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ROXANNA LOSADA RADLEY, MA, LCPC
md/dc
Roxanna is a Clinical Psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience. She has studied and trained at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, where she got her License in Clinical Psychology, then trained at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston; Massachusetts Institute of Spain, Madrid; The Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York; and the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC.
She is licensed as a Clinical Psychotherapist in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. She has worked with individuals, couples and families using a psychodynamic, interpersonal approach and trauma informed therapist, working with adults and adolescents from diverse multicultural backgrounds.
Over the last 25 years, she has lived in the Washington, DC area, where she established her private practice. For 11 years, she worked in the Counseling Unit at the World Bank Group and IMF. These opportunities have helped her gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and richness of living in a different culture.
Most recently, she trained at the Washington Baltimore Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. Drawing from her training, Roxanna employs an Attachment Theory approach to couples therapy. Her goal is to help couples reconnect with the feelings that brought them together, creating new strong connections, and changing negative patterns that create distress and detachment.
Roxanna loves helping her patients to gain a better understanding of their feelings and inner conflicts, make positive changes and healthy decisions, and reinforce their strength and confidence.
When we feel love, we feel more connected and secure.
She is licensed as a Clinical Psychotherapist in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. She has worked with individuals, couples and families using a psychodynamic, interpersonal approach and trauma informed therapist, working with adults and adolescents from diverse multicultural backgrounds.
Over the last 25 years, she has lived in the Washington, DC area, where she established her private practice. For 11 years, she worked in the Counseling Unit at the World Bank Group and IMF. These opportunities have helped her gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and richness of living in a different culture.
Most recently, she trained at the Washington Baltimore Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. Drawing from her training, Roxanna employs an Attachment Theory approach to couples therapy. Her goal is to help couples reconnect with the feelings that brought them together, creating new strong connections, and changing negative patterns that create distress and detachment.
Roxanna loves helping her patients to gain a better understanding of their feelings and inner conflicts, make positive changes and healthy decisions, and reinforce their strength and confidence.
When we feel love, we feel more connected and secure.
SANDRA COHEN, MS, LCPC
md/dc
Sandra is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Maryland and Washington, DC. She has practiced psychotherapy since 1990, and has experience working with adults, adolescents, couples, and families in a wide range of settings.
She received her Master's degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from San Francisco State University. She trained at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto and the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC. Most recently, she trained at the Washington Baltimore Center for Emotional Focused Therapy.
Sandra has worked in a variety of settings including The Family Therapy Institute, Montgomery County Social Services, in public schools, and in private practice. She has been in the Washington, DC area for the last 28 years where she established her practice and continues to learn.
Sandra was born in Argentina and came to the United States in 1986. As an immigrant, she appreciates the complex process of adaptation many people go through when they come to this country. She realizes this is a process of learning and growing from the experience of starting a new life in a new culture.
As your therapist, Sandra hopes to help you develop and attain goals that are important to you. She believes that by learning to be compassionate and to communicate with each other, we can create the conditions to make change possible.
She received her Master's degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from San Francisco State University. She trained at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto and the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC. Most recently, she trained at the Washington Baltimore Center for Emotional Focused Therapy.
Sandra has worked in a variety of settings including The Family Therapy Institute, Montgomery County Social Services, in public schools, and in private practice. She has been in the Washington, DC area for the last 28 years where she established her practice and continues to learn.
Sandra was born in Argentina and came to the United States in 1986. As an immigrant, she appreciates the complex process of adaptation many people go through when they come to this country. She realizes this is a process of learning and growing from the experience of starting a new life in a new culture.
As your therapist, Sandra hopes to help you develop and attain goals that are important to you. She believes that by learning to be compassionate and to communicate with each other, we can create the conditions to make change possible.
Laurence Fabre-Welmond MSW-MSPH, LCSW-C
md/dc
Individuals, couples
Children, teens and adults
Laurence has a dual training in France as a clinical psychologist and in the U.S. as a clinical social worker. She is licensed in Maryland. She obtained a masters degree at the Ecole des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris. She also has a Masters in Social Work and a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She has practiced as clinician for over thirty years. Laurence has worked with very young children, elementary, middle school and high school children, and adults in group and couple therapy settings. She has extensive international experience providing therapy services to national and international populations in France, the U.S., Vietnam, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire. She is bilingual, French and English.
With children, she has worked on sleep, feeding, and emotional self-regulation issues; ADHD; anxiety; learning differences; and adjustment to new cultures. She has also worked with children on the autism spectrum and has a certificate from the University of California in Davis in this area. With adults, she has worked on issues of anxiety, depression, adjustment disorder, and low self-esteem. In addition, she has provided parental training. She has also conducted couples therapy using non-violence communications approach.
Laurence has extensive experience and training using cognitive behavioral therapy, Rogerian play therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and psychodynamic short-term therapy. Laurence is committed to helping individuals, couples and families to understand their internal functioning and set goals to meet their full potential.
She has practiced as clinician for over thirty years. Laurence has worked with very young children, elementary, middle school and high school children, and adults in group and couple therapy settings. She has extensive international experience providing therapy services to national and international populations in France, the U.S., Vietnam, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire. She is bilingual, French and English.
With children, she has worked on sleep, feeding, and emotional self-regulation issues; ADHD; anxiety; learning differences; and adjustment to new cultures. She has also worked with children on the autism spectrum and has a certificate from the University of California in Davis in this area. With adults, she has worked on issues of anxiety, depression, adjustment disorder, and low self-esteem. In addition, she has provided parental training. She has also conducted couples therapy using non-violence communications approach.
Laurence has extensive experience and training using cognitive behavioral therapy, Rogerian play therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and psychodynamic short-term therapy. Laurence is committed to helping individuals, couples and families to understand their internal functioning and set goals to meet their full potential.
ROUA HIJAZI, MA, LPC, NCC
MD/DC
INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
ADULTS
MD/DC
INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
ADULTS
Roua is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Washington, DC, and Maryland and is a certified counselor by the National Board for Certified Counselors.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the George Washington University (GWU), and has completed the Psychoanalytic Studies program (PSP) at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has trained at the GWU Community Counseling Services Center and works as a psychological counselor at the Health Services Department of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
Roua works in several modalities and settings, offering psychotherapy in English, French, and Arabic to individuals, couples and families from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. Roua finds that her experience in a multicultural setting informs and facilitates her work with diverse populations. Roua has experience helping individuals and couples cope with the challenges of transition and adaptation, acculturation, stress management, depression, anxiety, parenting concerns, and relationship conflict.
Roua strongly believes that providing a supportive and safe space for her clients to explore emotions, deal with challenges, and connect with their strengths, will help them gain greater self-awareness and make the desired changes.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the George Washington University (GWU), and has completed the Psychoanalytic Studies program (PSP) at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has trained at the GWU Community Counseling Services Center and works as a psychological counselor at the Health Services Department of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
Roua works in several modalities and settings, offering psychotherapy in English, French, and Arabic to individuals, couples and families from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. Roua finds that her experience in a multicultural setting informs and facilitates her work with diverse populations. Roua has experience helping individuals and couples cope with the challenges of transition and adaptation, acculturation, stress management, depression, anxiety, parenting concerns, and relationship conflict.
Roua strongly believes that providing a supportive and safe space for her clients to explore emotions, deal with challenges, and connect with their strengths, will help them gain greater self-awareness and make the desired changes.
Regina Morales, LCSW-C
MD
INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES
CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS
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Regina is passionate about helping individuals and families reach greater self-acceptance and fulfillment. Her starting point is- what does this person or family deeply want and how can they feel free to speak about what is most true for them? She finds that authenticity, warmth, and humor go a long way toward creating that safe space. Her approach is active, and outcomes focused.
She is bilingual in English and Spanish, and specializes in work with adolescents, young adults, individuals, and families coping with stressors such as acculturation, grief and loss, and trauma; and individuals launching into independence or figuring out their sexual, gender, and cultural identities. |
Regina has served young people and families in Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County Behavioral Health and Crisis Services (BHCS), and private practice. She received her master’s degree at The Catholic University of America followed by training in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as in family and expressive therapies at the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center and at the Starbright Training Institute in Fairfax, VA. She brings clinical supervision, coaching, and leadership development skills from years of public service as Deputy Chief of BHCS. She is a licensed clinical social worker and Maryland certified clinical supervisor with over 25 years’ experience in trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral, expressive, and family systems therapies. Regina believes that individuals naturally incline toward wholeness and can clear obstacles to find greater peace and joy in life.
Maria Loreto Valdes, LCPC
MD/DC
INDIVIDUALS
CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS
Maria Loreto received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychology at Diego Portales University in Chile. Her postgraduate studies include a training program in psychodynamic therapy for children and adolescents, a certificate program in play therapy, and a certificate program in relational psychoanalysis for children and adolescents.
Maria has spent the vast majority of her career, which spans 20 years, in Chile, where she worked in diverse organizations as well as in her private practice. She lived in the Washington, DC area from 2004 to 2008, where she had the opportunity to work in a school environment and in a community clinic.
She is excited about being back in the Washington, DC area and continuing her practice here. Maria is expanding her horizons by dedicating her time to topics such as adult trauma and relational psychoanalysis.
Maria believes that the more we are aware of ourselves, the easier it will be for us to walk through the path of life in order to achieve our goals. She also believes that keeping a healthy mental life involves developing positive relationships with the people around us, so we feel connected, loved, and safe in the community we share.
Maria has spent the vast majority of her career, which spans 20 years, in Chile, where she worked in diverse organizations as well as in her private practice. She lived in the Washington, DC area from 2004 to 2008, where she had the opportunity to work in a school environment and in a community clinic.
She is excited about being back in the Washington, DC area and continuing her practice here. Maria is expanding her horizons by dedicating her time to topics such as adult trauma and relational psychoanalysis.
Maria believes that the more we are aware of ourselves, the easier it will be for us to walk through the path of life in order to achieve our goals. She also believes that keeping a healthy mental life involves developing positive relationships with the people around us, so we feel connected, loved, and safe in the community we share.
Ivette Rodriguez-Santana, MSW, LCSW-C
MD/DC
INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES
CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS
Ivette is an enthusiastic psychotherapist with strong clinical skills and a demonstrated commitment to working with culturally diverse populations. She has worked with people from all backgrounds and age groups including young children, teens, and their families. She also has clinical experience and a special interest in working with adults and youth on the autistic spectrum. Fluent in English and Spanish, Ivette has practiced in various settings, including outpatient mental health and school-based clinics, as well as private group and solo practices.
For the last ten years, Ivette has dedicated herself to studying and training in psychoanalysis. In her view, it is an experience that helps us talk through our difficulties and a means of change. Together with her clients, she works to articulate their concerns, address their challenges, and find solutions that works best for them in order to create the future they want. Children use play and art as ways to express themselves, their problems and desires.
Ivette holds a Master Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Maryland-Baltimore and is licensed in Maryland and Washington DC. In addition to her MSW degree, she has a MA and a PhD in Sociology from Yale University and has extensive experience working with students in higher academic settings.
For the last ten years, Ivette has dedicated herself to studying and training in psychoanalysis. In her view, it is an experience that helps us talk through our difficulties and a means of change. Together with her clients, she works to articulate their concerns, address their challenges, and find solutions that works best for them in order to create the future they want. Children use play and art as ways to express themselves, their problems and desires.
Ivette holds a Master Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Maryland-Baltimore and is licensed in Maryland and Washington DC. In addition to her MSW degree, she has a MA and a PhD in Sociology from Yale University and has extensive experience working with students in higher academic settings.
GALIT RUTSTEIN, LMSW, LGSW
MD/DC/VA
INDIVIDUALS
TEENS, ADULTS AND older adults
Galit holds a Master's degree in Social Work from Adelphi University and got her certification as a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She has practiced therapy in various settings, including psychiatric hospitals, day treatment programs and private practices. She has worked with adolescents and adults dealing with anxiety, depression, life adjustments and grief.
Galit integrates a holistic approach, viewing each individual as whole, with multiple modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing and the Strength Based Approach to support and guide her clients in achieving their health goals. Galit creates safe space where her clients feel seen and heard, which she believes is paramount to the client-therapist relationship. She's currently licensed in MD, DC, and VA and works with adult women, including the elderly.
Galit integrates a holistic approach, viewing each individual as whole, with multiple modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing and the Strength Based Approach to support and guide her clients in achieving their health goals. Galit creates safe space where her clients feel seen and heard, which she believes is paramount to the client-therapist relationship. She's currently licensed in MD, DC, and VA and works with adult women, including the elderly.
Cira Canelas, LCPC
MD
INDIVIDUAL ADULTS
Cira Canelas holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from University of Belgrano, Argentina, and a License in Clinical Counseling. She has over 29 years of clinical experience.
Throughout her extensive years of experience and major professional certifications, she has a unique and solid therapeutic approach that combines deep psychodynamic analysis with somatic awareness and mindfulness techniques.
Cira is trained in Hakomi (mindful somatic psychotherapy) and EMDR. She holds a teacher certificate in Mindfulness and Meditation (with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield). Cira has also completed two years of clinical training on Object Relations Theory and Practice at the International Psychotherapy Institute in the Washington DC area.
She is currently advancing a certification as a Holotropic Grof Breathwork facilitator (with the Grof Legacy Training) and studying Psychedelic therapy (with the Psychedelic Somatic Institute).
An eternal student of life, her passion is to combine the many different approaches to the human psyche into her own personal psychotherapeutic approach. She specializes in complex and developmental trauma, anxiety, and depression. She strongly believes in the potential of crisis as a gateway for growth and self-realization.
Throughout her extensive years of experience and major professional certifications, she has a unique and solid therapeutic approach that combines deep psychodynamic analysis with somatic awareness and mindfulness techniques.
Cira is trained in Hakomi (mindful somatic psychotherapy) and EMDR. She holds a teacher certificate in Mindfulness and Meditation (with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield). Cira has also completed two years of clinical training on Object Relations Theory and Practice at the International Psychotherapy Institute in the Washington DC area.
She is currently advancing a certification as a Holotropic Grof Breathwork facilitator (with the Grof Legacy Training) and studying Psychedelic therapy (with the Psychedelic Somatic Institute).
An eternal student of life, her passion is to combine the many different approaches to the human psyche into her own personal psychotherapeutic approach. She specializes in complex and developmental trauma, anxiety, and depression. She strongly believes in the potential of crisis as a gateway for growth and self-realization.
pilar alfaro-palacios, MS, lcpc
MD
INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS
Pilar Alfaro-Palacios, MS, LCPC is a highly experienced and qualified therapist. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with over 30 years of practice in Bethesda/Chevy Chase, Maryland. She works with youth, adults, couples and families from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, bereavement, post-traumatic stress disorder, cross cultural counseling, third culture kids, parenting issues and educational consultation for school aged children.
With two years of training in Marriage and Family Therapy, Pilar works with clients from a family systems perspective with an emotionally based focus. She helps couples examine their roles as partners, identify challenging dynamics and improve communication to promote positive change and growth. Her treatment modalities also include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices and trauma-informed interventions.
Pilar obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from George Washington University, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an equivalent Master’s degree in School Counseling from Loyola University. She worked for Montgomery County Public Schools and is certified by the state of Maryland as both a School Counselor and a Pupil Personnel Worker. Pilar is also a National Board Certified Counselor (NBCC).
As a therapist her goal is to help clients learn how to find answers from within. She believes that by mindfully working with the present, clients gain awareness, understanding, and acceptance, all of which are necessary to create a positive attitude toward change, personal growth and fulfillment.
With two years of training in Marriage and Family Therapy, Pilar works with clients from a family systems perspective with an emotionally based focus. She helps couples examine their roles as partners, identify challenging dynamics and improve communication to promote positive change and growth. Her treatment modalities also include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices and trauma-informed interventions.
Pilar obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from George Washington University, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an equivalent Master’s degree in School Counseling from Loyola University. She worked for Montgomery County Public Schools and is certified by the state of Maryland as both a School Counselor and a Pupil Personnel Worker. Pilar is also a National Board Certified Counselor (NBCC).
As a therapist her goal is to help clients learn how to find answers from within. She believes that by mindfully working with the present, clients gain awareness, understanding, and acceptance, all of which are necessary to create a positive attitude toward change, personal growth and fulfillment.
Caroline Poirrier, LMSW
MD/DC
INDIVIDUALS
TEENS AND ADULTS
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Caroline Poirrier holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of
Maryland and is licensed in Maryland and Washington, D.C. She works with adults and adolescents on a range of issues including anxiety, depression, self-esteem, identity, relationships, transitions and stressors, emotional regulation, executive functioning,and trauma. She has experience providing clinical care in agency and private practice settings. Caroline was born and raised in Europe, is fluent in English and French, and has lived and traveled in several countries in Asia, the Americas and Africa. Prior to becoming a therapist, she spent more than a decade working with organizations committed to enhancing people’s education, health, and rights at the policy level. |
Caroline uses a warm, collaborative, and compassionate approach to help her clients process their experience, develop healthy coping mechanisms, make progress toward their goals, and improve their quality of life. Shaped by each client’s unique needs and preferences, her approach draws on her experience and training in cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness. She is committed to providing culturally sensitive, affirmative, and trauma-informed care and has experience working with diverse clients including members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, and individuals with international or multicultural backgrounds.
Jenny Bernal de Baker, MSW, LCSW-C
MD
INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, FAMILIES
ADOLESCENTS, YOUNG ADULTS and ADULTS
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Jenny is a dedicated therapist who enjoys working through a bilingual (English/Spanish) and bicultural lens, utilizing a strength-based approach that puts the client at the center of the healing and empowerment process. Jenny is dedicated to the therapeutic process by focusing on establishing a strong therapeutic rapport as the foundation from where to begin work. She works with adolescents, young adults, adults, couples and families. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, prepartum and postpartum anxiety/depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, first generation college student adjustment, acculturation, executive functioning challenges, parenting concerns, discernment, and life changes (first time parents, first time mom, empty nesters, career changes, etc.)
Jenny works from an Attachment Theory approach and utilizes various modalities in her work including Bowen Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, and therapy that integrates faith and spirituality. |
Jenny has worked in a variety of settings including medical and outpatient mental health clinics and in-home therapy. Jenny holds a Master Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland. In addition to her MSW degree, Jenny has a MA in Theology from Boston College.
Karen Zelaya, MA, lgpc
MD
INDIVIDUALS,FAMILIES
CHILDREN, YOUNG ADULTS AND ADULTS
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Karen obtained a dual Master’s degree with honors in Counseling Psychology and
Professional Counseling from the Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from The Central American University in Nicaragua. (Universidad Centroamericana, UCA). Karen has worked in various settings, including but not limited to the Montgomery County Child Welfare Services, Linkages to Learning program, providing school-based community and mental health services through a partnership with Montgomery County public schools and the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. She has trained at the YMCA and the Maryland Treatment Center for Addiction. Karen is bilingual, with Spanish-English mastery, and has great cultural competence and experience working with diverse cultural communities. |
She is passionate about helping individuals, children, youth, and families. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with crisis intervention, anger management, addiction problems, adolescent crisis, and community
resources. Her experience migrating to a new country gives her a unique perspective on acculturation and assimilation. Karen has extensive experience working with families providing parenting skills, strategies to raise challenging children, and family dynamics. She utilizes various modalities in her work including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and person-centered therapy. Karen focuses on the client’s individual needs, while recognizing where everyone is emotionally. She believes that every individual has the potential to create their own path towards happiness.
resources. Her experience migrating to a new country gives her a unique perspective on acculturation and assimilation. Karen has extensive experience working with families providing parenting skills, strategies to raise challenging children, and family dynamics. She utilizes various modalities in her work including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and person-centered therapy. Karen focuses on the client’s individual needs, while recognizing where everyone is emotionally. She believes that every individual has the potential to create their own path towards happiness.