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Professional and affordable clinical counseling

A Little About Us

The Well Counseling Center offers affordable and professional counseling from a Christian worldview in the Fresno/Clovis area. Benefits from counseling may include a marked improvement in your overall quality of life, practical solutions to everyday concerns, resolved conflict between you and others, understanding past experiences and how they impact you today, and gaining a new perspective on life events. Counseling will take some work on your part, but most people get as much out of it as they put in.

Fee Schedule

  • Practicum Students
    $75 per 50-minute session
  • Registered Associate
    $100 per 50-minute session
  • Licensed Counselor (MFT/LCSW)
    $145 per 50-minute session
  • Doctorate of Marriage and Family Therapy
    $175 per 50-minute individual session
    $215 per 70-minute couple or family session

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    (559) 325-8600

  • In-Person and Telehealth Sessions Available

  • We are available when you are. We provide
    Evening Appointments

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Support The Well Counseling Center

The Well Counseling Center was founded with an intent to provide people with the means to make the life-giving power of Christ’s Gospel available in a therapeutic setting. To live out this vision, licensed and registered staff members of The Well Counseling Center provide low-fee service options to support underprivileged families in the Central Valley.

We appreciate the partnership of our city and its members as we seek to provide high quality services at the lowest cost possible. Your financial donations will help support the work of our center and care for the growing needs of our community. Thank you for your generosity and financial partnership.

OUR DIRECTOR

Ben Carr
Ben Carr, LMFT

Ben is a Licenced Marriage and Family Therapist who obtained his Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. He has experience working with young children, couples, and adults, and is strongly motivated to help people identify and understand their personal strengths. Ben places a strong focus on conveying genuine acceptance, respect and empathy toward others, and intentionally works to recognize the mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual needs of each person. Ben also values the opportunity to integrate faith discussion in the counseling process, and actively investigates scriptural wisdom with those who wish to more deeply understand the Bible’s applicability in their own lives. He believes this holistic approach to counseling empowers people to recognize their own capabilities and experience genuine personal healing, and offers greater understanding of Christ's impact in their lives.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
This counselor is EMDR certified

OUR LICENSED COUNSELORS

Wendi Mooney
Wendi Mooney, LMFT
Telehealth sessions only

Wendi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who graduated from Fresno Pacific University Biblical Seminary with a Master of Arts in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. She enjoys working with individuals both men and women, couples, families and adolescents. She works with depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, grief/loss, life transitions and trauma. She has been in full-time Christian ministry for the past 20 years in the pastoral care setting, has been married for 36 years, and is a mother of two. Her clinical approach integrates Biblical truth with the field of psychology, with an understanding that each individual is shaped by one’s experiences, both past and present and our significant life relationships affect our sense of self and ability to relate to others.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
Dr. Tamar Sevajian
Dr. Tamar Sevajian, LMFT

Tamar is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who has graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA with a Master of Science in MFT, as well as obtained her Doctorate of Marriage and Family Therapy degree from Northcentral University. Her dissertation project included A Multi-Framework Theoretical Approach Supporting Collective Trauma Recovery and Complicated Grief: Self-guidance in Addressing the Grief of the Armenians for Restoration (SAGAR).

Tamar enjoys working with individual adults, couples, and groups. She has run several support groups with specializations in relationships, grief/loss, and anger/stress management. Other areas include trauma, effective communication, premarital counseling, marital and relationship conflict, forgiveness, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Although she works with various theories (CBT, Solution, Strategic), her preferred model is Restoration Therapy in which she acquired specialized training during her graduate studies. Her choice for this clinical model is the fact that it aligns well with integration of faith and science. Her love for Christ leads her passion to do this work always pointing clients to Christ and welcoming the Holy Spirit in the process for healing and wholeness.

Previously, Tamar had acquired over 20 years of experience in Christian leadership within churches around Dallas, TX, and the Greater Los Angeles area in various lay minister roles. Dr. Sevajian is bilingual in Western-Armenian and brings valuable experience in working with families struggling with cultural issues. She works with individual adults, couples and groups.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
Tammy Greer
Tammy Greer, LCSW

Tammy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who graduated from San Jose State University with a Master of Social Work. She enjoys working with children, adolescents, women, men, couples and families. She works with relationship conflict, trauma, depression, anxiety, adoption, attachment and the impact it has on all of the above. Tammy has been in full time Christian ministry for 30 plus years working with children, teens and families impacted by drugs and alcohol, trauma, social services/probation, foster care and adoption. She is a single adoptive parent of one young woman who is married and thriving. Her belief is that God is a Redeemer for the broken and through the process of therapy supported by prayer, healing is within reach.

Jeff Reed
Jeff Reed, LMFT

Jeff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received his Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry and Leadership from Fresno Pacific University, and his Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. Jeff has a love of God and a passion for people. He believes that healing is a holistic journey of transformation that begins in a trusting relationship of authenticity, respect, and empathy. Jeff welcomes the integration of faith as he walks alongside the client in exploring their mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual needs to realize a life of hope, purpose, and resiliency. He has specialized training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (Externship and Core Skills). Jeff has also been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to effectively treat trauma, attachment wounds, and many other forms of psychological distress. Jeff is honored to be a participant in the journey of self-awareness that fosters growth and discovery to live authentically in community and develop healthy emotional bonds within their families and intimate relationships.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
This counselor is EMDR certified
Sonia Yemenjian
Sonia Yemenjian, MS, LMFT

Sonia believes that every person has the internal motivation to improve the quality of their lives. In her work, primarily with adults and couples, she helps those who are seeking this motivation.

She has established expertise through her practice in Marriage and Family Therapy for twenty years through various agencies and counseling centers. She is specialized in CBT, DBT, Client-Centered, Mindfulness and other therapy modalities. Her areas of expertise include: depression, anxiety, panic and anxiety attacks, relational difficulties and postpartum depression.

Sonia is a Board Certified Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy with Pupil Personnel from Fresno State University.

Sonia has passion for helping clients in seeking emotional, cognitive, and spiritual growth, acceptance, adjustment, and wellness.

Tory Campbell
Tory Campbell, LMFT

Tory is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, as well as a Master’s degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from California State University, Fresno. Tory’s clinical experience as well as passion includes working with relationship conflict, family dynamics, depression, co-parenting, adjustment/transitions, various types of trauma such as physical/sexual/verbal abuse, suicidal ideations, anxiety, and substance dependency. Some of the training Tory has received is in suicidal awareness, cultural awareness, mindfulness, and play therapy.

Tory believes that each person has a divine purpose when it comes to the functioning of God’s kingdom. As a member of the body, she feels it is her duty to help empower and uplift others during their season. Tory is driven to help as many people as she can so that they may live a healthier life and assist others who are hurting. Tory’s motto is, for every second that passes, is a second a person cannot get back. Therefore, it is important to try and live more, forgive more, and love often.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified

OUR REGISTERED ASSOCIATES

Wendy Hemenway
Wendy Hemenway, AMFT

Wendy is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree in Counseling in Psychology from National University. Her approach to therapy is client-centered, respectful, encouraging and supportive. Her goal is to help clients identify their inner strengths, improve self-worth, gain coping skills, and learn tools to reach their maximum potential. She enjoys working with individuals, including children and adolescents, couples and families. Her experience includes working with clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, anger, domestic violence, broken relationships or with drug and alcohol addictions. Wendy believes that with Christ as our guide and God as our Great Physician healing is possible in our lives, families, and relationships.

Shondra LeMaster
Shondra LeMaster, AMFT

Shondra is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. In the past, she has been involved in mentoring, youth, and worship ministry and feels called to help people find holistic healing and growth through the powerful integration of faith and psychology.

Shondra is interested in working with children, adults, and couples as they navigate their own stories with empathy, compassion, understanding, and genuine connection. As a person who is living out her own faith, Shondra is eager to journey with her clients as they explore their own, and discover how to manage life’s twists and turns.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
Counselor is certified in Trauma-Informed Creative Arts
Jordan Hobbs
Jordan Hobbs, AMFT

Jordan is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. She has experience leading grief groups and is passionate about walking alongside clients towards their journey towards wholeness. Jordan serves in youth ministry at the local church and enjoys working with teens, adults, and couples through emotionally focused therapy. Jordan believes that through the Lord and the assistance of the therapeutic relationship, all clients can find hope, healing, and restoration. Her passion is to help clients navigate interpersonal relationships through increased introspection, connection, and emotional awareness.

Jordan believes that through a non-judgmental empathetic observation of one's life, clients will increase their ability to form emotionally-safe, meaningful relationships as adults.

This counselor is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Mitchell Ross
Mitchell Ross, AMFT

Mitch is an associate marriage and family therapist with a dual masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and Divinity from Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary. His background in Pastoral Care and Counseling has equipped him with a unique capacity to bring together faith and psychology in a therapeutic setting to promote healing, growth, and peace. Mitch works from an eclectic theoretical palette including a melding of psychodynamic and Jungian approaches, and has specialized training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (Externship and training in attachment trauma). He enjoys working with individuals across the age spectrum as well as with couples and families.

This counselor is SYMBIS certified
Hailey Souza
Hailey Souza, AMFT

Hailey is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who received her masters degree from Fresno Pacific University. Hailey uses her previous vocational ministry experience to aid her within the therapeutic space and to integrate faith throughout the healing process. Hailey enjoys working with couples, teens, and adults. She has a particular passion in working with new mothers, as well as women navigating familial and relational conflict. She also has a heart for working with those navigating religious trauma, anxiety, and depression. In the therapeutic space, Hailey focuses on aiding her clients in moving towards emotional and spiritual awareness and healing. Hailey believes that through God and supportive therapeutic interventions, hope, trust, peace, and healing can be restored.

Hailey has completed an EFT Externship and received Spiritual Integration training

Theological Guidance

Katie DeManby
Katie DeManby

Katie was born and raised in Fresno. She came to faith as a teenager and was highly impacted by the discipleship of a series of women the Lord placed in her life from high school and into adulthood. She is passionate about helping others understand who they are in Christ in light of scripture. She received a BA from California State University of Fresno in social work and is currently working on completing her Master of Arts in Counseling at Westminster Theological Seminary. She believes we are all embodied souls and we all experience suffering and pain on this side of heaven. Her approach is grace, and she is passionate about helping sufferers heal through compassionate conversation, prayer and moving towards the Lord together. Her goal is honest and authentic conversation exploring how the Lord meets us right where we are, wooing us to Himself. She has been married to her husband Travis for the past 18 years and has 3 children. Katie works with women, adolescences, and couples.

Anna Hawkins
Anna Hawkins

Have you ever wondered where God is in your grief, loneliness, anxiety, depression, or conflict? Does He have wisdom for the hurts and hardships you are experiencing? How can you experience more of His loving care? If you have ever asked these questions, Soul Care may be the right counseling option for you. Many of the challenges we face are not only mental health or relational in nature, they are matters of the soul.

Anna Hawkins is passionate about helping Christians connect their mental health with their faith. Her own experience with sin and suffering has led her to a deep love for Jesus and an appreciation for the redemptive work that God does through intentional soul care. As a Soul Care Counselor, Anna focuses on gospel centered concepts in her counseling. Her goal is that during your time with her you will begin to see your current situation with hope and grace.

Anna has worked as a Christian counselor since 2021 and holds a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counseling with an emphasis on Crisis Response and Trauma. She has been married to her husband Jeremy for 20 years and they have 2 children (ages 16 and 8.)

Anna works with individuals, couples, children, and teens. She has a specific passion for working with families impacted by foster care and adoption, children and teens experiencing anxiety, and couples seeking to integrate faith into their marriage.

OUR TRAINEES

Victoria Soto
Victoria Soto, MFT Trainee

Victoria Soto is a grad student in her final year of the Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy program at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary, set to graduate in May 2025. She has gained valuable experience as an elementary school mentor, youth group leader, and church hospitality director, dedicated to helping children, teens, and adults recognize their inherent worth and feel deeply understood. Victoria's commitment to serving minority communities has instilled in her a dedication to providing culturally sensitive support to diverse populations. She is committed to journeying alongside clients in their path to healing, offering a spiritually attuned and compassionate presence.

Kate Houk
Kate Houk, MFT Trainee

Kate is a MFT Trainee in her final year of graduate studies at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary in Marriage and Family Therapy. Kate believes in creating a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can explore their emotions, build resilience, and discover their authentic selves. She enjoys working with individuals of any age as well as families and couples.

Kate focuses on helping individuals navigate the complexities of life, relationships, and personal growth while addressing a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Kate has completed the Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship, Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1, and additional trauma training. In addition to her therapeutic training, Kate also holds an MA in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care from Talbot Theological Seminary; and she has 15 years of experience as a spiritual director walking alongside individuals and groups as they discern the presence and work of God in their lives.

Whether you're seeking support during a challenging time or looking to deepen your personal understanding, Kate is ready to help you on your journey toward healing and growth.

  • LMFT = Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
  • LPCC = Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
  • LCSW = Licensed Clinical Social Worker
  • AMFT = Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
  • APCC = Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor
  • ASW = Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker
  • MFT = Marriage and Family Therapist
  • PCC = Professional Clinical Counselor

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • DOES THE WELL COMMUNITY CHURCH OFFER PROFESSIONAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES?

    Our Counseling Center is a professional, clinical counseling center, and our staff is comprised of credentialed mental health professionals.

  • WHAT ARE THE EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUNDS OF YOUR COUNSELORS?

    We have Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT) and Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapists. All counselors have a minimum of a Master’s Degree in Counseling. We also have a Master’s level Mediation/Conflict Coach who can provide pastoral pre-marital counseling and spiritual guidance.

  • WHAT IS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING?

    Christian counseling combines professional counseling techniques and Scriptural principles in a unique approach to mental health issues.

  • ARE ALL OF YOUR COUNSELORS CHRISTIAN?

    All counselors acknowledge personal faith in Jesus Christ; they do not all attend The Well.

  • DO I HAVE TO BE A CHRISTIAN TO USE YOUR SERVICES?

    Our services are available to everyone. We are a Christian-based counseling center. Our approach to therapy is to meet people wherever they are in all areas of their lives.

  • HOW DO I MAKE AN APPOINTMENT?
  • MAY I CHOOSE MY OWN COUNSELOR?

    You may request a particular counselor. Your preference will be honored if your presenting issue is within their treatment area, and if your counselor of choice has available appointment times.

  • HOW LONG DO I NEED TO WAIT TO SEE SOMEONE?

    Generally, your appointment will be within a week of your initial call. The time varies for each counselor.

  • WHAT IF I HAVE A LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCY?

    Call 9-1-1 or your local police department.

  • HOW MUCH DOES COUNSELING COST?

    Our Counseling Center fees for professional services are lower than those of other mental health practices in the area. Specific fee information can be found on our Counseling Center page and will be provided when you call for an appointment.

  • WILL MY VISITS BE COVERED BY INSURANCE?

    Since policies and benefits vary greatly, we do not bill insurance. Clients are responsible for charges which are payable at the time services are rendered. Payment can be made by debit or credit card.

  • HOW LONG DOES COUNSELING TAKE?

    The length of treatment depends on many factors. It is primarily determined by the nature of the issue(s) and the motivation of the client.

  • WHO DO YOUR COUNSELORS WORK WITH?

    Services are provided for individuals, couples, families, infants, children and adolescents.

  • WHAT KINDS OF ISSUES DO YOUR COUNSELORS WORK WITH?

    Counselors are trained in many areas including marriage conflict, marriage enrichment, depression, anxiety, postpartum depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, childhood trauma, pastoral counseling, infant mental health, play therapy, grief, domestic violence, spiritual abuse, sexual addictions, women’s issues and life transitions. If you have questions about these issues or others call 559.325.8600.

CONTACT US


Call us to make an appointment
Video sessions are available
(559) 325-8600

The Well Counseling Center
7080 N Whitney Ave Ste 102
Fresno, CA 93720


Interested in joining our clinical team?
Please send resumes to dasha@thewellcounseling.org