Angie Knight Buja has been a Liscensed Professional Counselor since 2004. A native of Dallas, she headed to the plains to attend Texas Tech University where she received her BA in History. While in college, she began working with Young Life, an outreach to high school students, and continues to have a good relationship with local area Young Life programs. She then returned home to attend Dallas Theological Seminary, where she graduated with her MA in Counseling.
Over the last few years while in private practice, Angie has worked with adolescents, their families and women of all ages to help them work through a variety of struggles. Angie’s innovative work with teens is due to the fact that she includes the family in the process of healing and recovery. She has found that this family work is vital to the process. She specializes in anxiety disorders, trauma, and addiction with an emphasis on eating disorders and substance abuse, as well as family counseling. Her specialties are born out of her own journey of recovery and specifically her freedom from an eating disorder during her adolescence and early adulthood years. She deeply values the recovery community believing life change often times comes in the context of relationships.
Angie’s philosophy of life is simple: Life is to be LIVED – not survived. She hopes that as she works with others, they will understand their value and self worth allowing them to live in freedom and truth. When not counseling, Angie enjoys traveling with her husband, time with family and friends and trying to learn new skills!
Becky Page has been practicing counseling in Dallas since 2004. She originally hails from Fort Worth and received her Bachelors degree from Texas Tech University in 1998. It was there that she began to study addictions and developed a love for the recovery community. Her background in Young Life and Kanakuk Kamps honed her skills with adolescents and upon graduation she pursued work with teens via local churches and eventually K-Life Ministries.
During her time in youth ministry, Becky began to see the effects of her own issues with performance, codependency and insecurity. The result was clinical depression but the gift of that was a healthy therapeutic relationship that eventually pushed her to receive her Masters in Counseling from Dallas Seminary. Her own recovery work in Celebrate Recovery helped build an understanding of addictions, relationship issues and the relevance of living in a community of vulnerability.
Becky’s history with adolescents has provided rich fodder for working with them in counseling. Her own work in recovery has given her the desire to counsel women seeking healing from addiction, codependency, relationship issues, sexual and emotional abuse, obsessive thinking, worry, control and other struggles. For the past several years, she’s also enjoyed working with couples seeking to improve their marriages and takes great delight in marriage counseling.
Therapy can be a scary experience, but the right therapeutic relationship can facilitate growth, healing, and freedom from the past. That was Becky’s own experience and she hopes her clients will find renewed hope in life. Becky takes great joy in good friends, the outdoors, music, running and most of all, her husband, daughter and young son.
Dr. Steven Lytle is a licensed psychologist who has been counseling in Dallas since 2002. He attended the University of Oklahoma where he received a B.A. in Psychology. He later graduated with an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Central Oklahoma. Dr. Lytle acquired his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University.
Previously, Dr. Lytle worked as a therapist with Green Oaks Hospital in Dallas, Texas as well as counseling adolescents and families through the Juvenile Probation department in Dallas County. Steven also served as clinical director of adolescent services at the Cedars Hospital in DeSoto, Texas. Prior to pursing his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Steven taught Psychology at Richland College.
He specializes in adolescent, family, and marital therapy, but also works with adults and couples in the area of depression, anxiety, grief, substance abuse, conflict resolution, sexual addiction and anger management. Furthermore, Dr. Lytle provides assessment services, including personality testing, assessment of cognitive skills, and testing for learning disabilities including ADHD. In addition, he offers various psychological consultation services, including consults to medical practitioners, forensic services, and speaking engagements.
Personally, Steven enjoys spending time with his wife Kristin, daughter Remy, and son Luke.
Wendy has called the Park Cities home for over 15 years. Before moving to Dallas, she completed her undergraduate work at Oklahoma State University in the field of Family Relations and Child Development, and then spent a year serving at Shelterwood, a residential center for teens of families in crisis.
Wendy first moved to Dallas to work for Highland Park K-Life. As the Women’s Director she spent seven years mentoring and discipling adolescent girls and working with families in the community. In 2001, Wendy decided to pursue a Masters in Biblical Counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary in order to use her gifts and skills in a professional setting.
During her time in graduate school, Wendy served as a counseling intern on the Trauma Floor at Timberlawn Mental Health System. Wendy has been in private practice since 2004 and has cultivated experience with individual, couple, and group counseling. She worked closely with those struggling to overcome childhood trauma, sexual abuse, eating disorders, anxiety, codependency, mood disorders, depression, and family of origin issues.
Now in practice at Sparrow House Counseling, Wendy enjoys working with individuals and families as they seek to take the next step in their personal recovery and healing. Due to her extensive experience with teenagers and their families, coupled with her long term proximity to the Park Cities, she feels especially called to the dilemmas and struggles germane to local families. It is Wendy’s hope that she will use her experience and insight, marry it to her formal education, and serve this community well.
Cristina is a licensed professional counselor and is also pursuing her licensure in marriage and family therapy. In 2003, Cristina graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. While in college, Cristina developed her interest in working with adolescents and families through her internship with Student Venture, a Campus Crusade high school ministry, and through her work at Hope Pregnancy Center. Cristina also served as a volunteer leader with Lake Highlands Young Life for six years. After college, Cristina pursued her Masters in Counseling at Dallas Baptist University. In 2009, Cristina began a Doctorate Program in School Psychology to further specialize in child and adolescent issues at Texas Women’s University.
Professionally, Cristina has had a variety of experience including home based counseling, the family preservation program with the juvenile department, and recently as a treatment manager at Green Oaks Psychiatric Hospital. These experiences have developed Cristina’s professional specialties in family conflict, adjustment issues, crisis intervention, mental illness management, self esteem, body image, defiance, and anger issues as they relate to the adolescent and family. This variety of work experiences also has enriched the knowledge and skills Cristina provides to families and adolescents.
After experiencing healing from her parent’s divorce as an adolescent, Cristina set forth on her passion to help build healthy families. Cristina partners with parents to develop healthy, well adjusted young adults that are equipped to face new challenges in life. Personally, Cristina loves to spend time with her family, friends, and especially her husband, Greg. Additionally, Cristina loves to play tennis, run, and be outside in the sun!
Will Clark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and earned a Master of Arts degree in Clinical/Counseling Psychology from Southern Methodist University. He is a licensed professional counselor and a board approved supervisor in his field. Will currently splits his time between his private practice and St. John’s Episcopal School, where he is the school counselor. In his private practice, he enjoys working with males of all ages but most commonly sees adolescents in groups, young adults, and their families. Will is passionate about working with high school guys on motivation and achievement and has seen clients grow especially in a group setting. With college aged males, Will’s focus has been on improving life and social skills, helping them to achieve the personal growth that had previously been unattained. The goal of his therapy is to meet his clients where they are, help them feel heard, expand their perspective on life, and increase their awareness of how they “get in their own way.”
Will is married with children and also enjoys serving at his church with the youth program.
Calli Vines
Calli has been counseling kids and adolescents at Sparrow House over the past year. Originally from Dallas, she attended Lake Highlands High School and received her Bachelors degree from Texas A&M in 2009. From there, she went on to Dallas Theological Seminary where she will complete a Masters in Biblical Counseling in May of 2012.
While in college, Calli spent her summers working at Kanakuk Kamps, tutoring high schoolers, and directing family leadership conferences for incoming students. Calli’s background with kids and adolescents, combined with her own experience of her parents’ divorce in high school, has fostered a love for and a unique understanding of her clients’ emotional needs. She believes healing happens within the context of relationships and thus remains committed to cultivating the abundant life that can be found for kids and families.
Rebecca Reck
Rebecca is a practicum student finishing her Masters in Counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary
Rebecca went to Presbyterian College where she received a B.S. in psychology in 2007 with an emphasis on early childhood education. Rebecca’s compassion and desire to help others drew her to study psychology and she quickly became passionate about this field.
After graduating from college Rebecca’s interest in education and love of other cultures drew her to teach English to University students in China for two years. While there, Rebecca developed a deep love for communicating cross-culturally. Rebecca found that her favorite part of being overseas was not her teaching, but building relationships with female students. She was surprised to find that her background in psychology proved useful in her interactions with her students and she often served as a type of mentor and lay-counselor for many students because of the multiple pressures they faced. Although Rebecca enjoyed helping her Chinese students, she realized her knowledge was limited and longed to gain more experience and skill.
In 2009, after two years in China, Rebecca decided to go back to the states to pursue a M.A in Biblical Counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary where she could combine her faith with her professional pursuit. During her time in graduate school, Rebecca has served with Sparrow House Counseling as a student intern. This has been a wonderful growing experience for her professionally and she is thankful for the training her supervisors provide for her. Also, Rebecca’s passion for helping the downcast and rejected in society brought her to volunteer at a local pregnancy resource center in the Dallas area. She enjoys interacting cross-culturally with various types of people and being able to assist the needy in this way. She hopes that her broad range of clients she counsels at Sparrow House and helps at the pregnancy center will continue to stretch her in her ability to relate to all types of people.
Rebecca enjoys working with female clients and cross-cultural clients struggling with anxiety and depression. She also hopes to work more with married couples in the future as she broadens her scope of counseling.
Personally, Rebecca enjoys running, art, being outdoors, and spending time with her husband and good friends.