The Estuary Staff

Founder & Executive Director

Susan Austin-Crumpton is the visionary behind The Estuary Center for Healing. With over 35 years of experience, she holds a counseling psychology degree and specialized training in transpersonal psychology, energy healing, and Integrative Kabbalistic Healing. Susan seamlessly bridges mind-body-spirit practices with traditional psychotherapy and allopathic medicine, offering transformative care for anxiety, relationships, addiction, and spiritual growth. As executive director and lead instructor, her enthusiastic, grounded leadership serves as the central hub of The Estuary, guiding clients and students toward profound personal healing and self-discovery.

Clinical Consultant

Lyndell Stich brings over 30 years of experience in addiction therapy, trauma, couples, and individual counseling. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, Lyndy has practiced in Nashville since 1994. He weaves mind-body-spirit awareness with advanced trauma techniques—including Brainspotting and EMDR—to help clients unlock past trauma and anchor in the present. Known for his "edge" of precise insight paired with nurturing gentleness, Lyndy offers a steady, wise presence as a practitioner, mentor, and trusted guide for The Estuary community.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Medication Management

Diane Allen is a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner trained at Belmont and Vanderbilt. With extensive clinical experience at Vanderbilt and Centerstone, and training in spiritually integrated psychotherapy, she combines psychiatric medication management with a compassionate body-mind-spirit approach to whole-person care for clients of all ages.

Licensed Professional Counselor
Play Therapist

Offering Child-Centered Play Therapy (ages 4–10) and individual talk therapy (ages 16+), this practitioner creates a warm, authentic space for healing. Blending mindfulness, cognitive tools, and nature-based modalities—including Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy—she guides children, adults, and families through life transitions, emotional regulation, and personal growth.

Licensed Professional Counselor

As a holistic Licensed Professional Counselor, Lynee believes we are inherently whole, even in our unhealed states. Blending her Master’s degree, School of Healing Arts training, and Brainspotting expertise, she helps adults navigate trauma, anxiety, and relationships. She guides clients to release harsh self-judgment and confidently embrace their authentic truth.

Somatic Trauma & Nervous System Practitioner | Creator of Kali Connection Therapy®

Mara specializes in neuroscience-based somatic therapy for trauma, anxiety, and nervous system regulation. Creator of Kali Connection Therapy® and drawing on 45+ years of martial arts experience, Mara helps clients bridge the gap between mind and body, delivering practical, experiential tools to build embodied safety, connection, and confidence.

Licensed Professional Counselor - Temporary
Individuals and Couples

Ken’s counseling journey centers on powerful alignment and self-discovery, liberating individuals from past obstacles to foster love and purpose. By identifying core values, practicing mindfulness, and taking committed action, he guides clients through adversity. Walking alongside them in this brave, vulnerable healing journey is a profound privilege for Ken.

Licensed Professional Counselor
Individuals and Couples

With over 15 years of experience across inpatient, outpatient, school, and private practice settings, Kate uses modalities like EMDR, DBT, and somatic processing. She takes a holistic, mind-body-spirit approach, blending traditional clinical therapy with energetic exploration. Kate is deeply committed to justice, equity, and cultural competence with all populations.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Mary specializes in relationship issues, emotional regulation, and breaking all-or-nothing thinking. She offers safe, inclusive care for the LGBTQ+ community, blending Dialectical Behavior Therapy with mind-body awareness. Incorporating holistic wellness and fitness practices, Mary guides clients toward balance, effective communication, and lasting peace through integrative, compassionate therapeutic support.

Clinical Practitioner, Energy Healer

Stephanie offers holistic care that blends talk therapy, energy healing, thermal biofeedback, and other modalities. Drawing on advanced addiction training and Estuary School expertise, she supports individuals and families through addiction, grief, stress, and codependency. Stephanie cultivates a sacred space focused on building self-awareness, personal healing, and regulation.

Clinical Practitioner, Energy Healer

Inspired by personal transformation, Lisa creates a safe, compassionate space for clients navigating crisis and self-exploration. Utilizing an integrative approach with EMDR, mindfulness, and internal family systems, she helps individuals break unhealthy cycles, cultivate self-compassion, and navigate life transitions, trauma, or addiction. Lisa offers affirming, accessible care to all.

Sound Practitioner, Reiki Master, Bach Flower Essence Practitioner

Registered Nurse Jodi Alderson blends over 20 years of medical experience with holistic practices—including sound therapy, Reiki, and Bach flower essences—to offer personalized energy work that complements traditional medicine.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Energy Healer

Life coach and energy practitioner Lynn Bartrum helps clients from many walks of life discover their innate wholeness and beauty, and become the most authentic and joyful versions of themselves possible. Lynn’s clients are often drawn and they enjoy working with her because of the results she helps them achieve…

Pastoral Counselor, Individuals and Couples
Energy Healer

Insight can be useful when we’re able to bring it into our human lives.  Susan’s work is to ask you questions about what you feel, think and do.  She has no answers; only questions. Your work is to meet yourself where you are, find your answers inside yourself and choose your next step.  

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Intuitive Guide, Energy Practitioner (HTCP)

Kim guides others in understanding their personal power by helping them to feel more connected to their mind, body and spirit. Kim has unlocked the powerful tool of intuition, through her energy practice, to be able to see beyond the false pretenses and into the joy we all carry.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Holistic Mystic Guide, Individuals and Couples

Through focused guidance and thought-provoking questions, Samantha empowers individuals and couples to delve into their patterns, behaviors, and communication styles, leading to improved understanding and connection.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Energy Healer, Akashic Soul Reader

Dorothy Daniel is a certified Energy Healer and Transformational Life Coach, Akashic Soul Reader, and Author. She helps clients step into their innate wholeness, connect with their inner wisdom, and break free from what is holding them back so they can live life…

Pastoral Counselor, Couples & Individuals
Energy Healer, Dream Guide

Cara’s approach with clients includes identifying the divine needs most alive in the client that are often hidden in shadowed behaviors & offered as metaphors in our dreams. Through learning the language of needs and dreams, both universal and personal, clients can engage with their shadow, receive the infinite wisdom within, and deepen their relationship to self.

Life and Wellness Coach

Maureen Doyle, life coach and teacher, helps her clients move from unconsciously living into a life filled with more awareness of self, others, and purpose. Her passion is learning about people’s stories, and joining them for part of their journey through life. Maureen is a high touch coach that will keep you moving forward…

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Tarot Reader, Energy Healer

Marshall is interested in finding the psychological, spiritual, or emotional roots to everyday issues. Simply by becoming aware of limiting beliefs and true desires, each person discovers their truest self and creates a more whole life.

Certified Astrologer

Pam approaches Astrology as a language of pattern, timing, and emotional truth. She works with clients who are navigating periods of uncertainty, helping them recognize the larger cycles and structures shaping their lives. It is not about prediction, but recognition — a symbolic language the psyche already speaks.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Breathwork Practitioner

Sarah is a Holistic Coach and Breathwork Practitioner. She lovingly refers to herself as a ‘recovering cynic turned mystic.’ Sarah takes an integrative approach to healing where many different modalities are used in harmony to support the mind, body and spirit.