Cindy Gleason, Support Staff

A native of Wichita Falls, TX, Cindy rounds out the trio of west Texas girls at The LifeWorks Group (check Melanie's and Harmony's bios).  Her career path has been diverse: she co-owned a children's shoe store, called Footloose, in Snider Plaza - for 8 years,  then spent 12 years as Office Manager & Community Relations Coordinator for Solutions Outpatient Services, which we think is THE best outpatient chemical dependency program goin' - partially because of Cindy's hard work there!

In an unexpected turn on the career trail, Cindy spent a year and a half as a Petroleum Landman, researching mineral ownership for oil & gas leases.  The work was challenging, interesting and very rewarding!  After oil prices dropped (which was great for gas prices, not great for the environment, and really lousy for Cindy), she was laid off of her crew of 50 folks, which is when we snagged her to work with The LifeWorks Group. 

Cindy became interested in the mental health field through dealing with the chemical dependency issues of one of her sons. She is great at encouraging, planning & organizing, but (she admits) lousy at creative endeavors.  Cindy will tell you she's an Indian, not a chief.  But we think she's really a wrangler, because she keeps all the creative types at The LifeWorks Group (unfortunately, almost the entire LWG staff fall into this category) functioning in reasonably straight lines and makes sure we have paper clips and postage stamps.  "I dig LifeWorks because I enjoy & appreciate the team approach, find the positive energy inspiring, and love being a part of it!  My joy is to create a marketing, referral, and administrative systems so that the counselors can spend their time counseling and the clients get everything they need."