PERSONAL GROWTH TEAM
Mario Duran, LCP 1499, MS in Substance Abuse Treatment.
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Mario has a lot of experience, having served as clinical coordinator at Villa San Jose, a drug and alcohol treatment center. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the Vida y Sociedad Foundation , a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing substance abuse prevention programs to elementary and secondary schools throughout Costa Rica. He has consulted for mental health and educational institutions, NGO’s and international organization and has published several articles and research reports on behavioral health, best practices and addiction. Prior to NSA, Mario was the Clinical Director at Coronado Academy a therapeutic boarding school serving adolescent boys and girls.
Mario invests himself in building healthy relationships with students by interacting with them in our milieu, creating opportunities to model patience, sensitivity and empathy. He also believes in helping adolescents boys become respectful, tolerant and responsible young men by providing mentorship and constant support. Mario uses a strength based approach in therapy and believes in finding opportunities instead of threats when it comes to family dynamics and change. Mario has lived in Costa Rica most of his life and has had the opportunity to also live in the United States and France. He is a proud husband and father, and he enjoys mountain biking, nature, and indoor soccer.
Mario invests himself in building healthy relationships with students by interacting with them in our milieu, creating opportunities to model patience, sensitivity and empathy. He also believes in helping adolescents boys become respectful, tolerant and responsible young men by providing mentorship and constant support. Mario uses a strength based approach in therapy and believes in finding opportunities instead of threats when it comes to family dynamics and change. Mario has lived in Costa Rica most of his life and has had the opportunity to also live in the United States and France. He is a proud husband and father, and he enjoys mountain biking, nature, and indoor soccer.
Dr. Danny Recio, PhD
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He has an astounding well of patience and passion for working with and engaging everyone he meets. In his personal life, he tries to take in all the shades of color life has to offer and to seize the precious opportunity of being alive. Being a kid again when playing with his children, sharing a life’s mission with his wife, spending time in nature, sharing with people from other cultural worlds, and trying to radiate as much passion with the least amount of fear are some of ways in which he feels the most alive.
Caleb Cortes, MS, LCP.
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Ignacio Vasquez, BA, LCP.
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Anthony Riske, MA, MFTC, Case Manager Anthony is a Marriage and Family Therapist candidate who began in the counseling profession 15 years ago through wilderness therapy as a field instructor. An effect of his experience in residential, school, and community-based settings is the systemic lens through which he understands personal growth and development. Anthony believes that relationships are the key to healing—relationships with one’s self, culture, community, and environment.
In recent years, Anthony has worked with adolescents in transitional periods of their lives, and he has learned from the wisdom of their enduring human spirit and the creative solutions they develop to seemingly impossible problems. Anthony enjoys the existential processing of teens’ identities as they learn who they are and who they want to be. He finds this is the fertile soil in which they will root themselves as they take action toward their future. Anthony pursues the deepening of his own human experience through rock climbing, mountain biking, plant cultivation, and all things coffee! |
Elizabeth Corrales, MSW, LCP.
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Daniel Acuna, BA Psychologist, LCP.
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Dr. Steven Kogel, MD
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