Staff

Dr. Don Durham

Dr. Don is a licensed psychologist who has been in the helping professions for 25+ years. After working for the renowned Minirth-Meier Clinic in the 1980’s, Dr. Don moved to Arizona to develop the program and serve as Clinical Director of Remuda Ranch Center for Eating Disorders. He has also been in private practice for 20 years as well as partnering with Steve Arterburn’s New Life Clinics in Arizona. Dr. Don served as Clinical Director at Gatehouse Therapeutic Health Services since its inception in 2000, until moving into the position of Director of Training and Development in 2008. At Gatehouse he designed and implemented their innovative Family Workshop series in addition to the clinical treatment component of the substance abuse recovery program at Gatehouse Academy. 

In the last three years he has developed Gatehouse as a counseling practicum and psychological internship training site. Through the years of his practice he has developed specialties in psychological assessment, eating disorders, addictions, men’s issues and the integration of psychology in a Christian world view. Dr Don takes great delight in training counselors to provide excellence in clinical care that is consistent with their own clearly identified value system and world view. He provides training specifically in the integration of the best of psychology with a Biblically-based Christian world view.  This training requires current enrollment in or completion of a graduate degree program in a mental health-care field, and is designed to provide both a theoretical foundation for as well as practical techniques in the highest quality of integrative mental health care.

Durham Psychological Services is a part of Alfred Ells’ Leaders That Last Network, where he provides healing, encouragement, and strength for the leaders of today’s and tomorrow’s church. He and his wife Karen have been married 30 years; have three adult children and four grandchildren.

Natasha Kush

M.A. Psychology, M.A. Theology — Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, CA.
M.C. Counseling — Arizona State University Tempe, AZ.

Natasha specializes in the evaluation and treatment of depression, anxiety and anger-based issues. Her counseling approach is educative, proactive and preventative, the goal being to assist you in understanding and managing your concerns, while at the same time focusing on building your resistance to any future stressors.

Because Natasha received extensive Seminary training in the integration of psychology and religion, she also provides counseling from a diversity of faith-based traditions. Her approach is designed to enhance and expand your faith, while at the same time examining any barriers that may be preventing you from putting your faith into everyday practice.

Knowing that oftentimes our faith as well as our lives are shaken by tragedy or crisis, Natasha also applies her integrative experience in counseling those who are facing a major life transition or crisis. Her belief is that as much as these events can be a painful experience, they also can be opportunities for growth, reflection and the restoration of new meaning in our lives. What’s important to her is that one comes to counseling with an open mind and open heart, willing and ready to grant yourself the freedom to simply ‘start where you are’.
Natasha offers brief time-limited counseling as well as extended services to adolescents as well as adults.