Meet The Counselors
Nataly Grullon, LMHC
Nataly Grullon, LMHC is an experienced Mental Health Counselor who provides services in English and Spanish. She has experience with counseling individuals, groups and families. She empathetically attends to the individuals needs. She also collaborates with family and pertinent providers to create a comfortable and supportive environment for the individual.
Nataly founded Ally Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC with enthusiastic attitude and extensive counseling skills to supports individuals in need.
Treatment Modalities used: Energy Psychology, Biofeedback, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness.
Elizabeth Hernandez, LMHC
Elizabeth Hernandez, LMHC has experience working with age groups from children, to the elderly, in both English and Spanish speaking population. Her focus is to provide individual support and the opportunity to feel comfortable in self expression. Her specialities are working with children and young adults that are undergoing depression, anxiety and social-emotional behavioral problems.
Each client is unique and requires space to grow and learn how to face tomorrow through a different perspective.
Ricardo Vacca LMHC, Mg Psychologist
Ricardo Vacca is a Mental health counselor with a master's degree in clinical psychology and a certification in Trauma Therapy. He is experienced with working with adults providing psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, deficits relating to people, concentration and memory conflicts in couple relationships, attachment, mourning, addictive/gambling behaviors, sex, and work.
He uses psychotherapy techniques derived from Cognitive Behavioral and Neuro-Linguistic Programming theories. In addition, Neurotic Cognitive Strategies to improve memory and concentration. Rational Emotive Therapy is also used to restructure thoughts and emotions for depression.
He believes the purpose of treatment is for the person to learn psychotherapy techniques, apply them in their lives, reduce the risk of relapse, not depend on the therapist, and achieve personal fulfillment of their goals in life.
Catherine Westcott, LMHC
Catherine Westcott (she/her): Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a background in education. She works with adults, young adults, and adolescents. “I can assist you in developing coping strategies, making peace with your thoughts, helping you gain a greater sense of self and an understanding that everyone has their unique way of looking at the world. I have experience working with clients with PTSD, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, OCD, grief, autism, and cognitive disabilities. I use an integrated approach to therapy including, Humanistic, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, and Trauma Informed techniques.”-Cat
Kelsey Ueberall, LMHC
Kelsey Ueberall is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with experience in counseling teens, adults, and couples. She focuses on the development of self-love and compassion to assist with ultimate healing. With her trauma-informed background, she navigates through adversities and allows her clients to open up at their own pace. She specializes in working with individuals experiencing psychosis, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. Kelsey utilizes an integrative approach including mindfulness, somatic therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy to address the individual's unique experiences.
Monique Hawthorne MHC-LP
Monique Hawthorne, Mental Health Counselor. She has experience working with various ages, from early youth to adults, including people with Intellectual disabilities. She likes to refer to herself as an “Edutherapist” as she utilizes her education and psychology background to provide therapeutic techniques for students in the classroom and clients in the office. She specializes in developing healthy interpersonal relationships, social-emotional learning, and mental wellness such as self-care, self-talk, and reframing challenging/adverse experiences. Using an integrative therapy model, including narrative therapy, cbt, and mindfulness techniques. Her goal is to provide a safe space for clients to express themselves, heal, and gain tools to navigate life challenges.
Julia Sabatino, MHC-LP
Julia Sabatino is a Mental Health Counselor with experience in counseling young adults, adults, and groups. She works with clients to explore solutions, while guiding them through personal hardships. She works with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, interpersonal related challenges, self-esteem difficulties, as well as helps support her clients who are struggling with life transitions. Julia uses unconditional positive regard, empathy, and trust to develop strong bonds with her clients. She focuses on a person-centered approach, while integrating a wide range of therapeutic interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness techniques. Julia’s bubbly and humorous personality makes her easy to talk to, and allows her to connect with clients, while creating a strong therapeutic relationship.
“You are never alone in what you are experiencing, and I look forward to helping you reach your goals, to live the life you truly deserve and desire!”- Julia S.
Carmela Piccolo, MHC-LP
Carmela Piccolo, MHC-LP, is a Limited Permit Mental Health Counselor with a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University, a CACREP-accredited institution. Carmela has experience working with both adults and adolescents and concentrates in areas such as anxiety, depression, disordered eating, attention deficit and hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder, interpersonal relationships, self-worth and compassion, and emotional regulation. Carmela utilizes an integrative approach to therapy, exercising dialectical-behavioral therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, health at every size (HAES), and internal family systems therapy. Carmela looks forward to helping you reach your goals and create a life worth living!
Nathifa Ferguson, MHC-LP
Nathifa is a Mental Health Counselor who believes therapy should provide a supportive and safe space where clients can freely express and process emotions as they navigate toward their therapeutic goals.
Nathifa has experience working with both individuals and families of various ages. Her common areas of treatment include anxiety, depression, self-compassion, codependency, life transitions, and grief. She utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) among other therapy approaches to explore change with her clients.
Nathifa’s approach is uniquely tailored to each client's needs and preferences, to help to develop a strong and authentic sense of self.
Sky Twersky, MHC-LP
Sky Twersky (they/she) is a queer, non-binary, limited permit mental health counselor. They have a background working in crisis and trauma as a licensed peer support specialist. As a therapist they take an integrative intersectional approach to treatment, informed by clients' goals, experiences, and identities. They offer an affirming, empathetic, authentic, and collaborative environment to unpack the past and present at a pace that feels safe.
Sky believes in giving clients tools that are cognisant of existing resources by utilizing a solution-focused and strength-based approach. This can look unconventional by integrating outside interests to create sessions uniquely reflective of the client through art, music, spirituality, astrology, and other client-specific approaches.
Focus: anxiety, LGBTQIA+, non-monogamy/kink, PTSD, sexual trauma, suicidal ideation
Therapeutic frameworks: Psychodynamic, CBT, person-centered, mindfulness, trauma-informed, sex therapy.
Specialties
Sex Therapy
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Counselor has been able to work with different populations referred from urologist, gynecologists, obstetricians and Psychiatrists. Gaining great knowledge in how to be able to deal with the different conditions that cause a disruption of an enjoyable sex life.
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Wether it is having a hard time conceiving, grieving from losing a child, unable to cope with your new identity as a parent or getting ready to be a parent. Having an ally in such journey, can help!
Divorce and Relationship Difficulties
Perinatal mood & anxiety disorders and Perinatal grief & loss
Divorce and Relationship Difficulties
Loss is not only present in the death of an individual, but in everything that causes you to be unable to feel like yourself due to it. Loss of identity through relationship or divorce. Let's talk about how you can cope with your current situation.
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