Leadership Team
Meet Our Board of Directors:
Dr. Ramona Probasco
Dr. Ramona Probasco is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, and Nationally Certified Counselor with over 25 years of clinical experience in trauma recovery and mental health. After retiring from private practice, she co-founded the Healing Well & Living Free Foundation with her husband, Tim Probasco, where she now serves as President. The nonprofit is dedicated to equipping domestic violence victims and their children with trauma-informed resources, education, and advocacy that foster lasting healing and true freedom.
Through the Foundation’s signature initiative, Make a Moment, experiences like trips to amusement parks, weekends at camp, pro-sporting events, or days at the beach, domestic violence survivors and their children can reclaim joy and rebuild bonds. Make a Moment honors the resilience of survivors by helping them create new, life-affirming memories. As a personal overcomer of two decades of abuse in her former marriage, Dr. Ramona brings the rare combination of professional expertise and personal experience to her work. Her book, Healing Well and Living Free from an Abusive Relationship: From Victim to Survivor to Overcomer, offers a compassionate roadmap for those seeking authentic healing from the trauma of abuse. She is also the co-author of Advancing Justice in Family Law: Best Practices for Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence and Their Children—a groundbreaking legal guide for family law professionals.
Dr. Ramona is a sought-after national speaker and educator, known for her clear, compassionate, and courageous voice on the complexities of domestic violence, post-separation abuse, and coercive control. She trains court professionals, attorneys, and advocates on how to better protect victims within the legal system.
Her work embodies a transformative truth: while abuse can distort our identity and disrupt our sense of safety, it does not have the power to define our future. Through trauma-informed care, evidence-based advocacy, and faith-rooted support, she affirms that healing is not only possible—it is a right. And living free is not a dream—it is a reality survivors deserve.
Tim Probasco
Tim Probasco worked for a number of years with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association before transitioning into the business world, working in sales and sales management. After earning his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Tim served as a Vice President of Development in the nonprofit sector, raising over $30 million for causes he believed in. Tim now works alongside his wife, Dr. Ramona Probasco, in the company they founded together.
Tim and Ramona launched the Healing Well & Living Free Foundation with the mission to serve those affected by the trauma of domestic violence, a cause close to their hearts. Through this work, they support and empower survivors of domestic violence, empowering them to heal well so they can live free.
Dr. Ann Kania
Dr. Ann Mineo Kania is a native Californian. She graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology. After graduation, she received her dental degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and was selected as a Regents Scholarship Fellow. Dr. Kania completed her Residency in Periodontology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. While at Harvard, she also earned her Doctorate of Medical Science in microbiology. While at Harvard she was awarded the National Research Service award.
Dr. Kania has been a solo practicing specialist in the field of Periodontics and dental implants in San Diego’s North County since 1997. She is a leader in numerous professional study clubs and an active servant leader in her local church and community. She has a heart for those in recovery from divorce and has been a DivorceCare facilitator since 2018. She is hopefully optimistic for the future of individuals healing well and living free. She is an entrepreneur, a loyal friend, and the proud mother of two strong and compassionate women.
Kristin Carver Smith
Kristin has spent the last decade helping clients across a variety of industries–including sports, entertainment & lifestyle, music, publishing, logistics and supply chain, nonprofits and for-profits–develop business strategies, communications plans and publicity campaigns that produce winning results.
Her clients have teamed up with some of the world’s most recognizable brands and organizations, taken the stage at renowned conferences and been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, The View, NBC’s TODAY, CNN, CBS News and in the Associated Press, ESSENCE, Good Housekeeping, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, US News and World Report, Parade Magazine, TIME and The Washington Post, among others.
Bella Tumini
With a career shaped by creativity, entrepreneurship, and a drive for social good, Bella Tumini integrates passion with purpose in everything she does. She is a dynamic marketing leader with a deep passion for creating products and building brands. As a founding member of Suja Juice, the nation’s top Organic Cold-Pressed Juice brand, she drove marketing strategy and execution contributing to over $100 million in revenue.
Outside of her corporate achievements, Bella is deeply committed to philanthropy, having founded Nika Water and volunteering for many non-profits and community initiatives. She finds balance and focus away from the boardroom, by fueling her competitive spirit on the tennis court, exploring culinary experiences at new restaurants, or embarking on spontaneous overseas adventures.
Volunteer Team
Meet Our Incredible Volunteers:
Lisa Josphesen
Lisa Josephsen is the Prayer Support Leader at the Healing Well & Living Free Foundation. In this role, Lisa spearheads prayer for the leadership team, as well as the prayer requests received by the Foundation.
Prior to this, Lisa was an associate pastor from 1994 to 2018, where she not only oversaw the prayer elements at the church, but also taught, activated the disaster relief chaplaincy at their church, deployed to the Montecito mudslides as a DR chaplain, and did visitation and personal ministry trips to Israel.
Lisa met Founder of the Healing Well & Living Free Foundation, Dr. Ramona Probasco, through a Wednesday prayer group at Lisa’s former church. The prayer group, which Lisa joined in 1982, has morphed into a weekly Wednesday conference call where numerous prayer requests—including those from the Foundation—are lifted up. Lisa is also a part of an Israel/US prayer meeting which has continued since 2003, and she facilitates a sizable email prayer line with members that also includes the Foundation prayer team.
She believes wholly in the power of prayer and its necessity to the success of the Healing Well & Living Free Foundation. Lisa notes prayer has always been her first resort and because of the compelling needs and issues throughout her own life, approaching the Throne of Grace in her time of need became a way of life. Today, it’s her delight to connect anyone else’s need to the abundance found in God
Ted McCoig
Ted is a 20+ year agency veteran who’s had the pleasure to work with great people and on great accounts. He is an award winning designer, but his primary aim is to create arresting campaigns that help businesses reach their marketing objectives.
Ted started his career at Murray, Inc. where he developed identities for signature-label outdoor power equipment for Home Depot and bikes for Sears, Wal-Mart, and Toys R Us.
He then spent 10 years as Creative Director for agencies Alcott Routon and Alcott Marketing Science, where he developed results-generating campaigns for HSBC, Frost Bank, KinderCare Learning Centers, Regions Financial, National City Bank, NFIB, Marriott Vacation Club and Harley-Davidson Financial Services.
In 2018, Ted founded McCoig Creative, a brand identity agency. His projects of late include Washington DC-based Good Stuff Eatery, We, The Pizza, Nashville Children’s Theatre, and Lee Company.
In addition to corporate clients, Ted’s enjoyed working on numerous non-profit and pro-bono assignments including Donald Miller’s The Mentoring Project (mentoring fatherless boys) and Sowing Seeds of Hope: “The black belt of America” which served Alabama’s poorest communities.
Jamie Reeves
Jamie Reeves is a native Nashvillian with more than 30 years of experience in writing, social media, and content marketing strategy — helping companies and nonprofit organizations build their brands, tell their stories, and strengthen their communities. She began her career in Vanderbilt University’s news and public affairs office. For nearly 11 years, she served as managing editor for supplements of Corporate Board Member magazine.
Jamie is a past board member of the Nashville chapter of FemCity, a global professional women’s networking organization, as well as a past president of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Nashville.
Additionally, she was a founding board member for Every Girl Counts, a nonprofit that offers basic life necessities and free secondary education to impoverished girls.
In 2013, Jamie traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, with Every Girl Counts founder Rene Cook to visit single mothers and their families in Kibera, one of the world’s largest slums.
Jamie has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism and sociology from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.