The Yellow City Playroom Team
Ashley Wade MA, LPC-S, RPT-S™
Ashley Wade lives in Amarillo Texas, graduated from Southern Nazarene University with a Masters in Counseling. She holds a current license with the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council as a License Professional Counselor and a Certification as a Registered Play Therapist. Ashley is trained in Child Centered Play Therapy, Theraplay, Autplay and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Ashley is currently an LPC Supervisor and taking new LPC Associates at this time. In her spare time, Ashley enjoys spending time with her two beautiful children and amazing husband.
Kimberly is an LPC Associate under the supervision of Ashley WadeMA, LPC-S, RPT-S. Kimberly has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families. She has spent the last four years working as a school counselor in the public school system helping her students grow and learn through their struggles and challenges. Kimberly graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Dallas Baptist University and a Master of Education in Counseling and Development from Lamar University. Her therapeutic approach is person-centered and utilized Child Centered play therapy with children ages 3 to 12. She has a passion for meeting people where they are and helping them to see that just because they may be walking through a difficult time there is always hope. Throughout Kimberly’s life journey she has learned that there is beauty through the ashes, and she has a strong desire to help others find that through their journey as well. Kimberly has received training in Mental Health, Trauma Informed Care, Psychological First Aid, Addiction, Emotional Poverty, Suicide Awareness and Prevention, Grief and Loss, Autism, and Child Centered Play Therapy. In her spare time, Kimberly enjoys spending time with her family, reading non-fiction books and autobiographies, being out on the golf course, and traveling to new places.
Destiny Whitaker LPC Associate
Supervised by Ashley Wade MA, LPC-S, RPT-S
Kimberly McClendon, LPC Associate
Supervised by Ashley Wade MA, LPC-S, RPT-S
Destiny was born and raised in Amarillo and graduated with an Associates in Social Work, a Bachelor's in Psychology, and a Master's in Counseling. She has worked with children with Autism, and worked as a forensic interviewer at the Bridge Children's Advocacy Center. She also has worked as a Local Outreach to Survivors of Suicide (LOSS) Coordinator for a suicicide response team. Destiny is supervised by Ashley Wade and has an interest in play therapy. It has been on her heart to be a child therapist since she was thirteen years old. She believes that children deserve to be safe and heard and feels that it would be a privilege for her to be that for them. Her approach is trauma informed and person-centered and has a background in trauma, grief, anxiety, and depression. She has training in Mental Health First Aid, trauma focused behavioral therapy, applied behavior analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and intro to plat therapy.
Destiny enjoys spending time with her two amazing children and awesome husband and loves going camping and fishing.
Supervised by Ashley Wade MA, LPC-S, RPT-S
Traci Barnett Graduate Student
Please help us welcome our Spring 2025 Graduate Student Intern Traci Barnett!✨
Traci was born and raised in West Texas. She has a BA in Family Studies from Lubbock Christian University and is currently working on her Masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has experience working with children at Child Protective Services, High Plains Children’s Home, and the Turn Center. She has an interest in play therapy and trauma-focused approaches. She loves seeing the growth that can occur when children are loved and seen for who they are uniquely created to be. She enjoys spending time with her husband and three children and also loves reading, doing puzzles, and traveling.
Traci is available to see clients ages 5 y/o and older under supervision of Ashley Wade MA, LPC-S, RPT-S. You can read more about Traci’s qualifications at yellowcityplayroom.com