River City’s Purpose

Our goal is to reduce and eliminate the impact of substance use and mental health disorders, and complex medical and psychosocial conditions on individuals, their families, and our communities.
The purpose of our programs and services is to prevent overdose and overdose deaths, out-of-home placements such as emergency room visits, psychiatric hospitalizations, intensive SUD residential treatment, and incarceration, while improving the psychosocial skills and overall functioning of individuals to enhance their overall quality of life.
Corporate Data
River City Comprehensive Counseling Services (RCCCS), River City Integrative Counseling (RCIC), and Urban Recovery RVA make up the behavioral health organization, “River City.”
Our organizational philosophy and practices adhere to “Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC), “Integrated Behavioral Health” and “Addiction Recovery Management Systems (ARMS)” models to provide a wide range of programs and services for short and long-term SUD and psychiatric stability and long-term Recovery. River City has held Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and DevelopmentalServices (DBHDS) licenses, since 2009.
Our Executive Team

James Christmas
CEO/Founder
LCSW, CSAC

Tonita Christmas, BS
Chief Operating Officer

Tangee Augustin, LCSW
Chief Clinical Director

Madison de Triquet
Chief Financial Officer

Alison Youmell, LCSW
Chief Compliance Officer

Simone Williams
Human Resources Director

Cara Reed
Chief of Integrated Recovery Programs
Our Operations Team

Tre’Quan Johnson
Director of Admissions

Chinaye Minnicks
Billing Specialist

Michelle Rabender
Office Specialist
Our Multidisciplinary Team

Wyatt Aldrich
MS, LMHP-Resident in Counseling, CSAC-Supervisee

Montese Anderson
Substance Abuse Counselor

Chris Ballard
QMHP-A/C

Ashlee Barner
MA, CSAC-Supervisee

Alicia Barreto
MA, CSAC

Alfreda Best
M.Ed., QMHP-A, QMHP-C, CSAC

Tina Buettner
MSW, LMHP-Supervisee in Social Work, CSAC- Supervisee

Caroline Clarke
LCSW, CSAC-Supervisee

Corey Clarke
RPRS, FMP

Alexa Edwards
RPRS

Nancy France
LMHP-R, CSAC

Christopher Hall
CSAC- Supervisee

Ramsha Hamid
MS, LMHP-Resident in Counseling, CSAC-Supervisee

Kevin Holland
CSAC-Supervisee, QMHP-A, MSW Student

Kelly Humes
LCSW

Natalie Kulp

Jamie Kleiner
LCSW

Ursula Liebowitz-Johnson
LCSW

Karen Melcho
MS, LMHP-R, CSAC

Dana Moore
QMHP-A/C

Bryan Musselman
QMHP-A/C

Lindsey Sensabaugh
CSAC-Supervisee

Kurt Smith
LMHP-S, CSAC

Frank Storey
BSW, CSAC-Supervisee

Anna Williams
MSW, LMHP-Supervisee in Social Work
