Dr. Erin Gustin, MA, PsyD, LP

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Owner of Pau Hana Counseling, LLC

Dr. Erin Gustin, MA, PsyD, LP is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her Master's degree and Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is the Clinical Director of Pau Hana Counseling, LLC. Dr. Gustin moved to Hawai'i Island in 2014 and quickly became aware of the crucial need for mental health services and clinicians on the island, and thus founded Pau Hana Counseling, LLC in 2015. She became passionate about improving the accessibility of mental health services for the residents of Hawai'i and began expanding services available through Pau Hana Counseling, LLC. Dr. Gustin has chosen to not currently take on new therapy clients so that she can focus on supervising the other clinicians in the practice and continue to help as many Hawai'i residents as possible. She also recently began working on her Certificate in Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii-Hilo.

Dr. Gustin specialized in Child, Adolescent, and Family Therapy with an emphasis on chemical dependency and addiction in her graduate training and early clinical years. She has worked in group home settings with adults with severe mental illness, community based and in-home settings with children and adolescents, a crisis stabilization center for children, state facilities with court ordered clients, and a college counseling center for young adults and adults with college transitional issues. After receiving her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Gustin began working at the Hazelden Foundation with teenagers, young adults, and adults with addiction, chemical abuse and dependency, and co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis. While at Hazelden, she worked with clients with depression, anxiety, personality disorders, ADHD, PTSD, eating disorders, process and behavioral addictions, gambling addictions, sexual addictions, chronic pain, trauma, abuse and neglect issues, grief and loss issues, and self-harm issues. After opening Pau Hana Counseling, LLC on Hawai'i Island, Dr. Gustin became interested in treating trauma and became trained in EMDR therapy. She has a passion for working with couples and is trained in several methods of couples counseling. She is currently active in the Big Island Sand Play community and has specialized training in art therapy, sand tray therapy, and play therapy. 

Hannah Hancock, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Clinical Director of Pau Hana Counseling, LLC

Hannah Hancock, MSW, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who received her Master’s degree from Walla Walla University. She became the Assistant Clinical Director at Pau Hana Counseling, LLC in 2021 and was promoted to Clinical Director in 2023. Hannah began working in the mental health field at a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility in Billings, Montana. Hannah continued to work at the treatment facility while completing graduate school and working full-time in school-based mental health as a Behavior Specialist. Upon graduation, Hannah moved to Asheville, North Carolina to work as a full-time in-home therapist, providing the highest level of community-based care available. After serving as a therapist and supervisor, Hannah moved to the Hilo area on the Big Island to work for Pau Hana Counseling, LLC and continue serving adult individuals as they pursue healing, growth, and change in their lives.

Hannah utilizes a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach that focuses on the whole person and the environment in which they live. Hannah most frequently uses approaches from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. She looks forward to working collaboratively with you towards your goals.

Syntha Lorenz, MA, LMFT, REAT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Registered Expressive Art Therapist

Assistant Clinical Director of Pau Hana Counseling, LLC

Syntha Lorenz, MA, LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. She began working with Pau Hana Counseling in 2021 and was promoted to Assistant Clinical Director in 2023. She is Jungian-oriented and considers herself a Feminist psychotherapist with an Object-Relations base. She believes in the power of therapy and its ability to heal wounds. She has established herself professionally in the psychotherapy world for over 15 years. She has been a devout student of Spirit her entire life. She also holds a ministry credential and lives in sacred space and ritual. She loves to co-create sacred space and ritual for others for all sorts of life transitions. She has worked with non-traditional healers for over 25 years using alternative healing techniques such as shamanistic journey, dreams, ritual, body awareness, guided imagery, art, authentic movement, and healing touch. She is aware that cultural misappropriation of terms is a further insult to Native cultures, therefore she uses the term Shaman with a great deal of respect and consideration.

Syntha has experience and training in both worlds, traditional and non-traditional, and has dived deep into the psyche to explore buried material. She believes in the importance of a therapist first doing their own work, and holds the belief that she can accompany people only to the depths that she's been to in her own process of healing. She greatly values the work she's done in her own healing and seeks to transmit this healing to others

Damien Young, MA, LMFT, CCTP

Licensed Marriage And Family Therapist

Certified Clinical Trauma Professional

Program Director of Pau Hana Counseling, LLC

Damien Young, MA, LMFT, CCTP brings with him years of diverse clinical experience and a deep passion for healing work. Damien began working with Pau Hana Counseling in 2022 and was promoted to Program Director in 2023. His personal path that called him into the field was at the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and a close relationship with the natural world. Damien is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and specializes in the treatment of trauma via experiential therapies such as EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapies, family systems, attachment theory, addiction and codependency, transpersonal psychology, and nature-based therapy. As a clinical supervisor, Damien is passionate about providing support and guidance with an emphasis on empowering clinicians to reach their greatest potential via their own unique path forged from their strengths, their personality, and what inspires them.

Dr. Jennifer De Costa, PhD, MFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Dr. Jennifer De Costa is a licensed marriage and family therapist who received a Master’s degree in Psychology from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. She received a second Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Counseling, Family and Human Service specializing in Individual, Marriage and Family therapy from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. Her training included an internship at UO, Center for Family Therapy. She completed her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Family Intervention from Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. 

She began her career as a volunteer family therapist at a community-based clinic in Eugene, OR. After receiving her doctorate, she moved to the Big Island to continue serving adults, children, and families. Since her return, she has worked at an addiction’s treatment center with a focus on addictions, recovery, and violence prevention and intervention, provided home-based clinical support for a non-profit agency, worked at a Federally Qualified Health Center and a community hospital before transitioning to Pau Hana Counseling. Dr. De Costa utilizes a strength-based approach, along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. She believes a collaborative partnership is an important foundation in treatment. 

Sophia Bernard, PhD, LMFT, LMT, C-IAYT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Sophia Bernard, PhD, LMFT, LMT, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT (RYT 500), is a passionate teacher, dancer, bodyworker, and Somatic Trauma Therapist. As a certified Rosen Method Practitioner and inspired by her studies of Somatic Psychology and Birth Psychology, she specializes in Somatic Integration, especially after trauma and loss, and the reconnection with the physical and emotional aspects of health that have been compromised, dissociated, or lost over the course of stressful and traumatic life events.

Sophia completed her comprehensive training as a Yoga Therapist at Ajna Yoga in Victoria, BC in 2019 and is certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). She holds a license as Naturopathic Doctor (ND) in Germany and has been teaching Reiki Healing Arts in the tradition of Usui Shiki Ryoho for more than thirty years. Sophia was recently certified in Hypnotherapy by the national Guild of Hypnosis and is currently working on her certification in Brain Spotting and EMDR. She works in private practice in Half Moon Bay, California; Portland, Oregon and Hawaii and offers individual sessions and groups in Yoga Therapy, Rosen Method Bodywork, Family Constellation, Inner Child Work, Sandtray, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, and offers DreamTending Evenings on Maui. Sophia’s work is attentive, gentle, intuitive, and deeply inspired by the recognition that we all heal best, when we are held with kindness and truly listened to within a safe environment that allows us to feel supported and respected as we unfold naturally and access once again our birthright – the blueprint of our inner health

Jody Dunlap, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Jody Dunlap, MSW, LCSW has been a practicing social worker for over 40 years. Her personal and professional belief is how well people function is about how they process their life events.Through resiliency, the healthy tools they have learned or will learn and the belief in oneself, self-forgiveness and self-acceptance can emerge. As a result, she believes that people can learn to be their better selves. Jody believes that for healing and change to begin, it's important to identify what's working in their lives, what they are proud of and like about themselves. She also believe it's important to identify what tools have worked in the past when there have been struggles. Jody believes that people seeing their strengths and capabilities is critical in the beginning stages of therapy. 

Jody practices from a psychodynamic approach and tries to assist people in understanding and gaining personal insight about events from past/present that have shaped their lives. This often opens the door to self-understanding and shuts the door on self-judgement. She has experience working with many presentations of mental health issues. Some examples include, depression, bipolardisorders, anxiety related disorders, grief, including pet loss, and past or present trauma. She has also worked with people who have experienced physical, emotional, psychological trauma in a family setting. She enjoys working with both men and women struggling with anger problems and relationship problems. She works most ages of people,  from teens through seniors, as individuals, couples, families or in group settings. She also believes that humor can sometimes be good ‘medicine’ for therapy.

Megan Salgado, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

"As a therapist, I believe my role is to create a safe space where diversity of experiences can be explored with compassion." People make the choice to embark on the journey of therapy for many different reasons. Megan enjoys offering individuals, couples and families the opportunity to explore these reasons in a safe, supportive environment with compassion, support and commitment to each client that she works with.

Megan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor who works with individuals, couples and families. She has extensive experience working with substance abuse issues with people of all ages, children and adolescents that have experienced trauma, as well as with couples and families in healing their relationships.

"I look forward to working together to develop an approach in dealing with your struggles through healing that is specific to you and your loved ones. I look forward to meeting with you." 

Lisa Chilson-McCraw, MSW, LCSW, CSAC

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Lisa Chilson-McCraw, MSW, LCSW, CSAC is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Substance Abuse Counselor in the state of Hawai’i. She is very passionate about serving others and her community. Following a calling, she has committed her life to supporting and helping others through their struggles in life. She describes her work as a blessing, having had the opportunity to serve a multicultural and diverse group of individuals in a variety of settings over the last 14 years. She has worked with individuals who have experienced trauma, domestic violence and abuse (survivors and offenders), victims of human trafficking, substance use issues, grief and loss, significant life changes, and the behaviors/emotions that are often associated.

She describes herself as a warm, genuine, and compassionate person, who listens with her whole heart, and truly wants to help others. She provides a safe and non-judgmental space for her clients to share and work through whatever brings them into therapy. She believes that her clients are the experts in their own lives and each one has a unique perspective, life experience, and path. Meeting her clients where they are, she comes alongside and supports them in their journey toward reaching their goals and healing. She believes people heal and grow within the context of a healthy, trusting, and safe relationship, therefore, that is what she provides to those that come for support. 

Tana Teicheira, LCSW, QCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Tana Teicheira, LCSW, QCSW is a graduate of University of Hawai'i-Manoa School of Social Work. She specializes in Cultures and Trauma and has over 35 years experience as a Critical Incident Stress Debrief [CISD] 1st responder internationally. She has worked on the Sexual Assault Response Team [SART]  and has been a forensic interviewer and completed more than 2500 emergency mobile Mental Health Crisis Team responses. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, families, inter-generations, adolescents ages 10-18 and utilizes multi-modality therapy approaches. 

Tana moved to the Island of Hawai'i in 1979. She has had varied jobs during her time living in Hawai'i, including cattle ranching on the Hamakua coast. She previously oversaw the State of Hawaii Mental Health for the schools of South Kona and Kau. She was also a therapist and interim director for the Kailua-Kona VA. Tana is licensed in Hawaii, as well as California, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada.

LaCortney Maddox, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LaCortney Maddox, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in various settings including day treatment, child protective services, intensive in-home services, a unified school district as one of only two district social workers, residential services for foster youth, and substance treatment facilities. She is now in private practice, having created Maddox Motivations LLC in 2020. As a spouse of an active duty United States Marine, LaCortney has become a licensed clinical social worker in California, South Carolina, and Hawaii, where she currently practices via tele-health therapy. 

LaCortney Maddox believes that people need and want to be heard and validated; for treatment to be effective, sources of distress must be acknowledged. Her preferred methods in treatment include creating awareness around people’s cognitive beliefs, allowing them to identify and understand limited thinking, and to create new beliefs and modified behavior. She focuses specifically on distress tolerance, a DBT skill used in tandem with a review of thoughts, feelings, and subsequent actions to assist clients with regulating emotions and improving their outcomes. LaCortney assists clients with identifying sources of distress and increasing focus on areas that are within their control. Through aligning with clients, LaCortney enjoys the shared interpersonal process, allowing clients to be vulnerable and open to being their authentic selves.

Camille Bourcier, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Camille Bourcier, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist and Behavioral Specialist who received her Master’s Degree in Social Work with an emphasis in Mental and Behavioral Health from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. With over ten years experience working with adolescents, young adults, and families in outdoor, educational and therapeutic settings she brings a dynamic style, utilizing a strength-based approach.

Camille has experience working with military families and local behavioral health organizations. In both settings, she supported young people with learning differences and emotional challenges in the development of improved esteem and communication skills. Camille identifies as 'Hapa' and is passionate about working with individuals who identify as mixed race.

Building strong relationships with her clients, Camille provides a foundation to address challenging behaviors and interpersonal issues. With experience in the mental health field and family support services, Camille brings a confident, calm and deliberate approach to her work with individuals and families. 

Grace Holbrook, MSW, LSW

Licensed Social Worker

Grace Holbrook, MSW, LSW is a Licensed Social Worker who  focuses in treatment that is client centered and strategized to help support clients in accomplishing their goals in therapy. Grace received her Master's Degree from Hawai'i Pacific University, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her goal as a clinician is to create a safe environment for clients to process past or current difficulties, stressors or traumas. 

Grace has a background of working with clients who experience anxiety, depression, addiction, PTSD, attachment disorders, personality disorders, and have experienced abuse or neglect. She has worked with clients in both outpatient and inpatient settings.

Nicole Shifflett, MSW, LSW

Licensed Social worker

Nicole Shifflett, MSW, LSW is a Licensed Social Worker who has been working in the field of social work for more than 9 years. She received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Oklahoma and is passionate about improving the lives of individuals and families within communities. Nicole has experience working directly with survivors of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as survivors of domestic violence and individuals who experienced sexual exploitation or sex trafficking. She has considerable experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults who have experienced severe trauma, and other mental health challenges including PTSD, addiction, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, mood disorders, attachment disorders, and behavioral disorders.

Nicole utilizes a trauma-informed and client-centered approach to therapy with a variety of techniques originating from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She focuses on engagement within the therapeutic relationship to ensure the individual feels supported and safe throughout their journey with self-discovery and healing. She supports individuals with reaching their treatment goals whether it includes processing past trauma, challenging negative core beliefs that cause anxiety, learning self-forgiveness to overcome guilt and shame, or discovering worth and values to enhance self-esteem and personal growth. Nicole would like to join you in providing a safe and supportive environment throughout your journey in therapy. 

Andrea Nila Negron, MSW, LSW

Licensed Social worker

Andrea Nila Negron, MSW, LSW, received her Master’s degree from New Mexico State University. With a background in trauma-informed yoga and bodywork, she brings a psycho-spiritual approach to healing and wellness. She specializes in collaborating with individuals with attachment and developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), which integrates a cognitive and somatic approach to address the root causes of current life challenges. Nila also has experience supporting individuals in 12-step recovery work.

Mark White, MAC, LMHC, LPC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Mark White, MAC, LMHC, LPC, provides counseling to people across the lifespan. In addition to his extensive clinical background, Mark also holds a masters degree in School Counseling and has a breadth of professional experience as a teacher, school counselor and Head of School.

Mark is dedicated to supporting people healing from behavioral health issues including anxiety, depression, isolation, and problems related to substance use. Mark utilizes a variety of therapeutic approaches that include a solution-focused framework, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and the Hakomi method, as well as Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). 


Mark enjoys being on the ocean, teaching, and growing food. He frequently explores the beauty and dynamic landscape of Hawai'i Island along with his family.

Dale Komoda, LMHC, CSAC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Certified Substance Abuse Counselor 

Dale Komoda, LMHC, CSAC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who is currently licensed in Hawaii and located on the island of Oahu. Dale believes that substance use in our society has become a serious problem that is connected to underlying issues that needs attention. He acknowledges that sometimes people feel trapped and do not know the answers to feelings of hopelessness, guilt, shame, and fear. Dale states that there is a way out of addiction and that it will take small steps to reach the end goal of happiness. 

Dale knows that it can be hard to ask for help, but when people can make a choice for life and to end drug and alcohol addiction. Dale has been actively working with the substance abuse population for 14 years at three different treatment centers. He is enjoys helping people that are struggling with the addictions, he uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify triggers to use drugs and alcohol and uses reality therapy for choices and goals. He believes that it takes courage, determination, focus, repetition, and concentration to stay in recovery and wants to be there to help during the journey.

Hannah L. Dann, LMHC, LPC

Licensed Mental Health Counselor 

Hannah L Dann, LMHC, LPC,  received a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2016 from Regis University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and EMDR trained Clinician who has been working in the Human Service field for more than 15 years. Hannah has training in treating Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, which includes EMDR and TF-CBT, both evidence-based treatment modalities. She utilizes a variety of techniques and skills drawn from recognized therapeutic modalities including: EMDR, Strength Based, Somatic Therapy (Somatic Awareness), Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. 

Hannah engages in a variety of approaches through creating an inviting platform for the complexity and diversity of each individual. This collaborative approach encourages individuals to trust themselves. She believes in working in partnership and comprehends the power in utilizing client’s strengths to assist them sort out various life challenges to achieve their goals. Emphasizing the importance of identifying aspects of an individual’s life that impact their well-being, such as their environments, physical health and support systems in order to arrive at a life worth living.

Nanami Matsui, LPC, LAC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Nanami Matsui, LPC, LAC is a licensed professional counselor who holds a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Denver in Counseling Psychology and Counseling Education. She is licensed in the states of Colorado and Hawaii. Nanami began her career working with survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. She began working at a community mental health agency in Eagle County, Colorado and has remained there for the last 11 years. Nanami is experienced in working with crisis, court ordered treatments, and inmate populations. In the last several years, she has been providing individual therapy for adults, seniors and adolescents.

Nanami is trained in CBT, DBT, CPT, Solution- Focused therapy and EMDR. She is a person-centered therapist that is eclectic in her approach; she values the mind-body connection, encouraging her clients to take care of their bodies as well as their mental health. Nanami believes that building resiliency, hope, and working towards change are important in navigating life’s challenges. Nanami will help assist her clients in reaching their goals.

Timothy Wheeler, M.Ed, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Timothy Wheeler, M.Ed., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor living in the Mountains of Colorado. Timothy was an Executive Chef, living on the Big Island of Hawaii, and Maui, helping to open restaurants for Peter Merriman and Roy Yamagucci. After a successful career in the restaurant business,  he decided to return to his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, to pursue a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Timothy’s undergraduate work and internship was in Marriage and Family Therapy, and this informs his passion for providing individual and family therapy for At-Risk Youth and their families. Timothy's career has included a very diverse clientele, having worked in School systems, Probation, Family Court, Social Services, Jail and Diversion programs, Sexual offenders and victims, Substance Use Disorder, LGBTQ+, and Domestic Violence populations. 

Timothy is currently stationed at a pK-8 Elementary school that houses the School Districts Affective/Special Needs programs. He is Primary Therapist for this program, and this work takes him to many homes and schools in the Roaring Fork School District. Timothy uses a Person-centered Eclectic therapy approach, using several different modalities depending on the needs of the client. He is trained in and utilizes TF-CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative, Gestalt, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, and Family therapies. Timothy is hoping to relocate back to Hawaii in the next few years and be available for in-person Therapy.