board of directors

Dr. Hays founded Hays Behavioral Health and Wellness, PLLC, in 2018 with the purpose of optimizing access to culturally competent, evidence-based assessment and intervention for underserved populations within Mississippi.  She is especially interested in integrated behavioral healthcare, health promotion and disease prevention, and implicit bias and racial disparities in healthcare. In addition to clinical services, Dr. Hays provides civil forensic evaluations, corporate conflict resolution/mediation, and professional consultation. She serve as a grant reviewer for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).  

Prior to private practice, Dr. Hays was employed as a clinician, facility trainer, pre-doctoral internship supervisor, and administrator within the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).  In addition to her roles within federal government, she served as adjunct faculty for Jackson State University and Tougaloo College. 

Dr. Hays obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the W.E.B. DuBois Honors College at Jackson State University in 2001. She completed pre-doctoral training at Gulf Coast Veterans Healthcare System and received a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from THEE Jackson State University in 2009. Dr. Hays is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified civil commitment examiner in the state of Mississippi.  

Dr. Shannon M. Moore (shannon.moore@genesisbhs.com) is licensed in the state of Mississippi. She owns Genesis Behavioral Health Services in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She is dedicated to providing quality mental health services to the underserved and working with children from at-risk communities. 

Dr. Moore received her B.S. degree from Belhaven College and Ph.D. from Jackson State University. She completed a predoctoral fellowship with Brown University and postdoctoral fellowship with G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center. Both fellowships focused on research and treatment of HIV and AIDS.

 After completion of her formal training; Dr. Moore began working with VA for a number of years. She provided mental health services in primary care, infectious disease and chronic pain management clinics. She collaborated on multiple grants, including a grant that examined the impact of HIV and AIDS on neurocognitive functioning. Eventually, Dr. Moore decided to leave VA and entered private practice.

Dr. Ashley King-Profit received her B.S. in Psychology from Jackson State University, M.S. in Clinical Psychology from Mississippi State University, and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Jackson State University. 

She is currently licensed in Mississippi and works as a Staff Psychologist at a local medical center. Her interests include providing quality mental health services to underserved populations. She is also interested in the destigmatization of mental illness and seeking of professional mental health services,

Dr. Shawn L. Clark is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psychosocial rehabilitation, mental health recovery, and the evaluation and treatment of serious and persistent mental illness. 

Dr. Clark earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Purdue University and earned her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Clinical Psychology at The University of Mississippi. She completed internship training at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Healthcare System in Gainesville, FL with an emphasis on geropsychology and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Emory University School of Medicine at Grady Health System with a specialty in serious and persistent mental illness in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Homeless Outreach programs. 

Dr. Clark is currently the Community Reintegration Supervisory Psychologist at the G.V. Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center where she manages the Compensated Work Therapy programs, Peer Support Services, acute inpatient mental health psychosocial rehabilitation services, and serves as a Mental Health Recovery consultant to the Mental Health Service line. Her current interests include ensuring the provision of high-quality, culturally competent care to underserved populations, and clinical program development and management.

 Dr. Tonia Taylor is a Professor with over 20 years of service to an academic health science center in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1992, Dr. Taylor began a rewarding career in occupational therapy working with patients experiencing severe physical trauma, such as spinal cord and traumatic brain injury.  Personal and professional interactions over the next decade led her to consider a career change in order to focus on the mental health of clients recovering from injury. However, it was her father’s story that solidified the direction that she would take.   He spoke candidly about his spinal cord injury and the dark days of depression that followed.  So, in 2009, Dr. Taylor earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Jackson State University, an HBCU in Jackson, Mississippi. And the rest, as they say, is history. Now in full-time academia, Dr. Taylor enjoys teaching psychiatric and psychosocial courses to occupational therapy students.  She has received numerous accolades, written book chapters, and been the invited guest speaker for many venues. Currently she is working on a grant-funded partnership targeting adolescent behavioral health in area public schools. She is also an ambassador for increased university diversity and inclusion, and for increasing minority presence in health care professions 

 Dr. Shenia L. Lyons is a licensed clinical psychologist with a modest foundation in direct service delivery for outpatient and inpatient settings. 

Dr. Lyons is the owner of Lyons Clinical Services. She provides services for children, adolescents, adults, and families, with special interests in treating depression, anxiety, trauma, and implementing complementary interventions, to include self-discovery work, mindfulness practices, and somatic approaches. She provides comprehensive psychological evaluations for ADHD, learning disorders and diagnostic clarification. 

Complementary to her independent practice, Dr. Lyons is also the Assessment Director at the Mississippi State Hospital. She is responsible for training predoctoral residents and behavioral health staff in conducting comprehensive behavioral and neurological evaluations and arriving at integrative diagnostic formulations and relevant clinical recommendations for severely mentally ill and medically disabled individuals.  

Prior to establishing her private practice, Dr. Lyons served as the Jaquith Nursing Home Director of Psychological Services at Mississippi State Hospital.  She trained predoctoral residents, and non-licensed personnel in evidence-based therapies for nursing home residents with chronic medical conditions, moderate to severe TBI and anoxic brain injury, and cognitive impairment. She was an active member of the Executive Committee, Doctoral Internship Program, and participant of the Human Rights Advocacy Committee. 

Dr. Lyons completed her B.S. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Jackson State University. She completed her predoctoral internship, was a fellow, and the Training Director of the University of Oklahoma Health Consortium where she trained predoctoral residents and postdoctoral fellows and provided counseling services for a diverse population of university students, faculty, and staff. 

Dr. Lyons has a passionate desire to inspire, reach, and transform lives, and to gain proficiency in dealing with psychological and behavioral challenges that impede productivity in life. She enjoys grounding and walking in nature, listening to music, and laughing and spending quality time with her children, family, and friends.