Meet Our Board

LAWRENCE SPAIN

Vice President

Lawrence has worked in the field of Substance Use Disorder since 2018, when he founded Spain Sober Living in Austin as a result of the loss of a loved one due to both Substance Use Disorder and mental illness. After this happened, Lawrence felt empowered to serve this population and to do more for his own community. As the Diversity and Inclusion chair of Austin TAAP, Lawrence is able to connect with folks from various walks of life to help them remember that we have all obstacles to face, and to support them changing their lives for the better.

Rachael Stein

LPC-S, LCDC

Vice President

Rachel Stein, LPC-S, LCDC is a clinician, entrepreneur, and behavioral health leader with over a decade of experience in mental health and addiction treatment. She serves as COO and Clinical Director of Awkward Recovery and founder of Atomic Souls Counseling in Austin, Texas.

Rachel is passionate about raising the standard of behavioral healthcare through ethical leadership, strong clinical programming, staff development, and building recovery communities where people actually want to belong. She is especially invested in developing the next generation of clinicians and challenging outdated approaches to treatment.

As Vice President of TAAP, Rachel brings clinical expertise, operational leadership, advocacy, and a willingness to challenge “the way we’ve always done it” to strengthen collaboration, grow membership, and amplify the voice of addiction professionals across Texas.

Kyle W. Withrow

Co-Secretary

Our Board Co-Secretary has held the position of Business Development Specialist at Rock Springs Hospital in Georgetown, TX, since June 18. Kyle has been a member of the Recovery Community for since July 2005 and has worked in the Recovery field since moving to Austin in 2012. One of his true professional passions is helping others to understand the crossover between Mental Health issues and Substance Use Disorder.

Kyle attended San Diego State University in Childhood Development and Psychology. After his time in San Diego , he moved to Los Angeles to join an Investment Group where he specialized in Branding, Marketing, and Business Development. Upon moving to Austin, Kyle redirected his background in Sales, Marketing, and Branding toward the Recovery Community.

As a father of two sons, his passion is showing them the world firsthand by traveling the world and instilling wanderlust into their hearts. By seeing the world and experiencing new cultures and ways of life to encourage them to grow into compassionate and open-minded human beings.

Robert White

Co-Secretary

Robert White is the Founder, President and CEO of Any Length Retreat, a nonprofit men's residential recovery program in Pflugerville. He got sober on April 28, 2012, after years of addiction and treatment that never stuck, and founded ALR in 2016 for men who had been written off everywhere else.

As President and CEO he has built the program around one promise: recovery should be accessible and affordable, and once you meet them, you are family for life. He led ALR's transition to a nonprofit in 2025 so the mission would outlast his own family, and he continues to lead it as a brotherhood of teachers teaching teachers. He and his wife, Emma, are raising their daughter, Ellington, and spend their fall Saturdays at DKR and their summers on Lake LBJ.

Libbey Sanford

LMSW, LCDC

Treasurer

Libbey Walker was born and raised in Austin, TX, and left briefly to attend undergrad at the University of Texas San Antonio. Libbey graduated from the University of San Antonio with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and also has a Master's degree in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin.

Libbey has spent the last 10 years career working with adolescents and their families struggling with substance use disorders, starting as a peer support specialist and now working as a therapist. She has also worked in young adult intensive outpatient and residential treatment.

Libbey currently works part-time as a counselor at The Arbor Behavioral Health Care residential program and part-time as a counselor at Blue Psychotherapy. Libbey, her husband, Brian, and their 2-year-old live in Georgetown, TX, enjoying time outdoors with their two dogs, swimming, and taking long walks.