Meet The Team
Owners at The Carpenter Shed
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“I have always been high functioning and driven,” Josh said, “But I was one of those guys who didn’t show much emotion, I didn’t know how to let myself be vulnerable, let other people in. On the outside, I was this stallion of a man. Inside, I never thought I was good enough, never at peace, always trying to fill a void.”
Josh started working with his father-in-law at his cabinetry shop and helping him in his work with people battling addiction. For Josh, his faith in a redeeming savior was a big part of it. He became recovery minster at White’s Ferry Road Church–a strong, diverse congregation there to help people with any type of “hurt, habit or hang-up.” At WFR Church, Josh helped establish Celebrate Recovery, now one of the largest CR programs in the county. Josh founded The Carpenter Shed in 2016.
“It’s not just about counting sobriety days here–it’s about changing hearts. There’s a step that’s missing between rehab and real life and we try to fill it,” Josh said. “We also offer support to our residents who, for some reason or another, just aren’t living up to their potential. Our goal is to help young men who think they’re nothing turn into something.”
As a lifetime health enthusiast, Josh believes the exercise, strength training, and sports component of the program is one of the biggest pieces to its success. The physical strength they gain replicates what they’re doing in recovery. “You find out more about yourself when you work out with your brothers,” Josh explained. “So, we workout, interact, play basketball with the guys…they feel themselves getting stronger in every way.”
On a personal level, Josh was fortunate to marry the love of his life, his high school sweetheart, Cherry Owen. Together, they have three boys – a seven-year-old and 15-year-old twins.
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“At The Carpenter Shed, we’re doing what’s worked to raise young men for thousands of years,” Andrew said. “We have a tribe of guys here and we do life together. They learn to do things because it’s good and right–not because it’s what their parents and grandparents want.”
It’s Andrew’s hope that when your son leaves The Carpenter Shed, you won’t get back the same kid just minus the drugs, the porn, the gaming addiction, the waywardness or the idleness. Andrew’s goal is for your son to leave truly transformed, believing that he has a sense of purpose that will be a loss if not fulfilled–not just for him but for the world.
Today Andrew is married, happily, to Helen and is the father of two sons, ages four and 11. Their oldest child became a part of their family after his boss died, leaving her adopted son with no one and nowhere to go. Andrew and Helen found room in their home and in their hearts.
“Adopted kids have a set of very unique, primal wound challenges,” Andrew said. “But raising any boy in today’s world isn’t easy. At The Carpenter Shed, we understand that on both a professional and personal level.”
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While serving in Iraq, Kyle was badly injured when a child threw a grenade into his truck in Bagdad–just a month after his marriage to his wife Kasie. Unable to walk for months, his body covered in shrapnel, Kyle developed a reliance on both drugs and alcohol. Later, his whole unit, the men he once led, were killed in an ambush. Add survivor’s guilt to the list of things Kyle would have to overcome. “I should’ve been there,” he told himself. “Maybe I could have stopped it.”
“Eventually, I was drinking, eating pills by the handful, and even doing intravenous drugs. My wife left me. I burned my life to the ground,” Kyle said.
Kyle went to rehab five times. Finally, after only 11 days sober, he found himself in the parking lot of WFR Church, looking for the Celebrate Recovery group, ready to stop lying, stop manipulating, ready to turn things over to God. He got through it with his faith, rebuilt his marriage with Kasie, started working for the program, one thing led to another, and now he’s found the life of purpose he once sought in the Army. It’s his turn to give back.
According to Kyle, The Carpenter Shed is different from other transitional programs because the team is authentic, genuine. “Fundamentally, we are all men of character. Still, we are real. We admit life is a scary place, but we show them you have to go through the journey head on.”
When Kyle isn’t helping your family, he’s spending time with his own. He and his wife are raising a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl.
Leadership Team
MS, LMFT, CSAT, CPTT, CMAT, Brainspotting Practitioner
Olivia Mason
Clinical Director
Heather Lary
Marketing & Referral Relations Director
MA, LPC-S,
Brainspotting Practitioner
Christine Adams
Primary Therapist
Lori Townsend
MA, LMFT, EMDR Trained, CCTP-II
Primary Therapist
MA, P-LPC, ASAT-C,
Brainspotting Practitioner
Kendall Robinson
Primary Therapist
Clinical Team
Parker Lee
Allen Tatum
Experiential Therapy Coach I Developmental Counselor
CIT, CPLC
MA, CIT, CPLC
Developmental Counselor
CIT, CPLC
Grant Higgins
Developmental Counselor
Stephen Taylor
CIT, CPLC, ASAT-C
Developmental Counselor
Director of Second Chances
Winston
Cody Robinson
Peyton Garrett
MHA, CPLC
Operations Director
Program Director
CIT, CPLC
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