Founder
Aron Strong, lmft
Aron has a passion helping couples and individuals find the intimacy, joy, peace and purpose they long for. He has over 20 years combined experience of pastoral and professional counseling and has significant expertise and experience in emotions, relationships, and other attachment traumas and issues.
An AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Aron has personally trained and supervised every therapist at Pathways Counseling. In addition, Aron supervises and regularly trains therapists and professional counselors to utilize integrated therapeutic approaches through his modality Attuned Systemic Repair, working with complex issues including trauma, personality disorders, and complex family system, as well as integrating faith into therapy.
Aron is the founder of Pathways Counseling. He is also the co-founder of inRelationship, a company that provides talks, trainings, workshops, courses, and other resources the public, therapists and other professional counselors, churches, and corporations on topics of relationships, emotions, empathic engagement, restoring intimacy and connection, faith, and more.
Site Director
Lisbeth Vance, lmft
Lisbeth’s own counseling experience led her to the desire to help others grow and live their healthiest life. Lisbeth is experienced in working with emotional and relational distress and trauma of all kinds. She enjoys working with both couples and individuals and is especially experienced in working with marriages, trauma, and complex family systems.
As a training and education site, Lisbeth oversees Pathway’s Graduate Intern Program and coordinates with universities locally and across the country in selecting the best interns for our program. In addition, she oversees all of the administrative details of the Graduate Intern Program as well many duties for our Murfreesboro location.
Lisbeth is a wife and mom to three boys and a little girl. She loves spending time with her family and watching hockey games together. She looks forward to getting to know each one of her clients and working with them to achieve their goals.
Community Ambassador
Megan Ballou, LMFT
Megan works with older teens and adults with struggles including trauma, eating disorders, life transitions, complex family systems, relational issues, and other general emotional struggles.
Meganʼs goal for every client is to lead them into a fuller and happier life. She works with her clients to work through past and current struggles and build the necessary tools to overcome life’s struggles. In addition to life stage transitions, family issues, and more, Megan is trained and experienced in trauma therapy including EMDR.
Megan is also our Community Ambassador, developing our ever expanding relationships with other therapists and professional counselors, psychiatrists and medication providers, medical professionals, clinics and hospitals, schools and colleges, as well as other local community organizations.
Amy Frazee, LPC-MHSP
Amy completed her bachelor’s degree in biblical counseling and master’s degree in professional counseling while her kids were growing. Amy loves to work with clients of all ages who struggle with grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, and life transitions.
Amy sees clients across the age spectrum from the age of 5 to the elderly. As a play therapist, Amy utilizes her training and experience in Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, and other child appropriate approaches. As a trauma therapist, Amy utilizes EMDR and other valid therapeutic techniques to help clients reclaim safety and security. She integrates attachment, emotion, and interpersonal neurobiological approaches for the best outcomes with every client regardless of age, gender, culture or disability.
Amy loves to travel, crochet, and read true stories of people who have faced insurmountable odds and survived. She fully believes that real life is crazier than fiction.
Hunter Dycus, MMFT
Hunter has a passion for walking with people through difficult struggles with compassion and understanding. He believes that we all are created to need supportive relationships and connection. Without safe and connected relationships, challenges in life feel even more difficult and hard to navigate. Hunter strives to be a model of safe and connected relationships with his clients.
Trained and experienced in working with attachment issues, he works with adolescents, individuals, couples, and families struggling with depression, anxiety, addiction, boundary issues, family relationship issues, and more. With years of experience as a youth minister and in addiction treatment, he brings a wealth of life experience to his skills as a therapist.
Hunter and his wife have a young son and a dog. They love the outdoors, football, and great food.
Jake Glover, MMFT
After more than a decade in professional youth ministry, Jake transitioned to professional counseling. As a therapist, Jake brings his long-standing passion to help others grow to Pathways. Jake’s extensive experience training has prepared him to serve our community by working with individuals, couples, and families.
Trained in attachment science as well as emotion and somatic processing, Jake helps couples and individuals uncover the source of their distress and facilitate new experiences and skills to repair and move forward with security, confidence, and joy. He believes people’s unique experiences and perspectives matter and works with clients to discover the best outcomes for the struggles they face.
Jake and his wife, also a therapist, have two sons. He enjoys sports, puns, and baking cakes.
DeeAnn Bass, MMFT
DeeAnn leads Pathways growth into Mt. Juliet. Her life experiences and passion for helping others led her to change her career focus and become a therapist. She enjoys working with clients of all ages, from adolescence to retirement, including those from diverse cultures and families.
DeeAnn’s focus includes helping clients heal from sexual trauma and family issues. She also enjoys working with clients with challenges in early adulthood, parenting, couple relationships including divorce recovery, and women’s issues.
Dee Ann’s extensive experience prior to becoming a therapist includes over 20 years experience in business ownership and employment in both corporate and non-profits environments. From her personal and professional experience, she enjoys working with clients with professional setting and workplace issues and challenges.
Dee Ann has three children and a dog. She enjoys hiking, baking, traveling, making jewelry and spending time with her children.
Jessica Ricalday, MMFT
Jessica believes everyone should feel connected and supported on their path to healing. Her time working as an advocate for victims/survivors of trauma inspired her to become a therapist.
Jessica is passionate about working with a variety of individuals, particularly children and adolescents who’ve experienced trauma or adversity. She strives to create a safe space where clients can restore a sense of safety through connection. She utilizes an attachment-based approach and incorporates experiential learning such as movement, story, play and expressive arts.
Jessica has twin teenage boys and a cat. She enjoys being active, rock climbing, rollerblading, and being in nature.
Christian Williams, Graduate Intern
Christian is passionate about helping clients become better connected with themselves and others. He believes that when people are healthy and connected, they can find the freedom to live a life of purpose and passion.
Christian works with a variety of ages and backgrounds.He especially enjoys working with people who have experience in church ministry as he also worked in that field prior to pursuing professional counseling.
Christian loves arts and unique ways people express their experience of being human. He believes that the common thread of our human experience gives us the capacity to be with and care for one another.
Christian is currently working on a Master Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Liberty University.
Elshadai Daniel Graduate Intern
Elshadai is passionate about providing a space for individuals and families to unload their burdens and find hope. She desires to lead people to restoration by connecting and equipping them with necessary skills to be successful in their life’s journey. She enjoys mending what has been broken and helping clients pave a path towards healthy relationships.
Elshadai works with a variety of ages and backgrounds. She especially enjoys working with minorities and those who have experienced changing cultures and other cultural issues.
Elshadai has experienced healing and restoration in her own life. Her journey and training allows her to speak life into the lives of people who have experienced despair. She believe health and healing spreads into every area of a person’s life, including the lives of the people they encounter.
Elshadai is currently working towards obtaining a Master's of Marriage and Family Therapy through Lipscomb University.
Johna Green, Intake Coordinator
Johna brings care and compassion to every contact we receive at Pathways. She diligently returns every contact and request we receive at Pathways. She faithfully answers any questions and can describe what kind of experience you can expect with us.
While not a therapist herself, Johna loves connecting people to the best therapist for them. She knows every therapist personally as well as their specific areas of focus. She is always ready to answer your questions to the best of her ability. If she doesn’t know an answer, she will find out and get back to you as soon as possible.
Johna’s own journey of healing and care makes her a perfect fit for her role at Pathways. She enjoys her role in assisting our clients as well attend to her many other pursuits including volunteer work with local nonprofits, serving at her church and enjoying her husband, three children and two dogs.