Meet Our Therapists
"We are committed to waiting as I feel that Dr. Hastings and anyone I have known to work at her practice are simply THE best in my experience and for our family."
AMANI Clinical Services has very high standards for the Doctors and Therapists that treat our patients. Our Therapists are hand-selected by Dr. Hastings. Expertise, passion, the courage to grow professionally, and a balanced approach to blending empirical treatments and creative, humanistic approaches is expected. We believe in treating your problems and symptoms so that change is observable and quantifiable. We delight in working ourselves out of a job if that's what you need, or are thrilled to serve as your primary mental health provider, just like you have a primary care physician for your medical needs.
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Dr. Nikki Massey-Hastings, PsyDDr. Hastings' goal is to help you build a more satisfying life. She is results-oriented and works with clients from many different walks of life, including adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families. Her approach is collaborative, understanding, and caring, as well as evidence-based. She uses an exclusive approach for families: The Harmonizing Your Home Program. Dr. Hastings is particularly well-equipped to assess and treat issues surrounding reproduction and family formation, including: adoption, choosing to start a family/remain child-free, perinatal grief (special needs, still-birth, loss of child), infertility, miscarriage, postpartum concerns, pre-marital counseling, reproductive decisions, transition to parenthood, and twins and multiples.
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Dr. Dawn Kroencke, PhDDr. Kroencke is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 17 years of experience in the field. She has expertise working with teens, adults, seniors, couples, and families. We all have life stories and Dr. Kroencke strives to understand where you have come from so she can help move you in the direction you want to go. Her treatment approach is collaborative and you will work together to set goals—and evaluate progress towards those goals—together. She is dedicated to using evidenced based treatments to treat your particular problems. You are also a person and as such, She will prioritize tailoring your treatment specifically to you. Dr. Kroencke provides all her patients with a blend of Cognitive Behavioral techniques to treat your symptoms and aid your journey towards living a more satisfying life. She will hear your story, help you move through hurt, anger, fear, and uncertainties of life and ultimately for you to leave feeling a strong sense of validation and empowerment over your symptoms and life journey.
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Amanda Owen, MAMs. Owen is passionate about working with children and their families, and often times, in working with child and family issues, there are underlying parts of yourself that are struggling to be flexible and adapt to the ways that you, your child, and your family is changing. She will work with you to identify the symptoms and parts of yourself that may be operating as barriers, be gentle with them—and teach you to be gentle with them—and then challenge you to grow. Ms. Owen will also assess the strengths in you and your relationships and use that a foundation to build upon. There will also be a lot of skills training to address the weak points in child, parent, and family functioning, specifically parental responses to child emotions, behaviors, struggles, and symptoms. She has a wealth of experience working with complicated co-parenting situations (e.g. division, abandonment, divorce, guardianship, foster) and the complexities of families formed in diverse ways. She is passionate about helping families sift through and navigate the intricacies of their family system. She adores working with angsty teens.
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Dr. Corie McNally, PsyD, Post-Doctoral FellowDr. McNally feels we must come face to face with addressing the hard things and process all the difficult emotions we are going through in order to create change and come out of it all in a better place. She finds it very fulfilling to help kids, teens, adults, couples, and families find their way through the challenges of life and symptoms, understand themselves and their relationships better, and more skillfully navigate themselves and their connections. For children and their parents, she specializes in Play Therapy techniques, cognitive behavioral approaches, and Exposure Response Prevention Therapy. She currently works with children and parents on a variety of issues including attachment, identity, depression, anxiety, relationships, trauma, school problems, grief and loss, behavioral issues, aggression, parenting concerns, adoption, and many others. For adults, she has a great deal of training and experience using many therapeutic approaches, with particular specialization in Emotion Focused Therapy to help you transform emotion schemes that you get stuck in that may be contributing to your symptoms. For couples, she utilizes the Gottman Method and helping distressed couples access tenderness in their relationship, identify negative interaction cycles, create more positive interactions, and look at areas of the relationship that are lacking to build the emotional bond, increase feelings of connectedness, improve self worth, and revive intimacy. She also has a very special place in her heart for people who entered their families through adoption (adoptees) and for working with parents who formed their families through adoption.
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Dr. Laura Daniels, PsyDIf your world has been getting smaller and smaller, Dr. Daniels can help. As a specialist in addiction, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders like depression, her job isn't to make your pain go away; it is to help you learn to embrace and accept the inevitable pain in living (without creating more symptoms) to build a more full and meaningful life. Whether you're a teen or adult and would like to be seen individually, or want to work on your relationships or parenting, Dr. Daniels will be with you every step of the way. She wants to help you discover the narrative you’ve developed about who you are and what the world is and make changes to the story you live by—changes that will help you feel better. Dr. Daniels will help you cultivate a road map that guides you towards your values, while also problem-solving barriers and challenges to help equip you for the journey. Each step is meaningful progress if that step leads to learning, openness to new experiences, and connection to people around you.