Staff

John Creviere, MA, LPC

For over twenty years, John has enjoyed working with individuals, couples and families seeking counseling for a variety of issues, from domestic abuse help to midlife crisis issues in men. Perhaps the highlight of his career has been developing a program designed to facilitate growth in adult children of dysfunctional families. John currently runs men's support groups and anger management workshops at the Men’s Resource Center in Holland. Beyond the enjoyment that working with others brings him, it is always relaxing for John to blow the blues on a sax, 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 workshops, domestic abuse help and batterer intervention, and men’s support groups as well as individual counseling. Charlie has presented seminars on the psychology of men who abuse women, worked with men in therapy, and conducted anger management workshops. He has specialized training in the prevention of domestic violence through counseling 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 co-author of the anger management book, Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: A Guide for Abusive Men and sole author of Restorative Treatment - The Newest Speciality in Counseling. The latter book is 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. He views his work with men as a specialized population. In other words, men grow-up and experience life and relationships differently than women, hence the need for specialized clinical services that specifically embrace men as well as encourage personal growth. Randy creates and designs specialized programs for men in mid-life crisis, men who need domestic abuse help or sex addiction help. He also designs anger management and fathering assistance workshops. Currently, Randy is the principle therapist in providing individual and group psychotherapy for men. Individual and group psychotherapy provides men a safe and therapetuic environment to work on healing and growing with other men.

In addition to his clinical 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, how to prevent bullying bullying at school, domestic violence counseling, sex addiction help, 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.

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

Therapist specializing in:

• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis management in men
• Sexual health, sex addiction help & substance abuse
• Couples therapy and domestic abuse help
• Children and adolescent therapy
• Graduate level certification in Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• Intensive training with Dr. Patrick Carnes in area of sex addiction help
• 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 in both Grand Rapids and Holland, Dan is the principal therapist in the program: Transformations – Toward a Healthy Sexuality. This program helps 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 and men's therapy and support 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 Somatic Therapist, and has practiced in Grand Rapids since 1999.

He offers Transformational Bodywork, a cutting-edge approach to healing that is distinctly different than psychological counseling, yet completely complementary. It’s experiential rather than intellectual, using present-moment awareness of the body as the primary gateway to deeper self-discovery. It’s an unbelievably gentle process, yet powerful by way of its depth of care. By working at the interface of body, mind, and emotion, this work offers healing in many areas, including:

• Emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and low self-esteem
• Somato-emotional issues such as chronic tension, migraines, fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal disorders
• Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
• Behaviors and habitual responses that sabotage relationships and personal fulfillment

This work has brought many men something they didn’t believe possible: the ability to access emotions, express them intelligently, and experience true intimacy.

Ken also offer several modalities of Massage Therapy , including relaxation massage, deep tissue massage, CranioSacral Therapy, and Myofascial Release, to release physical and sometimes emotional restrictions, promote deep relaxation, and enhance the health and well-being of the body and mind. In addition to being a blissful experience, Massage Therapy helps heal and re-educate the body-mind.

Ken received his Massage Therapy training and certification from the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts. He’s received extensive additional training in somatic /experiential healing, including Hakomi Therapy, NonViolent Communication, Focusing, Vipassana meditation, Cornerstone crisis listening skills, CranioSacral Therapy, and Myofascial Release. He has a strong passion for helping people heal and transform their lives. He loves life, and gets immense pleasure out of camping, kayaking, cross-country skiing, music, and film.

Learn more about his work at www.YourBodyTheTeacher.com

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 through anger management workshops and other techniques. 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 aged 17-25 that has proven long-term outcomes.

With the support, encouragement, and strong engagement of his wife of 30 years, Mark 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 support 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, and sex addiction help, 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 men's support groups 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.

Kerry Prior, M.Ed, LLPC

Kerry Prior is a dedicated professional counselor who strives to create a safe and healing environment for individuals and couples, a place where people can realize their full and unique potential. Her specialties include working in the areas of sexual abuse, intimate partnering, sexual addictions, domestic violence, and healing from past trauma. Beyond operating a private practice, Kerry works with the Men’s Resource Center at Fountain Hill.

Kerry is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and currently has a private practice in Grand Rapids. Kerry volunteers at the Women’s Resource Center, is a member of the American Counseling Association, West Michigan Counseling Association, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Kerry enjoys speaking at conferences and reaching out in the community.

Kerry’s work has provided a diverse client population creating opportunities for professional development. Kerry’s work at the Men’s Resource Center focuses on counseling for partners of men as well as couples counseling. Additionally, she offers a specialized support group for partners of sex addicts. Finally, she is a featured co-therapist monthly in Randy Flood’s Men’s Psychotherapy Groups. As a counselor, there is nothing more important to her than treating clients both ethically and with respect. Kerry feels honored and grateful to be in a profession where people share their pain, anger, hopes, dreams, past and futures. She says, “It’s my job to be where clients are, collaboratively deciding with them where they want to go, and how fast they want to get there.”

Kerry shares her life with Denis and a daughter who is their greatest gift. She enjoys spending time with family and friends and looks forward to the changing seasons. She has a love for snow sports, golf, swimming, hiking, biking, and the quiet tranquility of a hammock!