Our Team of Trained Healers
Iris Beshara, LCSW
Tulsa In Person & Telehealth
Iris Beshara (she/her), LCSW, is a bilingual somatic attachment-based therapist with 15 years experience. She specializes in working with those who have experienced trauma, childhood abuse, anxiety, depression, bereavement services for children, and postpartum support. Iris believes that through gentle yet deep attunement that people have the innate ability to unlock the needs of their body and spirit, ultimately to feel both comfortable and safe in their body again or experience it for the first time.
Many symptoms and body sensations arise when a trauma occurs or if there is a history of unmet needs. Feelings of shame, being stuck, or unable to be fully present in the ‘here and now’ can be overwhelming and exhausting. Iris engages with the mind, body, and spirit in order to unveil one’s inner strength and power. This enables being present and being able to maneuver both the challenging and joyful moments in life.
Iris has received extensive training in trauma informed models such as Somatic Experiencing, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma – Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child and Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and PMADS by Postpartum Support International. She is honored in being a space holder and being alongside in the journey of healing. Iris also offers therapy in Spanish.
Private Pay & Insurance Accepted: Healthchoice, United and BCBS
Fay O’Neill, LCSW
Bartlesville In-Person & Telehealth
Fay O’Neill, (she/her), LCSW, CYT-500, TCTSY-F, is an attachment based somatic therapist and certified yoga teacher. Fay’s hope is to allow a space for the body to tell its story, for the wisdom that has been hidden and suppressed by trauma to slowly and safely emerge in a way that enables healing to unfold organically, in the presence of a safe and attuned relationship. Fay believes that complex trauma occurs in relationship and must be healed within a relationship that shares power, gives back your ability to choose for yourself, celebrates your authenticity, affirms your worthiness of care, and provides steady cues of safety so that your nervous system can begin to move out of a state of survival and into a state of connection, presence, and balance. Fay believes that the purpose of therapy is to dis-identify with the beliefs, emotions, labels, and stories we tell and the sensations that arise with them.
With a background of social work and passion for social justice, Fay also allows space for exploration of how the intersectionality of race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, and mental and physical ability all play an important part in the individual’s present experience and how oppression, marginalization, discrimination and the systems that uphold them all contribute greatly to individual and collective trauma.
Fay’s approach to trauma treatment blends somatic bottom-up approaches and contemplative mindful approaches such as Somatic Experiencing, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, breathwork, mindfulness meditation, iRest Yoga Nidra meditation, Compassionate Inquiry, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems to facilitate healing and integration of the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.
Private Pay & Insurance Accepted: Healthchoice, United and BCBS
Louis Anderson, LPC
Tulsa In-Person & Telehealth
Louis Anderson (He/Him) has been working in the helping profession since 1990. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 1985 and Masters in Counselor Education in 1988, both from the University of Virginia. With nearly 25 years of experience in mental health, he has worked with clients with concerns ranging from Addictions, Substance Abuse, Sexual Behavioral Issues, Depression, Anxiety, Anger Management, Trauma.
Louis believes that wounds in our lives do not only fester but put down roots. Unaddressed and unattended these roots grow deeper, stronger, and more harmful. Louis has experience working with Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders, Anger and Stress Management, Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use and Abuse Issues. Louis believes that individuals are not only able to uproot destructive hurts but are able to sow into areas that provide new and abundant growth.
Louis works with individuals and families. Louis offers both individual and group therapy, specializing in areas of understanding anger, healthy sexuality, and addictions.
Private pay & Insurances Accepted: Healthchoice, BCBS & United
Whitney Breshears, LPC
Tulsa In Person & Telehealth
Whitney Breshears, (She/Her), LPC, is a Somatic Attachment Therapist. Whitney comes to Palo Santo with more than 10 years of experience in trauma therapy after working with an Inpatient Facility for children and an outpatient therapist with Therapeutic Foster Care. Whitney has also worked with children, adolescents and adults at Anchored in Hope, focusing on developmental and attachment trauma.
Whitney has also completed extensive trauma training, including but not limited to Somatic Experiencing Training through the Trauma Institute in Boulder, CO. She is also trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Play Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Whitney is also trained in Reiki, which works with the body’s energy system.
Due to her own struggle with an autoimmune disease, Whitney was drawn to Somatic Psychology, after determining that her health struggles were a result of how her body was processing and holding onto emotional and early life experiences. Whitney is passionate about being with clients in their own process of connecting with their inner capacity to heal and connect with the joy that is awaiting them.
As a result, Whitney offers an intuitive and highly skilled healing process that blends her trauma training with traditional and holistic modalities to meet the needs of each unique individual and nervous system. Body, mind and spirit. Whitney is also trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Private Pay & Insurance Accepted: Healthchoice, United and BCBS
Christina Conrad, LPC-S, SEP
Tulsa In Person & Telehealth
Palo Santo Executive Director Somatic Experiencing Practitioner EMDR Trained Psychedelic Integration Therapist iRest Yoga Nidra Level One Teacher
Christina Conrad, (She/Her) LPC-S, SEP, founder of Palo Santo Therapy, believes deeply in learning how to exist with what is, searching for what we can let go of and living out lives with the capacity to be fully present to ourselves and those around us. Furthermore, learning to live present to the joy that exists in our lives, rather than being overcome by its struggles.
Christina has extensive training in the physiology and neurobiology of trauma. As an attachment-based therapist, Christina works to heal developmental trauma and the shame that accompanies it.
Christina’s expertise lies in trauma – childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse, PTSD, combat trauma, domestic violence, sexual assault, attachment and shame resiliency. Christina also has extensive experience in addiction and believes it to be a disease of disconnection and trauma. Christina has worked inpatient and outpatient facilities, as well as in domestic violence shelters and community mental health.
As a Somatic Psychotherapist, Christina works to determine how the Central Nervous System is holding and existing with the effects of past trauma and current stressors. blends a variety of evidenced-based and holistic approaches to healing the whole, including but not limited to meditation, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, somatic movement, spiritual and ethenogen (psychoactive) medicines. The goal of this work is to assist the body in releasing what SE calls stored trauma energy, which can show up as anxiety, PTSD, Chronic Pain, relationship difficulties, addiction and codependence. She does so by working with our innate fight, flight, freeze and collapse responses and assisting the body to complete these responses, therefore, moving out of a “stuck” or habitually debilitating way of existence.
Christina is also trained in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Cannabis-Assisted Psychotherapy and MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy and is passionate about making this work available to her community and the heartland region.
Private pay.
Rebecca Lee, Clinical Coordinator
Rebecca (She/Her) serves as Palo Santo’s Clinical Coordinator, which means she is often the first person you will speak to at our agency. Rebecca will help answer any questions you have and will help connect you with the clinician who will best fit your needs. We are lucky to have her on our team.
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate”. Under this new law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services.
- You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services.
- You can ask your healthcare provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service.
- If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
- Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 1-800-985-3059.
