Claire Cronin, PhD LPC NCC RPT-S

ourBRIDGE Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Care Advisor

Dr. Claire Cronin is a licensed professional counselor and registered play therapist supervisor with over a decade of experience supporting immigrant communities. She has dedicated her clinical, supervisory, and academic work to advancing culturally responsive mental health care, with a focus on child-centered play therapy. Through training, research, and direct service, she has worked to expand access to high-quality behavioral health care for immigrant families, while mentoring the next generation of counselors to do the same.

Martia Edwards LCMHCA

ourBRIDGE Play Therapist/Classroom Coach

Martia is a clinical mental health counselor associate with over five years of experience working with children and adolescents ages 4–18. She specializes in play therapy, CBT, group therapy, and person-centered approaches, integrating expressive arts to support growth and healing. Her work has focused on helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, life transitions, parent–child conflict, self-esteem, and behavioral challenges such as ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. In addition to her role at ourBRIDGE and in private practice, she serves as a practitioner instructor in the Counseling Program at Wake Forest University.