Our Staff
at Louisville Recovery Center
Patrick Dunn
Owner/Founder
Patrick founded LRC with JP Bailey in 2022 with the vision of creating a place where local community members could receive evidenced based therapy for both mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. Patrick is a Louisville native attending St. Barnabas, St. Xavier High School and Indiana University. Dunn pursued his post graduate Phd studies in Research Psychology focusing on co-occurring treatment. He has started and worked for multiple national treatment organizations such as JourneyPure (He founded in 2013), Sierra Tucson, Promises, and others. Dunn believes that the intersection of spirituality and evidenced based treatment gives clients the best path to recovery. He resides in Franklin TN where he enjoys long term recovery, golf, everything outside, and horsemanship.
Whitney Vaught
Peer support
Whitney is a pivotal member of our peer support staff at Louisville Recovery Center. She has maintained long term recovery and loves to be of service in the recovery community. When she is not assisting our clients, she is assisting those in the community through her own journey. Working as peer support, she sets an example of the benefits of building a life of recovery. Whitney is a mother to a 7-year-old boy, and he is her pride and joy. Whitney’s experience working and maintaining her own recovery provides her with the opportunity to impact our clients. Whitney has learned the importance of having fun in recovery. In her leisure time she spends time in nature with her son, plays softball and takes advantage of the many sober events in Louisville.
Bobbi Jo Cooper
Primary Therapist | LCSW
Bobbi Jo has been a master’s level social worker since 2007, when she started her career in medical social work. After several years working in acute care hospitals, followed by a long stent in geriatrics, she entered the field of clinical social work where she found her niche providing therapy to people of all ages. She believes strongly in the effectiveness of group therapy, knowing that an awareness that one is not alone in their suffering is a huge part of healing. She utilizes a variety of therapy modalities, including cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, solution focused brief therapy, narrative therapy, exposure and response prevention and behavioral activation.
Louisville Recovery Center provides an ideal environment for Bobbi Jo to use her strengths to help others not only gain sobriety, but also to find meaning and purpose in their lives. She firmly believes that showing empathy and compassion to those who are suffering is the greatest calling on her life, along with parenting her two crazy kiddos. She loves spending time with her family, trips to see her closest friends from Samford University, playing basketball with her son in the driveway and creating artistic masterpieces with her daughter.
J.P. Bailey
Clinical Outreach Coordinator
JP has been a staple in the Louisville Recovery community for over a decade. He has assisted dozens of men into treatment and throughout their recovery process. Being in long term recovery himself, Bailey has the experience to share that is priceless when supporting another’s recovery process. He has had the vision to help the Louisville Recovery community for many years by creating what his community deserves. As executive director and co-founder JP will oversee daily operations at LRC. JP loves tatoos, his family, and the Louisville Cardinals.
Megan Barnes
CASE MANAGER
Megan is the case manager for Louisville Recovery Center, and she graduated from Campbellsville University in 2023 with a bachelors in Marriage and Family Ministry. Having received an award from the school of theology recognizing her efforts to strive within that program, Megan has always sought to help people process through tough times and come out better for it.
She is a huge advocate for mental health awareness and therapeutic practices as she firmly believes inner work is the most beneficial, eye-opening, and fulfilling experience one can have in life. Being on staff at LRC provides an amazing avenue, not only for her to help others, but to get to know people, hear their stories, and let them know they are not alone.
When she’s not working, she’s either reading about theology, cooking, or watching tv. Megan enjoys traveling and spending time with her family whenever she can. She also loves animals with a heavy emphasis on dogs. If you have dogs and are looking to join our program, please make sure you bring plenty of pictures for her to obsess over!