Meet the Team!
The Workshop is a shared home for a small team of collaborators, each bringing their own independent business, perspectives, and areas of focus into a common space. United by a commitment to thoughtful, relational work, the team offers a blend of practical depth and creative practice, grounded in consent, integrity, and care. While individual services vary, the shared approach centers on attuned connection, respect for complexity, and work that is meant to be useful in real life, not just performative. The Workshop supports learning, collaboration, and steady growth through consultation, exploration, and community-minded offerings designed to help people feel more resourced, capable, and empowered.
Marshall Lyles
Marshall Lyles, LMFT-S, LPC-S, RPT-S, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, has 25 years of practice in family and expressive therapies. He has extensive speaking and training experience and has worked in a variety of mental health settings. Most of Marshall’s clinical practice has focused on attachment trauma and its effect on family relationships.
Marshall conducts consultation sessions with counseling professionals and leads training for both parents and professionals; much of his consultation and training focuses on the use of sandtray and other expressive therapies for those impacted by trauma. In addition to his own writing career, Marshall offers support to those needing writing assistance through consultation and ghost writing. This includes non-academic writing like poetry and Marshall has done extensive training under the Institute for Poetic Medicine. As a person with a disability, Marshall also feels passionate around the topics of disability advocacy, the impact of ableism and accessibility for all.
Heather Lyles
Heather keeps the miniature store at The Workshop running when she is not working as a Director of Product Management at a healthcare software company. After spending much of her professional life inside structure, systems, and strategy, she finds real joy in stepping away from that world to make things with her hands.
Heather and Marshall began taking pottery handbuilding classes in 2014 with the simple goal of learning how to make their own miniatures. Before long, they had made more than they could ever use, and the miniature store grew naturally from that abundance. What started as curiosity and play slowly became a shared creative offering.
She loves exploring new materials and creative processes and is especially drawn to collaboration. Heather is always excited to partner with other artists to teach classes at The Workshop or to showcase their work in the miniature store, helping create a space where creativity, experimentation, and community can meet.
Jacob Rapp
Jacob’s curiosity about health and systems has shaped much of his professional path. After years in the technology field, he began applying the same problem-solving mindset to understanding the human body through rehabilitative movement, martial arts and various holistic approaches.
That systems-oriented approach now shows up in both his work as Events Manager at The Workshop and his coaching practice, Lunar Health Coaching, where he supports adults in building sustainable movement capacity and steadier daily rhythms.
Matt Peña
Matthew is part of the heart of this work. He believes deeply in the people he gets to collaborate with and feels genuinely grateful to be part of this team. Being involved here is not about titles or roles for him — it’s about showing up, supporting one another, and helping good people do good work.
He cares about the relationships behind the projects and is proud to stand alongside the artists, thinkers, and creators who make this space what it is. This work exists because of trust, care, and shared belief, and Matthew is all in.
