Our Team
Brian Kase, Founder
MA, Licensed Professional Counselor & National Certified Counselor
Brian is passionate about unlocking people’s God-given potential, often buried beneath layers of trauma or disguised through great success. With a focus on longevity, he coaches people to develop life-giving self-care practices. He received his Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling from Liberty University and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance at Berry College. Brian is credentialed as a National Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia and South Carolina. He is also licensed to provide telehealth services in the state of Florida (https://flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/).
For the last 15 years, Brian has served and is still serving as the Executive Pastor of Administration & CFO at West Ridge Church, providing leadership, care, and counsel to the local church and its leaders. Since 2020, Brian has had the honor of serving hundreds of couples in crisis through marriage intensive therapy, partnering with them to discover a pathway toward hope, healing, and restoration. Brian takes a trauma-informed approach to therapy and specializes in affair and infidelity recovery.
Brian began his career in business as an entrepreneur, gaining experience by starting and managing several companies and non-profit organizations. During this season, he was also licensed as an investment advisor. As part of his self-care discipline, Brian enjoys training and competing in endurance races, including ultramarathons and Ironman-distance triathlons.
Catherine Ibarra, Therapist
MA, Licensed Professional Counselor
Catherine “Cat” Ibarra is a compassionate and experienced counselor with a master’s degree in professional counseling from Liberty University. She joined Redwood Counseling Group in 2025 after serving as a Lead Therapist at Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored program, where she specialized in helping couples in crisis. With a background that includes working at a private alcohol rehabilitation center as a relationship therapist, as well as a clinician at a Behavioral Health Crisis Center, Cat has extensive experience supporting individuals and couples through complex emotional and relational challenges.
Cat offers both in-person and virtual sessions. She is passionate about helping couples reconnect, rebuild trust, and cultivate healthy, thriving relationships. She also works closely with individuals navigating trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and major life transitions. Her therapeutic approach combines empathy, attentive listening, practical guidance, and a touch of humor creating an environment where clients feel safe, seen, heard, and understood.
Cat is certified in Focus Marriage Therapy and trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an evidence-based approach to trauma treatment.
Cat has been married for 35 years to her husband, José, and they have three adult children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and a beloved cat named Chester. Outside of counseling, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, often bonding over board games and shared laughter.
Travis Hill, Therapist
MA, LAPC, Marriage and Family Therapist
Travis has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, with a specialization in Christian Sex Therapy from Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta.
He graduated from Berry College in 1998. Shortly thereafter, he started law school in Atlanta, but soon felt a different calling to work in overseas missions. In 2003 he and his family moved to SE Asia where they spent six years working to build relationships and change lives. In 2009, they moved their family back to the US and he began pursuing a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.
On the marriage front, Travis’ passion is to serve couples by helping couples find greater intimacy, trust, healing, and restoration in their relationships. To that end, he has been involved with marital intensives with both individual couples and multiple couples group therapy for 5 years as both a co-therapist and lead therapist. The intensive couples therapy was done through Winshape Marriage and the National Institute of Marriage.
The fundamental issues he most often addressed in couples therapy is communication breakdown, infidelity and broken trust, chronic conflict, and helping couples find intimacy, vulnerability, and safety with their spouse. Many couples seek marriage/couple therapy feeling the situation to be hopeless, but find that they have the ability to identify and break the cycle of conflict and create positive and healthy change in the relationship.
Additionally, he also has a deep desire to help men struggling with various sexual issues and sexual addictions that often cause problems in their relationships with spouses, and other close relationships. Travis has walked with many men through the pain and shame of sexual addiction to find wholeness and healing.
The therapeutic models Travis primarily practices Emotionally Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He believes in practicing both spiritually grounded and clinically sound therapy.
He has been married to his wife Stephanie for 31 years, and they have two daughters, Clair (28) and Rose (24), and two sons, Hudson (23) and Harrison (21). They currently reside in Rome Georgia.