Michael W. Brose received his BA in social work from Oral Roberts University in 1979. He received his MSW from the University of Kansas in 1980. Since that time, he has been in the practice of social work in medical and mental health settings in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Brose's practice has included work with children and adolescents, individuals with severe physical illnesses, the elderly, and the severely mentally ill. He has done extensive consulting with schools and businesses in the aftermath of critical incidents.

Mr. Brose has practiced individual, group, and family therapy in his clinical practice, utilizing family systems as his primary theoretical frame-of-reference. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Mental Health Association of Tulsa where he is involved in advocacy work and public policy issues as they impact people affected by mental illness.

James W. Grinnell (Jim) is the Vice-President of Bright Tomorrows. Jim is also a pastor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He attended ORU where he obtained a Master of Divinity degree and later OSU where he also obtained a Master of Science degree in Family Relations. Jim is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and has served as the past president of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Tulsa chapter. Most recently, Jim has completed a licensure in Christian sex therapy with the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists. His specialties include marriage and pre-marital counseling, affair recovery, and treating sexual issues.  Jim and his wife, Laura, have been married since 1978 and have four children and eight grandchildren.

Stuart brings a variety of experience to his CFI practice. He has worked extensively in church education with children, youth, and adults, including teaching, administration and student relations, preparing him to provide supervision to trainees in marital and family therapy. Stuart has written a resource booklet designed for parents on Attention Deficit Disorder. He provides individual, marital and family psychotherapy, and is also involved in group therapy, teaching and public speaking.

Timothy K. Peterson (Tim) is a Bright Tomorrows Board Trustee. Tim has his master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern State University and completed a two-year post graduate program in Marriage & Family Therapy through the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. Tim has provided Christ-centered counseling in Tulsa since 1985 in private practice and as a program director for psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment programs at three local hospitals. He was the founding director of Rapha in Tulsa, a position he held from 1993-2001.

Tim is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist and a Licensed Professional Counselor. He currently works at Laureate Clinic where he specializes in the treatment of anxiety and depression in addition to marital counseling. Tim serves on the Executive Board of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa and on the local and regional boards of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. Tim and his wife, Diane, have been married since 1982 and have three sons.

Timothy L. Reside (Tim) is the President of Bright Tomorrows. Tim has been active in church related ministry and pastoral care work since 1968. Tim is an ordained minister who holds a M.A. in Practical Theology from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Immediately prior to his work with Bright Tomorrows he served as an Associate Minister at Evangelistic Temple in Tulsa, Oklahoma for 16 years.

Tim has been married to the love of his life, Nancy, since 1971. They have two wonderful children and four beloved grandchildren. Together Tim and Nancy have survived (and continue to survive) Tim’s personal challenge with bipolar disorder since 1979. Together they present an “overcoming” inspirational message of real hope while not denying the fact of daily challenges. Increasingly through the years BT has become an expression of Tim & Nancy’s life-story, life-work, life-ministry and life-mission. In January of 2009, the board named Tim BT’s President.

Barbara has been a mental illness advocate for two decades on a local and national level. She worked under grant with the Oklahoma Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church to direct a Local Church Mental Illness Network. She was the past Director of the Mental Illness Ministry at First United Methodist Church in Tulsa, known as Second MILE Outreach (Mental Illness, a Loving Embrace), which was published in three national journals. She has been a certified lay minister, a trainer for the Journey of Hope Education and Support Group Program, a grief facilitator, a national workshop presenter, a paraprofessional counselor, and a conference planner and organizer.