Get to Know Us
Haven is a Collective of therapists and coaches that facilitate a unique, integrated approach to mental health and wellness, leveraging the restorative power of nature and animals to create space for the soul to reconnect with our Creator and heal deeply. This comprehensive entity unites Haven Professional Counseling, a clinical counseling practice, The Oaks at Haven, a nonprofit organization with a fiscal sponorship by New Horizons Foundation, focused on accessibility and outreach, and Haven Family Farms, a family-owned property where we will be expanding our services and providing additional spaces for a unique therapeutic and agricultural environment.
​Our goal is to deliver trauma-informed therapeutic interventions that focus on deep, soul healing, trauma work. Our team has a unique niche with a specialization in narcissistic abuse recovery, but also in preventing the intergenerational transmission of abuse by also focusing on providing early interventions focused on mental health and attachment therapies for mothers and infants. We also focus on early childhood development, regardless of the client's age, to assess early relational attachment patterns and facilitate healing across the entire family system. We believe in healing in the family system, authentic relationships, and the power of having community.
Our team provides services for individuals, children, youth, and adults. ​These services include traditional clinical counseling, trauma-informed coaching, multi-day intensive sessions, and retreats designed for your unique needs. Sessions are held at our retreat locations on working farms. Our unique approach combines animal-assisted and nature-based therapies, with somatic body-based interventions offering distinctive therapeutic and developmental advantages for your family.
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Licensed Professional Counselors
"Breaking the Cycle: Healing for Today, Hope for Tomorrow."
Licensed professional counselors, like Lisa Shaw and Jennifer Thumm, serve as vital cycle breakers in addressing intergenerational trauma. Both specialize in somatic interventions, with Lisa focusing on recovery from narcissistic abuse and Jennifer on Infant, Child, and Family Mental Health and Development. Their holistic approach nurtures the body, spirit, and mind, incorporating nature-based and animal-assisted therapeutic interventions on a working farm. They offer a range of services, including outpatient counseling, intensives, retreats, courses, and workshops, empowering clients to heal and build resilience for a healthier future.
Jennifer Thumm
Founder of Haven,
is a Licensed Professional Counselor passionate about working with children and families. She specializes in animal-assisted therapies, family systems work, and trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy. Jen is completing additional graduate education in Infant, Child, and Family Mental Health and Development, combining her passion for child and family work with Early Childhood, Attachment, and Prevention and Intervention for babies, children, and families.
Jennifer is committed to providing a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to counseling within the systems where you live and work, facilitating deeply restorative experiential therapies in a nature setting, and aiming to restore hope and change the trajectory of lives by breaking persistent generational patterns.
Lisa Shaw
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With more than 15 years of experience in addiction treatment, Lisa Shaw, LPC, CAADC, MAC, brings both expertise and empathy to her work as a counselor licensed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Tennessee. Lisa specializes in trauma and narcissistic abuse recovery, using a blend of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Compassionate Inquiry, and somatic approaches. She views therapy as a collaborative journey, where her role is to guide clients toward healing, self-awareness, and emotional freedom in a safe and compassionate space.
Trauma Informed Coaching
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Angi Dougherty, Haven Retreat and Intensive Director, is a Christian, trauma-informed coach called to walk alongside survivors of narcissistic abuse, offering Christ-centered support and guidance. With over 20 years of experience understanding the deep wounds caused by narcissistic behavior, Angi brings not only empathy and insight but also a heart rooted in faith and compassion.
Her mission is to help survivors reclaim their God-given identity, restore their self-worth, and walk in the freedom and healing that Christ offers. Having personally walked the painful road of leaving a narcissist and enduring the emotional and spiritual toll of the family court system, Angi understands the unique challenges this journey brings.
She equips clients with both spiritual and practical tools to stand firm in truth, set healthy boundaries, and remain anchored in faith—even in the midst of legal battles and co-parenting struggles. With a deep commitment to creating a safe, Spirit-led space, Angi helps clients rediscover their strength in Christ, embrace intentional self-care, and step into a life of wholeness, clarity, and peace.
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Liz & Josh Nolz
Partnering with Haven for Marriage and Family Interventions and Intensives and Retreats,
Liz and Josh Nolz are co-founders of Home Team and a husband-and-wife coaching duo committed to whole-person healing. With complementary backgrounds in wellness, counseling, ministry, leadership, and family systems, they offer a powerful team-based approach to mentorship that is both compassionate and practical.
They are known for creating a safe, judgment-free space where individuals and couples can explore their stories and rediscover connection. Together, they draw from decades of experience—including behavior change coaching, nutritional counseling, emotional healing, spiritual direction, personal development and executive leadership.
Announce Freedom to All Captives!The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me. He sent me to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, announce freedom to all captives, pardon all prisoners. God sent me to announce the year of his grace ___a celebration of God's destruction of our enemies and to comfort all who mourn, To care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion, give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes, Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit. Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness" planted by God to display his glory. They'll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage. They'll start over on the ruined cities, take the rubble left behind and make it new. Isaiah 61: 1 - 4, MSG, the Bible