Jamie Jones, M.Ed, NCC, LPC-S is the Program Director for The New Orleans Institute for Trauma and Compulsive Behaviors at River Oaks Hospital. She received her master’s degree from the University of New Orleans and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor. Mrs. Jones has been a member of the treatment team at River Oaks Hospital since 2001. She specializes in both inpatient and outpatient treatment of individuals presenting the eating disorders, trauma-based disorders, and compulsive behaviors.

Mrs. Jones has a long history of presenting presentations nationwide on the topics of trauma, compulsive behaviors and eating disorders rooted in trauma. She has also worked with military bases around the country, assisting them with providing treatment of active-duty service members and veterans.

Dr. Hawkins is a clinical psychologist and is the Chief Executive Officer at Center for Change. She is a specialist in eating disorders and body image and has provided clinical expertise at Center for Change since 1999. Dr. Hawkins developed a comprehensive body image program that focuses on the media, diet industry, plastic surgery, childhood issues, and learning to appreciate one’s body, and she leads these groups for the Inpatient and Residential patients at Center for Change. She is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (Supervisor), has published several articles, and presents regularly at national and regional conferences.

Dr. Nikki Rollo completed a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology and a MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both California and New York. Additionally, she has a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences where she focused on issues of immigration, gender, and trauma. She works for Reasons Eating Disorder Center as the National Director of Program Development.

She has worked in various aspects of mental health and eating disorder treatment for over seventeen years. She is a specialist in clinical program development, staff training, admissions, business development and clinical outreach aspects of eating disorder work. Integral to her clinical philosophy is her personal practice of yoga and meditation including completing a yoga teacher training with an emphasis on trauma-sensitive mind-body movement.

Her areas of special interest and passion include body image, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, the subtle body, compassion, meditation, mindful movement, creating sacred spaces, and working with people from a depth psychological approach.

Dr. Mishell Hashmi is the Director of the Eating Disorder program and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Midwestern University in 2007. She has extensive experience working with eating disorders in Residential, PHP, IOP and outpatient settings. Dr. Hashmi uses an integrated approach and is experienced in utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Dr. Hashmi has also completed training in Family Based Therapy (FBT) for eating disorders, Internal Family Systems (IFS), as well as advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Dr. Hashmi enjoys working with teenagers and adults. She also has extensive experience working with individuals with self-injury, trauma, mood disorders and transgender issues. She is a member of the board for the Missouri Eating Disorder Association (MOEDA).

Leah Kercheville was introduced to yoga in high school and was profoundly influenced by the physical and mental peace she experienced in those first encounters. She went to New York for classical theater training and deepened her understanding of expression through the body with Alexander and Linklater Techniques. As a former performer, she is passionate about helping people to feel safe and free to be their authentic selves--which is what drew her to become a 500 hr registered yoga teacher(RYT) and MFT. In addition to her RYT hours, she has allocated 100 hours training in yoga for trauma, run teacher trainings, led retreats, and facilitated yoga for trauma for over 15 years. She is currently finishing a masters in clinical psychology at Antioch University, committed to socially conscious education. She uses evidence-based somatic integration and grounding techniques to train clients how to self-regulate and co-regulate through triggering experiences that may otherwise lead to dissociations and unhealthy behaviors. Using a humanistic lens, Leah lets the client lead in their healing pace so as to restore a sense of agency in the body and prevent retraumatization leading the client to be able to regulate in their daily life by the creation of new muscle memory and neuropathways. Leah has worked for Reasons Eating Disorder Center at all levels of care since 2016. She also teaches public yoga classes at various studios in Los Angeles as well as private clients in person and virtually.

Mr. Peebles is the clinical director of the RO-DBT program and an anxiety specialist at the Center for OCD and Anxiety Related Disorders (COARD) at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. Mr. Peebles received graduate degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and Missouri Baptist University. In addition to his clinical training, Mr. Peebles has a research background in Neuroscience and Pharmacology and was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to support his research. Mr. Peebles has a profound interest in the integration of salient findings of Neuroscience with that of Evidence Based Clinical Interventions.Mr. Peebles’ clinical experience includes specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and anxiety-related disorders during his two year post- graduate fellowship under the supervision of Alec Pollard. In addition, Mr. Peebles has specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and has provided family, group and individual therapy in a community-based crisis stabilization setting. He received additional training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy through The Linehan Institute, Behavioral Tech. Mr. Peebles is recognized as a certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist through the National Certification and Accreditation Association for DBT.

Mr. Peebles has extensive experience with undergraduate and graduate level students and is currently a professor in the Social and Behavioral Science Division at Missouri Baptist University.