Meet our Team

Who We Are
Our Management Team

Tina Engel

Devan Scheibley
Susana Monteiro
Operations and Finance Manager

Heidi Castro
Customer Service Manager
Our Board of Directors

Jp Samuel
Board Chair
Jeyaprakash (Jp) Samuel serves on the leadership of iSpectra (a coalition of multicultural leaders and pastors in the Silicon Valley), South Bay Pastors Leadership Network (which serves several pastoral clusters in the South Bay), Team Aid (that serves immigrant families in crisis) and is a church planter and Lead Pastor of The Spectrum Church. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT-Madras and the University of Freiburg, Germany and pursued post-doctoral research in Nanotechnology at Stanford University. He also holds a Masters in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He served in the marketplace for over 10 years before embracing God’s call to minister full time in the Bay Area. He has ministered among International Students, Refugees and Professionals from several countries over the past 20 years and is passionate about developing multicultural leadership, church planting, preaching, teaching, and helping professionals connect their faith with their work. He and his wife Jemima along with their three children live in the Bay Area. He enjoys reading, fishing, running bay area trails, and recently completed his first half-ironman.

Jessica Farber
Board Secretary
I joined CCC San Jose in 2009 as a newly licensed psychologist. This amazing community has helped me to develop as a clinician, and it has also been a family that has supported me through my personal growth over the last decade. Now, as a board member, I want to support and protect this unique community, and I also want to participate in facilitating the growth that will happen over the next decade. Specifically, I have a heart to grow the training program at CCC and see it become even more vibrant and successful in cultivating excellent new Christian therapists.

Tina Engel
Board Member & Executive Director
Tina Engel is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University. She specializes in couples counseling and family healing and is a motivational strengths builder who thrives in helping others find their purpose, place and peace in life. She has been leading CCC San Jose as the Interim Director since 2019 and was named permanent Executive Director in September 2020.

Dan Yoder
Board Treasurer
Dan Yoder joins CCCSJ with over 30 years of broad operating experience working with public and private companies including IBM, HP, Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung. He currently leading the PE business unit at NES Financial, overseeing sales, marketing, fund accounting, investor relations and technology development. His expertise will be invaluable to his role as Board Treasurer.

Joey Wang
Board Member
Joey Wang serves as an associate pastor at Mercy Hill Church. Prior, he pastored at Chinese for Christ Church of San Jose for 17 years. Joey received his B.A. from the University of California – Berkeley, M.Div and ThM (Biblical Studies) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He currently serves on the board of iSpectra and his local Little League. He and his wife, Margaret, have 3 boys at home where there’s never a dull moment.

Cathy Smith
Board Member
Cathy Smith is the CEO/President of ELREPCO, a High-Tech Manufacturers’ Representative in Northern California. Cathy has been able to shape her company towards excellence in not only technology, but also in the area of community. She lives out this value through her involvement in groups such as Young Life, Kontagious, San Jose Family Shelter via Calvary Church and Calvary Divorce and Relationship Recovery. Cathy also demonstrates her innate determinism through her hobbies. She was a marathon runner for many years until she became captured by the game of golf. She stays attuned to the needs of others and holds events and fundraisers to generate enthusiasm and give opportunities for people in the community to get involved. She is the consummate professional, leading with integrity, character, and grace. These qualities, strengthened and emboldened by her faith in Christ, make Cathy an impactful addition to our board. She hopes to work alongside the CCCSJ team to enable growth and create a healthy environment to that furthers the Kingdom of God.
Our Story
We have a rich history since 1989 in supporting, serving, and empowering our community by providing excellent mental health services. We have become one of the largest private practice groups in California. Read more about our history and meet our board.
Our Mission
It is the ultimate purpose of Christian Counseling Center – San Jose, Inc. to glorify God and to be active in the charge He has given to the Church. We exist because the churches of our communities are often unable, in financial or staff terms, to meet the needs of those experiencing psychological, emotional, family, and marital stress; specifically, most churches are unable to provide ongoing professional therapeutic help. We believe that God would have the church provide for these needs within the context of a Christian organization dedicated to and accountable to the mission and ministry of the local churches. We are striving to meet these needs in ways which support and assist the churches of our community and are, at the same time, both biblically and professionally responsible.
We seek to minister in the following ways:
1 By providing professional psychotherapy, rooted in biblical truth and ethics, to the individuals and families of both the Christian community and the greater community.
2 By developing and leading classes and seminars within the church setting which are both preventive and strengthening to the individuals, the families, and the churches of our communities.
3 By supporting and being accountable to the pastors of our local churches and maintaining regular contact with those who make up our referral base and make use of our ministry.
4 By being available as a resource to pastors and Christian lay-workers, providing input and guidance as they are dealing with the many counseling situations, which occur within the context of local church ministry.
5 By providing professional training opportunities and programs for those who are called by God to enter into this or similar ministries a greater professional community: medical, legal, and mental health, and to the community at large.
6 By raising the image of the Christian community as we provide teaching, consulting, and other services to the professional community including medical, legal, and mental health sectors, and to the community at large.
We uphold a biblical view of Christianity and seek to integrate the best that the science of psychology and the art of psychotherapy have to offer with scriptural truths. We believe that there is no discrepancy between psychological truth and biblical truth.