Rebecca Deighan, M.S, MFT
Executive Director

Rebecca Deighan, M.S, MFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in addiction recovery. She received her Master of Science in Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino where she received many academic honors.  Her experience includes sexual addiction treatment, the development of school based counseling programs for adolescents, and marital therapy.  She maintains a busy private practice in Upland, where she sees individuals, couples, and families dealing with a wide range of issues.  Rebecca is an active menber of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (CAMFT).  She is serving as Executive Director of LifeSTAR of the Inland Empire where she lectures and runs groups dedicated to the recovery of sexual addiction.  To schedule an appointment she may be contacted at (909) 945-5835 or rebeccadeighanmft.com

Janet Whitney, MA MFT

Janet Whitne has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 25 years and specializes in working with couples and individuals with relationship concerns, sexual addiction and sexuality issues, along with personal challenges within an individual. She personally trained with John Gray, author of” Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus” for over 3 years and has been conducting his workshops for over 10 years. Five years of hospital experience gives Janet a background in dealing with addictions and a wide range of psychological disorders. She has led Phase I, Phase II and Phase III groups for Lifestar and is currently coauthoring the book and developing the course work for the couples program which will be offered through Lifestar, called “Loving Marriages”. Janet has been a guest speaker at hospitals, churches, companies, schools, and business meetings on the topics of relationships, sexual addiction, self esteem, ADD, goals and motivation, stress management, and parenting issues. Her private office is in Newport Beach where she runs coaching and motivational groups, along with her work with couples and individuals, and the Lifestar Program.

Steve Pumphrey LCSW
Executive Director

Steve Pumphrey is a licensed clinical social worker and Executive Director of LifeSTAR of Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.  He has a full time private practice called the Center for New Directions with locations in Laguna Hills and Tustin.  He provides individaul and couple counseling for sexual addiction, men’s issues, marrital conflict and childhood problems.. He earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California and has worked with the chronically mentally ill, terminally ill children, and teen and adult substance abusers. His career has led him to directorial positions with for-profit and non-profit mental health clinics.  He is presently the executive director of Pilgrimage Family Therapy.  Steve has been a guest speaker to many churches, companies and schools. He has successfully trained many students in the field of counseling.  He is on the staff of the University of Southern California as a field work supervisor. His specialty in counseling is helping men to emotionally connect to their spouse.

Deanna L. Ruiz MFT

Deanna L. Ruiz is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist specializing in addiction recovery, physical/sexual/trauma recovery and anger management.  She graduated with honors from California State University, Fullerton, in June 2000, receiving both a Masters of Science in Counseling and "The Most Promising student" award.  Over the years, Deanna has worked in many different counseling environments (e.g., non-profit clinics, public and non-public schools, social work, etc.). At present, Deanna is in private practice where she counsels individuals, couples, and families.  She also teaches a weekly parenting class for the city of Claremont, facilitates Phase II groups for LifeSTAR, and assists Rebecca Deighan in teaching Phase I classes for LifeSTAR.