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

Jodi Alderson is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years of experience who bridges traditional healthcare with holistic wellness. As a Certified Sound Practitioner, Reiki Master, and Bach Flower Essence Practitioner, she offers sound baths, Reiki, and energy work to create personalized, restorative experiences that complement traditional medicine.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Energy Healer

Lynn is a Certified Holistic Life Coach and Energy Healer who combines coaching, spiritual wisdom, and energy healing to help clients reconnect with their authentic selves. Utilizing the Enneagram, shadow work, and shamanic modalities, she offers 1:1 sessions and transformative classes to support deep, lasting personal growth.

Integrative Pastoral Counselor, Individuals and Couples
Energy Healer

Using an experiential, question-based approach, Susan helps clients explore formative beliefs, build genuine self-esteem, and align with their authentic self. Drawing from 15+ years in teaching and intentional community living, she offers practical life skills—covering boundaries, communication, self-care, and aging—to help navigate life's challenges with curiosity and courage.

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

A corporate veteran turned energy practitioner, Kim uses Intuitive Guidance to help clients break free from people-pleasing and overachieving. Drawing from her own self-healing journey, she taps into her clair senses to uncover personal power, provide clarity on obstacles, and reconnect clients to their mind, body, and spirit.

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

Samantha offers compassionate, tailored coaching for individuals and couples, drawing on Enneagram, recovery, energy healing, and life transitions. Focusing on intimacy, grief, and LGBTQIA+ support, she uses practical tools and thought-provoking questions to help clients break limiting beliefs, improve communication, and cultivate deep self-awareness for thriving relationships.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Energy Healer, Akashic Soul Reader

Combining over a decade of energy work with shamanic methods, psychic surgery, and life coaching, Dorothy helps clients heal past trauma and release limiting beliefs. She guides individuals to align with their true divine selves, stepping into innate wholeness to cultivate lasting clarity, confidence, purpose, and inner peace.

Integrative Pastoral Counselor, Couples & Individuals
Energy Healer, Dream Guide

Enriched by over a decade of experience, she helps clients connect with the sacred within using Auric and Kabbalistic healing, nonviolent communication, and dream integration. She guides individuals through religious distress, grief, and core beliefs, providing a safe, compassionate space to overcome shadow behaviors and cultivate deep self-trust.

Life and Wellness Coach

Bringing years of teaching and coaching experience, Maureen offers a practical, intuitive approach to help clients overcome obstacles in health, weight, relationships, and life transitions. She provides actionable tools for thought management, emotional clarity, and mindset shifts, supporting individuals in taking meaningful steps to transform their lives.

Certified Holistic Life Coach, Tarot Reader, Energy Healer

Marshall uses tarot, energy work, and intuitive guidance to help clients uncover the psychological and spiritual roots of everyday issues. Grounded in psychology and compassion, her readings offer guided meditation, symbol exploration, and space for processing, empowering individuals to release limiting beliefs and align with their truest selves.

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

Drawing from her own journey of healing physical and emotional distress, Sarah creates a nurturing, integrative space for self-discovery. Tailoring sessions through guided meditation, breathwork, and somatic awareness, she helps clients regulate their nervous systems, move through anxiety, and reconnect with their innate wholeness, purpose, and inner truth.