Graduate Program Staff:

Scott Hart
Graduate Program Director & Therapist

Mill Spring/Tryon

Ines Wullimann
Graduate Program Manager for the Mill Spring/Tryon Areas and Animal Husbandry Coordinator

Ellen Howe
Recovery Coach

Ed Sargent
House Advisor

Valerie Nyhuis
House Advisor

Asheville

Kris l. Connolly
Manager, Asheville Graduate Program

Shar Connolly
Recovery Coach

Adam Ray
Residential Manager Asheville Program

Misty Peterson
Recovery Coach

Laura Bowles
House Advisor

Tracy Mixson
Recovery Coach & Peer Specialist

Weekend Staff
Josh Finkler
Simon Wullimann
Finn Odell
Candace Sanders
Bruce Johnson
Jessie Nixon

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Ines Wullimann
Graduate Program Manager for the Mill Spring/Tryon Areas and Animal Husbandry Coordinator

Ines’ trepidation about the “empty nest syndrome” and how to fulfill her own life is no longer a concern now that she mentors (and mothers) our residents in the Mill Spring/Tryon Graduate Program.  She may be a linguist but the language she really loves and is best at, is the language of life and guiding residents.  Ines and her Graduate Program staff recently moved to their new headquarters, “The Chalet” on the ground level of the Red Brick House, around the corner from CooperRiis.

Ines is also our Animal Husbandry Coordinator and it is a joy to watch her and Brittany Amiss Dean engage and comfort our residents in the care of a growing menagerie of animals: miniature horses, donkeys, sheep, lamas, goats, chickens, bunnies, dogs, and cats, rabbits and….

Ines is born and grew up in Switzerland and is an educator.  She is married to Markus Wullimann, our Operations Director.  Together they have four children and two grandchildren.




The CooperRiis Graduate Program Staff