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 a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 7 years experience working with adults, couples, groups, adolescents, and families. She utilizes a humanistic approach to assist clients to gain insight about their conscious and unconscious processes. A variety of modalities including dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, emotionally focused therapy, transgenerational therapy and mindfulness-based interventions are utilized to treat clients with a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance use disorders, anger and emotional reactivity, personality disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder. Veronica is skilled in working with clients that have endured trauma and/or insecure attachments in childhood helping them to understand the impact on their current lives. She specializes in helping clients to increase mindfulness in order to gain insight about the manifestation of stress and trauma in their bodies and in their relationships. Veronica is an LGBTQ ally and strives to create a safe, confidential, collaborative and dynamic space in which clients are motivated to work toward their goals.
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.
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.