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Thank you for your interest in Shelter Rock Counseling. The below form will collect information about the counseling services you are seeking, and a team member will contact you for a brief conversation and will refer you to the best available counselor in our referral group. Please note that each counselor is an independent practitioner and this portal serves as a referral point, not a service provider.

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Our Team —

Johanna Dillenbeck

LMHC, NC

Inga Goldstein

Alicia Cherian

MA-LMFT

Violin Narooz-Gad

Jill Owens

LMHC

Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco

LMHC (NY)

Fred Doulton

LMHC

Tanya Cardoza Ruiz

Contact Jo Dillenbeck to schedule

Esther Jhun

LMHC, MA

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Our referral network extends to the team at Wellsprings Counseling Center. To inquire about counseling services with Wellsprings, you can reach them at 646-957-2322 or complete the form below.

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178 Cold Spring Rd.
Syosset, NY 11791
9 AM | 10:30 AM | 12 PM

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Old Westbury, NY 11568
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Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
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Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
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Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
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Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
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Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
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Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
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Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
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Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
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Esther Jhun
LMHC, MA
Esther Jhun is a mental health counselor licensed in New York State with over ten years experience. After earning her bachelors in Biblical/Theological Studies, Esther worked briefly in ministry with the hopes of going to seminary. Instead, being insistent on doing life the hard way left her broken and she eventually found herself in the counseling field. Her professional experience includes working with chronically mentally ill older adults in a day treatment program as well as young adults in Christian higher education. Cultivating therapeutic rapport through incarnational listening, Esther has worked with clients on alleviating anxiety, depression, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress by exploring the story they tell themselves. Utilizing both a bottom-up and top-down approach, Esther provides tools to self-soothe and regulate physical symptoms as well as address core beliefs, internalized scripts, and/or cognitive distortions. Lastly, as a Korean-American woman born to immigrants and raised in Nassau County in the 1980s, Esther is familiar with the BIPOC experience in PWI and has provided support and empowerment to those who have experienced racial trauma. Ultimately, Esther believes in the sacredness of bearing witness to someone’s pain and being a conduit of grace.
Johanna Dillenbeck
LMHC, NCC
Johanna Dillenbeck is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) who uses a strength-based wellness approach in psychotherapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health from Alliance Theological Seminary Graduate School of Counseling/Nyack College and a Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from Liberty University. Johanna is trained and pursuing certification (advanced training) in Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR). Currently, she works with individuals overcoming betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and complex post-traumatic stress. Additionally, she is trained and pursuing certification to specialize in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and relational trauma. She has extensive training in human development that she uses to counsel clients who are adolescents through later life stages.

Additionally, she incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy to prioritize her clients' needs. As a result of her specialization in trauma and shame, Johanna is known for creating a safe therapeutic relationship with her clients regardless of age, gender, race, status, or any other presenting concern. She guides them as they replace negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves and their circumstances, infusing a sense of hope. Those who desire to integrate their faith in counseling benefit from Johanna’s training to incorporate theology and psychotherapy.
Inga Goldstein
With more than 20 years of counseling experience, Inga has helped many people who struggle with and suffer from emotional pain and the challenges that life presents. In a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment, she focuses her expertise on developing a deep, comprehensive, and meaningful understanding of her patients. This is the foundation of creating a highly individualized treatment plan. Inga uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), psychodynamic, and EFT (emotionally focused therapy).  Using these techniques, and drawing from the therapeutic relationship, she works alongside her clients to identify, create and meet their goals.
Alicia Cherian
MA-LMFT
Alicia is a licensed marriage and family Therapist in the state of New York. She is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator that equips individuals who are dating or considering marriage, as well as trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) for communities and leaders.  Alicia received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nyack (Christian) College: Alliance Graduate School of Counseling. She also received her training as a crisis counselor, trainer, and workshop leader at NYC's Mental Health Association, a nationwide crisis resource for individuals, professional providers, and family members. At Redeemer Counseling Services, Alicia helped enrich and heal individuals and couples through providing counseling and as well as training professional counselors and church leaders in various areas such as grief work, suicide, and marriage care. Alicia's passion is in personal/relational boundaries work, premarital and marital counseling as well as infertility, prenatal and postpartum/maternal care issues. Her counseling experience focuses on relational work, depression, suicide, crisis intervention, premarital counseling, communication issues, cultural identity, self-image, caregiver issues and stress, parenting, and family work. She uses cognitive behavioral, solution- focused, emotion-focused, internal family systems, strategic, as well as structural and intergenerational modalities of therapy.  Alicia infuses the truths of Jesus Christ into her session(s) but only if the client desires, as sessions are client-led.
Violin Narooz-Gad
Violin Narooz-Gad's is a certified Canadian counselor in good standing with the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Moreover, she is a board-certified Christian Counselor with the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working on her licensing in mental health counseling in New York State. Violin is able to treat clients in both the USA and Canada. In her private practice, Ms. Narooz-Gad works with adults that may find themselves struggling with issues including, but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, anger, codependency, family conflicts, self esteem, sexual addictions, issues with coping, skill building, personality disorder features, interpersonal relationship disturbances, trauma, grief and bereavement, life transitions, stress, work related pressures, life coaching, parenting, and varying crises. She believes that individuals are unique and thus, she caters to that by integrating varying psychological modalities she has training in, which include, but are not limited to: emotionally focused therapy, varying concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy modality, transactional analysis, accelerated resolution therapy, the Gottman Method couples therapy, and raising emotionally healthy children program by the Gottman Institute. Violin considers it a great privilege, even an honor, walking with someone in their pain even for a short time. She believes people are meant to walk through life together and not alone, so, through this, she can do her part of 'walking-with.'
Jill Owens
LMHC
Jill Owens is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with an academic background in both Psychology and Theology. She graduated from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in 2009 and has been counseling since that time. Jill offers spiritually-integrated psychotherapy for those who desire to utilize their faith as a resource in overcoming personal and relationship challenges. Jill’s counseling style is warm, informal, and disarming. She is known for helping her clients feel at ease. Jill has had success in helping depressed clients who feel victimized by life's hardships to regain a healthy sense of personal power and well-being. She has also excelled in empowering anxious and traumatized individuals to develop a stronger, more capable sense of self; thereby becoming more grounded and at peace. In addition, Jill has helped couples and families to work through conflict and restore loving, harmonious relationships. Jill has gone through dark times of suffering in her own life; and has experienced significant personal transformation and healing. She has great confidence in the innate capacity of humans to change, grow and heal when they have the support they need. In the words of Henri Nouwen; she considers herself a "wounded healer." She considers it a privilege to accompany her clients on their journey towards wholeness — that they may experience the abundant, joyful life for which they were created.
Lastny Gabriella Rodriguez-Polanco
LMHC (NY)
Lastny is a licensed bilingual mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Counseling from Alliance Graduate School of Counseling in Nyack College and a BA in Psychology and in Communications from Monmouth University. As a counselor, Lastny believes that all individuals are inherently worthy and capable of achieving self-compassion and self-awareness which supports wholeness. She firmly believes in a person- centered approach, which focuses on the individual as the expert of their experience and the therapist a facilitator in their healing journey. During her sessions, Lastny focuses on her client’s growth and potential. Lastny is trauma-trained in EMDR and TF-CBT and works from a Health At Every Size (HAES) framework that honors body diversity. Her services include both individual therapy and family therapy sessions that seek to teach each client the importance of compassionate self-care in conjunction with seeking community care.
Fred Doulton
LMHC
Fred Doulton is a licensed mental health counselor with a private practice in Nassau County. He holds three Masters' degrees; one in Psychology, one in Sociology and one in Mental Health Counseling. He studied mental health counseling at Nyack College, a private Christian school. Fred worked for 27 years at the United Nations and before pivoting to work in a new career as a mental health counselor. Fred has been working with people with substance abuse and mental health issues at Seafield in Mineola and Manhasset. Fred believes that the key to addressing addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues and general well-being challenges, is to find one's purpose and meaning in life, especially through a closer walk with Jesus as well as deeper connections with others.
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz
Tanya Cardoza Ruiz is a graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling student at Liberty University. She is also currently working as a Middle and High School teacher at Freeport Christian Academy. Tanya immigrated from El Salvador at the age of 9 years old and has been a New Yorker since then.  She completed a Psychology bachelor of arts undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in 2002. She always had a passion to help others, and being a teacher was always fulfilling to her. Throughout her teaching career, she encountered many students who sought counseling from her and this prompted her interest in the counseling field.  Through her graduate school studies and dedication, she has earned membership into the Omega Nu Lambda, Alpha Chapter. She has also earned certification as a Symbis pre-marriage counseling facilitator. Her goals are to finish her studies, complete practicum and internship, and gain valuable experience working first hand with patients.  Upon graduation and licensure, she will be working full-time as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor helping those who will seek her support.
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