LIOS Faculty

For over 25 years, Bill Braswell has been an innovative educator, business manager and consultant. He specializes in helping managers implement change initiatives, develop leadership skills, and improve process and people performance. His clients have included electronics, specialty chemical, chemical distribution, appliance manufacturing, insurance and health care industries in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Mr. Braswell’s particular interest is in systems thinking, organizational development and quality management. He enjoys linking these areas of interest to improved planning processes and operational systems in businesses.

Librarian Lorelette Knowles received her MA in Musicology from the University of Toronto and her MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. She has worked in public, corporate, elementary school, and academic libraries, and joined the LIOS Graduate College staff in 1997. In addition to her library and research duties, she teaches LIOS’ only “blended course” (one which is presented mostly online with some face-to-face contact) in “information literacy,” and helps with editing and proof-reading of LIOS’ materials. Her interests include music (singing and playing recorders and keyboard instruments), theology and worship, baking, flower arranging, swimming, and walking. She is a member of Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers, and writes most of the program notes for their concerts."""

Anne Lucas took a circuitous path to her work as a therapist. Her first career spanned 18 years in the building industry in Southern California moving from accounting clerk to Controller/CFO where she gained an expertise in business and accounting, team building, group and organizational dynamics and structures. In 1990 the California building industry crashed and Anne moved to Washington State where in 1993 she made the decision to embrace change and headed back to school to finish a long overdue Bachelors degree. Either by a cosmic accident or intervention, she stumbled into the LIOS program, graduating with her Bachelors in 1995 and completing her Masters in 1997.
Anne did her internship at Fairfax Psychiatric which led to her being hired a family therapist for the next three years in the hospital setting working primarily with children, adolescents and their families. Her relationship with the psychiatrists on staff at Fairfax opened another door for her when they invited her to join their expanding clinic practice. In 1998 Anne joined The Evergreen Clinic where she completed her externship and where she continues to practice, working with a wide range of mental illness and individual, couple and family issues. In 2009, she completed the training and requirements to become a State Approved Supervisor in Washington for licensure candidates and began supervising graduates.
In 2006, Anne was drawn to focus on couples work – premarital, marital, divorce and remarriage. Like most therapists, Anne recognized the emotional aftermath of divorce and the echoes it can have through post-divorce relationships for all family members. She found an answer in a healthier way to divorce through Collaborative Law and in 2007 she joined the Collaborative Law community as a Family Specialist. Her expertise in this role and the community continues to grow. She is part of an interdisciplinary training group - The Seattle Collaborative Law Training Group - whose purpose is developing curriculum and trainings for collaborative professionals in the United States and Canada. Anne is currently Vice President on the King County Collaborative Law Board of Directors and will be the first mental health professional to serve as President in 2011-2012.
In 2011 Anne will again be expanding her practice, this time as a mediator. She was invited to join Alhadeff and Forbes Mediation Affiliates where she will be mediating family, medical, construction and partnership disputes.
Credentials
•MA, Applied Behavioral Science – Bastyr University, Leadership Institute of Seattle June 1997
•BA, Applied Behavioral Science – Bastyr University, Leadership Institute of Seattle June 1995
•Licensed Mental Health Counselor, State of Washington – License #LH00006483 Sept 1999
•State Approved Supervisor, Washington State 2009
•Professional Member – American Counseling Association – 2003
•Member King County Collaborative Law - 2007
•International Association of Collaborative Professionals - 2007
•Member Collaborative Professionals of Washington – 2008
•Member King County Bar Association – 2007
•Member Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies - 2009
•Vice President, King County Collaborative Law Board of Directors, past Co-Chair of Cascadia Group, KCCL Family Law Practice Group, current Chair Curiousing and Ponderment Pod, Chair KCCL Mentoring Committee
•Certifications in: Grief Counseling, Job Management Skills, Small Business Management
•Management of Information Systems, Employee Development and Management Programs – University of California at San Diego, National University (San Diego), Mira Costa College

For the past 16 years Joan Mara has provided consulting, facilitation and coaching to help leaders, teams, organizations and forums achieve high performance. With high performance comes results, learning, and the satisfaction of goal accomplishment both individually and as teams. Mara Consulting works internationally with Forum and Peer Advisory Groups through YPO-WPO, the Entrepreneurs Organization and other leadership associations, and provides management consulting, facilitation and executive coaching services to individual leaders, executive teams and organizations.

Jason began his work in the human services field at age nineteen, providing respite care for “at risk” youth. Over the ensuing fifteen years Jason has held a variety of service jobs including outpatient day programs for developmentally disabled children/ adults, geriatric in home services, community work with at risk youth, summer camp administration, and for the last eight years he has been immersed in juvenile justice and evidenced based programs.
Throughout his educational career Jason has focused on programs that provide opportunity for experiential learning. In 2005 Jason received a Master’s degree from the LIOS program at Bastyr University in Applied Behavioral Science. In 1998 he earned a Bachelor’s degree in the psychology of Religion from Burlington College in Vermont.
Jason is a specialist in data driven, evidence based programs and has served as a family therapist and supervisor for Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) as well as the Functional Family Therapy (FFT). He spent two and a half years working for the state of Washington as a Functional Family Parole (FFP) officer, family therapist and program manager for the Functional Family Parole program in King County (Seattle). Jason has had extensive training in community supervision protocols and specializes in cultural competency and inclusion programs that address issues of diversity in service delivery.
Currently, Jason is a national consultant for Functional Family Inc. providing consultation and supervision for FFT Child Welfare in New York, FFP in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Amsterdam and FFT in Washington State. He provides supervision, consultation, training and support services to family therapists, juvenile probation officers and child welfare workers. Jason also co-authored the most recent training manual for Functional Family Probation/Parole.
In addition to his work with evidence based programs Jason is an adjunct faculty member of Saybrook University’s Leadership Institute of Seattle. He teaches master’s level courses in ethics and law, solution focused therapeutic techniques, crisis intervention and research methods of family therapy. Jason also enjoys tennis, yoga, cooking and time spending with his ever expanding family.

Mark Mirante has been an individual, couples, and family therapist for over 23 years. He has worked with a great range of socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, physical health, gender and sexual diversity. For the past 17 + years he has provided supervision and clinical consultation for mental health Counselors, Family Systems therapists, social workers, case managers and students of all the above disciplines (school, agency based and graduate programs). He now works as a therapist, clinical supervisor and manager at Southwest Youth and Family Services. He has coordinated various programs provided by SWYFS and has managed/supervised the internship/practicum program since its beginning there. He also has supervised the application of the evidenced-based Multi-systemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy approaches for 8 years at SWYFS.

Mark has also been in private practice in Seattle for the past 3 years where his clientele are couples, and adolescents with their families. He also provides supervision for therapists seeking licensure, and consultation for licensed therapists.

Mark received his BA in Far East Area Studies and Sociology from Sophia University International College in Tokyo, Japan in 1976, a Masters in Business Administration from San Jose State University in 1981, and a Masters in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle in 1987. Concurrent with his studies in psychology and systemically oriented individual and family therapy at Antioch, he completed training at the first US northwestern region AAMFT certified clinical training program in marriage and family therapy - a 2 year program provided by Presbyterian Counseling Service (now Samaritan Center of Puget Sound) in 1988.

Since grad school Mark has been extremely interested in the intricacies of human communication and what it takes to assist others to truly know their true value in the world and to communicate that to the people important to them. The primary focus of his ongoing study has been of Ericksonian (Milton) oriented psychotherapies (which includes working with natural trance states, perceiving relationally, and attending to subtle communication), Narrative Therapy, Hakomi body-oriented psychotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Emotionally Focus Therapy and approaches to psychotherapy that employ what we are learning from research on Attachment Theory. He, also, is fascinated with how therapists learn to use themselves most effectively to make the greatest beneficial impact. He loves to help new therapists improve on their ability to do so. His stance is similar to that of the research that has found that it is the humble relationship with one's client that is the most important. Keeping this constantly in mind, he draws a great deal of guidance from Sue Johnson and Lee Greenberg’s teaching and attachment researchers on how primary emotional expression and genuine connection is immensely important in the healing of wounded relationships.

Mark has throughout his career found solace and satisfaction helping people in distress with seemingly few resources who struggle to maintain hope. Knowing that his clients are experiencing what his own parents did during their childhood has maintained his desire to help others in great need.

Mark’s greatest joy is his 25 and 22 year old daughters and his relationship with them as their father. Although he and their mother recently ended their 29 year relationship (27 married) they are congenially and collaboratively providing supportive and loving support and guidance to them as young adults whenever it is needed."

Mary Beth O'Neill is a leadership consultant, executive coach, author, and leader of the Executive Coach Training Series.

Mary Beth has coached a range of leaders, from CEOs, to senior vice presidents, and directors. She works with executives and their teams as well as 1-1 with leaders. Her passion and specialty is to help clients leverage their leadership development to produce bottom line business results. Some of her clients have included Nike, Premera Blue Cross, Microsoft, Waggener Edstrom, REI, Marguerite Casey Foundation, TransAlta Utilities Corporation, and Amazon.

Mary Beth’s book, "Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges", is one of the best selling executive coaching books at Amazon.com. It has been translated into 5 languages.

Dr. Swanson has over 40 years experience working in technical organizations. He is recently retired as a Senior Organization Advisor with The Boeing Company. After a successful twelve-year career as a Nuclear Analytical Chemist he changed fields to applied behavioral science and worked as an internal organizational consultant in three technical organizations. He has consulted to most businesses of the Boeing Company and many elements of the Lockheed Corporation as well as elements of the Navy, Air Force and Army. His passion is the development of a broad systemic perspective among all those he consults to.

Dr. Swanson’s is, at heart, a teacher. Beginning at Antioch University, he has worked with or for LIOS since 1990. He has taught Organization Theory, Leadership, Systems Thinking and Statistics and is the author of the text book, Statistics: A User Friendly Guide: Especially for the Mathematically Challenged."