Live. Grow. Share. is made possible by these amazing people
Introduction to Our Team
Think your problems are too big or scary for someone to understand? Try us.
Collectively, we've been through just about everything you can imagine.
We are Recovery. We are Survivors.
We are grateful to be alive and honored to have the privilege of sitting with you.
Meet the Co-Founders
Ashley Teeters, CEO, PSS, QMHA
Live. Grow. Share. is a labor of love for our community. It's a place where we treat the people we serve and the people we employ better. I've worked in Lane County since 2006 in various social work roles at various organizations. I've had the opportunity to deeply learn about and understand the systems that members of our community find themselves within. We've built a team who are passionate about changing these systems and doing things differently.
I am a person with lived experience in mental health struggles and substance abuse. I've spent my adult life healing, learning to love myself, and learning how to have healthy interpersonal relationships. My path of healing has been conventional and unconventional at different times. My mission is to provide accessibility and diversity of modalities to our community because we know, one size does not fit all.
I have an amazing blended family with three kids and a partner, and I couldn't be more grateful for them all. I enjoy watching my children grow, and showing up with open eyes and an open heart for all the ups and downs life brings. I find my balance on walks/hikes, in swimming and floating on lakes and rivers, in dancing my heart out, and in soaking up the warmth of the sun.
Andrea Garcia, COO, PSS
We believe that everyone deserves to have compassionate and inclusive care in assisting them towards reaching their goal within functional mental health and addiction. The systems we have set in place as a culture are so far away from being a cohesive environment for healing and are engulfed with shame and alienation. It is our goal to help create a community space where individuals can be active in their healing journey and be the leader on their path. We hope to create a space here at Live.Grow.Share. where all participants, employees and our community feel inspired to make the changes needed to feel comfortable moving toward new ways of supporting our common goals in healing modalities.
Moving through my own personal struggles in mental health and addiction, I have come across many educators, professionals, peers and mentors who helped me engage and be the driver of my own care. This has allowed me the ability to work as a participant as well as a facilitator with many different organizations within the community for over the past 20 years.
I found being in nature and loving my children to be my driving force to continue the work and strive to be part of a supportive system in others’ lives. I love living in the northwest, you can find me backpacking in the forests, paddle boarding or swimming in a lake, riding my motorcycle on backroads or getting my hands dirty in my garden.
