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Meet the Therapists at PPI

Dick Donnenwirth

Bob Heiliger

Peg Niehaus

Bill Cahalan

Will Jones

Yvonne Peay

Flo DeWitt

Judy Kroger

Lisa Turner

Rosalie Laurenti

 

Peg Niehaus

Peg is a licensed Professional Counselor and has an M.A. in Counseling from Xavier University. She works with individuals, couples, and families on a range of issues, including life transitions, career decisions, premarital preparation, parenting concerns, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Listening deeply to each client’s experience and values, Peg employs a collaborative, strength-based approach to help her clients master life’s challenges, from traumatic events to everyday struggles. She strives to facilitate healing, growth, and personal development while increasing her clients’ understanding and acceptance of themselves.

Those working with Peg will find a secure, respectful environment where they may explore core issues as they work to become their most authentic selves. Believing that personal growth and development are a continuing process, Peg is dedicated to helping individuals through difficult times so they can more fully engage in the richness of life.

 

Yvonne Peay has her Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from the Athenaeum of Ohio, a license in Social Work and is a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling degree at the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. Ms. Peay has over 25 years of experience in counseling with a scope of practice in the area of play therapy (children ages 3 years and older) and alcohol and drug addiction. Areas of Competency are diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders; group, individual and family counseling to achieve personal and family development and adjustment; pastoral counseling; multicultural and multiethnic issues; and domestic violence, rape, women's issues and sexual orientation issues. The age limits are children as young as three (3) years to adult.

Yvonne Peay

Yvonne Peay

 

Lisa Turner

Lisa joined PPI in 2007. She is a graduate of the Athenaeum of Ohio with a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling and is licensed as a Professional Counselor. Lisa also has a Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lisa's approach to counseling is based on the healing power of God, trusting that, as 2 Corinthians 3:17 says, "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

Lisa works with individuals, families, and couples.