About
About
About
Services
Services
Services
Staff
STEPHANIE TOMPKINS
Director
Stephanie is an enrolled elder of the Squaxin Island Tribe and identifies as a person in long-term recovery who is passionate about helping others achieve their goals. She has over sixteen years’ experience in addiction treatment and twelve years in peer services. Her work experience includes Director for Northwest Indian Treatment Center and Thunderbird Residential Center. She has been involved in projects to offer recovery support and peer services to clients and tribes and is a Recovery Coach and Ethics in Coaching trainer. She has worked with most of the tribes in Washington State in some capacity through referrals, recovery coaching and as a co-founder of the Washington Recovery Alliance, where she served as a board member and a full-term as board president.
HANA KLIMEK
Program Manager
​Hana Klimek was born and raised in Olympia, WA. She identifies as a person with lived experience, and she is grateful for finding hope and recovery through peer services. She loves the arts and the inspiring people she has in her life today. Hana began her career as a certified peer counselor in 2018 before making her way into supportive housing in 2020. She is skilled in many social services that include connecting to resources, developing supportive relationships, self-advocacy, stable housing, and employment. Hana believes strongly in the spirit of peer services, and she is thrilled to join the team. She will bring her passion for her work, commitment to her community, and dedication to members to her role as Program Manager of Housing and Employment Services with Peer Olympia.
BRI MCNELEY
Program Manager
Growing up in Montesano, WA, Bri has lived in multiple cities/towns in Washington, Sacramento, and Costa Rica but settled in Olympia. There, she has raised three kids, two dogs, four cats, 16 chickens, three ducks, and one lizard with her husband, Jay. Bri loves gardening, food preservation (canning, fermenting, etc), camping, mushroom and plant foraging, reading, and watching British murder mystery shows.
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Bri attended the University of Washington and studied Psychology to understand her struggles with bipolar disorder, anxiety, and PTSD. She started peer coaching with Peer Olympia and realized peer work allowed her to draw on her education but, more importantly, utilize her lived experiences to help others. Bri now serves on the Pregnant and Parenting Work Group for the Thurston County Opioid Response Task Force and facilitates support groups at Peer Olympia, including Parents in Recovery.
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Bri started binge drinking at 14 to cope with PTSD and anxiety. At 21, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and started using opiates and cocaine. Eventually becoming unhoused, Bri became pregnant with her first child and moved back to Olympia. She was able to quit abusing drugs and alcohol during her pregnancy, but her mental health challenges carried on for many years. She eventually found peace through meditative and mindfulness practices, DBT, therapy, and support from her family and friends. While she still struggles with her PTSD, Bri has never experienced joy and contentment the way she does now.
BILL WINSLEY
Peer Services Specialist
Bill is a lifelong resident of Tacoma and the youngest member of a large family. While still a young man, Bill began drinking and was working in bars long before he was 21. Bill’s addiction was so strong, he eventually was unable to function without alcohol, even while at work. In 2001, Bill faced his alcoholism and sought help to get sober. Freed from active addiction, Bill’s new life developed rapidly as he began recovery work with others, primarily but not exclusively in the LGBTQ+ community.
Peer Olympia represents a new path for Bill. First as a volunteer and now as a full-time
employee. His welcoming hand, ability to listen, and a ready-laugh make Bill a great addition to Peer Olympia’s team.
CLOE NOMIC
Peer Services Specialist
Cloe was born and raised in Venice, California. She has lived in Olympia for five years. Even though she misses the sun, she is excited to utilize her lived experience through Peer Services. Cloe has been in recovery from her alcoholism for six years.
STEPH HARALSON
Peer Services Specialist
Steph was born overseas in Germany, where his father was enrolled in the armed forces, eventually settling down in the Thurston County area. At that time, he was exposed to some racism and prejudice that contributed to making bad life choices, which led to incarceration and addiction to drugs and alcohol.
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This prior addiction and incarceration history has helped in approaching hard-to-reach individuals from a unique perspective. This perspective, along with some compassion, understanding, and support, has offered hope and motivation to people just beginning their recovery journey.
KATY MALETA
Peer Services Specialist
Katy started her mental health and substance use recovery in 2018, which included various mindfulness and bodywork practices. She made a career path switch from wetland sciences to social services in 2020 due to her lived experience by working for an overnight shelter in King County, where she was employed for about a year. She then had to take a step back in order to focus more seriously on her mental health recovery, and she took a break from social services to prevent any further burnout but remained involved with mutual aid groups off and on in King County. After a much-needed hiatus and a much-needed move from Seattle to Olympia, Katy sought out peer services back in July to become a recovery coach. This coincided with working at a day center in Thurston County where she got to really familiarize herself with the people in our community. The combination of these positions has made Katy a point person for people in the community who need assistance with navigating the housing resources in Thurston County.
NICOLE GEORGE
Peer Services Specialist
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EMERY BARNES
Peer Services Specialist
Emery was born and raised in the Alaskan interior, attending high school in Vermont before moving back out to the West Coast and settling in the Olympia area, where they have lived for the last 15 years. Emery joined Peer Olympia in 2024 as an intern, participating in support groups and trainings and establishing and facilitating a support group for individuals with Autism/ADHD before joining the team as Volunteer Coordinator. With lifelong lived recovery experience and over a decade in advocacy in the LGBTQ+, visible/invisible disability, and Behavioral Mental Health communities, Emery brings compassion and attention to detail, as well as their trauma-informed/harm reduction focus when connecting members and volunteers with community organizations and resources, many of which were not available in their pre-and early recovery living in more rural communities.