T.O.C. | The Overwatch Collective
501 (c) (3) Non-Profit and Podcast Funding Therapy Sessions and Supporting Mental Health among First Responders, Military, & Families
EIN: 87-2060176
Montana Therapists
Gypsy Ray, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Gypsy Ray is a trauma therapist (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), but her entire career has been dedicated to helping people. She has been married 30 years to her high school sweetheart and has two adult children. Gypsy enjoys everything sports and outdoors, especially fishing at their family cabin in Montana.
After earning her bachelor’s degree in Social Work in 1995, Gypsy worked at FUTURES, providing support to teenage mothers such as teaching parenting and life skills then became a founder of Mountain Home Montana in 1998, providing a home and support to hundreds of young families from across Montana. In 2011, Gypsy went back to school to earn her master’s degree and started a mental health center at Mountain Home Montana to meet the increased need for mental health care.
While Gypsy got her license as a Clinical Social Worker in 2011, she practiced therapy part time, but continued her employment while her children were in high school and college including the Director of the Frenchtown Community Coalition, a Drug Free Communities Program through Missoula County and the Executive Director of Lake County Community Development Corporation, and community and economic development agency in Lake County.
In 2018 Gypsy and her husband moved to the Philipsburg area where she opened a full-time therapy practice. She pursued training and certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy after immediately seeing clients suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The increased demand for first responders seeking EMDR Therapy brought Gypsy in contact with Travis Gribble, My Arena LLC and their work providing Trauma Training for First Responders in Montana began in 2022.
In 2022, Gypsy added the title of “Published Author” to her resume’ for her book Gypsy Soul: Memoirs of a Hippie Kid.
Brandon Spangler, LCSW, MFT
Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Marriage & Family Therapist
I received my Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Walla Walla University while interning at a Combat Veteran Center from 2014 through 2016 and became a Readjustment counselor in Kalispell from 2016 thru 2019. I then worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs as a Behavioral health specialist, working with Combat Veterans and Military Sexual trauma.
I am a Marine Corps Veteran who served from 1998 through 2003. I attained the rank of Sergeant in my last two years. I was stationed in Okinawa where I was forward deployed for a year. I was then stationed in Camp Pendleton, CA and deployed in October of 2001, shortly after 9/11 and spent another nine months overseas. After getting out of the Marine Corps, I worked in Executive Protection for another 2.5 years for a military contract company based out of Phoenix, AZ.
I come from a long line of military members, my younger brother is a police officer in Eastern Oregon, my father is a Vietnam Veteran as well. I opened my private practice in October of 2021 to specifically serve the First Responder and Veteran community, as well as the family members due to a deep appreciation and love for those who put themselves on the line. I am a certified EMDR practitioner as well as certified in Cognitive Processing Therapy.