You don’t have to journey alone
Meet The Team
With more than 140 years of combined experience guiding advisors, clinicians and families through the journey to long-term independence from addiction, our team can help you move in the right direction.
Douglas Lyons
FOUNDER
Doug Lyons has more than 35+ years of experience as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and holds a Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute.
Giving to heirs is meant to bring richness and resources to their lives. It can be difficult to come to terms with the fact that in doing so we may be inadvertently harming them.
Douglas Lyons
Co-Founder
Doug Lyons brings more than 35 years of clinical, advisory, and leadership experience at the intersection of addiction recovery, mental health, family systems, and complex family enterprise dynamics. Doug served 18 years as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and held a Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute, Doug is widely recognized for designing sophisticated solutions for individuals, families, and family businesses navigating high-stakes challenges involving substance use, behavioral health, governance conflict, and generational transition.
Doug’s reputation has been built on decades of work with complex, confidential, and high-pressure cases involving executives, public figures, professionals, and multigenerational family systems. He has extensive experience supporting families where addiction and mental health concerns intersect with leadership responsibilities, wealth structures, public visibility, and business continuity. His approach combines deep clinical rigor with practical judgment, discretion, and a long-view understanding of recovery.
In 2026, he was honored by peers with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Winter Leadership Summit.
During his 15-year tenure with Hazelden Foundation, Doug held several senior leadership roles, including Chair of the Clinical Leadership Team at Hazelden’s Oregon facility, Co-Chair of the National Chemical Dependency Team, and Director of Clinical Services. In an earlier role as Chemical Dependency Evaluation Director, he conducted or supervised more than 2,400 addiction evaluations, serving celebrities, high-profile public figures, airline pilots, CPAs, attorneys, and physicians—populations where privacy, precision, and professional consequences required exceptional care.
Since 2013, Doug has served on the Board of Directors of his seventh generation family business which has provided him with first-hand knowledge of boardroom dynamics in closely held business entities.
Prior to co-founding Clere Consulting, Doug served within a wealth management firm as a Family Wealth Advisor, helping client families address the impact of addiction, mental health issues, and relational dysfunction on family stability, governance, and legacy planning. This rare combination of clinical and financial systems experience allows Doug to navigate the realities many affluent families face when personal crises affect enterprise continuity.
Doug is also a respected educator and thought leader. He has lectured nationally and internationally for the Family Firm Institute in both Europe and the United States, as well as for the Hazelden Foundation, the Winter Leadership Summit, The Dallas-Fort Worth Behavioral Health Symposium, The Axis CORE Conferences, and The Mississippi Heroin and Opioid Summit, among others.
His service leadership includes roles as Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Oregon Prevention, Education and Recovery Association, and more than a decade on the Executive Board of Lines for Life, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide.
Doug earned his Bachelor’s degree in Management and Organizational Leadership from George Fox University.
Perhaps most importantly, Doug brings firsthand lived experience in long-term recovery, having been sober since November 18, 1989. That personal foundation informs the empathy, steadiness, and credibility he brings to families navigating some of life’s most difficult waters.
Amy Prouty, MSW, C.A.D.C.
PARTNER
Amy Prouty is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor with extensive experience in treating addiction and expertise in parent/child dynamics, including assessing and eliminating enabling behaviors.
I am not afraid to guide a family into new territories in their communication and belief systems.
Amy Prouty, MSW, C.A.D.C.
PARTNER
Amy Prouty brings a rare combination of clinical expertise, lived recovery experience, and exceptional relational instinct to families navigating addiction, mental health challenges, and complex generational dynamics. Formerly a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor with advanced training in family systems, Amy is widely respected for her ability to help families move from chaos, fear, and over-functioning into healthier patterns marked by accountability, dignity, and connection.
Known for her phrase, “walking through the fire with families,” Amy has built a reputation for guiding parents, spouses, and adult children through some of the most emotionally charged seasons of family life. Her specialty lies in helping families restore—or establish for the first time—age-appropriate, functional roles, shifting systems from policing to parenting, rescuing to boundaries, and dependency to independence. Her work often spans two and sometimes three generations of the same family, a reflection of the deep trust, consistency, and lasting impact she brings to her clients.
At Clere Consulting, Amy’s role draws heavily on her strengths in family stabilization, trust-building, and practical systems change. She is especially skilled in identifying and dismantling enabling behaviors, clarifying expectations, reintegrating recovering family members back into family life, and creating structured agreements between parents and young adults—a cornerstone of the Clere process. Her ability to combine firmness with warmth allows families to make difficult changes without losing relationship.
Amy is also highly effective in working with trust offices, family offices, and multigenerational wealth systems, where addiction and mental health issues often intersect with entitlement concerns, developmental delays, family conflict, and inheritance anxiety. She understands how wealth can complicate parenting, boundaries, and accountability, and helps families create structures that support both recovery and responsible stewardship.
Before joining Clere Consulting, Amy spent three years in private practice in Lake Oswego, where she specialized in group facilitation, family education, invitational and Johnson Model interventions, recovery coaching, treatment placement, and case management. She became the exclusive continuing care referral source for graduates of Hazelden Foundation’s Springbrook program, facilitating multiple weekly continuing care groups due to high client demand and strong retention.
Earlier in her career, Amy served as a focal therapist and family counselor at Hazelden Foundation Springbrook. She began her work in the addiction field as a counselor at a boys’ residential treatment center, then went on to lead a nonprofit focused on early literacy as a foundation for academic success and emotional wellbeing. That early focus on child development continues to shape her nuanced understanding of parenting, emotional maturity, and the needs of children impacted by family dysfunction.
Before entering the helping professions, Amy was an advertising executive in Portland. Following her own recovery journey, she chose to redirect her career toward work with deeper human meaning—bringing with her the communication skills, creativity, and executive presence that still serve families today.
Amy earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Portland and her Master of Social Work from Portland State University.
She has been in long-term recovery since 1999, and that lived experience informs the steadiness, humility, hope, and authenticity she brings to every family she serves. Families often come to Amy in crisis—but leave with stronger relationships, clearer roles, and a renewed belief that change is possible.
Jason Woodrum
SENIOR Consultant
Jason Woodrum is a Clinical Social Worker who believes in the transformational power of recovery. His professional journey is largely informed by his own personal recovery journey, and the joy that came with seeing the miraculous way in which it changed his relationship to himself and his family.
"Under my care, you can rest assured that you have an engaged ally in achieving the necessary changes in your family. The hard part is over, and now the transformative part can begin."
Jason Woodrum
Senior Consultant
Jason Woodrum brings a powerful combination of clinical training, lived recovery experience, and deep relational skill to individuals and families navigating addiction, mental health challenges, and family-system disruption. A licensed Clinical Social Worker, Jason is known for helping families move from fear, confusion, and reactive patterns toward healthier boundaries, restored trust, and long-term recovery.
Jason’s professional path has been profoundly shaped by his own personal recovery journey and the transformational impact it had on his relationship with himself and his family. That firsthand experience gives him a grounded understanding of both the pain that addiction creates and the hope that recovery makes possible. Families often respond to Jason’s authenticity, warmth, and practical optimism—qualities that help create momentum when people feel stuck or discouraged.
At Clere Consulting, Jason works closely with individuals and family systems to assess the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors driving dysfunction beneath the surface. He helps families recognize what is no longer serving them and supports the difficult but life-changing work of letting go of control, fear, resentment, and outdated roles. Whether guiding early boundary formation or supporting the gradual return to a healthier “new normal,” Jason helps families build systems that sustain long-term recovery.
Jason is especially effective with complex family dynamics, where addiction may be intertwined with enabling, codependency, unresolved trauma, communication breakdown, or chronic conflict. He is skilled at meeting families where they are emotionally, while still helping them move toward accountability and meaningful change. His approach is collaborative and empowering—ensuring that individuals and families remain active leaders in their own care rather than passive recipients of advice.
He has provided services across a wide range of public and private clinical environments, giving him broad perspective on how addiction and mental health challenges present across socioeconomic, cultural, and organizational contexts. Jason has served in clinical roles for both Los Angeles County and Orange County, and has worked as a therapist in multiple treatment settings throughout Southern California. These roles sharpened his ability to manage high-acuity cases, coordinate care across systems, and respond quickly to families navigating crisis and transition.
Prior to joining Clere Consulting, Jason spent two years in private practice serving families across the country as an addiction counselor and recovery coach. In that role, he integrated a wide range of evidence-based interventions and tailored strategies to each family’s unique needs, recognizing that no two recovery journeys—or family systems—are alike.
Jason is particularly valued for his ability to deliver clear, timely feedback with compassion. Families often need honest guidance delivered in a way they can hear and act on. Jason combines empathy with directness, helping clients navigate decisions in alignment with their deeper values rather than short-term emotion or fear.
He earned his Master of Social Work with distinction from University of Southern California in 2017.
A lifelong resident of Southern California, Jason is passionate about serving underrepresented communities and remains active in volunteer efforts throughout the region.
Jason has maintained continuous sobriety since 2013, and his ongoing commitment to recovery informs the steadiness, humility, and hope he brings to every family he serves. Outside of work, he enjoys time with his wife and training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, yoga, and surfing—practices that reflect the discipline, resilience, and balance central to his life and work.
Neely Carlton Lyons, JD.
Senior Consultant
“Being a good listener.” is how Neely Carlton Lyons describes her successful career in the law and politics that includes serving as an executive at the highest levels in all three branches of state government.
I want clients to know I have been on the other side of the conversation. There is hope for their loved one and family.
Neely Carlton Lyons JD
Senior Consultant
Neely Carlton Lyons brings a distinctive combination of public leadership experience, high-stakes negotiation skill, recovery expertise, and lived family perspective to individuals, families, and organizations navigating addiction and mental health challenges. With a professional background spanning law, politics, government, and advocacy, Neely is especially valued for her ability to remain calm under pressure, listen deeply, and guide people through emotionally charged and high-consequence decisions with steadiness and discretion.
Neely often says that “being a good listener” is at the center of her approach. Families and organizations facing addiction or mental health crises are frequently overwhelmed by fear, conflict, and uncertainty. Her ability to hear what is spoken—and what is not—allows her to build trust quickly, reduce defensiveness, and help stakeholders move toward practical, recovery-aligned solutions.
She brings extensive experience from serving at the highest levels of all three branches of state government in Mississippi. At age 25, Neely became the youngest elected Mississippi State Senate member in history, where she championed legislation focused on the intersection of public health and public safety, including addiction, mental health, domestic violence, and child protection. Her career also includes serving as a Law Clerk to a State Supreme Court Justice, Chief of Staff at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and Counsel to Governor Haley Barbour.
These roles required advanced judgment, political sophistication, and the ability to navigate high-intensity negotiations involving competing interests, reputational risk, crisis response, and confidential decision-making. Today, those same skills are invaluable to families and businesses facing addiction and mental health challenges where emotions run high and the stakes are deeply personal.
In private legal practice, Neely represented behavioral health providers and licensed professionals seeking to rebuild their careers after struggles with addiction or mental health issues. This work gave her firsthand insight into the complex realities of professional rehabilitation, licensing concerns, reputational recovery, and the courage required to begin again.
Neely also brings meaningful lived experience. Addiction and mental health challenges have touched her own family, giving her a deeply personal understanding of the pain, confusion, and hope that families carry. As she explains, “I have been on the other side of the conversation asking for support and recommendations. There is hope for your loved one and your family.” That perspective allows her to connect with clients not only as a strategist, but as someone who understands the emotional terrain firsthand.
She has been trained in the ARISE Intervention Model and the International Certified Recovery Specialist program, equipping her to guide families through engagement, treatment transitions, and long-term recovery support. In addition to family work, Neely collaborates with executive teams, employers, and law firms to provide addiction and mental health resources to employees, support difficult workplace conversations, and design return-to-work plans rooted in recovery best practices.
Neely is also a respected writer, national speaker, and civic leader. She was honored with the Champion in Recovery Award in 2020 by the Mississippi Drug and Opioid Summit and received the Healthcare Hero Award from the Mississippi Business Journal in 2017 for her advocacy and volunteer service supporting recovery communities.
Today, Neely is a trusted advisor to families, professionals, and organizations who need a guide capable of managing complexity with empathy, confidence, and discretion. She helps clients move through crisis, conflict, and uncertainty toward clarity, accountability, and lasting recovery.
Ryan Salter
Senior Consultant
Ryan Salter has spent more than 25 years helping individuals, families, and treatment professionals navigate the complexities of addiction, mental health, and long-term recovery. Throughout his career, Ryan has worked with thousands of individuals struggling with substance use disorders and has guided families through some of the most difficult and emotionally exhausting periods of their lives.
"It is a family problem, a relationship problem, and often a systems problem."
Ryan Salter
Senior Consultant
Ryan Salter has spent more than 25 years helping individuals, families, and treatment professionals navigate the complexities of addiction, mental health, and long-term recovery. Throughout his career, Ryan has worked with thousands of individuals struggling with substance use disorders and has guided families through some of the most difficult and emotionally exhausting periods of their lives.
At Clere, Ryan helps families and family systems navigate high-stakes decisions, treatment transitions, relapse concerns, mental health challenges, and the often-overlooked work of family recovery. His extensive experience allows him to bring perspective and stability during periods of uncertainty while helping families focus on what they can control rather than becoming consumed by what they cannot.
Ryan understands that addiction is rarely an individual problem. It is a family problem, a relationship problem, and often a systems problem. Families frequently come to him after years of trying everything they know how to do—offering support, providing resources, setting consequences, making accommodations, and repeatedly hoping that the next attempt will finally create lasting change. Ryan’s work helps families step out of the cycle of crisis management and begin understanding how their own behaviors, expectations, and responses can either support or unintentionally hinder recovery.
Known for his ability to connect with both struggling individuals and concerned family members, Ryan helps families move beyond blame, fear, and confusion toward greater clarity, healthier boundaries, and more effective support. He believes that sustainable recovery is most likely when the entire family system begins to heal and when everyone involved develops a clearer understanding of their role in the recovery journey.
Ryan earned a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work in 2001, graduating near the top of his class. He began his career as a therapist in a residential substance abuse treatment program in Salt Lake City, where his clinical skills and leadership abilities quickly led to his appointment as Clinical Director. Over the next six years, he worked extensively with individuals facing severe addiction and co-occurring mental health challenges while helping families understand the recovery process and prepare for life after treatment.
In 2008, driven by a vision for improving addiction treatment outcomes, Ryan founded Ascend Recovery, a residential treatment program designed to provide comprehensive and clinically sophisticated care for individuals struggling with addiction. As CEO and owner for sixteen years, Ryan oversaw the development of a nationally respected treatment program known for its clinical excellence and commitment to long-term recovery. Under his leadership, Ascend became recognized for combining evidence-based treatment, family involvement, and individualized care.
Following the sale of the program in 2024, Ryan transitioned into private consulting and advisory work, where he continues to focus on addiction, mental health, family recovery, and treatment strategy. His experience spans direct clinical care, executive leadership, program development, intervention support, family consulting, and recovery planning.
In addition to his clinical and leadership work, Ryan has long been recognized as a respected educator and mentor. He has taught and trained clinicians, treatment professionals, and graduate students throughout his career. Many of the therapists and counselors he has supervised have gone on to become leaders within the behavioral health field. Ryan remains passionate about developing future professionals and advancing the quality of addiction treatment and family support services.
Families appreciate Ryan’s ability to combine clinical expertise with practical wisdom. He understands that recovery is not simply about helping one person stop using substances—it is about helping an entire family learn new ways of communicating, relating, supporting, and healing. His approach emphasizes patience, accountability, healthy boundaries, and the understanding that meaningful change often occurs gradually rather than all at once.
Outside of his professional work, Ryan enjoys restoring old cars, woodworking, hiking, and spending time in the mountains with his wife. He brings the same curiosity, persistence, and craftsmanship to his personal interests that he brings to helping families build healthier and more sustainable futures.
Lucie Mikolaskova
Director of Finance and Operations
Lucie is a highly valued member of the Clere team, serving as our Director of Finance and Operations. With a background in administrative and business management, Lucie brings a wealth of experience to her position, ensuring that Clere’s financial health as well as client care and confidentiality is meticulously maintained.
“I am committed to driving financial and operational excellence across all aspects of our business by implementing new strategies, optimizing processes, and ensuring efficient execution of our strategic plans. I also take a pride in assisting our clients in any way possible"
Lucie Mikolaskova
Director of Finance and Operations
Lucie is a highly trusted leader at Clere Consulting, serving as Director of Finance & Operations and overseeing the systems that allow client engagements to run with precision, discretion, and consistency. In a field where families are often navigating urgency, uncertainty, and emotionally charged decisions, Lucie brings what clients value most: efficiency, confidentiality, accuracy, and customer service grounded in genuine care.
With a strong background in administrative leadership, business operations, and financial management, Lucie plays a central role in ensuring that every client experience with Clere is seamless, responsive, and professionally managed from first contact through engagement completion. She coordinates contracts, billing, internal workflows, documentation systems, and operational communication with exceptional attention to detail—creating stability behind the scenes so families and consultants can focus on the work that matters most.
Lucie is especially valued for her ability to combine high standards with human warmth. Families often come to Clere during stressful or vulnerable seasons of life, and Lucie understands that every interaction matters. She is known for responding promptly, handling sensitive matters discreetly, and helping clients feel supported rather than overwhelmed. Her calm professionalism often sets the tone for the client relationship from the very beginning.
At Clere, Lucie also leads continuous improvement efforts across the organization, identifying ways to streamline internal processes, strengthen service delivery, and improve operational efficiency without sacrificing personal attention. She works closely with consultants and leadership to ensure engagements move forward smoothly, timelines are met, and documentation is timely, organized, and reliable.
Her commitment to compassionate service is informed not only by professional experience, but by personal perspective. Lucie knows firsthand what it means to love someone struggling with addiction. That lived understanding deepens the empathy, patience, and discretion she brings to families navigating similar challenges. She recognizes that behind every invoice, contract, or urgent request is a family carrying real stress and hoping for help.
Prior to joining Clere Consulting, Lucie spent 13 years with a large multi-location dental organization operating across Minnesota and Wisconsin. She began as a Treatment Coordinator in 2011 and advanced through multiple leadership roles including direct patient care support, Insurance Billing Specialist, and Regional Financial Director. In that senior role, she supervised financial coordinators across all locations and was responsible for budgeting, forecasting, operational accountability, and strategic financial planning.
This healthcare operations background sharpened her ability to manage complex systems where service quality, confidentiality, responsiveness, and financial accuracy must coexist—skills directly relevant to the needs of Clere clients today.
Lucie was raised and earned her business degree in the Czech Republic before immigrating to the United States. She later continued her education in the U.S., earning a degree in Meeting and Event Planning. Her international perspective, adaptability, and entrepreneurial mindset continue to strengthen her leadership style.
In addition to her role at Clere, Lucie is a professional photographer and owner of a lifestyle photography business. Her work often centers on capturing moments of resilience, connection, motherhood, and women’s strength—values that mirror the empathy and attention she brings to her professional life.
Outside of work, Lucie loves plants and coffee. She enjoys hiking, gardening, fishing, reading, and traveling back to Europe to spend time with family and friends. Above all, she treasures time with her fiancée and their daughter.
Lucie’s blend of operational excellence, financial discipline, emotional intelligence, and unwavering client care makes her an essential part of the Clere experience—and a steady presence for families who need both competence and compassion.
Leah Randi
CONSULTANT
Leah Randi has more than 15+ years of experience as an addiction specialist, and is a CADC 1 (UCLA) Certified Drug And Alcohol counselor in addition to having Interventionist training, Sober Companion training, and membership in NARCAN.
Personal growth always results when we allow ourselves to expand beyond the farthest borders of what our lives have been so far.
Leah Randi
Senior Consultant
Leah Randi brings more than 15 years of professional experience in addiction recovery support, combined with a unique background in the music industry, public-facing environments, and long-term personal recovery. She is especially valued for her ability to engage quickly and effectively with individuals who are resistant, high-profile, high-performing, or in active crisis—meeting them with compassion, credibility, and what many families describe as relentless engagement.
A Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC I, UCLA Extension) with advanced training in intervention work, sober companion support, overdose prevention, and recovery coaching, Leah has built a reputation for guiding clients through some of the most difficult and vulnerable moments of their lives. She works effectively across the full continuum of care—from intervention and treatment entry, through transition, reintegration, and sustained long-term recovery.
At Clere Consulting, Leah is often called upon when families need a consultant who can build trust rapidly, maintain momentum, and remain closely engaged during periods of instability. Her style combines firmness, warmth, intuition, and accountability. She understands that many clients—particularly executives, creatives, public figures, and individuals accustomed to control—do not initially respond to traditional approaches. Leah’s strength lies in helping those individuals lower defenses, accept support, and begin meaningful change.
Leah has extensive experience working with high-profile clients, executives, entertainers, and celebrities in the United States and internationally. She has supported clients in private residences, treatment settings, travel environments, transitional housing, and complex family systems where confidentiality, flexibility, and immediate responsiveness are essential. Families and advisors often rely on Leah as both a recovery coach and a highly capable emergency resource during critical moments.
Her work extends far beyond crisis response. Leah helps clients establish realistic daily structure, reconnect with local recovery communities, build healthy routines, and create sustainable accountability systems aligned with their actual lifestyle demands. She understands that recovery must be livable to be lasting. Once trust is established, she collaborates closely with each client to define achievable goals that restore confidence, consistency, and self-respect.
Leah is also deeply committed to multidisciplinary collaboration. She works effectively alongside interventionists, therapists, psychiatrists, case managers, physicians, and family stakeholders to ensure continuity of care and alignment around client goals. This team-based approach is especially valuable in complex or high-stakes cases where fragmented communication can undermine progress.
Her professional effectiveness is grounded in significant lived experience in recovery. Leah understands firsthand the despair, disconnection, and self-destructive cycles addiction creates—as well as the freedom, dignity, and purpose that sustained recovery can restore. That experience gives her unusual credibility with clients who may distrust authority or feel hopeless about change.
Leah often incorporates holistic recovery principles into her work, recognizing the role of movement, meditation, emotional regulation, physical wellness, and identity rebuilding in long-term healing. She helps clients recover not only abstinence, but meaning.
A native of California, Leah has also lived in New York City and Canada. As a professional bass player, vocalist, touring musician, and recording artist, she has traveled extensively on international tours and understands the realities of performance pressure, irregular schedules, public visibility, and life on the road. Her longstanding affiliation with MusiCares has further deepened her understanding of the importance of privacy, discretion, and specialized recovery support for those in entertainment and public-facing careers.
Leah has maintained continuous sobriety since April 2003. Her longevity in recovery, trusted network of top-tier treatment resources, and unwavering commitment to client success make her an invaluable guide for individuals and families seeking a path forward. She brings urgency when needed, steadiness when required, and hope when it matters most.
Douglas Lyons
FOUNDER
Doug Lyons has more than 35+ years of experience as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and holds a Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute.
Giving to heirs is meant to bring richness and resources to their lives. It can be difficult to come to terms with the fact that in doing so we may be inadvertently harming them.
Douglas Lyons
Co-Founder
Doug Lyons brings more than 35 years of clinical, advisory, and leadership experience at the intersection of addiction recovery, mental health, family systems, and complex family enterprise dynamics. Doug served 18 years as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and held a Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute, Doug is widely recognized for designing sophisticated solutions for individuals, families, and family businesses navigating high-stakes challenges involving substance use, behavioral health, governance conflict, and generational transition.
Doug’s reputation has been built on decades of work with complex, confidential, and high-pressure cases involving executives, public figures, professionals, and multigenerational family systems. He has extensive experience supporting families where addiction and mental health concerns intersect with leadership responsibilities, wealth structures, public visibility, and business continuity. His approach combines deep clinical rigor with practical judgment, discretion, and a long-view understanding of recovery.
In 2026, he was honored by peers with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Winter Leadership Summit.
During his 15-year tenure with Hazelden Foundation, Doug held several senior leadership roles, including Chair of the Clinical Leadership Team at Hazelden’s Oregon facility, Co-Chair of the National Chemical Dependency Team, and Director of Clinical Services. In an earlier role as Chemical Dependency Evaluation Director, he conducted or supervised more than 2,400 addiction evaluations, serving celebrities, high-profile public figures, airline pilots, CPAs, attorneys, and physicians—populations where privacy, precision, and professional consequences required exceptional care.
Since 2013, Doug has served on the Board of Directors of his seventh generation family business which has provided him with first-hand knowledge of boardroom dynamics in closely held business entities.
Prior to co-founding Clere Consulting, Doug served within a wealth management firm as a Family Wealth Advisor, helping client families address the impact of addiction, mental health issues, and relational dysfunction on family stability, governance, and legacy planning. This rare combination of clinical and financial systems experience allows Doug to navigate the realities many affluent families face when personal crises affect enterprise continuity.
Doug is also a respected educator and thought leader. He has lectured nationally and internationally for the Family Firm Institute in both Europe and the United States, as well as for the Hazelden Foundation, the Winter Leadership Summit, The Dallas-Fort Worth Behavioral Health Symposium, The Axis CORE Conferences, and The Mississippi Heroin and Opioid Summit, among others.
His service leadership includes roles as Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Oregon Prevention, Education and Recovery Association, and more than a decade on the Executive Board of Lines for Life, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide.
Doug earned his Bachelor’s degree in Management and Organizational Leadership from George Fox University.
Perhaps most importantly, Doug brings firsthand lived experience in long-term recovery, having been sober since November 18, 1989. That personal foundation informs the empathy, steadiness, and credibility he brings to families navigating some of life’s most difficult waters.
Amy Prouty, MSW, C.A.D.C.
PARTNER
Amy Prouty is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor with extensive experience in treating addiction and expertise in parent/child dynamics, including assessing and eliminating enabling behaviors.
I am not afraid to guide a family into new territories in their communication and belief systems.
Amy Prouty, MSW, C.A.D.C.
PARTNER
Amy Prouty brings a rare combination of clinical expertise, lived recovery experience, and exceptional relational instinct to families navigating addiction, mental health challenges, and complex generational dynamics. Formerly a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor with advanced training in family systems, Amy is widely respected for her ability to help families move from chaos, fear, and over-functioning into healthier patterns marked by accountability, dignity, and connection.
Known for her phrase, “walking through the fire with families,” Amy has built a reputation for guiding parents, spouses, and adult children through some of the most emotionally charged seasons of family life. Her specialty lies in helping families restore—or establish for the first time—age-appropriate, functional roles, shifting systems from policing to parenting, rescuing to boundaries, and dependency to independence. Her work often spans two and sometimes three generations of the same family, a reflection of the deep trust, consistency, and lasting impact she brings to her clients.
At Clere Consulting, Amy’s role draws heavily on her strengths in family stabilization, trust-building, and practical systems change. She is especially skilled in identifying and dismantling enabling behaviors, clarifying expectations, reintegrating recovering family members back into family life, and creating structured agreements between parents and young adults—a cornerstone of the Clere process. Her ability to combine firmness with warmth allows families to make difficult changes without losing relationship.
Amy is also highly effective in working with trust offices, family offices, and multigenerational wealth systems, where addiction and mental health issues often intersect with entitlement concerns, developmental delays, family conflict, and inheritance anxiety. She understands how wealth can complicate parenting, boundaries, and accountability, and helps families create structures that support both recovery and responsible stewardship.
Before joining Clere Consulting, Amy spent three years in private practice in Lake Oswego, where she specialized in group facilitation, family education, invitational and Johnson Model interventions, recovery coaching, treatment placement, and case management. She became the exclusive continuing care referral source for graduates of Hazelden Foundation’s Springbrook program, facilitating multiple weekly continuing care groups due to high client demand and strong retention.
Earlier in her career, Amy served as a focal therapist and family counselor at Hazelden Foundation Springbrook. She began her work in the addiction field as a counselor at a boys’ residential treatment center, then went on to lead a nonprofit focused on early literacy as a foundation for academic success and emotional wellbeing. That early focus on child development continues to shape her nuanced understanding of parenting, emotional maturity, and the needs of children impacted by family dysfunction.
Before entering the helping professions, Amy was an advertising executive in Portland. Following her own recovery journey, she chose to redirect her career toward work with deeper human meaning—bringing with her the communication skills, creativity, and executive presence that still serve families today.
Amy earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Portland and her Master of Social Work from Portland State University.
She has been in long-term recovery since 1999, and that lived experience informs the steadiness, humility, hope, and authenticity she brings to every family she serves. Families often come to Amy in crisis—but leave with stronger relationships, clearer roles, and a renewed belief that change is possible.
Jason Woodrum
SENIOR Consultant
Jason Woodrum is a Clinical Social Worker who believes in the transformational power of recovery. His professional journey is largely informed by his own personal recovery journey, and the joy that came with seeing the miraculous way in which it changed his relationship to himself and his family.
"Under my care, you can rest assured that you have an engaged ally in achieving the necessary changes in your family. The hard part is over, and now the transformative part can begin."
Jason Woodrum
Senior Consultant
Jason Woodrum brings a powerful combination of clinical training, lived recovery experience, and deep relational skill to individuals and families navigating addiction, mental health challenges, and family-system disruption. A licensed Clinical Social Worker, Jason is known for helping families move from fear, confusion, and reactive patterns toward healthier boundaries, restored trust, and long-term recovery.
Jason’s professional path has been profoundly shaped by his own personal recovery journey and the transformational impact it had on his relationship with himself and his family. That firsthand experience gives him a grounded understanding of both the pain that addiction creates and the hope that recovery makes possible. Families often respond to Jason’s authenticity, warmth, and practical optimism—qualities that help create momentum when people feel stuck or discouraged.
At Clere Consulting, Jason works closely with individuals and family systems to assess the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors driving dysfunction beneath the surface. He helps families recognize what is no longer serving them and supports the difficult but life-changing work of letting go of control, fear, resentment, and outdated roles. Whether guiding early boundary formation or supporting the gradual return to a healthier “new normal,” Jason helps families build systems that sustain long-term recovery.
Jason is especially effective with complex family dynamics, where addiction may be intertwined with enabling, codependency, unresolved trauma, communication breakdown, or chronic conflict. He is skilled at meeting families where they are emotionally, while still helping them move toward accountability and meaningful change. His approach is collaborative and empowering—ensuring that individuals and families remain active leaders in their own care rather than passive recipients of advice.
He has provided services across a wide range of public and private clinical environments, giving him broad perspective on how addiction and mental health challenges present across socioeconomic, cultural, and organizational contexts. Jason has served in clinical roles for both Los Angeles County and Orange County, and has worked as a therapist in multiple treatment settings throughout Southern California. These roles sharpened his ability to manage high-acuity cases, coordinate care across systems, and respond quickly to families navigating crisis and transition.
Prior to joining Clere Consulting, Jason spent two years in private practice serving families across the country as an addiction counselor and recovery coach. In that role, he integrated a wide range of evidence-based interventions and tailored strategies to each family’s unique needs, recognizing that no two recovery journeys—or family systems—are alike.
Jason is particularly valued for his ability to deliver clear, timely feedback with compassion. Families often need honest guidance delivered in a way they can hear and act on. Jason combines empathy with directness, helping clients navigate decisions in alignment with their deeper values rather than short-term emotion or fear.
He earned his Master of Social Work with distinction from University of Southern California in 2017.
A lifelong resident of Southern California, Jason is passionate about serving underrepresented communities and remains active in volunteer efforts throughout the region.
Jason has maintained continuous sobriety since 2013, and his ongoing commitment to recovery informs the steadiness, humility, and hope he brings to every family he serves. Outside of work, he enjoys time with his wife and training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, yoga, and surfing—practices that reflect the discipline, resilience, and balance central to his life and work.
Neely Carlton Lyons, JD.
Senior Consultant
“Being a good listener.” is how Neely Carlton Lyons describes her successful career in the law and politics that includes serving as an executive at the highest levels in all three branches of state government.
I want clients to know I have been on the other side of the conversation. There is hope for their loved one and family.
Neely Carlton Lyons JD
Senior Consultant
Neely Carlton Lyons brings a distinctive combination of public leadership experience, high-stakes negotiation skill, recovery expertise, and lived family perspective to individuals, families, and organizations navigating addiction and mental health challenges. With a professional background spanning law, politics, government, and advocacy, Neely is especially valued for her ability to remain calm under pressure, listen deeply, and guide people through emotionally charged and high-consequence decisions with steadiness and discretion.
Neely often says that “being a good listener” is at the center of her approach. Families and organizations facing addiction or mental health crises are frequently overwhelmed by fear, conflict, and uncertainty. Her ability to hear what is spoken—and what is not—allows her to build trust quickly, reduce defensiveness, and help stakeholders move toward practical, recovery-aligned solutions.
She brings extensive experience from serving at the highest levels of all three branches of state government in Mississippi. At age 25, Neely became the youngest elected Mississippi State Senate member in history, where she championed legislation focused on the intersection of public health and public safety, including addiction, mental health, domestic violence, and child protection. Her career also includes serving as a Law Clerk to a State Supreme Court Justice, Chief of Staff at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and Counsel to Governor Haley Barbour.
These roles required advanced judgment, political sophistication, and the ability to navigate high-intensity negotiations involving competing interests, reputational risk, crisis response, and confidential decision-making. Today, those same skills are invaluable to families and businesses facing addiction and mental health challenges where emotions run high and the stakes are deeply personal.
In private legal practice, Neely represented behavioral health providers and licensed professionals seeking to rebuild their careers after struggles with addiction or mental health issues. This work gave her firsthand insight into the complex realities of professional rehabilitation, licensing concerns, reputational recovery, and the courage required to begin again.
Neely also brings meaningful lived experience. Addiction and mental health challenges have touched her own family, giving her a deeply personal understanding of the pain, confusion, and hope that families carry. As she explains, “I have been on the other side of the conversation asking for support and recommendations. There is hope for your loved one and your family.” That perspective allows her to connect with clients not only as a strategist, but as someone who understands the emotional terrain firsthand.
She has been trained in the ARISE Intervention Model and the International Certified Recovery Specialist program, equipping her to guide families through engagement, treatment transitions, and long-term recovery support. In addition to family work, Neely collaborates with executive teams, employers, and law firms to provide addiction and mental health resources to employees, support difficult workplace conversations, and design return-to-work plans rooted in recovery best practices.
Neely is also a respected writer, national speaker, and civic leader. She was honored with the Champion in Recovery Award in 2020 by the Mississippi Drug and Opioid Summit and received the Healthcare Hero Award from the Mississippi Business Journal in 2017 for her advocacy and volunteer service supporting recovery communities.
Today, Neely is a trusted advisor to families, professionals, and organizations who need a guide capable of managing complexity with empathy, confidence, and discretion. She helps clients move through crisis, conflict, and uncertainty toward clarity, accountability, and lasting recovery.
Ryan Salter
Senior Consultant
Ryan Salter has spent more than 25 years helping individuals, families, and treatment professionals navigate the complexities of addiction, mental health, and long-term recovery. Throughout his career, Ryan has worked with thousands of individuals struggling with substance use disorders and has guided families through some of the most difficult and emotionally exhausting periods of their lives.
"It is a family problem, a relationship problem, and often a systems problem."
Ryan Salter
Senior Consultant
Ryan Salter has spent more than 25 years helping individuals, families, and treatment professionals navigate the complexities of addiction, mental health, and long-term recovery. Throughout his career, Ryan has worked with thousands of individuals struggling with substance use disorders and has guided families through some of the most difficult and emotionally exhausting periods of their lives.
At Clere, Ryan helps families and family systems navigate high-stakes decisions, treatment transitions, relapse concerns, mental health challenges, and the often-overlooked work of family recovery. His extensive experience allows him to bring perspective and stability during periods of uncertainty while helping families focus on what they can control rather than becoming consumed by what they cannot.
Ryan understands that addiction is rarely an individual problem. It is a family problem, a relationship problem, and often a systems problem. Families frequently come to him after years of trying everything they know how to do—offering support, providing resources, setting consequences, making accommodations, and repeatedly hoping that the next attempt will finally create lasting change. Ryan’s work helps families step out of the cycle of crisis management and begin understanding how their own behaviors, expectations, and responses can either support or unintentionally hinder recovery.
Known for his ability to connect with both struggling individuals and concerned family members, Ryan helps families move beyond blame, fear, and confusion toward greater clarity, healthier boundaries, and more effective support. He believes that sustainable recovery is most likely when the entire family system begins to heal and when everyone involved develops a clearer understanding of their role in the recovery journey.
Ryan earned a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work in 2001, graduating near the top of his class. He began his career as a therapist in a residential substance abuse treatment program in Salt Lake City, where his clinical skills and leadership abilities quickly led to his appointment as Clinical Director. Over the next six years, he worked extensively with individuals facing severe addiction and co-occurring mental health challenges while helping families understand the recovery process and prepare for life after treatment.
In 2008, driven by a vision for improving addiction treatment outcomes, Ryan founded Ascend Recovery, a residential treatment program designed to provide comprehensive and clinically sophisticated care for individuals struggling with addiction. As CEO and owner for sixteen years, Ryan oversaw the development of a nationally respected treatment program known for its clinical excellence and commitment to long-term recovery. Under his leadership, Ascend became recognized for combining evidence-based treatment, family involvement, and individualized care.
Following the sale of the program in 2024, Ryan transitioned into private consulting and advisory work, where he continues to focus on addiction, mental health, family recovery, and treatment strategy. His experience spans direct clinical care, executive leadership, program development, intervention support, family consulting, and recovery planning.
In addition to his clinical and leadership work, Ryan has long been recognized as a respected educator and mentor. He has taught and trained clinicians, treatment professionals, and graduate students throughout his career. Many of the therapists and counselors he has supervised have gone on to become leaders within the behavioral health field. Ryan remains passionate about developing future professionals and advancing the quality of addiction treatment and family support services.
Families appreciate Ryan’s ability to combine clinical expertise with practical wisdom. He understands that recovery is not simply about helping one person stop using substances—it is about helping an entire family learn new ways of communicating, relating, supporting, and healing. His approach emphasizes patience, accountability, healthy boundaries, and the understanding that meaningful change often occurs gradually rather than all at once.
Outside of his professional work, Ryan enjoys restoring old cars, woodworking, hiking, and spending time in the mountains with his wife. He brings the same curiosity, persistence, and craftsmanship to his personal interests that he brings to helping families build healthier and more sustainable futures.
Lucie Mikolaskova
Director of Finance and Operations
Lucie is a highly valued member of the Clere team, serving as our Director of Finance and Operations. With a background in administrative and business management, Lucie brings a wealth of experience to her position, ensuring that Clere’s financial health as well as client care and confidentiality is meticulously maintained.
“I am committed to driving financial and operational excellence across all aspects of our business by implementing new strategies, optimizing processes, and ensuring efficient execution of our strategic plans. I also take a pride in assisting our clients in any way possible"
Lucie Mikolaskova
Director of Finance and Operations
Lucie is a highly trusted leader at Clere Consulting, serving as Director of Finance & Operations and overseeing the systems that allow client engagements to run with precision, discretion, and consistency. In a field where families are often navigating urgency, uncertainty, and emotionally charged decisions, Lucie brings what clients value most: efficiency, confidentiality, accuracy, and customer service grounded in genuine care.
With a strong background in administrative leadership, business operations, and financial management, Lucie plays a central role in ensuring that every client experience with Clere is seamless, responsive, and professionally managed from first contact through engagement completion. She coordinates contracts, billing, internal workflows, documentation systems, and operational communication with exceptional attention to detail—creating stability behind the scenes so families and consultants can focus on the work that matters most.
Lucie is especially valued for her ability to combine high standards with human warmth. Families often come to Clere during stressful or vulnerable seasons of life, and Lucie understands that every interaction matters. She is known for responding promptly, handling sensitive matters discreetly, and helping clients feel supported rather than overwhelmed. Her calm professionalism often sets the tone for the client relationship from the very beginning.
At Clere, Lucie also leads continuous improvement efforts across the organization, identifying ways to streamline internal processes, strengthen service delivery, and improve operational efficiency without sacrificing personal attention. She works closely with consultants and leadership to ensure engagements move forward smoothly, timelines are met, and documentation is timely, organized, and reliable.
Her commitment to compassionate service is informed not only by professional experience, but by personal perspective. Lucie knows firsthand what it means to love someone struggling with addiction. That lived understanding deepens the empathy, patience, and discretion she brings to families navigating similar challenges. She recognizes that behind every invoice, contract, or urgent request is a family carrying real stress and hoping for help.
Prior to joining Clere Consulting, Lucie spent 13 years with a large multi-location dental organization operating across Minnesota and Wisconsin. She began as a Treatment Coordinator in 2011 and advanced through multiple leadership roles including direct patient care support, Insurance Billing Specialist, and Regional Financial Director. In that senior role, she supervised financial coordinators across all locations and was responsible for budgeting, forecasting, operational accountability, and strategic financial planning.
This healthcare operations background sharpened her ability to manage complex systems where service quality, confidentiality, responsiveness, and financial accuracy must coexist—skills directly relevant to the needs of Clere clients today.
Lucie was raised and earned her business degree in the Czech Republic before immigrating to the United States. She later continued her education in the U.S., earning a degree in Meeting and Event Planning. Her international perspective, adaptability, and entrepreneurial mindset continue to strengthen her leadership style.
In addition to her role at Clere, Lucie is a professional photographer and owner of a lifestyle photography business. Her work often centers on capturing moments of resilience, connection, motherhood, and women’s strength—values that mirror the empathy and attention she brings to her professional life.
Outside of work, Lucie loves plants and coffee. She enjoys hiking, gardening, fishing, reading, and traveling back to Europe to spend time with family and friends. Above all, she treasures time with her fiancée and their daughter.
Lucie’s blend of operational excellence, financial discipline, emotional intelligence, and unwavering client care makes her an essential part of the Clere experience—and a steady presence for families who need both competence and compassion.
Leah Randi
CONSULTANT
Leah Randi has more than 15+ years of experience as an addiction specialist, and is a CADC 1 (UCLA) Certified Drug And Alcohol counselor in addition to having Interventionist training, Sober Companion training, and membership in NARCAN.
Personal growth always results when we allow ourselves to expand beyond the farthest borders of what our lives have been so far.
Leah Randi
Senior Consultant
Leah Randi brings more than 15 years of professional experience in addiction recovery support, combined with a unique background in the music industry, public-facing environments, and long-term personal recovery. She is especially valued for her ability to engage quickly and effectively with individuals who are resistant, high-profile, high-performing, or in active crisis—meeting them with compassion, credibility, and what many families describe as relentless engagement.
A Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC I, UCLA Extension) with advanced training in intervention work, sober companion support, overdose prevention, and recovery coaching, Leah has built a reputation for guiding clients through some of the most difficult and vulnerable moments of their lives. She works effectively across the full continuum of care—from intervention and treatment entry, through transition, reintegration, and sustained long-term recovery.
At Clere Consulting, Leah is often called upon when families need a consultant who can build trust rapidly, maintain momentum, and remain closely engaged during periods of instability. Her style combines firmness, warmth, intuition, and accountability. She understands that many clients—particularly executives, creatives, public figures, and individuals accustomed to control—do not initially respond to traditional approaches. Leah’s strength lies in helping those individuals lower defenses, accept support, and begin meaningful change.
Leah has extensive experience working with high-profile clients, executives, entertainers, and celebrities in the United States and internationally. She has supported clients in private residences, treatment settings, travel environments, transitional housing, and complex family systems where confidentiality, flexibility, and immediate responsiveness are essential. Families and advisors often rely on Leah as both a recovery coach and a highly capable emergency resource during critical moments.
Her work extends far beyond crisis response. Leah helps clients establish realistic daily structure, reconnect with local recovery communities, build healthy routines, and create sustainable accountability systems aligned with their actual lifestyle demands. She understands that recovery must be livable to be lasting. Once trust is established, she collaborates closely with each client to define achievable goals that restore confidence, consistency, and self-respect.
Leah is also deeply committed to multidisciplinary collaboration. She works effectively alongside interventionists, therapists, psychiatrists, case managers, physicians, and family stakeholders to ensure continuity of care and alignment around client goals. This team-based approach is especially valuable in complex or high-stakes cases where fragmented communication can undermine progress.
Her professional effectiveness is grounded in significant lived experience in recovery. Leah understands firsthand the despair, disconnection, and self-destructive cycles addiction creates—as well as the freedom, dignity, and purpose that sustained recovery can restore. That experience gives her unusual credibility with clients who may distrust authority or feel hopeless about change.
Leah often incorporates holistic recovery principles into her work, recognizing the role of movement, meditation, emotional regulation, physical wellness, and identity rebuilding in long-term healing. She helps clients recover not only abstinence, but meaning.
A native of California, Leah has also lived in New York City and Canada. As a professional bass player, vocalist, touring musician, and recording artist, she has traveled extensively on international tours and understands the realities of performance pressure, irregular schedules, public visibility, and life on the road. Her longstanding affiliation with MusiCares has further deepened her understanding of the importance of privacy, discretion, and specialized recovery support for those in entertainment and public-facing careers.
Leah has maintained continuous sobriety since April 2003. Her longevity in recovery, trusted network of top-tier treatment resources, and unwavering commitment to client success make her an invaluable guide for individuals and families seeking a path forward. She brings urgency when needed, steadiness when required, and hope when it matters most.