Staff
John Creveir, MA, LPC, CAC-II
John over the past twenty-some years has enjoyed working with individuals, couples and families seeking counseling for a variety of issues. Perhaps the highlight of his career has been developing a program designed to facilitate growth in Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families. John currently runs Anger Management Groups at the Men’s Resource Center in Holland. Beyond the enjoyment working with others brings John, it is always relaxing for him to blow the blues on a sax or venture out onto the Big Lake for some boating, or slip into the woods or a marsh with camera in hand.
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 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 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.
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 for men as well as designing and writing specialized programs for men who have problems with domestic abuse, sexual addiction, fathering, and anger management.
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 anti-bullying programs 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 a book 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.
Dan DeNooyer, L.L.M.S.W., S.P.A.D.A.
Therapist 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)
Dan is a limited license clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in the human service arena. His graduate level training was done at Western Michigan University. His diverse experience in the field includes working with children, adolescence, adults and older adults in both acute hospital environments and residential settings.
Dan's passion is working with men and their families. At The Men's resource Center, both in Grand Rapids and Holland, Dan is the principal therapist in the program: Transformations – toward a healthy sexuality. This is a program to help men increase insight, accountability, and management of their sexual problems, such as multiple affairs or pornography addiction. The program offers educational workshops, evaluations, psycho-educational as well as therapy groups. It also provides specialized counseling and support to the family members.
Dan’s work also includes performing intake assessments for various programs. He offers counseling for couples, children, adolescents and phone coaching services related to his area of expertise.
Dan is part of a collaborative treatment team with the 58th District Drug and Sobriety court in Holland, Michigan. He facilitates psycho-educational groups in connection with this program and does both individual and couples therapy at the Holland location.
Ken Porter, CMT
Ken Porter is a Certified Massage Therapist, and has practiced in Grand Rapids since 1999. He received his schooling at the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts, where he was trained in:
- Therapeutic massage
- Anatomy and physiology
- Acupressure
- Myofascial release
- Craniosacral therapy
He has also completed training in:
- Shamanic Counseling
- John Barnes Myofascial Release
- Upledger CranioSacral Therapy I & II
- Cornerstone crisis counseling
Prior to his practice in massage therapy, Ken worked as a paraprofessional in the mental health field. This included work as a mental health worker, a substance abuse counselor, and a volunteer crisis hotline listener. He has an associate’s degree in psychology. Ken lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When he’s not working, Ken enjoys camping, backpacking, Ultimate Frisbee, rollerblading, and art films.
Mark E. Westrate, CSW, ACSW, BCD, S.P.A.D.A.
Mark’s mission and passion is to provide therapeutic counseling to children, teens, young adults, and their families. Mark combines the spiritual with sound clinical skills that he has sharpened over 20 years of working intensively with at-risk youths and their families.
Mark’s counseling expertise is with issues related to Parenting, Attention-Deficient Disorder (ADD), and Substance Abuse. Mark has developed and written Nurturing Dads, a program providing education and training for men, partnering with their wives, to be more effective fathers. Mark has first hand knowledge of ADD and has provided services to many at-risk youths coping with ADD. Mark also developed and wrote First Steps: Choices, a substance abuse education and treatment program for persons ages 17-25 that has proven long-term outcomes.
Mark, with the support, encouragement, and strong engagement of his wife of 30 years, has three children who are emerging adults working hard at and successfully completing the multitude of tasks that young adults face spiritually, relationally, and vocationally. As with all parents, their children are a source of pride, concern, and focus of prayer each day.
Mark can be a help to you, your marriage, and your family as you strive to fulfill your mission as parents. Call or e-mail him right now to set a time to discuss how he can help
you with the growth and healing you desire as a family.
Al Heystek, M Div, LPC
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, substance problems, anger management, sexual addictions, as well as 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 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.
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. Through Fountain Hill Center, she offers Neurofeedback (a therapy effective in eliminating symptoms and optimizing brain function), individual and couple’s therapy, group therapy, and Parenting Coordination services.