Cris Corzine-McCloskey
LCSW & Agency Director
Cris Corzine-McCloskey earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and her Master’s degree in Social Work from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has served at Caring Counseling Ministries since 2008 and brings experience across nearly every area of counseling, from marriage and family work to addiction, trauma, and everyday life struggles.
Cris is not your average Christian counselor — and she never pretends to be.
Before becoming a therapist and nonprofit executive, Cris lived on the other side of the systems she now leads. A former drug addict who has been sober for over twenty years and who served time in prison, she knows what it feels like to lose everything and have no way out — except grace. Her recovery is not a story of self-improvement, but of being rescued by Jesus when she could not rescue herself.
Today, Cris is the Executive Director of Caring Counseling Ministries, a nonprofit agency rooted in the belief that no one is beyond redemption. CCM serves those who don’t fit neatly into the world — people struggling with addiction, trauma, anxiety, OCD, poverty, and deep shame — because those are exactly the people Christ has always gone after.
Clinically, Cris specializes in anxiety disorders, OCD, attachment wounds, eating disorders, and trauma. Her approach blends evidence-based care such as CBT and exposure therapy with faith-sensitive counseling that honors both psychological truth and spiritual reality, including space for doubt, anger, and honest wrestling with God.
She is also the creator of Gracie the Wonder Dog, a children’s book series inspired by the same grace that saved her — stories that gently remind children they are loved, protected, and never too broken to be held by God.
Because of her own journey, Cris believes there is no such thing as a hopeless case. She welcomes people from every background and walk of life, offering a counseling space marked by dignity, safety, and respect — including those who have felt rejected or harmed by religious spaces.
Cris works with individuals, couples, and families, with a special heart for marriage counseling. She believes healing begins with knowing who we are in Christ and how deeply we are loved. When she’s not counseling, she’s usually with her husband and their joyful pack of unruly dogs.
The scripture that best captures her story is Romans 5:20–21 (The Message):
“Sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace… Grace… invites us into life — a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.”
Sarah Fletcher
LCPC, Certified TFCBT
Sarah has obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Bible from FWBBC in 1981 and Master of Arts in Counseling from Missouri Baptist University in 2016. Sarah is also a pastor’s wife and a certified life coach. She claims Isaiah 43:19 as confirmation of God’s calling and placement in the counseling profession.
Before joining the CCM team, Sarah worked in community mental health. Her skill includes DBT, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, CBT and TF-CBT and recently completed training in EMDR. She works with children, adults, couples, and family counseling.
Sarah is a mother of three, and will soon celebrate 40 years of marriage which she says has been more a roller coaster ride than an interstate trip. She claims God’s grace as the glue and His Word as the staying power of their relationship. Her marital experience and background as a pastor’s wife have given her a wide range of experiences, and she understands the challenges of caregiving and the conflict in families facing addiction. Ministry wives hold a special place in her heart and her practice. Sarah is an avid supporter of Celebrate Recovery, a Christian 12-step program she says God used to change her life.
Ray Cooke
QMHP, MAPC, MPH
Ray has training and experience in individual, family, and group counseling, focusing on individual, relationships, family, marriage, crisis and trauma counseling, and is trained and experienced in faith-based counseling. He also has been trained and is experienced in career counseling to help people explore and develop a career pathway for a satisfying career.
Ray provides counseling services in the CCM office and also has experience counseling in homes, schools, public places, a juvenile detention center and several prisons in the US and Uganda, Africa. Ray values accepting all people as being made in God’s image and thus sacred to God and works with clients to help meet the goals they set. Although Ray attended church regularly as a child and teenager, he believes he was a nominal Christian (in name only) with moral standards for many years. After his 15-yo son passed away in 2003 and he lost his marriage and career, he realized that he was in need of salvation and began to follow God’s way for life.
His approach is a non-judgmental approach that assists with skills for urgent symptoms and searches for the reasons why people feel, think, and do what they do to find healing and closure. Outside of work, Ray loves to spend time with family and friends, hike, fish, kayak, travel and attend a weekly Bible study. He has traveled to every state except Alaska multiple times and loves to travel internationally. Ray loves people, just the way they are.
Dr. Rachel Dawkins
LCSW
Rachel was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She lived there with her military parents and her younger sister until she was 14 years old. Rachel grew up in church and attended a Christian school until she graduated from high school. She has had a relationship with Jesus since the age of 7, when a Sunday school teacher helped her to accept Jesus into her life.
She moved to Illinois in 1991 to begin highschool at Ezra Christian School in West Frankfort, IL. Rachel has two teenage children from a previous marriage and has been married to Ken Dawkins since 2013. Rachel received her Bachelor’s degree from SIU in Social Work in 2013, and her Master’s degree from Arizona State University in Social Work in 2019. She received her Doctorate in Social Work from Capella in 2023.
Rachel has been trained in Trauma Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Eye Movement
Desensitation Reprocessing (EMDR), and has a background in case management and
addiction disorders. She specializes in trauma therapy, personality disorders, substance use,
and dissociative disorders, along with family and couples therapy. Rachel earned her LCSW in
2022. Rachel has a passion for the homeless, the incarcerated, and veterans.
Rachel identifies her life verse as “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Philippians 4:13. This verse has helped to empower her to follow her dreams of helping others.
Amy Rogers
MSW, QMHP
Amy is a qualified mental health counselor trained in EMDR therapy. She is a mental health counselor at Egyptian Health Department where she works with adolescence who experience childhood trauma and abuse. During her internships in her master’s program, she interned at Caring Counseling Ministries and the Marion VA Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program. She worked with a variety of individuals and veterans who suffer from depression, anxiety, OCD, and trauma. She was influenced by her own experience with childhood trauma to start the journey as a counselor
She attended Southern Illinois University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in psychology and minor in criminology and criminal justice. She continued at SIU for her graduate degree where she completed her Masters of Social Work program. During her time in her master’s program, she focused on trauma-informed behavioral health treatment. She is an alumnus of SIU School of Medicine Trauma-Based Behavioral Health Fellowship.
In her personal life, she enjoys spending time with her two adult children. She enjoys being outdoors, her cats, and enjoying time with her powerful group of friends. She is motivated by her own experiences and her relationship with Jesus to see individuals free from the bondages of trauma, anxiety, and depression. She believes that God loves ALL and it is through our relationship with Jesus that transforms us into the people HE meant for us to be.
Rhonda Burnett
LCPC
Rhonda’s life experiences include recovery from alcohol use disorder, working as a coal miner, Professional Counselor, bookkeeper, therapist, and a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from Southern Illinois University in University Studies and Rehabilitation Counseling. Rhonda’s passion is to help others overcome their life challenges.
In her personal life, Rhonda is very active in the recovery community through Celebrate Recovery, serves as a sponsor for numerous women, and is active in her church.
Professionally, she provides adult behavioral health in substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, spiritual issues, grief, and co-existing conditions.
Her life verse is Phillipians 1:6 “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.”