Staff

Randy Soderquist, LCSW, Owner and Clinical Director
Randy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years experience working with children, adolescents and families in both residential and out patient settings. Randy has 13 years of administrative, supervisory experience of out patient treatment teams and served as the Program Director of a Federally funded childrens mental health grant to improve mental health services to youth and their families. Randy has worked closely with several therapeutic boarding schools providing individual and group counseling to the youth, clinical supervision to the clinical director and therapists and clinical consultation to the owners and clinical directors.

Randy enjoys working with youth and helping them to see who they really are and their potential to become anything they can dream to be! Randy has many years of experience working with adult and adolescent women who have experienced abuse, trauma and substance abuse. Randy is also a Level I Certified Equine Assisted Therapist.

Randy and his wife Toni are the parents of five children. One son and four daughters. The motivation for Re-Creation Retreat came from the personal experience of helping one of their daughters through a very abusive dating relationship. As they attempted to help their daughter, they were amazed at the difficulty dealing with the legal system, the educational system and the well meaning but uninformed community in which they lived. Due to the lack of knowledge about abuse and its dynamics and a lack of resources it was a challenge to get their daughter the help she needed and to find support for themselves as parents.

As a result, Randy and Toni have founded Re-Creation Retreat. A private school for girls with the mission of helping young women Re-Create their lives around true principles leading to a correct understanding of who they “really are” and who they “can be”. Re-Creation Retreat is a resource for parents who are at the point of not knowing what to do to help their daughter who may be making poor decisions, failing in school, involved in unhealthy relationships and/or just defying parental authority.

Clayton and Krystal Taylor, Behavioral and Administrative Directors
Clayton and Krystal have both worked in residential treatment programs for over four years. They began working as line staff and night staff and then became team leaders/supervisors. Most recently, Clayton and Krystal opened and operated a therapeutic boarding school in eastern Arizona where they served as Behavioral and Administrative Directors. Clayton and Krystal are a huge asset to Re-Creation Retreat. They bring with them extensive knowledge and understanding of program curriculum, policy and procedures and day to day program operations.

Clayton and Krystal are the parents of two beautiful daughters.

Phyllis Charles, Admissions Director
Phyllis has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Accounting. She has over 25 years experience in the Accounting Field, working for school districts, nonprofit organizations and manufacturing companies in positions such as Accounting Manager, Controller and Director of Budget and Finance. Phyllis has been a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and the American Society of Women Accountants.

Phyllis has served several years on the Board of Directors for the Interior Rivers State Fair and the Aniak Day Care Association both in Alaska. She has also volunteered in her community and her church for years. She is currently the Congregation Coordinator for her church’s matching funds agency.

Pamela France, Instructor
Pamela has her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in sociology, and obtained her secondary education teaching certification. Pamela worked for five years as a child protection worker for the State of Michigan. She worked for Southern Utah University for five years as the Academic Support Coordinator for Student Support Services serving disabled students and first generation college students. She obtained her Master's Degree in Psychology with an endorsement in Comprehensive Guidance from Utah State University and then worked for the Iron County School District, Cedar City, Utah, for eleven years as a school counselor for elementary and middle school students.

Pamela is a member of the Utah School Counselors Association, she received the Educator of the Year award for the year 2007 and the Teacher of the Year award 2008 for Cedar Middle School. Pamela is a certified "Love & Logic" parent program instructor and a Marriage and Family Relations Instructor for her church. Pamela has been married to a great guy for 40 years and has six children and nineteen grandchildren.