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Clinical Director of National Program
Janet Levitt (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who holds Masters Degrees in both Counseling and Developmental Psychology. Janet has over 20 years of experience providing therapy to adolescents and adults in private practice. She also has extensive experience as a parent coach, providing support and guidance to parents and families as they move through times of transition and challenge. Janet has held multiple leadership roles throughout her career, including the role of Clinical Director for Vive Family Support Program. She is currently a Clinical Supervisor for Wonder. Janet has completed advanced training in mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT empowers individuals to build healthy relationships, manage stressors, cultivate solutions to challenges, and enhance emotion regulation.
Janet believes we all have the potential to heal, grow, and build connection. In therapy, she provides a safe and supportive space in which clients can move from a place of stress, struggle, or disconnection to a place of meaning, hope, and equanimity.
Amanda grew up in Tennessee and graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Physical Education. Her five years of work in a residential therapeutic weight loss program in North Carolina and California along with the nine years of work as a teacher, counselor, advisor, and residential administrator in a therapeutic residential program have all highlighted what her true passion is: working with families in crisis and watching them collectively reach their full potential. Amanda has been involved in sports and outdoor activities her entire life and she enjoys watching adolescents reach their full potential through sports, exercise and outdoor adventure. As a certified life, health, and wellness coach Amanda is able to weave these facets of physical health into her holistic approach to change. Amanda believes that anyone can achieve joy and satisfaction in their life. Whether honing in on physical wellness, or social and emotional struggles, everyone is capable of achieving their true goals, with a support system. Amanda especially believes a sense of structure and accountability are keys to reaching one’s goals.
When not at work, Amanda can be found enjoying the outdoors whether camping, hiking, mountain biking, or snowboarding she can always find a way to soak up nature.
Jason Lannoch is a mental health professional who holds a Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He has extensive experience working with adolescent and family populations in inpatient, at-home and clinical settings. Jason has a successful leadership and clinical background in helping clients to achieve mental health and standard-of-living goals. He takes pride in meeting clients where they are at with empathy and determination. Jason also has experience in health and wellness outreach and education.
When Jason isn’t working with clients, he loves to play bass guitar, attend concerts, watch movies with his wife, run 10Ks and go on long nature hikes in State Parks.
Hannah Horner (she/her) is an Art Therapist and Counselor who specializes in treating Anxiety, Eating Disorders (EDs), OCD, Phobias, and Trichotillomania. Using a trauma-informed and attachment-based approach with a humanistic-existential lens, she strives to establish a safe and supportive environment that encourages self-reflection and personal growth. She offers highly effective coping strategies that are tailored to address triggers and unhelpful core beliefs. Her ultimate objective is to help the family function as a whole where authenticity is celebrated and members each hold a sense of belonging.
Fun fact: She enjoys throwing large vessels on the pottery wheel and running trails with her dog (best dog in the world).
Current favorite book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
She has a diverse background including working at multiple levels of care (OP, IOP, PHP, RES, IP). She studied Fine Arts/Analog Photography and Psychology in Boston before earning my masters in Chicago at Adler University for Counseling and Art Therapy. During that time she also pursued training as an EMT to gain a wider perspective of mental health emergency care. Having served as medical advocate for sexual assault survivors, volunteered at crisis hotlines, worked with children in the foster care system, and provided crisis care to those grappling with suicidality and self-harm, she brings an understanding of intersectionality to her practice. Regardless of the challenges her families may be facing, her role is to be with you at each step and offer empathy and guidance as you embark on a path towards positive change.
Training and work experience include multiple levels of care such as: Institute for Therapy Through the Arts, Boston Children’s Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, University of Chicago Comer.
David has been working with adolescents and their families in wilderness programs since 2007. Though it was challenging being a field instructor for 12 years, he always has felt a sense of gratitude being a part of the healing and recovery of young people and their families. David is adopted and earned an MSW from the University of Denver motivated, in part, to continue working with adopted young people. Over the course of David’s career as a clinician he has worked with hundreds of young people struggling with addiction, impulsivity, poor self esteem, cultivating healthy relationships and negative core beliefs. Many of the young people David has worked with are, in their own way, profoundly lonely.
David offers a unique perspective when working with young people transitioning from wilderness or residential care. In 2005, David graduated high school from a residential treatment program in Utah and experienced that transition himself. David has experienced the challenges of that transition. As a wilderness therapist and as a supervisor at a transition program, David has been working with young people confronting the exciting but often disorientating transition out of residential care. That experience is a source of empathy and understanding as well as a framework for anticipating and planning for challenges before they occur.
David employs components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Additionally, David is ARC (Attachment, Regulations and Competency) certified therapist, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and a Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional with a focus on attachment related issues.
David is a passionate person who absolutely loves the work he does. Outside of work, David is often planning SCUBA diving trips, snowboarding, spending time with friends and writing music. David knows from personal experience that recovery is, and should be, an adventure in itself.
Brendan has worked in mental health since 2015, getting his start as a wilderness guide for a large company in Utah. During his time there, Brendan began to greatly enjoy the clinical process of helping his student’s find their potential, and he began to exclusively work with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). After working at an outpatient facility for a time, again with ASD clients, Brendan was able to settle in a supervisor role at a long-term, inpatient treatment center for boys with ASD. During the 5 years at this program, Brendan became very accustomed to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which promotes growth and skills through acknowledging one is doing the best they can, and can still improve. Currently, Brendan manages a short-term residential treatment center for teens with a wide array of struggles and histories, providing support to the supervisors and direct-care professionals.
Brendan has a strong passion in helping clients with a neurodiverse background, and enjoys exploring and helping clients enhance their quality of life through subtle tweaks throughout their day. Executive functioning and developing self-efficacy are two topics he enjoys exploring with clients whenever possible, through the lens of DBT. Brendan is a big believer that the right kind of scaffolding can lead to huge break-throughs.
Brendan currently resides in Salt Lake City with his wife and two young boys, and one needy Australian shepherd. He is a lover of good coffee, mountain biking, backpacking, and best of all, time with his wife and boys. He is actively working toward a Masters in Social Work at Utah State University.
Jamie (they/them) is known to empower their clients through relationships and authentic connections! Jamie is a believer in celebrating the beautiful awkwardness that is learning who we are as human beings. Jamie earned their BS in Psychology from the University of Houston and their MA in Counseling Psychology from Texas Woman’s University.
Jamie has served in a variety of roles ranging from community mental health to private practice settings. What Jamie loves the most about working with young people is the chance to be a safe figure who will unconditionally support and accept them for who they are. Identity development and coping with life’s transitions are areas that Jamie feels are important for every person to explore in connection with others. Jamie believes in the power of radical love through empowering relationships and mindful self-compassion. Jamie sees their client’s relationship patterns as building blocks to their world, and it is exciting to learn about a person’s unique architecture.
Jamie is a member and advocate of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and works to connect their clients to local support and resources. Jamie wants you to know that you belong and you are more than enough!
Austin Presas (she/her) has been working with adolescents, young adults, and families in the field of mental health for close to a decade. She brings a rich history of wilderness therapy and outdoor education to her work at Wonder and has spent the last few years immersed in therapeutic and transition coaching. Austin has extensive experience as an instructor, mentor, guide, coach, and teacher. She knows first-hand the power of relationships to foster growth, connection, and healing.
Known for bringing warmth and clarity to her work with others, Austin seeks to understand the unique needs of each person she works with. This stems from her vast curiosity for human nature, human experience, and the adaptive and resilient ways people overcome life challenges. She strives to show up as a compassionate journey-companion, walking with clients along their own paths toward their own version of thriving, holistic health, and long-term well-being. Her commitment to care is exemplified by the positive relationships she has cultivated throughout her career. Austin is both personable and direct as she builds trust and rapport though her open, non-judgmental, and relational approach. She considers supporting people, on this transformative and reparative path, to be sacred.
Living in Durango, Colorado, Austin spends free time on the countless trails of the Southwest. She loves exploring desert canyons, soaking in hot springs along rivers, and admiring wildflowers in the high country with her therapy dog, Zia. She especially enjoys traveling, hiking, white-water rafting, dancing, making pottery in her backyard studio, and spending intentional quality time with her loved ones. She is also currently attending Prescott College working towards her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
