Dr. Devine received a Ph.D. in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University. She holds an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Southwestern, an MA in Human Development from the Fielding Graduate University and a BS in Psychology from Texas A&M University. Her research has centered on resilience and positive life adaptation in the face of adversity.
Dr. Devine is a developmental psychologist, licensed clinical therapist, family therapist and clinical supervisor. She has practiced as a family, individual and group therapist with children, adolescents and adults in hospital, residential and school settings in Maine and Texas. As Director of Clinical Services, Dr. Devine was part of developing and expanding a Maine residential care facility’s programs from two to seven to improve continuity of care and opportunity for resilient adaptation. In 2004, she founded Resilience, Inc., a licensed non-profit mental health and substance abuse agency that integrated its services into physicians’ practices for children and families experiencing post-trauma and who were historically underserved. Dr. Devine accepted the invitation to join The Monarch Institute for Neurological Differences in Houston in 2007 as Director of Therapeutic Services to guide and develop programs that emphasized strength-based developmental growth priorities. She trained and supervised graduate and postgraduate level interns, supported families in developing competence in children with neurological differences and coordinated integrated care for learners, their families, and ancillary caregivers.
Dr. Devine is passionate about teaching and mentoring interns and new therapists in innovative, collaborative, and relationship-based therapeutic care of children, adolescents, and adults with neurological differences. She remains particularly interested in affecting graduate level curriculum that will prepare therapists in scaffolding positive life adaptation for this population. In 2014, Dr. Devine together with Dr. Neal Sarahan formed Integral Flow, LLC and co-created a copyrighted developmental and relationship-based approach―Integral Flow Growth Map©―to support clients and their families affected by neurological differences. Additionally, they championed the new approach to human service organizations across the country. 100% of organizations served reported that children, adolescents, adults, and their families demonstrated developmental improvements in competence, independence, social care, and belonging.
Recently, Dr. Devine has expanded the mission of Integral Flow, LLC, to include The Neurodevelopment Center of Greater Houston and to serve the therapeutic and developmental expansion needs of children, individuals, families and organizations of Houston, surrounding areas and around the world.
JenniKate Estavillo received a Masters in Special Education from the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico City, and a combined bachelor’s degree in Child & Youth Studies and Psychology from Brock University, in Ontario Canada. She is also a certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, from the Positive Discipline Association, from Atlanta; a certified specialist in Autism Spectrum Disorder from The MIND Institute, at U.C. Davis, in California; and a certified Dyslexia Specialist Teacher from New York University. In the world of therapeutic intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorders, she has training in the Early Start Denver Model as well as the DIR/Floortime Model.
JenniKate has worked as a school psychologist in various private school settings in Mexico City, as a private learning therapist, as well as a special education teacher, and a preschool teacher in Mexico City, Canada and the United Kingdom. JenniKate has also participated in several international non-profit organizations creating training workshops for parents and educational professionals on topics related to learning, neurological differences, child development and parenting.
In 2010 JenniKate began her journey to found a therapeutic day school in Mexico City, in collaboration with The Monarch Institute for Neurological Differences, in Houston Texas. After an intensive training program, JenniKate fundraised, established and ran, both Monarch Therapy School, Mexico, as well as its board of governors, from its opening in 2010, until 2020. During this time, JenniKate continued her passion to serve others by providing individual and group therapy to children and young adults with neurological differences. JenniKate also wrote training curriculums and manuals, as well as taught and trained over 100 professionals who worked and collaborated with the school. Over the course of those 10 years, JenniKate enriched Monarch Therapy School’s program by providing consults with families, at a national and international level, collaborating with them on developing optimal parenting skills for their unique children.
After many years of learning and friendship with Dr. Devine, JenniKate now joins The Neurodevelopment Center of Greater Houston with enthusiasm and joy, moving her family of 5 from Mexico City to Houston, bringing her years of experience as a director and bilingual/bicultural therapist to support and contribute to the Center’s mission of offering a unique model of intervention promoting growth for people with neurological differences and their families.