Preferred Family Clinic has licensed professionals who have specific expertise working with many different populations to best meet most individual and family needs. Please feel free to browse our list of professionals below to determine if there is one that would work best to meet your needs.

Randy F. Hyde, Ph.D.

As a licensed psychologist, Randy Hyde has 30-years of experience. Randy is highly sought-after in the field of clinical child and family counseling. In 1989, he founded what eventually became known as Preferred Family Clinic.

With double undergraduate degrees from Brigham Young University in 1979, in Psychology and Interpersonal Communications, Randy went on to receive his Ph.D. from BYU in 1983.
He spent five years as clinical director of Charter Canyon Hospital, an inpatient treatment facility. He was also the director of the children’s unit where he gained great insight into the techniques which change negative behaviors - even those hard-core problems found in a lock-down facility.

In 1994, Randy Hyde established the private Youth Reclamation Corporation, which helped adjudicated delinquent and ungovernable youth on house arrest. This program realized an impressive 85% change rate in its participants, as demonstrated in a powerful outcome study conducted by Michael Lambert at BYU.

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Nancy L. Belliston - Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Nancy L. Belliston is a licensed clinical social worker. She received her Master’s degree at The University of Utah and graduated ‘Magna Cum Laude’ from Utah Valley University with a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science.

Nancy has worked with clients in mental health and substance abuse through her clinic associations as well as her private practice. She works with all ages and ethnicities and she speaks fluent Swedish.

She has also worked with justice departments, religious organizations, the Department of Child and Family Services as well as other agencies.

Nancy’s specialties include working with substance abuse, domestic violence, pain management, sexual abuse, PTSD, Insomnia and Bullying.

Alicia Henderson

Alicia Henderson received a Bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. She is a third year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Brigham Young University.

Alicia specializes in working with children, adolescents and families. Additionally, Alicia has worked with families of high conflict divorce for almost three years, including supervision, facilitating exchanges, divorce education, intake interviews, and providing other therapeutic services. She has also conducted assessments for youth and adults, in schools and clinica lsettings, for learning disorders, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD), behavioral disorders, and other mental health disorders.

She has also been involved in research for several years on the different variables that effect children’s and adolescent’s outcomes in treatment, including various parenting behaviors and parental social support. She has also assisted with research on autism, which included looking at the responses of children with autism to various stimuli.

Lastly, she has taught abnormal psychology to undergraduate students at Brigham Young University, and has assisted in teaching test measurement courses and introduction to psychology courses.

G. Sheldon Martin, APC

Sheldon Martin is an Associate Professional Counselor. Sheldon earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science. After receiving a bachelor’s degree, Sheldon went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling. To complete his degree, Sheldon completed a thousand hour internship working with clients who were addicted to pornography, and dealing with anxiety.

After the internship, Sheldon began working with clients at the Preferred Family Clinic. During his years at the clinic Sheldon has developed a specialty working with individuals who deal with anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting questions, ADHD, marriage, and OCD.

Sheldon has also taught as an adjunct psychology professor for Stevens-Henager College. He teaches classes on human development and the historical framework of psychology.

Sheldon is also the CEO of iChology, LLC. iChology, LLC is an online therapeutic training company. iChology has developed online psycho-educational training programs for issues such as: parenting, depression, anxiety, potty training, ADHD, etc. iChology was recently featured on ABC because of the success of the programs.

Sheldon works as a therapist part-time. Sheldon teaches full time for the LDS church. Sheldon loves to speak, and has been asked to speak at EFY, Education Week, and firesides all over the country. Recently, Covenant Communications asked Sheldon to produce a talk on CD titled, “Be Still My Soul: Doctrines to Lower Anxiety”.

Sheldon is married with four children and one on the way. Sheldon loves coachinghis sons in football, basketball, wrestling, and especially baseball. Sheldon’s family is his life. His wife Nicole is his greatest support and biggest cheerleader.

Sheldon loves doing therapy because he feels part of his quest in life is to help others. Helping others strengthens his resolve to become a better person. Sheldon uses a Cognitive Behavioral Approach mainly. This means that he helps individualsidentify distorted thoughts and helps them learn to process correct thoughts.

Laura Morris, APC

Laura Morris has her Associate Professional Counselor (APC) license. She is currently working toward the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) status. She has been practicing as a therapist for two years at Preferred Family Clinic.

Achieving a 4.0 GPA throughout her master degree of Mental Health Counseling at University of Phoenix, Laura displayed a solid commitment to learning the most up-to-date, empirically researched counseling theories and methods. She graduated from the University of Utah with honors, earning her bachelor degree in Psychology with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies. She was also educated at Dixie State College earning her associate degree in a single year.

Professionally, Laura worked for two years in the public academic setting as a PreventionSpecialist in Granite School District (SLC, UT). There, she met with individual students, ran resiliency groups, and launched school-wide programs focusing on the prevention of psychologically, socially, and physically unhealthy behaviors. She also has experience in the residential treatment setting, working as a Team Leader at La Europa RTC (Murray, UT). Laura enjoyed her time as a Research Assistant through the University of Utah working on Paul Florsheim’s Young Parenthood Study – assessing and counseling unmarried teen parents on how to co-parent.

Laura’s areas of specialization include working with women, adolescent girls, and couples with avariety of issues. Her passion is to help others be resilient through their problems and live more fulfilling, happy lives. The focuses in which she has particular interest are life-enhancementwork, body-image and self-esteem issues, perfectionism, physical weight issues, anxiety and depression, and pre-marital and marital therapy. The main theoretical frameworks from which Laura draws are cognitive-behavioral therapy, existential theory, and specific skills-building approaches. Overall, she is eclectic, utilizing ideas and techniques from a variety of theories depending on the client’s personality and situation.

Outside of professional capacities, Laura feels blessed by the delightful company of her husband,son, extended family, and friends. She loves to spend time camping and hiking, reading, playingsports, doing photography, and playing games. Laura also currently serves in a leadership position with the youth in her church.

Rich Tripp, APC

Rich is an Associate Professional Counselor and has worked at Preferred Family Clinic for2 years. Rich received his Bachelor of Science in Marriage Family & Human Developmentfrom Brigham Young University and a Master of Education in Professional Counseling fromUniversity of Utah.

Rich’s specialties include working with Sexual Addictions, Sex Dysfunctions, and Marital Counseling. He also works individually with children, adolescents, and adults with depression and anxiety.

Rich is married with three children and currently lives in Cedar Hills with his family.

Mich Suyama, Ed.S. M. Ed.

Mich Suyama is working as a Counseling Psychology intern for Preferred Family Clinic and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Brigham Young University.  He earned his Specialists in Education degree from the University of Florida in the field of Marriage and Family Counseling in 2002. 

He has worked with children of all ages in addressing both emotional and behavioral concerns.  Mich spent 4 years working with adolescents and their families at a therapeutic boarding school called The Carlbrook School in south central Virginia.  He enjoys working with people from various backgrounds and of all ages. 

Mich specializes in working with issues related to trauma, loss and grief, anxiety, depression, couples or family issues, and with children and adolescents experiencing challeges related to social/emotional/developmental issues. 

Brian Hansen, Ph.D Intern

Brian Hansen is a Ph.D Intern in the Clinical Psychology Program at Brigham Young University.

Brian specializes in psychological testing and assessment, marital therapy, OCD, relationship problems, child, adolescent and adult depression, anxiety and behavioral difficulties.

Brian grew up in the Bay area of California and is the middle of 5 children. He likes playing sports, particularly basketball, soccer and long-distance running.

Alan Jacob, APC

Alan is an Associate Professional Counselor and is working toward licensure. He graduated from University of Phoenix and has been with PFC since Oct.2008. Alan has worked

extensively with adjudicated youth in residential treatment centers and wilderness programming for over 20 years. During this time he has dealt with Oppositional/ Defiance, Conduct Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Abuse and Addiction.

Alan began working for Nebo School District as a teacher for adjudicated and at-risk students in 2002. For the past five years he has worked as a School Psychologist.

Alan's calm and straightforward approach has allowed him to work with some of the most difficult of clients and issues, adult and youth.

Crystal Heer, LPC

Crystal holds degrees in mental health counseling and music performance and pedagogy.

You have most likely heard her on the radio sometime during the last 20 years, but now she dedicates her time to helping individuals and families at Preferred Family Clinic.

Crystal will quickly share, "Helping a person make the changes which bring a happier and fuller life is what the therapeutic process is all about. And it is amazing to behold." Crystal enjoys helping both children and adults.