Meet Our Team | Rise Counseling & Wellness

Meet the Clinicians

Ashley L Moniz, LMHC

Ashley is a Mental Health Counselor serving adults, parents, families, and children,

helping them grow and feel inspired to be their best selves. She has worked with a

variety of different clients for over 15 years. She is passionate about her work with women, empowering them through various phases of life and assisting with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Because of Ashley's work in child welfare, foster care & adoption, she also specializes in trauma-related struggles and working with parents and families on issues related to behavior management, managing change within a family, and positive parenting. While each session and client is individualized, Ashley utilizes Cognitive-Behavioral interventions, as well as Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused, and Inner Child work.

Ashley oversees the clinical work at RISE and hopes to form a community of clinicians and stewards that will honor each and every person that comes to RISE for support, counseling, and healing.

Ashley accepts insurances and Private Pay/Sliding Scale

Rhonda Holmes, LMHC

Rhonda works with adults, children, adolescents, couples and families to address various issues including attachment disorders, trauma based behavior, and mood disorders to strengthen communication and implement strategies for lasting change. Rhonda brings years of experience with children and families and is passionate about healing trauma. She has a calming strength that she brings into all her sessions that allows clients to feel supported and ready for healing.

Rhonda accepts most insurances and private pay/sliding scale

Kelly Perron, LMHC

Kelly enjoys working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She uses the evidence-based therapeutic approach that best meets your needs, so that you can begin to experience more peace in your life. Together, she works with you to learn how to stop unwanted behavior & patterns, address thoughts or emotions that can be hard for you to cope with, communicate more successfully and set healthy boundaries. She works to increase enjoyment in life and to heal from the past. Her focus is to make therapy a warm, personalized, and safe place to explore and grow in a meaningful way.

Kelly is a licensed mental health provider in Rhode Island (LMHC), Connecticut (LPC), and South Carolina (LPC). I am also certified as an Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor. I have been working in Behavioral Health since 2002 and truly loves what she does each day.

Kelly incorporates Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, Motivational Interviewing, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model, Emotional Regulation Techniques, Mindfulness and Psychoeducation into her practice.

Kelly holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor of Science in Art Education, both from Rhode Island College. She enjoys spending time with her dogs and continuing to develop her green thumb in the garden.

Kelly accepts most insurances and private pay/sliding scale

Alainna Chabot, LICSW

Alainna is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker providing client-centered care for adults, children, families and couples. Alainna's practice is best described by Isaiah 57:14 which says "Build up, build up, prepare the way! Take up the stumbling block out of the way of My people".

Alainna is passionate about coming along side those who are struggling with any kind of stumbling block, whether it be anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, addiction, etc. to see them restored, transformed, healed and delivered by the saving power of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ proclaimed in Luke 4:18 that He was sent "to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed" and "it is by His wounds we are healed and made whole" (Isaiah 53:5). Alainna's prayer is that through the process of therapy and counseling each individual will receive revelation that leads to transformation and freedom.

Alainna accepts most insurances and private pay/sliding scale

Linda Alvarez, LICSW

Linda received her Master's of Social Work from Boston College in 2017. She is a skilled Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with experience in various mental health settings including: community health, private practice, residential treatment, home based services, child protection, and hospital sectors. She is experienced working with all ages, various diagnoses, and stages of life and care.

Linda enjoys working with all individuals at all phases of life. She encourages clients to search inwardly to continue to empower and strengthen the intrinsic strength they have within them, while supporting them through their journey. She cares to empower all people, especially underrepresented, marginalized peoples and populations, and people working through Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Grief, Attachment issues, Parent management, DCF involvement and ADD/ADHD symptoms.

Linda works to place the client at the center and works with the client to identify the best modality of treatment. Linda is level 2 trained in AF EMDR (Attachment Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) by the Parnell Institute. AF EMDR is a modality utilized to manage and process Anxiety, Phobias, and Trauma.

Linda accepts most insurances and private pay/sliding scale

Joy Ericksen, LMHC

Joy is Licensed Mental Health Clinician and Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) certified with over eight years of practice within a community behavioral health center. She worked in various settings including homes, schools, hospitals, and outpatient agencies and worked with a wide range of ages living with ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders, parenting, psychosis, substance use, and trauma. She provides a supportive, safe, non-judgmental, and warm environment; in which you learn skills how to navigate through stressors in life. She collaborates with you in identifying your goals, tailor service to your specific needs, and what you and she decide will be the best treatment for you. Her approach is strength based, person centered, foundational principles of faith, and ready to walk alongside of you. And she

most often offers Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Solution Focused Brief Therapy.

Psalm 34: 4, 8

“I sought the LORD, and he heard me; and delivered me from all my fears. O taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.”

Joy accepts most insurances and private pay/sliding scale.

Karen Meiring, MS

Karen has a Master's degree in Marriage and Family therapy and works with adults of all ages. Karen utilizes a client-centered approach and strives to meet her clients right where they're at and help them to get where they're going. She is passionate about seeing lives restored. Karen is familiar with a variety of approaches to recovery from addictions, whether it be a behavioral addiction and/or substance abuse. She is also passionate about seeing individuals recover from codependency, trauma, divorce, grief, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and a myriad of other psychiatric conditions. She has worked in a variety of settings and brings her experience of mental health and substance abuse counseling to the RISE team.

Karen works under the supervision of a licensed practitioner and accepts private pay and some insurances.

We are hiring!

Would you like to join our team? We are hiring contracted, fee-for-service, clinicians with the opportunity for part-time or full-time hours. Prefer evenings and weekend availability.

What to expect:

Access to RISE referral management
Flexible caseload of clients - you will be able to make your own hours and have access to an established stream of client referrals based on your preferences and strengths
Multiple office locations to see clients in-person or remotely
Support staff who will work with you to give the resources and attention needed to provide yourself and your clients the care needed for mental health and wellness.
Supervision and team meetings designed to support each individual provider
A Christian team and setting, including team meetings, shared trainings and prayer
Electronic Health Records that provides a central place for scheduling case planning and notes
On-call coverage through RISE
Christian resources as part of a continuum of care model provided at His Providence Church

Please send your resume to ashley.moniz.lmhc@gmail.com