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TERESA PEDEN is
candidate for licensure for Licensed Marital and Family
Therapy and Licensed Professional Counseling. She also serves
as a Pastoral Associate of LifeCare Ministries for Crossings
Community Church and has been employed there since June of
2006. Before moving to Crossings, she served as Executive
Director of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in
Oklahoma. She worked at the Oklahoma
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for
over 28 years. She served in many capacities with the
Department, but for the last ten years of her tenure, she
served as the Director of Human Resource Development and
coordinated statewide seminars and conferences with the
Oklahoma Institute on Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Education and Training.
Teresa has
served on the Governor’s Mental Health Transformation Advisory
Board since 2006. Teresa has a Masters in Marital and Family
Therapy from Southern Nazarene University and a Masters in
Public Health (Health Administration and Policy) from the
University of Oklahoma. She is married to Cliff Peden and has
two grown children, Amber and Wade. She enjoys spending time
with family, as well as water skiing, wakeboarding, and snow
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