Meet The Team

The Team Behind Your Recovery

The people on this team are the reason recovery holds here. They bring real clinical training, and many of them bring something a degree cannot teach, which is having been through some version of this themselves. You will not be handed off between strangers who skimmed your file. You will be known by the same people from the first call to the last day.

staff

Benjamin Dobbs

CEO TRUE

Bobby Wittke

Clinical Operations Officer

Sarah Hensley

LMSW Primary Therapist

Javier Verdin, LPC, LMHC, Qualified Supervisor

Clinical Director

Brandon Stambaugh, CPRS, RCP, Certified Interventionist

Director of Admissions

Francine Hammonds, CPRS

Behavioral Health Technician Manager

Francine Hammonds is a compassionate and dedicated recovery professional committed to helping individuals navigate the challenges of substance use and mental health recovery. With personal recovery experience and professional experience supporting individuals through treatment, Francine brings a unique combination of empathy, understanding, and practical knowledge to her work.

Her approach centers on building trust, providing encouragement, and helping individuals recognize their own strengths and ability to create meaningful change. She has experience providing one-on-one support, facilitating groups, assisting with relapse-prevention planning, connecting individuals with community resources, and advocating for clients throughout their recovery journey.

Francine is passionate about creating a safe, supportive, and judgment-free environment where people feel heard, respected, and empowered. She believes recovery is not simply about overcoming addiction—it is about helping individuals build the skills, confidence, and support systems necessary to create a healthier and more fulfilling life.

Through active listening, motivational support, peer coaching, and collaboration with treatment professionals, Francine strives to meet each individual where they are and walk alongside them as they work toward their goals.

Close to the Work, Not Removed From It

The people who lead T.R.U.E. are not distant administrators. They set the standard for how everyone here treats the people we serve, and they do it by staying close to the actual work rather than watching it from an office. That is a choice, and clients feel it from the first phone call.

It also shows in the fact that our admissions director is an interventionist who has worked directly with families in crisis. Leadership here means having done the hard part, not having escaped it.

Skilled Enough to Help, Human Enough to Stay

Our clinical and support staff carry the day-to-day of treatment, the therapy, the groups, the quiet check-ins that catch a problem before it becomes a relapse. They are trained in the evidence-based approaches that actually change behavior, and they are chosen for something training does not measure, the ability to stay steady and honest with a person in real pain.

Some of our staff are people who once sat where you will sit, got well here or somewhere like it, and came back to do this work. When they tell you it is possible, they are not reading it off a script.