Team — Kauai Mental Health Advocates

Meet Our Team

The Kauaʻi Mental Health Advocates is on a mission to destigmatize the issues surrounding mental health through engaging community events, education, and resource sharing. Through this process, we have developed a board of directors responsible for upholding KMHA’s mission.

Co Founder/Administrative and Clinical Team

FRANCI DÁVILA, LCSW

From parents that served their communities in the medical and social service fields, Franci was meant to follow her purpose as a clinician and community advocate. Originally venturing from Connecticut in 2011, Franci had no idea that Kauai would embrace her so beautifully as a permanent resident where she has been able to develop her skills as a mental health practitioner, amateur boxer and coach, training workshop facilitator, and creative community activist and organizer.

Building her private practice as a licensed clinician, Franci is well versed in emotional and identity development with adolescents, suicide prevention, behavioral modification, family therapy, and healing in intergenerational trauma. However, her true heart work has always been to work with the communities she is rooted in through various modalities especially art and education in what ultimately makes her bad ass.

Administrative Team

ALLISON FRASCATORE

A transplant from New Jersey, Allison has had close ties to Kaua'i her entire life, and is dedicated to educating herself and others on how to best serve the place she now calls home.

Moved by KMHA's mission to provide resources and support for the community, Allison led several virtual Community Conversations in conjunction with KMHA. Soon, she was asked to become more involved and join the official board for KMHA, contributing her marketing skills and nonprofit experience to KMHA's mission. As a new mother, Allison is dedicated to creating an inclusive and supportive network of mental health resources for the youth of Kaua'i.

Board Member/Key Supporter

WARREN DASTRUP

Clinical Team

MICHAEL WEBSTER

Mike “Web” Webster, MS, MHC-A worked for 20 years in the medical world as a medical Imaging technologist, all the while experiencing chronic pain in one form or another and getting no real answers or help. After reading Dr. John Sarno’s books on TMS (tension myositis Syndrome) and the mindbody approach in 2016, he knew that he could never go back to his old way of thinking about chronic symptoms and started over, intent on providing to others what he needed when he was healing: someone who fully understands the mindbody process and is also a trained therapist.

In 2021, he completed comprehensive training in clinical psychologist Dr. Dan Ratner’s evidence-based 3-columns approach to treating chronic symptoms, and in 2024 earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, with a focus on Mental Health Counseling. Since 2016, he has overcome his own neck pain, shoulder pain, “bone-on-bone” knee pain (after a compound leg fracture and 3 surgeries), “tarlov cyst disease,” tendonitis/tennis elbow (for 8 years!), foot pain, hand pain, headaches, back pain, sciatica, tinnitus, and more.

Since he began working with clients in the 3-columns approach, he has helped others to overcome emotional dysregulation, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many forms of chronic pain symptoms, to understand themselves in a way they never had before, and to live in true alignment with who they have always wanted to be.

Administrative Team

NICOLE WALSH

Co Founder/Key Supporter

BELGICA HEREDIA, RN

Growing up in Colorado and traveling to experience different cultures as a young adult, Christy developed a strong passion for adventure, community, and mental health. Her work as a victims’ advocate in the Kauaʻi community deepened this passion, inspiring her to pursue a master’s in social work and become a mental health therapist.

Drawing from her own healing journey through surfing and the sense of community she has found on Kauaʻi, Christy embraces a holistic approach to therapy and blends a variety of modalities to help individuals navigate life’s challenges and foster personal growth.

With expertise in family and gender-based violence, as well as alternative therapies like equestrian and surf therapy,

Christy is particularly passionate about supporting adolescents through their transition into adulthood.