Our Team

Dr. Andrew J. Bauman

Founder & Director of the Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health & Trauma (CCC), Dr. Andrew J. Bauman is a licensed mental health counselor with a Doctorate from Northeastern University. His dissertation was on studying the impact of sexism and abuse on women in the Protestant Church. Andrew is the author of seven books, his newest book is called SAFE CHURCH: What Women Can Teach Us about Sexism, Abuse and Safety within Christian Community (2024)

Dr. Christy V. Bauman

Founder & Director of the CCC, Dr. Christy Vidrine Bauman is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, a fierce dreamer, and passionate about advocating for women.

Christy received her Bachelors’s degree from Texas A&M in 2002 and then her Masters in Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in 2007 and her doctorate at Seattle Pacific University and is researching Shame and Sexuality in Women in 2020. She published the book Unearth in 2008, A Brave Lament in 2018, and Theology of the Womb in 2020. She is certified in Medical Family Therapy and Trauma and Abuse.

Melissa Mayburgh

Melissa is the administrative assistant with the CCC. She is also a Christian content writer and theology student. She has a compassionate desire to see the hurting healed, and excited about helping you connect with the services of the CCC!

Jeffrey Batstone

Jeffrey is a relational psychotherapist helping people process trauma and heal abusive patterns, deepen awareness of their unique identities, and restore them to the relationships that matter most. He works with men, women, and couples and believes the strongest remedy for growth and healing is a wildly kind and gentle approach.

He specializes in spiritual and sexual issues and approaches therapy with the understanding that Western culture’s abusive and addictive relationships with sex and spirituality are normalized and that the healing path is living a counter-cultural life.

He helps people who have experienced sexual and/or spiritual abuse and those who have unwanted adult patterns of behavior.

Jeffrey received his master’s education at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2010 and his doctorate in counseling psychology at Argosy University Seattle in 2019. For the past two decades, he’s worked in private practice, men’s healing organizations and churches to bring more wholeness to individuals, communities, and the world.

He’s a licensed mental health counselor in Washington State and a life coach practicing in person and online. His office is a short walk from the Bremerton ferry dock or just a few clicks away.

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Marcus Schmaling

Marcus Schmaling, MDiv, MC (candidate), was a pastor for a decade in Canada, trying to help people grow and heal, all the while not knowing he was desperately running from his own inner pain and past traumas. Through a very difficult high-conflict separation/divorce (involving 4 children), and stepping down from public ministry, and through years of intensive therapy (including Andrew Bauman men’s intensives), Marcus experienced profound healing from emotionally-immature patterns of behaviour, including addiction, codependency, and an inability to be truly vulnerable. Now years into his journey toward authentic and courageous masculinity, Marcus coaches clients on how to face their struggles and failures in relationships to self and others. Having been on both sides of emotional dysfunction/abuse, Marcus offers a non-judgmental, compassionate, yet radically honest presence where those seeking help are offered both support and challenge. Healing is possible, but it cannot happen to the depths you desire if done alone. Let’s journey together!

“The greatest question in all the world is simply this: ‘What are you doing with your pain?’” — Richard Rohr.

Kevin Reeves

Kevin is certified as a Professional Co-Active Coach and is also certified through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). His undergrad degree is in Christian Education from Biola University and before becoming a coach, he was a pastor. However, after about 5-years on the pastoral circuit, Kevin realized that being a pastor wasn’t where he wanted to be, and through that, he found coaching.

Coaching and therapy can beautifully compliment each other while being different. Where therapy tends to focus on the past and present, valuable for understanding where we’ve come from and our origin story, coaching focuses more on the present and future and supports us to choose what the next chapter might look like. So while we all have some degree of trauma, we are not defined by our trauma. It is not your identity.

Kevin works with individuals from all faith backgrounds. Bring your story and your trauma and learn to navigate your inner critic, to honor your values, to shift your perspectives, and take part in the journey of becoming the confident partner/leader/parent/human that you choose to be.

Kevin offers 50-minute phone and/or Zoom sessions and is currently taking new clients.

Ryan Ginn

Ryan is a professional counselor and coach who provides a compassionate and encouraging space for individuals and couples to meet their life in a more empowered and functional way. He works with clients in dynamic style based on his extensive training in mindfulness and psychobiologically based therapies. He has led men’s groups and been a men’s coach for over 15 years, having formulated his own process for coaching men into functional and thriving relationship. He is a trained IFS, Hakomi, and PACT (psychobiological approach to couples therapy) practitioner.

Nicole Irene

Nicole is a domestic violence advocate, trauma informed coach, and affiliate with CCC. She has over 5 years experience working with Northwest Family Life, a faith based learning and counseling center whose main focus is domestic violence. Nicole specializes in working with people who have had power and control wielded against them. She delights in seeing survivors of abuse find safety and make their own meaningful life choices. 

Nicole works with a wide range of people wanting to examine issues of power and control, including those in relationship with current or previous abusive partners, those exploring childhood domestic violence, and those working through issues of abuse from a parent, sibling, religious institution, workplace or other. 

“As a DV survivor, I believe firsthand in the transformative power of education, and the paramount importance of being held in a safe community. Exploring dynamics of power and control can be painful. My work incorporates somatic techniques to help you ground, calm and build internal safety as you heal and grow.”

Brian Petermeyer

Brian is a mental health counselor and coach with CCC. He received his Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in 2021. Brian believes that healing, growth, and change happen through an authentic relationship and that the journey towards healthy sexuality and wholeness is best done together. Brian is honored to accompany those who are desire to go.

Lauren Little

Lauren is a spiritual director affiliate of CCC with training in the contemplative tradition through Leadership Transformation’s Selah Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction. Spiritual Direction is a form of spiritual companionship in which the director serves as an attentive witness to the spiritual life of another offering hospitable space to quiet down, tune in, and actively engage through prayer with what God is inviting.

Lauren is also a designer, artist, and writer with interest and experience in centering prayer, grief work and rituals, racial trauma an healing, decolonizing and re-imagining faith, and integrating art and spirituality. She accompanies those experiencing grief, the spiritually curious, unsettled, and devoted looking for a safe space to listen for the deepest thing that is already there.

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Jessica Bahr

Jessica is a trauma-informed Therapeutic Coach with a M.A. in Mental Health Counseling. She works with individuals and couples around issues of relational trauma, intimacy disorders, sexuality, betrayal trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, spiritual abuse and spiritual bypassing, as well as developing a stronger sense of Self and self-worth.

Jessica works with people from all faiths with an open heart and mind, and with the goals of helping her clients achieve self awareness, healthy boundaries, relational health, and healing and growth beyond what they may have thought possible. Jessica is a certified Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Coach – Terry Real’s work, and has been trained in Secret Sex Lives and Betrayal Trauma, Working with Men (Terry Real), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Mate). She is currently enrolled in a 60-hour certification program to learn Somatic and EMDR treatments for trauma and nervous system healing.

Jessica got her undergraduate degree in Media Studies and has a passion for dissecting the media and the impact it has on shaping our ideas, attitudes and behaviors towards ourselves and others. This has led to her pursuit of an in-depth understanding of the harms of pornography (on the body, brain and interpersonally) and to her serving on the Board of Directors of the cutting-edge non-profit organization, Culture Reframed for many years. Jessica offers 50-minute or 80-minute video sessions. You can visit her website at www.relationshifting.com and email her at jessicaskybahr@gmail.com to schedule a meeting.

Trent Dollyhigh

“My past immaturity, lack of courage, fear and unhealthy sexuality cost me almost everything. My journey from brokenness to redemption gives me a real understanding of how to guide you. Failure isn’t the end but a new beginning.” -Trent

Trent Dollyhigh, MDiv, CPM, CPLC coaches men in our deceptive sexuality and abuse recovery program. Because of his own failures he has a unique perspective into the heart of men and can walk beside them as they walk through issues of integrity disorders, deceptive sexuality and betrayal. Email him today to schedule your session.