Our Staff
M.A., LPC-S and Owner at Restore
Keely Burks is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor that completed her graduate work at the University of Texas at Tyler in 2010. She is passionate about helping marriages and families heal from wounds, whether traumatic, relational, or emotional in nature. She is a TBRI Practitioner and EMDR Certified, giving her the tools to come alongside foster and adoptive families in a unique way. Her greatest joys professionally come from seeing restoration replace deep hurts in relationships and seeing truth revealed, understood, and believed. Keely believes that every person has a story worth telling, and considers it a great honor to be included in her clients’ journeys toward wholeness. She is married to her wonderful husband, Ben, and they have three busy and beautiful children.
Areas of interest: marriage issues, parenting issues, adoption related family problems, trauma, and family of origin struggles.
Alec Capel
Graduate Student Intern
Alec is a Marriage and Family Therapy Intern currently completing his graduate training through Abilene Christian University, and is supervised by Simone Reed, LMFT-S. He is a member of the National Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society. Alec brings a unique blend of financial expertise and relational insight to his work with individuals, couples, and families. Prior to entering the counseling field, he spent over a decade as a financial advisor, helping people navigate some of life’s most stressful decisions. Now, he draws on that experience to support clients facing emotional, relational, and identity-related challenges with clarity and compassion.
Alec is particularly passionate about working with men and couples facing pornography addiction, financial conflict, and emotional disconnection. His focus is to help clients find clarity, build trust, and move forward with purpose.
When he’s not working with clients, Alec enjoys weight training, writing, and spending time outdoors—often in a tent. He believes lasting change often begins with small, intentional steps, and he considers it a privilege to walk alongside others as they take those steps.
Areas of Interest: pornography addiction, financial issues in relationships, men’s identity and shame,
emotionally disconnected couples, and life transitions
Joshua Trant
M.S., LPC- Associate
Joshua has a M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate under the supervision of Kayla Attaway, LPC-S. He has a special interest in helping clients find meaning and value in their lives while learning to confront and overcome common life stressors such as anxiety and depression. Joshua believes all counseling should be person-centered, open, and honest. Joshua has worked with adults, teens, and kids in a variety of settings including schools, behavioral health hospitals, and group homes. As a former middle and high school teacher, he particularly enjoys working
with school-aged children and adolescents along with their parents. Joshua has been married for twenty years and is
blessed with one daughter and one cairn terrier.
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Areas of interest: religious trauma, anxiety, depression, anger, clergy issues, behavioral issues
Madison Lasse
M.A., LPC- Associate
Madison Lasse is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate supervised by Keely Burks, LPC-S. Madison has been working within the mental health field for most of the past decade as a Social Worker and is now thrilled to be moving into private practice. Madison graduated with her bachelors in Social Work from Baylor University in 2014 and her Masters in Professional Counseling from Amberton University in 2022. Madison believes that life is unpredictable and that we all suffer through painful events, behaviors and circumstances. She counts it a joy to walk alongside you wherever you find yourself on the path of healing and freedom. Madison has experience working with couples and individuals who struggle with anxiety, OCD, infertility, depression, postpartum depression, trauma, and more. Madison works hard to provide a safe, non-judgemental and comforting environment for her clients to heal and grow.
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Areas of Interest: faith based, anxiety, depression, marriage counseling, life transitions, miscarriage and infertility,
and postpartum anxiety and depression
Jade Burks
M.A., LPC
Jade is a Licensed Professional Counselor and she graduated with her M. A. in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Texas at Tyler. Jade specializes in working with adolescents, adults, and families and has worked across diverse treatment settings ranging from providing mental health services in schools to working in a crisis center. Jade has a heart for women and families struggling with perinatal mental health issues including fertility and miscarriage. Jade believes a strong, therapeutic relationship is the foundation from which healing and change are built. She takes an experiential approach to counseling and combines Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Mindfulness to help her clients gain insight and find healing. She is also EMDR trained. Jade is passionate about seeing her clients walk in the freedom that comes from knowing their inherent worth and living life authentically.
Areas of Interest: anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, grief, identity development, life transitions, miscarriage and infertility, and postpartum anxiety and depression
Kacy Combest
M.S., LPC
Kacy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University and went on to receive her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2019. She feels blessed to be able to walk alongside children, teens, young adults, and families in their journey through life and to help them overcome their current struggles. She is a trauma informed therapist, trained in EMDR and uses an eclectic approach with techniques from Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Trust-Based Relational Intervention techniques. She strives for a safe and comfortable environment where each client is able to express themself without holding back. She makes sure that her clients feel heard and empowered to embrace their own unique journey and strives to work together to help put those broken and lost pieces back together again.
Areas of interest: emotion regulation, anxiety, stress management, depression, self image/self-esteem, family problems, time management, trauma
Blair Warren
M.A., LPC
Director of Marketing
Blair is a Licensed Professional Counselor that graduated with his M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Texas at Tyler. As an East Texas native, he’s committed to serving and coming alongside couples, adults, and teens in the area who are experiencing a variety of issues. Blair is EMDR trained and strives to empower clients, knowing each person is unique and able to create positive change in their own life.
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Areas of Interest: couples, porn and sexual addiction, men's issues, life transitions, emotion regulation,
anxiety, stress management, trauma, self-care
Lesa Bell
M.A., LPC- Associate
Lesa has her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Regent University, and is a LPC- Associate. She is under the supervision of Kayla Attaway M.A., LPC-S. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University. She is EMDR trained and passionate about supporting clients as they work towards well-being, growth, resiliency, and life satisfaction; true human flourishing. She is married and has three grown children.
Areas of interest: Individual counseling focused on life transitions, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, grief, family of origin issues, relationship issues, and stress management.
Maggi Moore
M.A., LPC, RPT
Director of Children's Therapy
Maggi is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist who enjoys working with children, teens, and adults. She first began working with adolescents and families while teaching middle school and coaching various sports. During her five years in the education field, she developed a passion for walking alongside her students and their families. She graduated with her M. A. in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Texas at Tyler. She believes all people are created with worth and purpose and she desires to create a safe place for her clients that promotes healing, strength, and hope. Maggi focuses on identifying her client’s strengths and goals and works with children as young as four, adolescents, families, and young adults. She is EMDR trained and utilizes play, art, music, and other creative modalities in therapy. One of her greatest joys is seeing her client’s grow and recognize their worth.
Maggi’s specialties include: Play Therapy, emotion regulation, anxiety, stress, depression, parenting issues, identity development, relationship issues, and body image
Dominique Jackquet
M.A., LPC
Dominique is a Licensed Professional Counselor receiving her M.A in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Texas at Tyler. She is passionate about the family unit and believes that everyone has a story that deserves to be heard. She has worked with a variety of ages including kids, teens, and adults. Dominique has experience working in school settings, foster care, and adoption, as well as kids on the Autism Spectrum. She focuses on attachment and is trauma-based relational intervention informed. She is intentional in utilizing different therapeutic modalities, such as play therapy and body somatic techniques and internal family systems to help bring healing and restoration to families and individuals. She is also EMDR trained. Dominique desires for her clients to be empowered and considers it an honor to hear clients' stories and is excited to walk alongside them in their healing journeys.
Areas of Interest: foster care/adoption, play therapy, anxiety, depression, family related issues, trauma, life adjustment, self-care, identity
M.A., LPC-S
Director of Staff Care
Kayla Attaway is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor that completed her graduate work at the University of Texas at Tyler in 2011. She has worked with a variety of ages in different settings including a crisis office, school setting and a residential treatment center working with behavioral issues. She is EMDR trained and is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy allowing her to help clients identify, challenge, and modify unhelpful beliefs. Kayla supports her clients to help them tell their story by allowing them to feel empowered, and by creating a safe place for healing.
Areas of interest: emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, addiction, stress management, grief, obsessive compulsive disorder and trauma
Master of Public Health, Certified Nutrition Coach
Shelbie Lambert, MPH, CNC is an East Texas native, passionate about helping individuals heal mind and body with nutrition, get to the root of their symptoms and feel their best. Shelbie worked as a medical assistant and nurse tech while working on her Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s in Public Health. While spending time in conventional medicine, she noticed that many of her patients suffered from chronic illnesses that could be majorly improved or healed with diet and lifestyle changes. After transitioning to the public health sector and helping to develop various disease prevention and mental health programming, she noticed that nutrition was still not emphasized as a major
aspect of one’s physical and mental health. After receiving multiple certifications in health, wellness, and functional nutrition, she now provides evidence-based education to her clients on how to use food as medicine so they can stop simply managing their symptoms but get to the root cause and heal. The functional nutrition and holistic health approach combines natural therapies, functional lab
testing and nutritional counseling to treat the whole person. She believes that physical and mental health shouldn’t be treated as two separate issues and nutrient deficiencies can manifest as mental health symptoms and vice versa!
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Areas of Interest: gut and hormone health, maternal health, pregnancy and postpartum nutrition,
mineral and nutritional imbalances, functional lab testing
Office Manager
Linnea Oller is responsible for keeping Restore moving forward and caring for clients' administrative needs. Thanks to her nine years of experience working in counseling offices, she is skilled at organization and loves assisting clients and our staff to make sure everyone is cared for well. She is compassionate and kind and understands the needs of our clients, pairing them well with the counselor that best fits their situation. She will be the first voice you hear when you contact us, and the first face you see when you come in. We are thankful to have her in our office, and are excited for you to get to meet her too!
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