Natalie Bryant, MA - Director of Operations

I have been passionate about Redemption Counseling Center since it opened.  I have two decades of experience as a disability and mental health activist in the role of Executive Director for a nonprofit I founded.  We did policy work and met the needs of abandoned individuals with special needs and mental health needs in Armenia through holistic residential care.  I am passionate about assisting nonprofits as they move toward a sustainable model.  I have spent my career analyzing how nonprofits create and inhibit change in the world.  I am compelled to work toward justice and healing within the organizational model by ensuring care and concern not just toward clients, but toward staff as well. 

My heart is for justice and healing work in the world—and especially where these two areas converge.  But I advocate for a healing that is not haunted by an imagined idea of wholeness.  I am inspired by work that meets the needs of the vulnerable among us while looking to change systemic issues, policies and trends that prohibit us from healing and justice to begin with.  Redemption Counseling Center embodies those things through its dual focus on providing quality mental health care to individuals in the community while also seeking to address injustices in the way our community approaches mental health, denies services to some and prioritizes certain groups of people over another. 

I am also a published author, a mother, a mystic, and a lover of the forest.  I spend my free time writing, collecting moss and watching for ravens with my three sons.