Dr. JamieLynn Gonzales, DSW, LCSW-S, FSW - Practice Owner

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505.382.1578
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Dr. Gonzales believes in a solution-focused, strength-based model of therapy, in which her clients mindfully discover and use their strengths more effectively. By teaching people new tools and mechanisms for their self-care, she empowers them to find a life worth living.

Specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy, she works with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma. She also enjoys helping adolescents struggling with school performance or attachment disorders, and helping veterans and their families.

Dr. Gonzales implements a holistic vision for BeMeBetter because the practice goes beyond the typical medical treatment model. “Many agencies and clinics lack the mind, spirit, and body connection. BeMeBetter’s collaboration between practitioners, paraprofessionals, and peers offers a whole-person approach that makes an immediate, lasting impact on people and the community,” she says.

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Christin Barden, LCSW-S - Clinical Director

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505.459.0367
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Christin has over 10 years of experience working with the military and their families providing support, advocacy, and transition assistance. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and practices a solution-focused and client centered modality to help her clients address their challenges.

She helps clients with chronic pain and medical conditions, depression and anxiety, alcohol and drug addiction/abuse, and blended family challenges. As a Social Worker, she is dedicated to compassionately supporting adults, children and families to address their specific concerns and achieve their goals by focusing on strengths and the whole person. Christin believes in our name, helping you be you, only better.

Background:
• BA, Criminology/Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSW, New Mexico State University
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor (Board approved)
• U.S. Air Force Veteran

RachelDawn Vega - Operations Manager, Community Health Worker

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505-289-0047
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Over the past decade, Racheldawn Vega has served as a practice manager of a BH agency and gained experience in billing for multiple medical fields. She gained knowledge of the insurance process through her experience at various health insurance companies. Billing claims for long-term care, residential treatment centers, behavioral health outpatient services (including TMS), and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). She also uses her passion for medical billing to stay updated on the ever-changing healthcare guidelines and is an AAPC member. RachelDawn is the Operations Manager at BeMeBetter and provides CCSS services as a community support worker.

Background:
• Medical insurance billing specialist/coding certification, Carrington College
• Behavioral Health Billing Workshops

Christina Chavez, LCSW

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505.340.6743
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Christina combines hospital, legal and clinical experience to help her clients move past addiction and trauma, whether that trauma is physical or emotional. She is also adept at finding and connecting families with resources to help to support and assist them. Always looking for solutions and strength-based methods, she believes that we all have the power to live a healthy, less stressed and rewarding life.

Christina uses talk, art, and journaling as forms of therapy for children, youth, their parents and families. She focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy, working from an approach of reframing negative events into positive, reframed coping mechanisms.

Background:
• BA, Sociology, University of New Mexico
• MSW, Social Work, New Mexico State University
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Kim Montgomery, LCSW

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505-485-6732
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Kim comes to BeMeBetter after a varied career, most recently as a hospice social worker. Previously, she was a behavioral health patient Care Advocate, a research scientist working with homeless adolescents, and a treatment foster care therapist. Her primary goal is to assist clients toward an overall improvement of their quality of life through mental and physical health. Her practice focuses on a multidisciplinary combination of cognitive behavioral and narrative therapies with an intuitive approach to create a welcoming and professional environment. Kim works with clients who need support – whether in personal growth, dealing with trauma or addiction, or when facing or going through life transitions. She has supported adults with generalized anxiety disorder and/or post-traumatic stress disorders, and parents who wish to improve how they parent by gaining insight from their own lives.

Background:
• BA in Psychology and Sociology, University of New Mexico, MSW, New Mexico Highlands University
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities, Center for Development & Disability, University of New Mexico
• Veterans Administration practicum

Paisley Dawson, LMSW

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505.910.8775
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Paisley’s lively personality, sense of humor, and active listening skills appeal to clients, especially the children and adolescents she enjoys helping. She uses her sensitivity and empathy in her work to remember what it was like to be their age.

Whether drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, solutions-focused methodologies, narrative therapy, or her own challenges with anxiety, Paisley focuses on imparting coping skills to clients facing anxiety and trauma. She pulls from many modalities to help clients create a more empowering story to tell themselves.

Background:
• BA, Psychology, University of New Mexico
• Masters of Social Work, New Mexico Highlands University
• Licensed Master Social Worker

BeMeBetter

office: 505.293.2881
fax: 888.506.2110
email: info@bemebetter.com

3736 Eubank Blvd. NE Suite B1
Albuquerque, NM 87111

1740 Grande Blvd. SE; Suites E-1
Rio Rancho, NM 87124