A Sober Way Home's Professional Treatment Staff
Executive Team
Pete Stewart, Executive Director
Pete is a Sober Way Home success story. After graduating from the program Mr. Stewart joined the Sober Way team. Staying committed and engaged with his personal recovery he worked his way from the bottom up. In the five years that Pete has been on staff with A Sober Way home he has held almost every position available, from Residential Coordinator to Program Director, Operations Director, Family Liaison and finally Executive Director.
Pete is responsible to oversee all development and operation of all aspects of treatment at the facility. Alongside the Medical and Clinical Directors, Mr. Stewart has participated in the development and implementation of various modalities and specialty tracks designed to enrich the treatment episode. In keeping with the holistic and comprehensive vision of A Sober Way home Pete is committed to remaining teachable and growing and shifting the program to accommodate new thinking, ensuring that we provide the most effective environment for those struggling from both life controlling addiction and co-occurring disorders.
Attention to detail, strong leadership skills and a genuine and passionate ability to effectively communicate his experience, strength and hope have earned the respect and loyalty of the community and staff. It is Pete’s mission to nurture a supportive and professional team in leaving “no stone unturned” in their collective efforts to combat the behaviors and underlying issues that stand between individuals seeking care and lasting victory and restoration through recovery.
Jody Pegram, Executive Vice President
Jody entered into the recovery field in the late nineties. Beginning with Stebanger homes in Palm Beach, FL, he was integral in the development of C.A.R.E. in southern Florida and appointed associate director/founder in 1999. His insight and creative ability have also earned him position in a broad range of capacities in the Behavioral Health field: Consultant/Therapist, Director, Executive Director of Addiction Management, and responsible for developing and instituting extended care planning at notable treatment centers around the country.
At A Sober Way Home, he brings his considerable experience along with an authenticity and uncanny ability to express his passion for recovery to our staff and clients. His creative and precedent setting approach have made him a sought after member of the national recovery community. Mr. Pegram is a welcome addition and we feel blessed to have him on board.
Mari Connor – Assistant Director/Family Liaison
Mari is another A Sober Way Home success story. After leaving a very successful but unfulfilling career in national media sales, Mari moved to Prescott, AZ and completed our program in 2009. While a client at ASWH, Mari tapped into her innate desire to “give back” to the recovery community.
In 2010, she joined A Sober Way Home’s team, first as a Women’s Residential Manager, then as Family Liaison, and most recently as our Assistant to the Executive Team. Mari brings both her unique story of recovery and an impressive skill set with her to A Sober Way Home. Mari has the personal experience, communication skills and the “follow-through” necessary to act as A Sober Way Home’s liaison to our clients’ families. She also has knack for organizing and streamlining business systems that make her an invaluable part of our day-to-day business, as well as the dedication and tremendous work ethic needed to fill the Assistant Director’s shoes.
Medical Team
Rob Ashby, MS, MD - Specialist in Pain Management
Medical Director
Dr. Rob Ashby is certified by the American Board of Addiction
Medicine, the American Board of Pain Management and the American Board of Anesthesiology. He attended medical school at the University of Arizona where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and recipient of the Upjohn Achievement Award. He did his training at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center and the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals.
He does outpatient addiction medicine and pain management in his office in his private practice in Scottsdale and has worked at detoxification centers. His specialty is medication assisted treatment of addiction and managing pain in patients with drug or alcohol problems. In addition to his medical training, he has worked in a residential treatment program for adults abused as children and taught at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts.
Terry Vaughan, MD - Psychiatrist
Dr. Terry Vaughan was most recently the Medical Director of West Yavapai Guidance Clinic and has practiced in Prescott for 11 years. She Was one of 41 Psychiatrist nationally awarded the 2009 “Exemplary Psychiatrist” award by NAMI (the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) She works with patients suffering from mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance dependence, developmental disabilities and psychotic disorders. She is board certified in Psychiatry and works with adults and adolescents 13 and up. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Ray Lemberg - Psychological Testing Consultant
Dr. Ray Lemberg has 33 years of experience as a clinical psychologist treating children, adolescents, adults and families. He graduated from the University of Maryland and completed internship at Springfield Hospital, Sheppard Enoch Pratt Hospital, John’s Hopkins, and JFK Pediatric Hospital. As a consultant to A Sober Way Home, Dr. Lemberg provides psychological testing and assessment to assist in diagnosis and treatment planning.
Michael W. Carlton, MD - Consulting Addictionologist
As the CEO and Founder of Phoenix Recovery, Dr. Carlton has admitting privileges at all the major Phoenix-based hospitals and can provide detox services when needed. As a physician certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Dr. Carlton has the knowledge to diagnose and treat specific problems and to medically manage addictive disorders.
As Medical Director of several Phoenix area treatment centers, he has medically managed over 25,000 individuals withdrawing from drugs and alcohol. Dr. Carlton completed his four-year dual residency training in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and two years of a specialty fellowship in Medical and Industrial Toxicology. He has over a decade of experience in the treatment of addiction. He has given educational lectures and seminars throughout the Southwest. Dr. Carlton has published numerous articles and has extensive knowledge in the fields of Addiction, Toxicology, and Medicine.
Dr. Robert Upchurch
Licensed Naturopathic Physician. He graduated in 1986 from John Bastyr University with a degree in Naturopathic Medicine and has practiced in Arizona for the past 16 years. He has a general practice but specializes in using natural hormones.
Sally Kinsley - Medical Assistant
Sally has been the head med tech/assistant to the physicians at A Sober Way Home since 2006, and worked in the Behavioral Health field since 2004. She is in charge of all medications, as well as caring for clients when they are not physically at 100%. She looks after the clients more as extended family members than merely as patients at a clinic. Her compassionate bedside manner, combined with her “tell it like it is” style has earned her the title of “Everyone’s Mom” (including the staff in many cases). She’ll tell you her daily motivation at A Sober Way Home is the extreme transformations she has had the pleasure of witnessing in the clients she has gotten to know in our care.
Clinical Team
Dale Ryder, LCSW – Clinical Director
Dale Ryder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners in Arizona. She has been working in the field of Criminal Justice and addictions for the past 20 years. Her journey in working with families, and those who struggle with self defeating patterns, has opened up an avenue for long term change when they can identify unmet needs and ways to confront self limiting behaviors.
Recovery is not only an individual goal, but a family goal and a community goal. Many aspects of the person's life are affected by substance dependence and abuse. Dale utilizes a systems based approach to therapy, looking at all aspects of the client’s world. Dale's unique skill set includes a strong work and leadership ethic.
Greg Struve, LAC – Clinical Supervisor
As clinical supervisor, Gregory Struve brings a wealth of personal and professional experience with addiction to the A Sober Way Home clinical team. He has served as a professor in the Counseling and Addiction Studies department at Grand Canyon University as well as an adjunct instructor in the Chemical Health and Dependency program at Rio Salado Community College.
His clinical training took place at one of the world’s renowned centers for treatment of trauma and sex addiction in Wickenburg, AZ.
"I am consistently humbled by the quality and caliber of the people I'm able to work with at A Sober Way Home. We're able to offer one of the best programs for clinical treatment of addiction in the world because the right staff are here for the right reasons. It's really refreshing!" –Greg Struve
Lori Kidd, M.S.
Primary Therapist
Lori received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the
University of California, Santa Cruz and her Masters of Science in Professional Counseling from Grand Canyon University. Lori is also a certified mental health professional with the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) and facilitates the equine therapy program at A Sober Way Home. Lori incorporates a high degree of compassion combined with cognitive behavioral strategies to help bring awareness and help to shift the patterns which have led to and maintained the addiction(s) within clients.
Lori also integrates experiential processes into her therapeutic approach.
Rob Heinrich, LPC
Primary Therapist
Rob Heinrich is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings nearly 20 years worth of various experiences in the counseling field to A Sober Way Home. He graduated from Denver Seminary in 1992 and worked six years as an outpatient therapist in western Nebraska. He moved to Arizona in 1998 to specialize in eating disorders at a nationally-renowned inpatient program. While there, he also had an opportunity to serve as the Chaplain. He found great benefit in integrating faith into his work while helping people find their way. In addition to his work at ASWH, Rob continues doing outpatient counseling in the Phoenix area where he incorporates equine assisted therapy. Rob considers himself to have an eclectic style, but incorporates the theoretical perspectives of Cognitive Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Person Centered approaches. He puts a high priority on the relational aspects of therapy and brings a calming and stabilizing presence into his encounters. His philosophy of counseling is: A relationship intended to help free the person to be who they really are as opposed to trying to change the person into being someone they are not.
Rob’s passions include God, his family, reading, horses, the Huskers, Cardinals, D-Backs, and skiing.
Jim Thomas, LISAC
Primary Therapist/ED Group Leader
Eating Disorder Group facilitator Jim Thomas, LISAC, has over 15 years experience as a licensed counselor and 8 years as a primary therapist at one of the country’s top rated eating disorder treatment centers in Wickenburg, AZ. His compassionate demeanor sets the perfect stage for clients to first get honest with their disease, and helps them to become willing to apply time-tested tools to help curb their eating/restricting behaviors. He is also a part of a duo that leads a weekly Emotion Management group, which allows clients “to vent” about issues they have going on in their live, and teaches them tools to slow their thinking down, practice impulse control and find to ways to deal with extreme emotions when they come up.
Laura Hartnell - Primary Therapist
Tim Parker, BSBA, SPIRITUAL CLINICIAN
Tim has a personal passion for the addiction and recovery field. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Phoenix, and went on to a successful career in management. His own triumph over addiction led him into the treatment field and allows him to provide empathy, support, and compassion for his clients. Tim has continued his education and is presently working towards his Masters Degrees in Professional Counseling and Addiction from Grand Canyon University. Tim facilitates the Spiritual Group as well as Celebrate Recovery (CR), a Christ based 12-step program for A Sober Way Home. In addition to his work at A Sober Way Home, Tim co-leads Celebrate Recovery (CR) in Maricopa County working with men in all stages of addiction.
Tim is the Author of “How to resolve interpersonally conflicts within the work place” and is a personal trainer and third degree black belt in Tae kwon-do Karate. Tim has a healthy love for Spiritual, Mental and Physical Fitness and can be found in the gym, study, or with his children. Tim’s belief is that recovery is a life changing process that involves every aspect of an individual’s life. His goal is to inspire his clients to be authentic, transparent, and vulnerable.
Group Leaders
Victoria Abel-Nutrition Group
Victoria Abel is a Master’s level psychotherapist and clinical nutrition therapist. With 15 years experience in addiction, she has worked at world renowned dual diagnosis treatment centers and eating disorder in-patient units. In 2009, she changed careers to holistic nutrition therapy. Victoria brings her knowledge of both the addiction recovery model and specific nutritional needs for our client’s healing and long term health
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Jennifer Sobel – Core Strength and Aerobic Yoga Leader
Jennifer has been a practitioner of yoga for over a decade. Enjoying many different types of practice her focus lies within various forms of Vinyasa Flow. She received her 200hr RYT training studying Ashtanga Yoga with Dave & Cheryl Oliver in Scottsdale AZ.
Her experience with addiction & recovery has enabled her to create a bridge between her two passions; yoga & sobriety. Having suffered a back injury in 2007 her practice has become a spiritual journey towards a more humble place within herself. “I don’t have to satisfy my ego anymore by pushing my bodily limits. Instead I work to lose my ego thru my breath & the practice of what yoga is to me…a calming of my outward senses & a closer look inside”. Jennifer moved from Phoenix & now resides in Prescott, AZ, a place she says is “truest to my nature”.
Jenny Colclasure - Massage Therapist
Jenny has been doing massage since 2001. She has done massage therapy for a sober way home since 2002.
Jenny is also a Hairstylist, and salon owner. She has been working with people in recovery for the past 12 years. Jenny feels it is such a blessing to have the opportunity to work in this field. She has been around recovery for 23 years. Watching people heal is a beautiful phenomenon, and Jenny feels it is truly rewarding for her to be a part of a team that makes healing possible.
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Carlos Aguilera Morning Reflections Group Leader |
Anne Balowski Emotion Management Group |
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Roy Thomas Big Book/Step Work Leader |
Administrative Staff
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Nick Herb CPA |
Sharon Kleintop Bookkeeper/Client Accounts |
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Gigi Zawicki Receptionist |
Residential Staff
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Brian McEnroe Client Liaison |
Jamie Griffin Women's Residential Coordinator |
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Dennis Trammel Men's Residential Coordinator |
Cece Lynn Women’s Residential Manager |
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| Eric Radcliffe Men’s Residential House Manager |
Erik Ish Men’s Residential Coordinator |
