Staff
Leslie Andry serves the Twin Cities FertilityCare Center as the office manager. She has worked with the Center as both a practitioner and an office assistant since 1998. She and her husband Kory have been married for firfteen years, and have used the Creighton Model successfully both to achieve and to space pregnancies. They reside in Stillwater with their four children. Leslie enjoys sketching, teaching flute lessons, and playing piano and guitar.
Brigid Barrett, FCP, began teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System in 2007, and teaches at St. Charles Borromeo Church in St. Anthony Village. Brigid and her husband Paul live in Minneapolis and have three young daughters. She became a practitioner after observing its success in her own marriage and in those of her friends. Besides her teaching, Brigid also enjoys cooking, shopping for her little ones, and attending family outings around the Twin Cities.
Cassandra Bruski, RN, BSN, FCP,
Amy Cummings, FCP, has been a FertilityCare Practitioner since 2005; she teaches at the All Saints Church in Lakeville. Amy feels honored to teach couples and single women to better understand the powerful gift of their fertility. Amy knows the Creighton Model FertilityCare System is the best system for couples to plan their families, identify underlying gynecological problems, hormone imbalances, and treat infertility. Amy and her husband Brett have struggled with infertility, thus giving her a heart of compassion and deep understanding of this difficult journey. Amy received her BA in Organizational Management from Concordia University and for the past nine years she has worked as the Executive Director of Partnership for Youth. She enjoys spending time with her husband (her best friend), traveling, reading, walking and knitting.
Janet Derosier, BS, FCP, has a degree in Community Health Education and has worked in Public Health in the field of preventive health care / training for the largest HMO in Minnesota, and also as a contract trainer for United HealthCare Corporation. She has been a Creighton Model practitioner for thirteen years. "The best part of my work is helping couples get to the underlying cause of why they are having difficulty getting pregnant and advocating for them so they can access what they need in the health care system." Janet is married and they have three beautiful children.
Luci Gouin, RN, FCP, has been teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System with the Twin Cities FertilityCare Center since 2007 at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, as well as seeing women / couples in Bloomington. As a practitioner, teaching and educating women / couples about their fertility empowers them to advocate for their fertility needs. Whether walking with couples dealing with infertility, a newly engaged couple seeking a way to plan their family, or single women looking for answers to medical problems, Luci enjoys working and teaching each. She is a registered nurse at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in the intensive care unit. In her spare time Luci enjoys walking, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
Karla Hedgers, FCP, has been a FertilityCare Practitioner since August 2009, and teaches at the Cambridge Medical Center. The biology behind the method and the benefits to marriage are what drew Karla to this method. She especially enjoys working with newlywed couples who are looking for an effective way to plan their families and monitor their reproductive health. Karla graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Family Social Science. Karla is married with one daughter, Estelle, and also enjoys sewing, cooking, and playing the clarinet.
Sue Lewis FCP, Director, learned the Creighton Model System with her husband in 1995 and decided to become a FertilityCare Practitioner when she learned first-hand its tremendous benefits to women's health, marriage, and family. Aside from her duties as a Director, she is author of "PUREly YOU!" an educational program which helps promote parent-child education about the most important things in life.
Jennifer Mak, FCP, is the Practitioner Coordinator, and has been teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System for over 15 years, educating and guiding hundreds of couples. She has brought the message of FertilityCare beyond the classroom by sitting on the Archdiocesan NFP Advisory Board and giving NFP presentations at engaged conferences and mother-daughter programs. Jennifer has a masters degree in Theological Studies through Ave Maria University, and a bachelors degree from Thomas Aquinas College in California, where she did her senior thesis on natural arguments in support of natural family planning. At home, she loves spending time with her husband and children, and enjoys ballroom dancing, gourmet cooking and reading.
Mary Marich, FCPI, has been teaching for over three years, primarily in the northern suburbs. She was so excited about the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System and its possibilities; she now provides couples the service that she and her husband were blessed to overcome infertility with. Mary believes that all women have a right to know how their bodies work and to cooperate with its physiological design. In her free time, she enjoys throwing pottery, baking and reading. Mary and her husband Brandon have been married since 2001 and have four boys, including a set of identical twins.
Sara Rogers, FCP, has been a FertilityCare Practitioner since 2007, and teaches in the south metro area. She grew up in a small town in southeastern Minnesota, went to college in Duluth where she earned a BA in Biology, and now lives in St. Paul with her husband John and their daughter Anna. Sara works part time as a volunteer coordinator at a local church. Sara became a practitioner because she truly believes every woman and couple has the right to have knowledge of their fertility. She was impressed by the solid scientific basis of the method, especially within the context of working with couples who struggle with infertility.
Rebecca Ruff, FCP, began teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System in 2007 after discovering the many benefits it offered in regards to women's health, infertility and couples. Personally, the method helped Beckie and her husband John to overcome their infertility issues, and helped solve the women's health issues Beckie been dealing with since she was a teenager. Her teaching sites are Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids and Saint Francis Xavier Education Center in Buffalo. She has been married since 2006 and has been blessed with a son. Beckie enjoys spending time with her husband and son, and also likes to read, scrapbook, and watch movies.
Kristin Schindler, FCP, has been teaching Creighton Model since 2007 at St. Joseph Hospital in St. Paul. As a FertilityCare Practitioner, she enjoys helping couples come to understand their fertility and plan their families with a safe, natural, and scientifically proven method that helps strengthen their relationships. Kristin grew up in St. Louis, MO and moved to the Twin cities in 1997. She received her degree in Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has completed graduate coursework in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. She has been married since 2004 and has two children.