About us
When life feels like it’s too much, Milestones offers a refuge and a place of healing.
Milestones is a comprehensive and bespoke residential therapy experience that focuses on healing what hurts and finding a new way forward. When you’re ready to address the trauma, anxiety, codependency, and PTSD that’s weighing you down—we’re here for you.
Warm, welcoming, and world class
Our experience combines cutting-edge trauma therapy, a holistic approach, and a warm, nurturing community environment to facilitate deep healing and lifelong transformations for trauma survivors of all kinds.
Leaders, clinicians, and partners in your healing journey
During your stay, you will be supported by a team of professional therapists, clinicians, advocates, and medical professionals who focus on caring for your whole being. We’re committed to providing exceptional experiences and service.
Our vision and mission
An emotionally well world and humanity reconnected
Our mission is to design and deliver transformational experiences that optimize life and build meaning and value into the human experience.
A legacy of healing
Milestones began in 2014 as an expansion of the work of Onsite, world-renowned for workshops and therapeutic intensives. For over 45 years, Onsite, and now Milestones, has designed and delivered transformational experiences that optimize life and build meaning and value into the human experience.
These are the values that anchor us in
Support from all sides for everyone
Milestones is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment and valuing and celebrating the unique experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives of all the individuals we serve.
Diversity enriches our community, and by embracing differences, we create a space where everyone feels heard, respected, and supported on their healing journey.
Warm, welcoming, and world class
Meet our team
Amanda Morrow
Clinical Supervisor
Amanda Morrow
Clinical Supervisor
Amanda Morrow, MS, serves as the Milestones’ Clinical Supervisor. Amanda previously served as a Primary Therapist for the residents of Milestones, Onsite’s Residential Trauma Program. In this role, Amanda had the honor of walking with clients as they explore the depths of their pain and helps equip them to walk through that pain towards healing.
Before coming to Onsite, Amanda worked as a therapist in a residential treatment center that dealt with addiction, mental health, and traumas. In addition, she also worked as a psychoeducational therapist in an outpatient treatment center for adolescent males. After attending Psychodrama and Experiential Training Institute programs for mental health professionals on our campus, Amanda left hoping to work at Onsite. She longed to work for a program that integrated experiential modalities to treat individuals holistically.
Ian Chapman
Therapist
Ian Chapman
Therapist
Ian Chapman, LMSW, currently serves as a Primary Therapist for the residents of Milestones, Onsite’s Residential Trauma Program. In his role, Ian walks alongside clients as they do deep healing work.
Before becoming a therapist, Ian served the mental health community through research. Ian previously held the role of Clinical Research Coordinator, creating and conducting outcomes research on several Onsite programs. He also worked as a Research Assistant in the Langer Mindfulness at Harvard University and later as the Clinical Intern at the Boston Public Health Commission and the Multiservice Eating Disorder Association (MEDA). As a therapist, Ian is trained in experiential, EMDR, and trauma stage processing modalities. He previously served as a Primary Therapist at Integrative Life Center before returning to Onsite to join the Milestones Team.
Laurel Powell
Therapist
Laurel Powell
Therapist
With over 10 years of mental health experience, primarily working with children and families, Laurel brings an incredible level of clinical expertise to her role as Therapist at Milestones.
Prior to coming to Onsite, Laurel provided variety of interventions and modalities for families to improve bonding and facilitate secure attachment within the parent/child relationship.
Lauren Milikin
Clinical Coordinator
Lauren Milikin
Clinical Coordinator
Lauren Milikin, TLPC-MHSP, serves as the Clinical Coordinator for the Milestones team and guests. Previously to this role, Lauren served as the Clinical Specialist facilitating Onsite group programs and intensives. She sees her role as a way to help people find the most authentic parts of themselves.
Before coming to Onsite, Lauren worked as the Clinical Coordinator at The Ranch Tennessee. She also served as a Therapist and Intake Specialist at The Refuge Center for Counseling.
Megan Repass
Equine and Adventure Therapy Director
Megan Repass
Equine and Adventure Therapy Director
Megan Repass, MS, CCTP, LADAC II, CCM, has served in the helping profession and mental health field for 14 years, working as an outdoor educator, therapist, and program director. As an experienced administrator, certified equine, wilderness, and adventure therapist, Megan brings a unique skillset to our team.
As the director of our Onsite Adventures program, Megan blends her extensive time spent as an outdoor educator and backcountry guide with her experience as a trauma therapist, affording her the ability to craft distinct outdoor experiences tailored to clients’ individual needs. She has also been a certified Wilderness First Responder for over 16 years, ensuring our clients’ safety is a priority while in a wilderness setting.
Megan earned her master’s degree in psychology and a license in substance abuse counseling. Megan is a certified clinical trauma professional and utilizes modalities such as EMDR, IFS, psychodrama, and experiential therapy. Having received specific training in spiritual care, Megan works individually with clients who have experienced hurt in a religious setting or who may be searching for a sense of belonging to a greater purpose. Megan is an adjunct faculty member at her alma mater, Lipscomb University, where she teaches adventure therapy and equine therapy within the graduate program.
Marie Turley
Adjunct Therapist
Marie Turley
Adjunct Therapist
Marie brings an immense sense of gratitude and enthusiasm as she joins the Milestones team! She considers herself a recovering human being who is passionate about encouraging others to know and love themselves, follow their hearts, and release what is blocking movement toward healing and peace.
Marie is a licensed senior psychological examiner with a master’s degree in clinical psychology from MTSU. She is a certified level II challenge course facilitator, certified advanced integrative therapy practitioner, and trained in EMDR, EFT, and matrix reimprinting. She is excited at how these energetic modes of treatment empower people with their own healing.
She is a graduate of the Nashville School of Homeopathy and completed a homeopathic master clinician course in fall 2014. As a “military brat,” Marie lived with her five brothers and sisters in Hawaii, Japan, Virginia, Kansas, and California before settling in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her wonderful husband and son. She has worked as a musician and singer, writer, and teacher. Marie enjoys reading, hiking, water aerobics, kayaking, and connecting with new and old friends and family.
Robert Chapman
Family and Adventure Therapist
Robert Chapman
Family and Adventure Therapist
Robert has over 35 years of experience in the recovery field and specializes in adventure therapy techniques utilizing the challenge course, ropes course, as well as experiential and metaphor therapy as tools to enhance recovery from trauma, family of origin, and addiction and attachment issues. Robert has provided extensive training services throughout the country for a number of years. He has been on the faculty of CENAPS Intensive School of Relapse Prevention Specialists and has been published in Addictions and Recovery Magazine as well as other recovery-related publications. Robert has worked in private practice and nationally recognized treatment centers bringing his expertise and passion for helping others through addiction, trauma, and mental health recovery.
Tara Booker
Adjunct Therapist
Tara Booker
Adjunct Therapist
Terence Smith
Therapist
Terence Smith
Therapist
Terence Smith, LPC serves as a Primary Therapist for the clients of Milestones, Onsite’s Residential Trauma Program. He joins our team after working in the trauma and addiction field for almost a decade. He counts it one of his greatest professional achievements to pour back into the other therapists and mentor recent graduates in the psychology field.
Prior to coming to Onsite, Terrance worked as a Sex and Addiction Therapist at Integrative Life Center where he assisted the development and implementation of the Sex and Love Addiction Program. He also served as a Primary Therapist at the Center for Relational and Sexual Recovery Men’s Program at The Ranch in Middle Tennessee.
Natalie Desisto
Adjunct Therapist
