Meet Your Village
Our team is full of experienced and talented practitioners. Each person offers valuable services and knowledge to our community. Get to know your village!
Dr. Kari O'Grady
CEO & Licensed Psychologist
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Dr. O'Grady is a licensed clinical psychologist with a focus on being with people in their suffering and fostering resilience. Her extensive experience includes leading teams to address collective trauma in various locations worldwide, publications on trauma and resilience, and training hundreds of psychologists and mental health clinicians. She has served in leadership roles within the American Psychological Association. Known for her compassionate approach, she specializes in trauma-focused therapy and consultation, operating from an ecological perspective in both clinical practice, training, and research.
Kennedy Demboski, LCMHC
Individual Therapy, EMDR Children and Adults
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Kennedy has been working closely with children in high-need settings since her early career, where she worked in behavioral health with children in the foster care system, supporting youth with complex trauma across multiple roles.
Kennedy works with children, teens, and adults navigating trauma, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and challenges related to emotional regulation and behavior. She brings a trauma-focused lens to her work, recognizing that many behaviors are often misunderstood responses to underlying experiences. Her approach is thoughtful, structured, and supportive, helping clients move toward healing at a pace that is both safe and effective.
Kennedy strives to create a space where clients feel safe, secure, and free from judgment. She values openness in the therapeutic relationship and encourages questions, helping clients feel confident in being themselves. She feels most aligned with her work when clients begin to show up authentically and develop trust in both themselves and the process.
Camille Anderson, ACMHC
Individual Trauma Informed Psychotherapy
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Camille’s path toward becoming a therapist was shaped by a lifelong commitment to supporting growth and development in others. Through years of working with children, families, and community organizations, she developed a deep appreciation for how people learn, adapt, and build resilience over time. Influenced by early experiences in Montessori education, she brings a strong belief in each person’s capacity for agency, growth, and meaningful change.
Camille's therapy focuses on clarifying values, self-understanding, and life progression. She strives to create a space where clients feel fully accepted as they are, without pressure to perform or change. She feels most aligned with her work when clients gain clarity, connect more deeply with their values, and begin to engage with themselves and their lives in a more authentic and intentional way.
Thomas Yeung, AMFT
Marriage & Family Therapy, EMDR
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Thomas is passionate about using systematic processes to improve clients' physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual health through an experiential approach to counseling. Specializing in interracial marriages and first-generation immigrant/international students, Thomas possesses a unique understanding of the struggles and perspectives of international students.
He was awarded the AAMFT Minority Fellowship in 2022 and named Student of the Year in 2023 by the Utah Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (UAMFT). He holds certifications in Gottman Therapy Level 1, EMDR Basic Training Part 1, CAMS-care and is informed in SFBT, DBT, experiential therapy, and ACT. He offers services in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese.
David Briggs, Ed.S, NCSP
Psychological Testing & Individual Therapy
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David has experience working with children, adolescents and young adults in various settings on mental health challenges such as anxiety, anger, depression, ADHD, Autism and ODD. He has extensive psychological testing experience having worked as a school psychologist and in private practice.
Areas of testing expertise include cognitive, academic, personality, social, emotional, behavioral, adaptive, autism, ADHD and executive functioning. David’s therapy approach is grounded in trauma-focused CBT and DBT with elements of mindfulness and acceptance.
Katie Atkinson
Graduate Intern
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Katie often says her path to becoming a therapist was shaped throughout her whole life. Growing up, family communication patterns were constantly shifting, which taught her how relationships shape the way people understand themselves. Watching the impact therapy had on herself and so many loved ones left a lasting impression of the benefits mental health counseling can provide. What she once saw as being a peace-maker, she later recognized as a gift for being present with others and helping them find their own peace.
Working under Kennedy Demboski's and Dr. O'Grady's mentorship, Katie focuses on helping people reconnect with their own worth and sense of possibility. She believes therapy should be a space where people can speak honestly, reflect openly, and begin to see themselves with more clarity and compassion. Katie values the opportunity to learn within a collaborative clinical community while supporting clients in meaningful and lasting change.
Callie Canlas, CMHC Intern
Individual Therapy
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Callie’s path toward becoming a therapist was shaped by both her work in Utah’s mental health community and her own experiences navigating major life transitions. After a season of unexpected change that upended the life she thought she had planned, she developed a deeper understanding of how disorienting it can feel when everything shifts at once and how much courage it takes to rebuild in ways that reflect who you truly are.
She believes resilience can be learned and that healing often unfolds in layers over time. In her office, Callie hopes clients can exhale from the pressures of everyday life and feel hopeful, supported, and empowered as they reconnect with their own strength and capacity. At Resilience Village, Callie works under the mentorship of Kennedy Demboski and Dr. Kari O’Grady. She feels most aligned with her work when clients recognize how powerful they truly are, begin to trust themselves, and meet themselves with greater compassion.
Madison Arnold
Graduate Intern
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Madison was drawn to the field of therapy through personal experiences with loss, anxiety, and the quiet weight of feeling like a burden to others. Those experiences shaped an early understanding of how complex grief, trauma, and healing can be, and they continue to inform the empathy and humility she brings to her work with clients.
Under Kennedy Demboski's and Dr. O'Grady's mentorship, Madison strives to create a space where people feel safe to be themselves, accepted, understood, and able to speak openly without fear of judgment. understands that resilience looks like showing up, asking for help, and taking healing one step at a time.
For her, the most meaningful moments in therapy are when clients begin to see themselves with more understanding and compassion and start using the skills they’ve learned to face challenges that once felt impossible.
Learn More About Us
Our team works in extreme trauma contexts around the world to understand healing and resilience processes from a scientific and on-the-ground perspective. Our research and field work informs our practice with individuals, organizations, communities and nations seeking to heal wounds and grow capacity. Dr. O'Grady and Dr. Orton are co-founders of the Center for Resilience Leadership and Resilience Village.
Dr. Kari O'Grady
Founder & CEO
Dr. O'Grady is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work as a professor, clinician, leader and researcher has focused on being with people in their suffering and helping them grow resilience. She has taken teams to conduct research and provide training and consultation services to people experiencing collective trauma and crisis in places such as Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Netherlands, China. Ferguson, Missouri USA, and Baltimore, Maryland USA. She has also served in leadership roles in the American Psychological Association. Her clinical practice and research takes place from an ecological perspective. She has built a reputation for working with complex problems with compassion and care. She has expertise providing therapy and consultation to physical and behavioral healthcare workers.
