Counselors
Our experienced team of therapists are waiting to help you start your journey to wellness.
Meghan Kresge, LCSW-R Owner/Director
Meghan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience working with adolescents, adults and families. She provides treatment through a variety of modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, mindfulness and strength-based interventions. She specializes in helping anxious and depressed adults and teens, with a focus on individuals struggling with the impacts of trauma, challenges with interpersonal relationships, grief and loss, anger management, low self-esteem and more. Meghan also specializes in helping women to manage the challenges mid-life changes and transitions have on mood and interpersonal relationships assisting them to achieve a healthy work/family/life balance.
Sarah Bowers, LCSW-R
Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has over 10 years experience working with adolescents, adults, and groups. She enjoys working with people to help them manage a wide range of mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, and trauma. She has experience with cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and ACT among other modalities of therapy. She works collaboratively with clients to develop goals and a plan for treatment that best suits their present needs.
Katherine Dishaw, LMHC
Katherine is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor with experience working with adolescents, adults and families. She works with clients on a wide variety of issues including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, grief, anger management, and challenges with adjustment. In session, Katherine focuses on building on strengths, providing practical feedback and offering support. She utilizes approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.
Sara Obrist, LCSW
Sara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 5 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples. She has experience working with a wide range of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, family dynamics, adolescent issues, and more. She focuses on a trauma-informed, strength-based and client- centered approach while utilizing various modalities of therapy including cognitive behavioral therapy, solution- focused therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sara provides a calm and safe space where clients can feel listened to and supported.
Allison Dabback, LCSW
Allison Dabback is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 4 years of experience helping individuals make changes to their lives and reach their personal goals. Throughout her career, Allison has gained experience working with people challenged by depression, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, trauma, relationship issues, and parenting struggles. Since beginning her career, Allison has received extensive training in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment for children ages 2 through 6 and their families. Additionally, Allison has been trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based treatment for individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Allison has participated in and led group therapies for multiple disciplines, to include trauma and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). While practicing, Allison incorporates DBT skills and approaches therapy from a client-centered perspective and behavioral stance, while incorporating the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Allison believes and views the therapeutic relationship as a relationship between two equals to discover the balance between validation and change. This therapeutic relationship serves as a foundational tenet for her to be able to help each of her clients find their life worth living. Allison believes each individual is the expert of their own stories and that they each have strengths that will assist them in overcoming whatever challenges may present themselves.
Christopher Davis, LCSW
Christopher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience providing evidence-based treatment to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. Christopher’s therapeutic approach is solution-focused to encourage positive growth during life’s challenging times and transitions. He utilizes cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy and empowerment or strength-based approaches to encourage your full potential. Christopher specializes in childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, grief and loss, anger management, adolescent issues, ADHD treatment, and more. Christopher ensures a supportive and compassionate environment where people can feel safe and comfortable as they work toward accomplishing their therapeutic goals.
Kristen Kwiek, LMSW
Kristen (KK) is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 17 years of experience working with adolescents, adults and families. She specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Intellectual Disabilities (ID), and various mental health diagnoses. She works with clients who experience difficulty with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, life adjustments, low self-esteem, social communication, interpersonal relationship conflict, and challenges associated with executive function. She utilizes a strengths-based approach with her clients and promotes self-efficacy. She utilizes an array of therapeutic interventions including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Social Communication skills, Psychoeducation, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Kristen offers a safe and non-judgemental therapy space where clients have a voice, feel heard and receive support in achieving their therapeutic goals to create positive change.
Marci DeTorio, LMSW
Marci is a Licensed Master Social Worker with experience working with adolescents, adults and families. She works with clients on a wide variety of issues including anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and gestures, engagement in self-harm and behavioral challenges. In session, Marci focuses on building therapeutic rapport with a strengths-based approach. Marci is trained in DBT and TF-CBT and also uses other approaches including motivational interviewing and solution focused therapy. Marci provides her clients with a safe space to share while also challenging acceptance and change to reach therapeutic goals.
Kelly Coggen, LMSW
Kelly is a Licensed Master Social Worker with over 20 years experience working with children, adolescents and adults. She has practiced in a variety of settings supporting individuals and families in growing their strengths to see positive change in their lives. Kelly uses a person centered approach practicing principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy providing treatment that is strengths based, solution focused, and unique to each individual’s needs. She has treated clients with a range of disorders and assisted individuals’ working through emotional distress, traumatic experiences, and life challenges. Kelly offers a welcoming, nonjudgmental, and safe space for you to honestly seek support in working towards your goals.
Jennifer Finn, LMSW
Jen is a Licensed Master Social Worker who has experience working with children, families, teens, and young adults across many contexts. She takes a strength-based, systems approach to therapy drawing upon various evidence based modalities including, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to assist individuals with a variety of needs including navigating identity and life transitions, managing anxiety, overcoming depression, coping with grief and loss, and improving general wellness through mindfulness based practices. Jen provides a welcoming and safe environment to explore and attend to the needs of individuals in a way that is conducive to positive change along their journey through the inevitable ups and downs of life.
Veronica Llovera-Talucci, LCSW
Veronica is an LCSW and a Registered Yoga Teacher-200 with 10+ years working with adults, couples, families, and adolescents. She utilizes a humanistic and whole systemic approach to treat the person in an integrative manner. A variety of modalities, including dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, emotional freedom technique (tapping), emotionally focused therapy, and transgenerational therapy are utilized to treat clients. Veronica is an LGBTQ ally and strives to create a safe, confidential, and collaborative space in which clients are motivated to identify and work toward their goals to create a value driven life that is thriving and dynamic. Clients will gain a deeper understanding about their conscious and unconscious processes, what physical/somatic symptoms are communicating, how the fight/flight/freeze response can hijack the brain, and how childhood attachments impact the ways in which we attach in our romantic and platonic relationships. Clients will increase mindfulness, self-awareness including body and breath awareness, self-worth, and the ability to identify and communicate their emotions effectively.
Jamison Wood, LMSW
Jamison is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a Master Level Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor with 9 years of experience working with adults, groups and young adults. He has worked with a vast range of clients, but has specialized in counseling working professionals struggling with substance use, depression, anxiety, relationship struggles and life transitions. Jamison also has experience working with families that are struggling with communication and family dynamic challenges. He uses a variety of counseling approaches including CBT, mindfulness-based interventions, interpersonal/relational therapy and narrative therapy. He creates a warm and empathetic environment while providing honest and direct feedback.
Stefanie Fellows, LMSW
Stefanie is a Licensed Master Social Worker with experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. She utilizes CBT, motivational Interviewing, solution focused therapy, and a strengths based approach. Stefanie has focused on working with those struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. She also has experience working with members of the LGBTQ community as well as individuals seeking to address challenges of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Stefanie strives to meet people where they are at on their journey in order to create a relaxed and supportive environment.
Anne Helfer, LCSW
Anne’s approach to prioritizing emotional health and increasing well-being centers on working toward balance; bio-psycho-socio-spiritual balance. To customize each client’s path toward wellness she makes use of talk therapy, movement and body-based modalities including yoga, and artistic expression to help build the capacity to discover, address, and express unacknowledged or challenging emotions and to manage anxiety. Anne helps her clients discover previously unacknowledged strengths, encouraging change by supporting people as they learn to let go of unhealthy thought patterns and replace them with more proactive and resilient ways of functioning. Through developing mindfulness and self-compassion, we experience a greater ability to engage in on-going self-care. A former educator, Anne knows the value of empowering people to understand why they think and act as they do and regularly makes use of psychoeducation to help her clients increase their understanding of how early life experiences, family-of-origin functioning, and inherited tendencies can impact our emotional health. "Meeting you where you are and taking you where you want to go" reflects her collaborative approach to helping people make the changes that they desire. Anne’s clinical interests include working with survivors of developmental trauma, treating compassion fatigue in helping professionals, adults with ADHD and women facing mid-life challenges and transions.
Carlen Hiciano, LMHC
Carlen is a Bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 5 years of experience providing therapy in both English and Spanish to children, adolescents, and families. She utilizes a client-centered, solution-focused approach, with experience supporting clients with ADHD, depression, and anxiety. Carlen has experience integrating Evidence-Based practices like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness techniques to support clients in achieving their personal and relational goals, work towards enhancing resilience, improving relationships, and fostering personal growth.
London Wright, LMSW
London is a Licensed Master Social Worker with just under four years of experience in college mental health and over six years in crisis de-escalation/suicide prevention. He has worked with adolescents, young adults and older adults assisting with a number of challenges including Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Substance Abuse, relationship concerns, Adjustment-related difficulties, Racial Trauma and more. He utilizes a range of evidence-based interventions in order to assist those he works with, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Exposure & Response Prevention and Psychodynamic Therapy. While assisting his clients in building insight around the distress they are facing, he is sure to remain client-centered and trauma-informed in his approach. London is passionate about supporting all individuals, though he has worked with a number of BIPOC individuals as well as those within the LGBTQIA+ community throughout his time in college mental health. He strives to create a safe and inviting therapeutic space so as to empower the individuals he works with to reach their goals.