Coaching Staff

Charlie Donaldson, MA, LLP, LPC, CAC-II

Charlie Donaldson is a therapist and director of the Men's Resource Center in Holland MI. He has specialized in working with men since 1993, and he offers relationship help for men in anger management, batterer intervention, and men’s therapy groups as well as individual counseling. Charlie has presented seminars on the psychology of men who abuse women, working with men in therapy, and anger management. He has specialized training in the prevention of domestic violence as well as the dynamics of treatment partnerships with Drug and Sobriety Courts.

Charlie has served on the Executive Board of the Lakeshore Alliance Against Domestic Violence and as voting representative on the Coalition Council of the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan. He is presently working on two anger management books: Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: A Guide for Abusive Men and Theracop: Building a Successful Private Practice with Court-Referred Clients, a manual for therapists who want to join the revolution of therapeutic jurisprudence often referred to as Drug Court. Charlie is currently developing a retreat center on Beaver Island, a small island in the northern waters of Lake Michigan.

Charlie has two Master's Degrees: Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University and English from Wayne State University. He is the proud Grandfather of Sasha Donaldson, born in November, 2004.

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Randy Flood, MA, LLP

Randy the founder and director of the Men's Resource Center at Fountain Hill in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has specialized in working with men since 1992. Randy provides individual and group psychotherapy relationship help for men and designs and writes specialized programs for men who need domestic abuse help, sex addiction help, fathering assistance, help for a pornography addiction, and anger management tools.

In addition to his work at the Men's Resource Center, Randy offers consultation services, staff training, and workshops for schools, churches, and counseling agencies on issues related to working with men and boys, such as how to prevent bullying in schools, domestic violence, sexual addiction, raising boys to be men, and working with men in counseling. Randy also conducts men's retreats related to fathering, men's development and identity, and relationships.

Randy's commitment to encouraging a safe and healthy society is evident in his record of local and statewide service:

Past president, Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan
Member, Kent County Domestic Violence Coordinating Community Response Team
Past appointee, Michigan's State Court Administrator's Office Work Group on Training Requirements on Domestic Violence for Mediators
Past member, Subcommittee of the Governor's Task Force on Child Welfare and Domestic Violence
Past member, Child and Family Resource Council

Randy writes articles for web sites, newspapers, and magazines and is frequently interviewed by local and state news agencies on issues related to men and raising boys. He is a co-author of one of the field's leading anger management books, published by Hazelden with Charlie Donaldson and Elaine Eldridge called Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: A Guide for Abusive Men.

He graduated from Calvin College with a B.A. in Psychology (1987) and earned an M.A. from the Counseling Psychology Program at Western Michigan University (1992). After graduation, he worked for two years at the Domestic Violence Program for Men in Kalamazoo, Michigan, before leaving to develop the Men's Program at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services. Randy founded the Men's Resource Center at Fountain Hill in 2000.

Randy is personally active in men's work by participating in retreats and a local men's group. He lives in East Grand Rapids with his wife Stephanie and their children, Zachary and Anna. Randy enjoys travel, photography, and biking. He is a percussionist both in an orchestra and a four-piece band.

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Deborah Jandle, L.M.S.W.

Deborah has been working with families and individuals for over 12 years. She holds a Master's degree in Social Work from Western Michigan University and is licensed with the State of Michigan as a Social Worker. In addition to coaching, Deborah has been in private practice since 2002, and is the founder of Holistic Counseling Services (www.deborahjandle.com). Deborah specializes in working with people involved in damaging relationships, and working with people who struggle to make decisions regarding their sex lives that are congruent with their values. You do not need to suffer in an unhappy relationship or with sexual behaviors that do not fit who you really are. Take control of your life by asking for help.

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Al Heystek, M Div, LPC, CAC-I

Al is an ordained clergy person, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Addictions Counselor who has worked with men's groups for ten years, specializing in addiction, recovery and 12-step spirituality. For six years he was a therapist at Chester Ray Center, a men’s residential treatment facility in Holland, Michigan. Prior to that Al worked two years for Gateway Foundation, an Outpatient Addiction and Recovery center in Chicago. Before that, he was on staff at Church of the Good News, a multicultural urban ministry in Chicago.

Since January of 2002 Al has been a staff therapist with the Men's Resource Center at Fountain Hill. Al has training and experience in the treatment of domestic abuse and providing help for substance problems, pornography addiction, anger management, and sex addiction. He also offers help in other areas including personal growth, relationships, intimacy, fathering and spirituality issues. While at Fountain Hill, Al has also worked with Heartside Ministry (an Urban Ministry in downtown Grand Rapids) to lead a support group providing relationship help for men in the Heartside Community.

Al's passion for working with men on their journeys of healing and growth is very much connected to his own personal growth. Al has been a part of the Mankind Project, which is a men’s network of interdependent centers with members' internationality. The goal of the Mankind Project is to enable men to live lives of integrity, accountability and connection to feeling. Al has participated in their workshops and is active in a men’s group himself. This work has deep parallels with the mission of the Men's Resource Center. Al lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Kathy, and two children, Mark and Bryan. When not working, Al enjoys biking, running, cross-country skiing and playing guitar.

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Dan DeNooyer, L.L.M.S.W., S.P.A.D.A.

Men's Resource Center, staff therapist
Principle therapist for the program Transformations – toward a healthy sexuality.
Individual, Group and Marital Therapy
Specializing in:
- Men's issues
- Sexual health & substance abuse
- Couples therapy
- Children and adolescent therapy
Graduate level certification in Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Intensive training with Dr. Patrick Carnes in area of sexual addiction
Member of The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH)

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Jennifer Bazner, MA, LLPC

Jennifer is a Limited Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working with individuals and families in crisis since 2000. She specializes in critical familial issues such as domestic violence, infidelity, foster care, substance and child abuse, parenting and marital issues. Jennifer is currently on the professional staff at both The Men's Resource Center, and The Fountain Hill Center for Counseling and Consultation. In her work at the Men’s Resource Center, Jennifer co-facilitates Domestic Relationships Groups, performs intake assessments for various programs, and offers individual counseling and phone coaching services.

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