Farhang & Medcoff promote Parsons to partner
Farhang & Medcoff announces the promotion of Elizabeth A. Parsons to partner.
She chairs the firmβs corporate and transactional practice, advising clients in areas including joint venture and private equity transactions, strategic corporate restructuring, corporate governance and international transactions involving cross-border commercial issues, with a particular focus on Mexico.
Parsons represents the firm in its membership with Global Advantage Partners and serves as an ambassador with the Arizona Technology Council. She also serves on the governing boards of Sonoran Science Academy at three campuses.
She received her bachelor of arts from James Madison University in economics and political science and her juris doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. Parsons began her legal career with the Wall Street firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and is licensed in New York, Washington, D.C., and Arizona.
PFCU names Dutcher
vice president of tech
Pima Federal Credit Union has named Robert Dutcher as vice president of technology.
Dutcher joins PFCU from the Pima County Attorneyβs Office, where he was assistant director of information technology.
He received his bachelor of business administration in management information systems from the University of Arizona, holds a graduate certificate in enterprise information security from UA and is a certified information systems security professional.
Sabino Recovery adds
five to clinical team
Sabino Recovery has announced five additions to its clinical team:
- Rose Chaboya-Balboa
- , M.Ed., a group therapist, brings more than two decades of experience as a therapist and life coach. She has worked as a social-services professional and a staff therapist at mental health and substance abuse facilities around the country.
- Liz Canterna Douglass
- , Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience in the fields of healthcare and addictions. She was director of the inpatient and outpatient alcoholism treatment programs at St. Josephβs Hospital in Burbank, California, in addition to working in management at UCLA Medical Center. More recently, she worked as staff psychologist during her 14 years at Sierra Tucson and was interim director of the psychology department.
- Holly Hansen
- , M.S., is a nationally certified counselor and equine therapist. Her work includes equine-assisted psychotherapy and individual, family and group behavioral therapy, serving residents with trauma and other underlying issues.
- Kristina Richer
- ,
- MC, joins as a group therapist. Her work has primarily been focused on trauma and the behavioral health issues that often accompany trauma. She has worked at Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital, Jewish Family & Childrenβs Services, Sierra Tucson, Cottonwood de Tucson and The Life Healing Center.
- Meira Yaer
- , R.N., M.A., is a certified brain injury specialist, family therapist and registered nurse. She worked at Sierra Tucson as a family therapist and family program coordinator and co-founded the family program for Desert Star Addiction and Recovery Center in Tucson.
