.  

Subsequently, Janet worked in numerous environments related to mental health, including acute hospital work as a case manager, in a group home working with dual diagnosis individuals and their families, as well as a therapist in residential and outpatient environments.  Further, Janet worked as the executive director for a local group home for adolescent boys.   

Janet has lived in the Reno/Tahoe basin for 25+ years and could never consider leaving the Sierra Nevada mountains. Further, Janet loves her work and holds dear her family history of aiding others with life challenges, including growing up as the daughter of a prominent French psychologist, while raising a daughter who now practices therapy in Portland, Oregon.

As a Great Basin practitioner, Janet lends significant attention to lifestyle choice, spirituality, social and relational issues, while utilizing empirically proven methodology, such as CBT, CPT,and PE (intensively trained), in her work. In her free time, Janet enjoys her family, her dog Biscuit, spending time outdoors, traveling, enjoying theater, music, volunteering, and opportunities to broaden her personal growth through new experiences.

Heather was born and raised near Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Reno with her husband in 2017 (sight unseen!) and has since fallen in love with the area. Upon arriving in Reno, Heather began work at the Crisis Call Center where she provided crisis intervention services for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Heather then began working for the Crisis Call Center's Sexual Assault Support Services Program, providing advocacy for survivors of interpersonal violence, including domestic violence and sexual assault. Through working with individuals at the Crisis Call Center, Heather gained a passion for trauma informed care and learning how an individual's experiences shape their story. She then pursued an opportunity to coordinate a grant through the Office on Violence Against Women on UNR's campus which aimed to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault on the campus through outreach and education. During that time, Heather completed her MSW at UNR and pursued her ultimate goal of Clinical Social Work. 

Heather believes strongly that the therapeutic relationship is one that is based in providing clients with an intentional space to turn curiosity and self-reflection into growth, understanding, and behavior change. Heather believes in a trauma informed approach that seeks to create connections between our past experiences, core beliefs, and their impact on our everyday lives. Heather is interested in becoming more familiar with trauma informed therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and Narrative Therapy. She is working towards a client-centered, integrative approach that can evolve based on a strong foundation within the therapeutic relationship. 

Outside of work you'd likely find Heather spending time with her two dogs and husband, learning about and caring for her house plants, and going to see live music as much as possible. She is known to travel far and wide to catch concerts all over the country, and believes that it's impossible to be upset while dancing!

Lindsay was born and raised in the Reno/Tahoe area, growing up in the outdoors and exploring the Sierra Nevadas. She studied at the University of Nevada, Reno, obtaining an undergraduate degree in psychology and later obtaining a Master of Arts in social work initially inspired by work with children living in foster care. In her free time, Lindsay enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, snowboarding and touring, hiking and exercising at the gym. She loves reading, playing her guitar and singing, and spending time with family and friends. 

Lindsay has over a decade of experience working with children, adolescents and families. Lindsay comes to Great Basin Behavioral Health with a desire to address the needs of the community with intention, drawing on her experience in short term psychiatric care. 

Lindsay’s approach to counseling is one that focuses on a client’s application of personal strengths and the importance of self-determination to a fulfilling life. Lindsay hopes to foster acceptance and self-respect coupled with a growth mindset by focusing on mindful awareness, and skill building to break down self-limiting behaviors, thoughts and beliefs. She provides clients with the tools to move through life with insight, confidence and self-sufficiency with treatment that integrates cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral and gestalt methods. 

Maintaining a mindset of growth herself, Lindsay values that there is always something new to learn and is interested in becoming a better clinician through feedback, self reflection, education and collaboration with peers.

Somakhanden Park was born and raised in Stockton, CA. She graduated from A.A. Stagg High School in May 2010 with a passion for working with animals. While pursuing a biology degree at California State University, Stanislaus, she wanted real-world experience to expand her working knowledge of the field. As local opportunities were scarce, she decided to study abroad in Accra, Ghana and dedicated her time to her internship at the Accra Zoo working with endangered primates. It was during her internship with the West African Primate Conservation Action that she developed a love for behaviorism, rehabilitation, and intimate interactions. 

Thrilled to put her fresh and once-in-a-lifetime experience to use back at home, she changed her major to psychology to further her studies in behaviorism. To her surprise, her last semester as an undergrad would introduce her to the world of counseling. She found that mental health, wellness, and helping families improve their relationships was much more of her calling to make an impact on her community.

Following graduation in December 2015, she volunteered at youth shelters and adult day centers, and worked with children with autism—all of which validated her newfound love for mental health and working with children and families. She later received her Counseling Psychology, M.S. degree at California State University, Bakersfield in May 2019. Since then, Soma has worked with children, teens, adults, and families with struggles ranging from substance use, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, opposition-defiance, and sexual abuse. 

Soma uses an integrative blend of person-centered, solution-focused, and mindfulness theories, where she believes that people are the experts of their own lives; have the skills and resources to improve their relationships with others and themselves; and can increase their abilities to regulate their emotions and decrease their stress.

Soma believes that engaging in self-care is most productive for self-preservation and wellness. Outside of her clinical work, she is most likely tending to her indoor garden, snuggling her three dogs and one cat, trying new restaurants with her husband and family, creating an itinerary for her next trip, and watching reruns of The Office, Brooklynn Nine-Nine, or New Girl.