Janna McMasters
LPC | Director & Owner
Janna McMasters is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Janna earned a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University in 2014 and a Masters of Arts in Counseling with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2019. God called Janna out of Music Education and into ministry as a Christian Counselor in 2015. She has a heart to help people who are hurting and looking for relief, change, and hope.
Janna has been trained as a TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Interventions) Practitioner from Texas Christian University. She is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Janna has been trained in a wide variety of other therapies as well including CBT, Brief Solution-focused, Structural Dissociation, and Family Systems. She works with adults, children, couples, foster, and adoptive families, and adolescents dealing with trauma, dissociative disorders, anxiety, depression, and a variety of other issues.
Bethany Jordan
LPC
Bethany Jordan is a Licensed Professional Counselor devoted to help her clients through every situation they are in. She graduated with her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Bethany has worked in the private practice setting for the past 5 years. She has seen a wide variety of clients over her professional career, including children, individuals, couples, and families. The areas of concerns that she is familiar with are: depression, anxiety, relationship issues, marital abuse, postpartum depression, trauma, self esteem issues, and identity disorders. She desires to help all clients heal from the past, thrive in the present, and be excited for the future.
By taking a collaborative standpoint, she works with each client to determine their goals and how to best incorporate their values, morals, and/or beliefs. She identifies most with a Narrative approach to therapy and heavily believes that each person’s story is completely unique to them, therefore their therapy journey should be just as unique. She also specializes in EMDR therapy, which is a trauma based type of therapy that targets specific negative beliefs a client may have about themselves. It is a great tool to help overcome a number of difficulties a client may have.
Outside of being a therapist, Bethany is a wife and mother. Her favorite things to do are spend time with her family or cozy up with a good book or show
Ron Cathey
LMFT-S, LPC-S, CCC
Ron Cathey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and supervisor (LMFT-S), a Licensed Professional Counselor and supervisor (LPC-S), and a Certified Career Counselor (CCC). Ron earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in History from LA Tech and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Louisiana Monroe. Ron worked in ministry serving the Lord in a variety of capacities for the Gospel before beginning his journey in counseling. He has spent the last 30 years serving God as a marriage and family therapist in northeast Louisiana and most recently as a career counselor and director of career services at LA Tech for the last 24 years before joining us here at Transforming Lives Counseling.
Ron’s work with clients includes couples and family relationships and communication, helping students in adolescence and college, and helping individuals to understand what a meaningful life through work looks like for them. According to Ron, the foundation of all that he does is to help his clients to understand all these issues through working to build and live from a biblical worldview.
Norman Rivera
LPC
Norman is a Licensed Professional Counselor. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of New Orleans, and he began his Masters-level studies at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and later at the University of New Orleans. During this time, he also worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Ochsner Clinic, the Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse, and the River Oaks Psychiatric Hospital in various capacities.
Afterwards, he started his career in school counseling when he joined the counseling department at Jesuit High School in 2003. In 2005, hurricane Katrina moved Norman and his family to Ruston, Louisiana. Here in Ruston, he joined the A. E. Phillips Laboratory School staff as School Counselor in 2007 and completed his Masters of Arts in Counseling at Louisiana Tech in 2008. Currently, Norman continues working as school counselor at A. E. Phillips. Norman is married to his beautiful wife of 24 years, Annie, and has four children: Kailee, Daniel, Gabriel, and Joseph.
