About Urban Healthy Minds
Compassion. Healing. Hope.
We are dedicated to strengthening our community through accessible, compassionate, and evidence-based mental health care. Our mission is to help individuals, couples, and families build emotional resilience and develop healthier ways of navigating life’s challenges.
Who We Are
Urban Healthy Minds provides mental health services rooted in compassion, collaboration, and clinical excellence. We believe therapy is not a quick fix — it is a supportive journey that helps clients build self-understanding, healing, and healthier ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Our team walks beside clients with respect, cultural sensitivity, and a deep commitment to ethical care. We strive to create a safe and welcoming environment where every person feels heard, valued, and empowered.
What We Believe
Mental wellness is essential to personal, family, and community health.
- ✓Healing happens through trust, compassion, and collaboration.
- ✓Every client deserves culturally responsive and respectful care.
- ✓Evidence-based services can help create meaningful and lasting change.
Our Mission
To improve the emotional health and well-being of our community by providing compassionate, accessible, and evidence-based behavioral health services that inspire healing, resilience, and hope.
Our Vision
To be a trusted community behavioral health organization known for high-quality, culturally responsive care that strengthens individuals, families, and communities throughout Southern Nevada.
Our Core Values
These values guide the way we serve clients, support families, lead our team, and partner with the community.
Compassion
We treat every client, family, and community member with kindness, dignity, empathy, and respect.
Integrity
We uphold ethical, professional, and transparent practices in every area of care and leadership.
Excellence
We are committed to high-quality clinical care, continuous learning, and evidence-based practice.
Diversity & Inclusion
We honor each person’s culture, identity, background, lived experience, and unique path toward healing.
Collaboration
We believe healing is strengthened through partnership with clients, families, providers, and community supports.
Empowerment
We help individuals build emotional resilience, confidence, self-understanding, and healthier ways of navigating life.
Board-Approved Supervision & Internship Training
Urban Healthy Minds is an approved site for interns under the Nevada Board of Examiners for Social Workers. Our leadership team includes approved supervisors who support clinical training, direct supervision, professional development, and ethical practice for emerging behavioral health professionals.
Altora Bates, LCPC
Provides strategic leadership and clinical oversight for Urban Healthy Minds, guiding the organization's mission, vision, clinical standards, and long-term growth. As an LCPC and approved clinical supervisor, Altora is part of the clinical supervision team and is committed to supporting provider development, trauma-informed practice, and exceptional outcomes for the individuals and families we serve.
Joanna Ghanem
Oversees organizational operations, strategic initiatives, and administrative systems that support exceptional client care. Joanna leads operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality improvement while ensuring Urban Healthy Minds operates efficiently and sustainably.
Trinesha Garland
Leads the administrative infrastructure that supports clinicians, clients, and organizational success. Trinesha oversees administrative operations, workflow optimization, and staff support while helping create an efficient, welcoming, and client-centered environment.
Kartika Dickens, LMFT
Serves as Clinical and Direct Supervisor, providing supervision, guidance, and professional support for interns and emerging clinicians. As an LMFT and approved supervisor, Kartika helps strengthen clinical training, ethical practice, client-centered care, and operational excellence across Urban Healthy Minds.
Join Our Team
Urban Healthy Minds is always seeking compassionate, ethical, and dedicated professionals who are committed to quality care, collaboration, and meaningful community impact.
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