CareNet Counseling East

STAFF

	Frank M Dawkins, PhD, Regional Director Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Greenville & Rocky Mount) Dr. Dawkins is a pastoral counselor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He has served as a counselor at CareNet Counseling East since 2001. He is an ordained minister endorsed by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Dr. Dawkins is a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (MDiv, 1970; MRE, 1973, PhD, 1979), and East Carolina University (MSW, 1992). He served as a pastor, professor of religious education and pastoral care and an administrator and counselor in the public mental health system. He provides counseling for adults and couples. He specializes in work with ministers; counseling with couples; pre-marriage counseling; grief counseling; mood disorders; trauma; consultation for churches and business; personal and professional coaching and spiritual direction.

	David G. Brown, Jr., D. Min. Licensed Professional Counselor (Greenville) Dr. Brown is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and Clinician Practitioner of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is an ordained minister of the Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ). He holds degrees from Lynchburg College, Vanderbilt University, Murray State University, the College of William and Mary, and Lancaster Theological Seminary. He has served churches in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. He was senior Staff Therapist for 21 years at Tidewater Pastoral Counseling Services in Norfolk, Va. While there he offered counseling services to Navy families and troubled youth. He returns to our staff after a brief leave of absence to provide developmentally oriented counseling and psychotherapy to individuals and couples. Dr. Brown has specialized over the years in Working with children, adolescents, and families. He does marriage counseling and deals with issues brought about by depression, trauma, mid-life crises, anxiety, unresolved grief, and life’s quest for wholeness, purpose and direction.

	Yarima Chukwu, MS, MFTA Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (Greenville) Yarima Chukwu is a bilingual (Spanish and English) and a bicultural Marriage and Family Therapist. Ms Chukwu graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelor's in Hispanic Studies and a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. Ms Chukwu has worked with a variety of populations and has had the opportunity to provide services to the Hispanic community. She has worked with Greene County Health Care and provided psychotherapy to English and Spanish speaking individuals with uncontrolled diabetes and their families through a systemic, biopsychosocial-spiritual model. As a medical family therapist at Greene County Health Care, she has provided brief therapy through the integrated medical model. At the ECU Family Therapy Clinic, Ms Chukwu provided systemic psychotherapy for English and Spanish speaking individuals, couples and families. Ms Chukwu also was a domestic violence instructor for the Spouse Abuse Family Education Program (S.A.F.E) for individuals mandated by court. Ms Chukwu works from a holistic and systemic approach and specializes in relational issues. Her approach to therapy is based primarily on the Experiential and Emotionally Focused therapy models but also uses other systemic techniques as well. Ms Chukwu believes in the biopsychosocial-spiritual model and how all these parts play a role in people's lives. She has a deep passion for helping individuals, couples, and families and believes that every human being has the capacity to be all that they desire to be. Ms Chukwu has a special interest in spirituality, trauma, grief, marriage, blended families, anxiety, self-esteem, domestic violence, abuse, and families involved in the ministry. Because of the great Hispanic population in Eastern North Carolina, Ms Chukwu also has a desire to reach and help the currently underserved Hispanic community and hopes to increase the mental health awareness in this population.

	Beverly Knox, MS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Approved LMFT supervisor (Greenville) Beverly Knox has thirty years experience in various clinical settings (psychiatric inpatient and outpatient and community mental health) working with adults and adolescents. Her therapeutic approach is a holistic and faith based approach to psychotherapy that incorporates physiological and family of origin influences. Individual and family resilience is affirmed as a basis to growth and emotional intimacy in relationships. Therapy promotes and encourages the development of skills needed to respond to life changes. She provides counseling services to individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in chronic illness; disability adjustment; loss and grief; aging; traumatic stress following abuse or injury; and marriage and family issues.

	Janie Sowers Taylor, MA, MS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Approved LMFT supervisor (Greenville and Kinston) Janie Sowers Taylor is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an approved clinical supervisor. A graduate of Liberty University (MA, Counseling) and East Carolina University (MS, Marriage and Family Therapy), she is presently engaged in doctoral studies at ECU (Medical Family Therapy). Grounded in systems theory, she addresses issues from a relational systemic perspective through incorporation of a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach, often by means of an experiential "technique." She works with all populations, but specializing in providing couple and family therapy, premarital counseling (trained in PREPARE/ENRICH), family of origin issues, as well as psychotherapy with families experiencing a medical illness, trauma, or disability; she also feels great passion for those involved in ministry and caregiving. She has worked extensively with youth and young adult groups in a variety of settings (churches, camps, residential group homes, university classrooms, and national presentations) and is skilled in collaborative work with larger systems. Janie Sowers Taylor has presented nationally on stress, family of origin issues, grief and loss, as well as innovative therapeutic techniques, and opportunities for therapists in medical education. At present, she is completing research in the area of spirituality and parental coping with loss (of an adult child). Her areas of interest include spirituality, wholeness and balance, forgiveness, cultural competence, stress and caregiving (especially among those in ministry). Janie Sowers Taylor strives to bring healing to that which is broken. She enjoys life, delights in laughter, and seeks to radiate joy wherever she is.

	Ellen Walston, MSW, ACSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Greenville) Ellen Walston is a clinical social worker who provides counseling services to adults, children, individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in grief, caregiver stress, end of life care, geriatrics, critical incident stress debriefing, coping with chronic illnesses, family stressors, stress management, substance abuse, and effective parenting. Ellen is a knowledgeable group facilitator and international presenter. She is also an oncology social worker for the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center at Pitt County Memorial Hospital since 1992. Ellen is an active member of the Association of Oncology Social Workers and Vice-President of the North Carolina Oncology Social Work Group.

	Adrianne Hardy , Office Manager