Meet Our Clinical Team

The Kauaʻi Mental Health Advocates is on a mission to destigmatize the issues surrounding mental health through engaging community events, education, and resource sharing. Through this process, we have developed a board of directors responsible for upholding KMHA’s mission.

Co Founder/Administrative and Clinical Team

FRANCI DÁVILA, LCSW - Head Clinician

From parents that served their communities in the medical and social service fields, Franci was meant to follow her purpose as a clinician and community advocate. Originally venturing from Connecticut in 2011, Franci had no idea that Kauai would embrace her so beautifully as a permanent resident where she has been able to develop her skills as a mental health practitioner, amateur boxer and coach, training workshop facilitator, and creative community activist and organizer.

Clinical Team

MICHAEL WEBSTER, MS, MHC-A - Associate Clinician

Mike “Web” Webster, MS, MHC-A worked for 20 years in the medical world as a medical Imaging technologist, all the while experiencing chronic pain in one form or another and getting no real answers or help. After reading Dr. John Sarno’s books on TMS (tension myositis Syndrome) and the mindbody approach in 2016, he knew that he could never go back to his old way of thinking about chronic symptoms and started over, intent on providing to others what he needed when he was healing: someone who fully understands the mindbody process and is also a trained therapist.

In 2021, he completed comprehensive training in clinical psychologist Dr. Dan Ratner’s evidence-based 3-columns approach to treating chronic symptoms, and in 2024 earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, with a focus on Mental Health Counseling. Since 2016, he has overcome his own neck pain, shoulder pain, “bone-on-bone” knee pain (after a compound leg fracture and 3 surgeries), “tarlov cyst disease,” tendonitis/tennis elbow (for 8 years!), foot pain, hand pain, headaches, back pain, sciatica, tinnitus, and more.

Since he began working with clients in the 3-columns approach, he has helped others to overcome emotional dysregulation, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many forms of chronic pain symptoms, to understand themselves in a way they never had before, and to live in true alignment with who they have always wanted to be.

Clinical Team

Christy Lieberman, MSW - Associate Clinician

With roots in Colorado, Christy had the opportunity as a young adult to travel and experience different communities and cultures. During those formative years, she developed a strong passion for adventure, community, and the vital connection that people, the natural world, and finding oneself plays in mental health. Her work as a victims’ advocate in the Kauaʻi community deepened this passion even further. With years of experience supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, she is especially comfortable holding healing space for deep childhood and gender-based trauma. She specializes in supporting clients who are facing the lingering impacts of trauma, navigating circumstantially difficult transitions, and developing healthy practices towards self-worth. Christy is particularly passionate about working with adolescents and young adults to build self-esteem, strengthen identity, and nurture their existing strengths. She additionally enjoys incorporating non-traditional modalities to fit clients’ needs, utilizing aspects from her training in nature-based therapies. Her therapeutic approach centers on helping individuals process trauma and life transitions while developing and reconnecting with both external resources and their personal values, beliefs, and intuition. 

Administrative/Clinical Team

NICOLE WALSH, MSW - Associate Clinician

Through her personal walk with grief, Nicole has developed a deep sense of purpose in supporting those navigating their own grief journeys. Nicole has a background in working with keiki and teens experiencing grief, whether it be from loss through death, separation, or general life transitions.

She is involved in various community-wide support systems for individuals who are grieving of all ages. She honors each individual as an expert in their own grief, collaborating with them to find which tools that work best for their unique grief.

Clinical Team

Shalyn Rosek - Associate Clinician

Shalyn is a mindful, intuitive, and caring therapist who works with adolescents and adults experiencing trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and behavioral challenges. Drawing from her background in business, yoga, and mental health, she offers a client-centered, integrative approach using EMDR, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness techniques. Shalyn is dedicated to creating a safe, supportive space where clients feel seen, empowered, and supported in their healing journey.