Chris Andrews, M.A. is a caring, effective, results-oriented therapist. He respects his clients’ inner strength and resources while actively collaborating with them to clarify their thinking, overcome emotional difficulties, and resolve problems. He brings both empathy and expertise to address your concerns in each session and believes that a therapist should be a confidant, guide, and trained healer. He ascribes to scientifically grounded psychological models that hold that our thoughts, feelings, and actions create our reality and that practical solutions emerge when we quiet our minds, become aware of unconscious feelings and life patterns, try new behaviors, and balance our lives. Chris’s areas of clinical focus include helping clients to reduce anxiety, fears, or depression; cope with pain, suffering loss or grief; recover from trauma due to accident or abuse; overcome addictive problems with alcohol, substances, the Internet, or sex.
Alice Farmer, M.A., M.Ed. is a compassionate, collaborative therapist who works with adults and adolescents to help them identify what they yearn for, recognize their barriers, and achieve rewarding changes in their lives. She helps them recognize beliefs and habits that may serve as roadblocks, and open themselves to more effective approaches. Alice helps clients target what they need right now. Some need to work through past experiences and grieve painful losses. Some want to target specific changes, or explore new practices. Some want to solve problems. Alice has worked with clients coping with major life transitions such as aging, adolescence, midlife, divorce, and major loss--as well as grief, trauma, and PTSD. She holds masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Educational Psychology. Prior work includes corporate coaching in managing change, communication, leadership, teamwork and conflict resolution.
Janice Graham, M.A. provides clients a safe, encouraging, caring and healthy environment in which to explore. She works actively and collaboratively with you to improve your relationships, well being and hopefulness. Together you will take a compassionate look at your life so that you can move beyond the patterns that may be inhibiting you from reaching your life goals. She will work with you by providing personalized, thoughtful support and guidance to help you create more satisfaction and success in your life. She combines depth psychotherapy with practical, solution-oriented counseling. Your work will help you understand your desires and fears, and learn from them. She is inquisitive, curious and warm, and she uses humor and compassion in her work. She loves the process of collaborating together to help you discover and live a more meaningful, satisfying and authentic life.
Jeannette Harroun, M.A. provides individual and family therapy for children, adolescents and families combining practical problem-solving skills with encouragement and support as clients explore their feelings and life patterns, develop their strengths, work through concerns and find meaningful ways to gain comfort and satisfaction with their lives and choices. She is experienced in working with anxiety including OCD and phobias, depression, parenting skills and resiliency, parent-child communications, ADHD and Aspberger’s. Certified Trainer-Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence parenting program, training in use of Expressive Arts and Play Therapy, anxiety/phobia reduction and trauma processing. sadness. Her background includes working in schools, counseling agency, expressive arts camp and private practice settings. She holds a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and is a facilitator for the American Psychological Association's (APA) Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program.
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Ben Jones, M.A. focuses on helping clients find the roots of their suffering, face their fears, gain courage, and attain their goals. In addition, as a transpersonal therapist he also encourages clients to strengthen what they find most meaningful in their lives, whether this is music, nature walks, service to others, spirituality, religion or any other meaningful activity. Ben focuses on creating a safe, trusting environment in which the client and the therapist together set goals and choose techniques to achieve them. He works with people suffering from widespread problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, family-of-origin problems, abuse, etc., and has special interest and experience working with depression, feelings of meaninglessness, adult initiation, and men's issues. He is experienced in facilitating therapy groups and believes that they can be very effective for many of these issues. He has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from John F Kennedy University, specializing in Transpersonal Counseling.
Cynthia Mansur, M.A. earned a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from JFK University. She is trained in a holistic approach, which integrates non-traditional and established psychological practices. Cynthia works with individuals, couples, families, and adolescents on issues such as self-esteem, depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, work-related problems, relational difficulties, and living with chronic illness. She empowers clients to deal effectively with the challenges they face.
Merry Wingfield, M.A., is a creative, caring and resourceful therapist with experience working with depression, anxiety, loss and grief, trauma and addiction. She is a certified drug and alcohol counselor. Merry works with families, children, couples and individuals, tailoring her approach to the needs, resources and goals of her clients. She can help the client with a here-and-now problem solving process to realize a specific goal, or delves deeper to explore and resolve long-standing conflicts and obstacles. Bringing mindfulness to her practice, Merry has an attitude of curiosity and respect for the imagination and when advantageous uses a variety of expressive arts in therapy, including image, movement, and voice with both children and adults. She believes that a conscious exploration of thoughts, feelings and actions leads to a greater connection with self and other. She deeply values the courage it takes to make changes and feels privileged to walk alongside of her clients on their journey. Merry has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Melinda Love, M.A., M.Ed., works in both individual and group settings with adults and families coping with: relationships in transition; adjustment to midlife changes and divorce; fears of meaningless and isolation in retirement; and the challenges of care giving for family members with life changing illnesses, including dementia. She honors the uniqueness of every client’s perspective and set of life experiences while working collaboratively with warmth and compassion so clients will feel safe, valued and supported. Melinda’s interactive approach helps clients explore ways to experience more gratifying interpersonal relationships, balance, and personal satisfaction throughout various stages across the life span. She infuses humor and a genuine spirit of hopefulness into the mutual journey she takes with clients. Principles from family systems, depth psychology and expressive arts frame effective counseling practices to help clients reach their goals. Melinda is a graduate of John F. Kennedy University.
