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Gabrielle Carey, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT

     Gabrielle Carey Ph.D. is co-owner of Hill Country Psychotherapy Associates, PLLC.  She has been a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Texas since 1998 and is also licensed as a professional counselor.  She is an approved AAMFT and LPC supervisor, providing supervision to counseling students and interns accruing their required hours.

     Dr. Carey favors a brief narrative approach to family therapy which focuses on individual and collective strength and resilience.  She uses play and art therapy techniques, as well as talk therapy, in her work with children.  Couples therapy is her specialty, especially cases involving infidelity, social adjustments, martial enhancement, and anger management.  She works with individuals experiencing relationship problems, anxiety, depression, AD/HD, Bipolar Disorder and other issues.

     Gabrielle Carey, Ph.D. completed her internship at the Marriage and Family Institute of San Antonio, and practiced there until opening Hill Country Psychotherapy Associates.  She co-authored a book, Family Thearapy with Hispanics:  Toward Appreciating Diversity.  She has been married for 21 years and has two teenage daughters.
 

Jordana Pazin, Ph.D., LPC, NCC

     Jordana Pazin, Ph.D. is co-owner of Hill Country Psychotherapy Associates, PLLC.  She has been a Nationally Certified Counselor since April, 2000 and a Licensed Professional Counselor since June, 2001. Dr. Pazin is also an LPC approved supervisor, providing supervision to students and interns accruing their required hours toward licensure. She has worked in the mental health field since 1992.

     Dr. Pazin practices from The Relational Cultural Model, focusing on enhancement of personal growth, relationships and how they affect who we are, and life experiences. Her areas of specialty include women's issues, relationships, domestic violence, and GLBTQI issues. She completed her doctoral residency at UTSA's Counseling Services.

     Aside from her private practice, Dr. Pazin is also Adjunct Faculty at St. Mary's University, where she has been teaching graduate and doctoral level courses since 2002. She is also the Director of Counseling Services at The Diversity Center of San Antonio.

Joan Terry, LPC

     Joan Terry is a Licensed Professional Counselor.  Joan completed her Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at St. Mary's University.  Joan worked as a therapist at Jewish Family Service for eight years before entering private practice with Hill Country Psychotherapy Associates.  She worked as a counselor for victims of crime for two years as part of a state grant.  Her specialty is working with clients who are struggling with eating disorders using a cognitive/behavioral approach.  Joan works with families, couples, and individuals using a therapeutic approach which includes solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family systems therapy.

Michelle Gunnin, Ed.S., LPC

     Michelle Gunnin has been in practice with Hill Country Psychotherapy since the fall of 2005. She earned two graduate degrees in Marriage and Family Counseling from the University of Florida in 2001 and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is an eclectic therapist who uses a variety of strategies to help clients reach their goals. She utilizes Imago Therapy and Relational Empowerment approaches with couples, and practices from a Solution-Focused and Cognitive Behavioral approach with individuals. She uses art therapy with children and preadolescents. 
 
      Her areas of specialty include couples and marital therapy, therapy with children and teens, parenting, and individual therapy for depression and anxiety. Michelle Gunnin has experience working in many settings including a non profit agency with at risk children and their families, an adolescent clinic, a drug treatment facility, with court mandated individuals, and at a non profit counseling center specializing in marital and family issues. She has been married for 14 years, and has two children.
 

Sally Day, Ph.D, LPC

     Sally Day is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She graduated in May, 2008 with a Ph.D in Counselor Education and Supervision from UTSA. Her areas of specialty are GLBTQI issues and Domestic Violence. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and has experience working with geriatrics. 
 

Sabina Remmers de Vries, Ph.D, LPC

      Sabina Remmers de Vries is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She completed her Masters degree and doctoral degree in Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Sabina favors Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology in terms of counseling work with her clients. Sabina believes that a positive and supportive counseling relationship is essential for clients to gain new insight into themselves and increased insight into the social systems they are part of. She believes that individuals are impacted by and impact those social systems that he/she is connected to. Sabina combines psychodynamic and interpersonal process approaches with narrative, relational, and cognitive behavioral techniques to empower her clients to find new ways of being in the world. She also offers Enneagram work to those clients that express interest in this type of personality assessment.

     Sabina also specializes in trauma work, helping her clients work safely through traumatic life experiences. Her goal is to diminish the power traumatic experiences hold over her clients. Overcoming traumatic experiences can be achieved through developmentally focused therapy whose cornerstone is interpersonal connection, grounding, and safety.

     Furthermore, Sabina specializes in working with individuals with bi-polar mood disorders and schizophrenic spectrum disorders as well as domestic violence issues as they pertain to female as well as male survivors of interpersonal violence.

     Aside from her private practice, Sabina is also a contract counselor for Community Based Counseling, which provides counseling to survivors of domestic violence and homeless citizens.

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