Holmes Training Academy

Our Faculty

Distinguished practitioners who teach, supervise, and prepare professionals for the work of caring for people.

Our faculty are not selected simply because they teach. They are selected because they practice, publish, mentor, and prepare professionals to serve with excellence.

Relationship Sciences

Faculty who study and teach the structure of marital, family, and relational life.

Dr. Renée Caldwell, Ed.D.

Lead Faculty, Relationship Strategy

Dr. Caldwell has spent more than two decades working with couples and families in community, clinical, and congregational settings. Her teaching centers on disciplined observation — helping practitioners describe what is actually happening in a relationship before deciding what to do about it.

Area of expertise

Marital and family systems; structured relational assessment

Professional credentials

Ed.D., Marriage and Family Studies

M.A., Counseling Psychology

22 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Relational assessmentCouple case formulationFamily systems instruction

“I teach students to see the whole system before they intervene.”

Individual Counseling

Faculty who prepare practitioners for one-to-one care and human functioning practice.

Dr. Alicia Braithwaite, Psy.D.

Lead Faculty, Individual Counseling

Dr. Braithwaite teaches the individual counseling sequence and the applied practice of the Holmes Human Functioning Model™. Her work concentrates on the first hour of care: how a practitioner listens, what they document, and how they decide whether to continue or refer.

Area of expertise

Individual functioning, assessment interviewing, and referral judgment

Professional credentials

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology

M.S., Human Services

18 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Intake and assessment interviewingHolmes Human Functioning Model™Reflective supervision

“One person, fully seen, is not a small assignment — I train students to be present with structure.”

Dr. Andre Reeves, Ph.D.

Faculty, Individual Counseling Practice

Dr. Reeves practices and teaches individual counseling with particular attention to men who arrive at care late and reluctantly. His classroom work rehearses the concrete moves of a session — opening, sequencing, closing, and documenting.

Area of expertise

Individual functioning across the lifespan; men's counseling practice

Professional credentials

Ph.D., Counseling

M.A., Clinical Mental Health Counseling

16 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Individual session structureLifespan functioningDocumentation standards

“Structure is what allows compassion to be useful.”

Clinical Residency

Faculty who supervise advanced candidates through live case review and consultation.

Dr. Marcus Ellison, Ph.D.

Residency Director & Senior Faculty

Dr. Ellison directs the clinical residency experience, where advanced practitioners present live cases for structured review. His scholarship concerns ethical decision-making at the boundaries of competence, and he has supervised hundreds of practitioners across counseling, pastoral, and organizational settings.

Area of expertise

Clinical reasoning, case conference, and professional ethics

Professional credentials

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

Approved clinical supervisor

27 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Case conference facilitationProfessional ethicsTreatment sequencing

“I do not ask whether you reached the right conclusion — I ask whether you can defend how you reached it.”

Dr. Patrice Sinclair, Ph.D.

Faculty, Clinical Residency

Dr. Sinclair supervises residency candidates through complex cases that other practitioners refer onward. Her seminars emphasize documentation, consultation, and the discipline of revisiting a formulation when the evidence changes.

Area of expertise

Advanced case supervision and complex relational presentations

Professional credentials

Ph.D., Counselor Education and Supervision

Licensed professional counselor

25 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Advanced supervisionComplex case managementConsultation practice

“The strongest practitioners still bring their work to another set of eyes.”

Leadership & Organizational Development

Faculty who translate relational insight into institutional and executive practice.

Dr. Gerald Whitfield, D.B.A.

Faculty, Leadership & Organizational Development

Dr. Whitfield advises executives and boards on organizational health, succession, and culture. In the classroom he presses students to translate relational insight into institutional practice — policies, structures, and decisions that outlast any single leader.

Area of expertise

Executive leadership, organizational health, and change stewardship

Professional credentials

D.B.A., Organizational Leadership

M.B.A., Management

24 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Executive advisingOrganizational assessmentLeadership formation

“Leadership is measured by what remains healthy after you leave the room.”

Theology & Human Flourishing

Faculty who hold conviction and evidence together in the care of persons.

Dr. Naomi Monroe, Th.D.

Faculty, Theology & Human Flourishing

Dr. Monroe teaches at the convergence of theology and the human sciences, where the institution's governing question lives. Her instruction helps practitioners hold conviction and evidence together without collapsing one into the other.

Area of expertise

Theological anthropology, ethics of care, and human flourishing

Professional credentials

Th.D., Theological Ethics

M.Div.

20 years of professional practice

Teaching specialties

Theological anthropologyEthics of carePastoral practice standards

“Every helping decision carries a conviction about what a person is for.”