Leadership Team

Celestia G.Tracy, M.A., L.P.C.

President and Founder

Author, Trainer, Counselor

Celestia has a background in Early Childhood Education from Arizona State University and worked as a teacher for many years. She received an M.A. in Counseling/Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1994. Celestia and Steve have three grown children who are partners with them in ministries of justice and mercy. She enjoys a thriving private counseling practice of fourteen years and is the founder of Professional Counseling Associates in Mesa, Arizona, where she is a Clinical Supervisor and does professional development. Celestia has many years of experience and expertise with children and abuse, trauma, marriage, intimacy, and sexuality. She teaches, lectures and speaks both nationally and internationally with an emphasis in the following areas: directing Mending the Soul Trainings, soul care, children and abuse, theology of intimacy, bonding, healthy sexuality, sexuality and singles, and counseling. She is available for consultation to churches, counseling clinics, and secular organizations. Celestia develops and supervises a team of writers, professional artists, and mental health professionals that creatively collaborate on curricula and other resources.

For the past two years Steve and Celestia have conducted extensive abuse and sexuality seminars in the Democratic Republic of Congo for rape survivors, abuse care givers, prostituted women, pastors, and civic leaders. They have assisted various domestic and international ministries including: Food for the Hungry, PASCH (Peace and Safety in the Christian Home), Congo Initiative, Radio Bible Class, Overseas Council, and Frontiers. Steve and Celestia are the authors of several books and workbooks on abuse, marriage, and trauma healing, including: Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse (Zondervan), Marriage at the Crossroads (InterVarsity), Mending the Soul Workbook (under consideration for publication), and Mending the Soul Healing Art Handbook (self published for use in Congo with a grant from Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.).

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Steven R. Tracy, M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D.

Founder

Curriculum Development and Teaching

Steve oversees the curriculum and research of Mending the Soul Ministries and serves on its board of directors. Steve and Celestia are also on staff with Global Training Network, an evangelical organization with a mission to equip and train leaders in the majority world. He uses his training and expertise to insure that the curriculum and services of MTS are biblically grounded and scientifically sound. Steve has served MTS from its inception. He received a B.A. from Arizona State, a M.Div. and Th.M. from Western Baptist Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Sheffield (England) with a research focus on New Testament ethics.

Steve brings unique theological, ecclesiastical, and community expertise to MTS. He served for almost eight years as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Phoenix Seminary, where he has taught since 1995. He is currently Professor of Theology and Ethics at Phoenix Seminary. Steve’s professional academic focus has been on sexuality, gender, and abuse. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society where he presents at the annual meetings and serves on the Executive Committee of the Gender Study Group. He is also a member of the Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and the Society for Biblical Studies. Steve is the author of Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse (Zondervan), co-author with Celestia Tracy of Marriage in Practice: A Dialogue (forthcoming, InterVarsity Press), editor of Mending the Soul Workbook, and has authored ten academic book chapters and journal articles as well as numerous articles and booklets on gender, sexuality, and abuse.

Steve served as a pastor for fifteen years and has extensive pastoral counseling experience with couples and singles, as well as with victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual abuse. Steve uses his abuse expertise extensively in the broader community. In addition to speaking frequently to community agencies and at secular conferences, in 2005 he was appointed by Janet Napolitano to The Governor’s Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women. He has also served on The Fatality Review Team for the City of Phoenix. Steve has conducted extensive seminars for the Christian leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He provides training, curricula, and encouragement to the broader faith-based community of church and civic leaders in eastern Africa. Steve enjoys conducting much of his sexuality and abuse/trauma work with Celestia, his wife of thirty years. Steve and Celestia are grateful for their three grown children, Elizabeth, Luke, and Abby, who share their passion for the broken, abandoned, and abused.

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Tanya Harris, M.A., L.A.C.

Director of Small Group Training

Tanya Harris is a Licensed Associate Counselor in the state of Arizona. Tanya received her advanced degree in Counseling through a collaborative program between Ottawa University and Phoenix Seminary, both in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated with a Masters of Arts in Professional Counseling and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Christian Counseling.  She is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Roxane Thorstad.  At Phoenix Seminary and through her internship at Scottsdale Bible Church Counseling Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, Tanya received training in theology and Christian faith integration in professional counseling.

Her practice consists of individual, marriage, and group counseling. Specializations include trauma/abuse issues, depression, anxiety, spiritual issues, grief, and dating and relationship issues.

Tanya has been involved with Mending the Soul Ministries since 2003 when she attended the original MTS training. She since has been involved with leading lay and professional groups, speaking at MTS events, and educating churches, para-church organizations, and other agencies on abuse issues. Tanya’s coursework at Phoenix Seminary and involvement in MTS has provided her with additional training and experience in the area of the nature of abuse and abusive families, effects of abuse, and healing from abuse.

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Dagny Mallory

Administrator

Dagny Mallory

As a staff member of Mending the Soul, Dagny adds her gift of administration through the day to day operations of the ministry. She previously worked as an administrator in the corporate world for over twelve years. She took several years off to spend at home while her children were young. Once they all started school, she took on a part-time position within her church. In addition to being on staff with MTS, Dagny is also one of our trained facilitators. Her heart for Mending the Soul comes out of her own healing from abuse as the Lord guided her through a MTS Small Group.

Dagny is grateful for the healing that has taken place in her life which, among many other things, allows her to be a better wife and mother. She loves spending time with her husband Shawn and their three children. She also enjoys the quiet moments provided for her to read, write poetry, and be with the Lord.