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.