ClinicMental Health Clinicians
Brian Parker
MS, LMFT – Clinical Director of Therapy
Brian Parker MS, LMFT, AAMFT Supervisor Candidate is a licensed marriage and family therapist with the state of Utah. Mr. Parker received his Bachelor’s Degree in psychology from Southern Utah University, and his Master’s degree in counseling/marriage and family therapy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a member of Psi Chi, a National Honor Society in Psychology, and a Clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Brian Parker has worked as a therapist for adolescents in a residential treatment setting since January of 2000. He was born and raised in Alberta, Canada and became a citizen of the US several years ago. He and his wife have four children. He enjoys the outdoors, sports and spending time with his family. Brian continues to maintain a small private practice in St. George which he started in 2003, helping individuals and families with a variety of issues. He specializes in working with individuals and their families in addressing issues with defiant attitudes/ behaviors, depression, and improving family dynamics. Brian’s clinical experience has enabled him to work effectively with adolescents and their families towards successful resolutions and positive outcomes.
Lawrence Bradley
LMFT – Therapist
Larry Bradley is a Marriage and Family Therapist and has been practicing in St. George for the past 14 years, both in private practice and in youth residential care. He has written two books based in the recent research of Epigenetics and its application to mental health care. Larry completed his undergraduate work at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in Psychology and holds a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Hope International University (HIU). Larry’s focus in helping people overcome issues is unique and is informed by the most recent research in the fields of Epigenetics. The source of almost any human struggle, Larry says, is due to cellularly stored learning and memory. At the most basic level, we develop and store at the cellular level beliefs about how we see our self. These beliefs are biological entities that influence all aspects of our lives. They are largely programmed in us due to our ongoing perceptions of our life experience. Depending upon what we come to believe about our self will continue to shape ongoing experience. Larry’s work is specific in helping people dismiss any distortions found in unhealthy personal belief and then to develop a very healthy and truthful view of themselves. Larry has successfully launched six children himself and now is in that perfect season of life to enjoy being an empty nester and a devoted grandfather.
Michael Goodman
LMFT – Therapist
Michael Goodman was born and raised in St. George. He graduated from Snow Canyon High School and completed the Airframe and Powerplant program at Dixie College before serving a two-year mission for his church in Adelaide, Australia. After returning from his mission, Michael graduated from Utah State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace emphasis. After graduation, he married his sweetheart and they moved to Wyoming and he spent seven years working as a field engineer, travelling to various states and countries as a specialist in cutting-edge horizontal well logging technologies. As the time demands of life in the oilfield started conflicting with the priority of his wife and three young children, Michael decided to return to St. George and started a small woodworking business with his father and his brother. Several years later, He decided to follow his passion for teaching and counseling and become a Marriage and Family Therapist. He recently completed his clinical work and will be graduating with a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northcentral University. Michael is a member of the Delta Kappa Honors Society for Marriage and Family Therapy, and has been working with Liahona Academy since 2019 as a teacher and a shift supervisor. Michael and his beautiful wife Raquel are happy to be raising their four beautiful children in his hometown of St. George.
Garth Lasater
MSW, CSW – Therapist
Garth Lasater brings to Liahona Academy over 25 years of working in residential treatment programs here in Southern Utah. He specializes in assisting male adolescent’s and their families in trauma-informed treatment, anxiety and depression, substance abuse related disorders, oppositional defiance and other family system challenges. He uses a variety of sophisticated treatment modalities; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and the use of Polyvagal Theory. He has also received training and certification in Attachment & Trauma Focused Therapy (ATFT). He has extensive clinical experience providing individual, group, and family therapy, teaching dyadic life-skills and educating the family to maintain sustained recovery. Garth received his Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Brigham Young University and his Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He is the proud recipient of the Eli Lilly ( a pharmaceutical company) for his work in clinical depression treatment and has extensive training in specialized addictions such as pornography and those that involve substance use. Garth has experience in the utilization of the 12-Step Model, and training in the Seven Challenges curriculum. Prior to his moving to Southern Utah 25 plus years ago and becoming intimately involved in the residential treatment experience with adolescents his experience has included the following; being the Outpatient Director for the Utah Alcoholism Foundation’s Central Utah Treatment Center, where he also worked with those that were in their inpatient unit, he also worked with the Utah State Division of Family Services where he was active in being an advocate for those children who had no voice in their trauma experience. Garth has been married to his beautiful and supportive wife Amy for over thirty-four years and we are the proud parents of three children and by February of 2023 ten grandchildren (twin boys due the end of October, 2022) who are the love of our lives. When Garth is not with his wife or with his children and grandchildren you can find him watching sports, hanging with his dog Ozzie and just relaxing at home. We do travel here and there a little. I am truly excited to be part of such a dynamic team here at Liahona Academy and look forward to meeting each and every one of you.
Tyson Tupea
AMFT – Therapist
Tyson Tupea received his bachelors of science in health management with an emphasis in patient wellness with a minor in psychology, at Utah Tech University and his masters in Marriage and Family therapy. Tyson is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family therapy. Prior to Liahona Academy, Tyson worked in a specialized inpatient facility focusing on Co-occurring mental health and substance use issues as well as within the judicial system completing behavioral assessments for the State of Utah. Tyson finds deep satisfaction working with adolescents and knows first hand the importance of healthy male role models. He enjoys spending time on the mats as an avid Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and leans on various experiences in life as well as best clinical practice to work effectively with adolescents and their families towards beneficial resolutions that create lasting impactful change.
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