Meet the Team
Neuropsychologists, Therapists, & Staff
Lindsay Klimik, PsyD
Director
Dr. Klimik is a licensed psychologist and neuropsychologist. She specializes in neuropsychological assessment, a tool to understand how brain-based differences affect a person’s everyday functioning.
Dr. Klimik specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and learning disabilities.
Dr. Klimik works with toddlers to adults across the lifespan to provide answers and a blueprint for treatment. She works with individuals with a wide range of psychological and emotional difficulties, including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, childhood behavioral problems, grief, and difficulties coping with life’s challenges.
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Talya Bauer, LPC
Director of Therapeutic Services
Talya is a Licensed Professional Counselor who aims to provide a warm and safe environment for children, adolescents, parents, and families. She has over 10 years of experience working with children and families in a therapeutic setting. She is an advocate for seeking support when clients feel overwhelmed and strives to uplift her clients, create innovative solutions, and work towards positive outcomes.
Her clinical approach is evidence-based with a strong focus on strengths-based and client-centered therapy. As a clinician who works with the family system, she uses age-appropriate humor and candor to align with her clients and help the entire family to engage in their work together. Influenced by years of swim coaching, she incorporates movement into her holistic approach to wellness.
Jamie Pagdonsolan, LCSW
Community Outreach Coordinator
Jamie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with experience working in residential, hospital, and school settings. She has a passion for working with children, adolescents, and families to empower them to find their own personal version of success, whatever that means to them. While Jamie utilizes evidence-based modalities that are person-centered and strengths-based in nature, she emphasizes humanness, compassion, and connection.
Jamie is a strong advocate for her clients. She finds collaborative ways to uplift them in discovering different strategies to cope with life’s everyday stressors. Jamie finds it imperative to create an atmosphere that is warm, welcoming, and a safe space where her clients feel heard. Jamie’s mission is to empower her clients to find their own sense of self and looks forward to witnessing the steady progress her clients make.
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Tali Frankfort, PsyD
Dr. Frankfort is a licensed psychologist and neuropsychologist. She specializes in neuropsychological evaluation of children, adolescents, and young adults with a wide range of conditions that impact learning, behavior, and social-emotional functioning, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disorders, and autism spectrum disorder.
Dr. Frankfort strives to foster a collaborative and non-judgmental environment in the therapeutic relationship through humor, empathy, and validation. Dr. Frankfort enjoys working with parents and providing parent management strategies to help cultivate understanding of children’s behaviors, leading to change. She is committed to empowering children, adolescents, young adults, and their families through the use of attachment theory and empirically supported treatments tailored to each individual and their families to help them reach their goals.
Renee Moffett, LCSW,
LCADC
Renee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She utilizes a strength-based approach to engage individuals in a journey of self-acceptance and personal growth. She integrates a variety of treatment modalities including Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Technique, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness.
She has worked in a variety of settings including residential, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings. She specializes in working with adults and adolescents experiencing trauma, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, self-esteem struggles and low self-worth. Renee’s goal is to provide clients with an open, safe, and nonjudgmental environment to explore and evolve throughout each session.
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Jaclyn Maldonado, LPC
Jaclyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Integrated Health Practitioner who believes that a trusting therapeutic relationship, empathy and support are most necessary to promote positive change. Her role in this process is to provide a safe space to motivate clients to reach their goals and increase self-awareness and self-acceptance. She works with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD and mood dysregulation as well those experiencing life transitions and relationship issues.
She believes in a client-centered approach to counseling and strives to create an atmosphere of positive communication, trust, and understanding. She supports clients to achieve individualized goals and to strive towards growth, healing, and self-actualization.
JuliaRose Marsh, LAC
JuliaRose is a Licensed Associate Counselor. She has experience working with children, teens, and adults in both partial hospitalization and outpatient settings. JuliaRose has supported clients and families facing a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, parenting, and relationship issues.
JuliaRose utilizes a strengths-based approach and techniques grounded in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. JuliaRose aims to individualize treatment to each client by incorporating creative modalities such as expressive art, movement, and music into sessions to facilitate the healing process. She strives to create a warm, empathic, client-centered environment to foster strong therapeutic connections.
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Caroline Guerrero, LAC
Caroline is a Licensed Associate Counselor. Caroline has experience working with children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of presenting concerns, such as anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, low self-esteem, bullying, trauma, and life stressors.
Caroline strives to create a safe, empathetic, and nonjudgmental environment for her clients. She uses an integrative, client-centered perspective incorporating techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness and other evidenced-based approaches. She strives to create a safe space to collaboratively explore emotions and thoughts and to promote a journey of self-growth, healing and self-discovery.
Alexa Madoff, LAC
Alexa is a Licensed Associate Counselor. Alexa has experience working with adolescents and adults with a wide range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, trauma, relationship issues, and transitional struggles. She also has extensive experience working with clients with various medical stressors and women navigating their postpartum journey.
Alexa offers a compassionate and client-centered approach to therapy, integrating techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and other evidence-based practices. She believes that therapy is a partnership. Her goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can explore your thoughts and emotions while working collaboratively towards personal growth and healing.
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Victoria Jonczyk, LAC
Victoria is a Licensed Associate Counselor with experience providing therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults with emotional or behavioral concerns. She emphasizes an individualized approach and enjoys using creative interventions such as play therapy and expressive arts with her clients. She is an active board member of the NJ Association for Play Therapy.
Victoria aims to create a supportive environment to foster growth and healing. She incorporates the client’s needs, values, and interests into a variety of treatment modalities. Victoria views the client from a holistic perspective and believes in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship. She enjoys utilizing humor when appropriate.
Megan Stefanelli, LPC, PhD
Megan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Postdoctoral Fellow. Megan has a wide range of clinical experience including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, wrap-around services, private practice, psychiatric emergency services, and county correctional facilities. Megan specializes in mood disorders, anxiety, PTSD, behavioral issues, ADHD, addiction, and transitional struggles.
Megan integrates a variety of evidence-based approaches including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, and mindfulness. Megan takes a collaborative approach to treatment and values transparency within the therapeutic relationship. Megan is passionate about supporting clients to live meaningful and authentic lives.
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Charles Gravina, LAC
Charles is a Licensed Associate Counselor with experience working in outpatient and partial care settings with children and adults with a variety of concerns, including depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and life transitions.
Charles takes a holistic approach to counseling, recognizing the importance of assessing and supporting various aspects of a client’s life during the healing process. He tailors therapy to the individual, utilizing their unique strengths to empower meaningful change. His therapeutic approach blends Adlerian theory, which focuses on social relationships and past experiences, with evidence-based treatments to help clients process their experiences and promote healing. Charles integrates creative interventions such as art, music, and other modalities-to enhance self-expression and self-awareness, encouraging introspection and personal growth.
Christine Allaire, LSW
Christine is a Licensed Social Worker who aims to create a safe space for adolescents, adults, and couples to find growth and healing. Christine has experience providing individual therapy to those living with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and substance use. She also has experience working with couples to rebuild a trusting relationship through active listening, co-regulation skills, and exploring emotions within a safe space.
Christine combines solution-focused and psychodynamic therapies in order to build new coping skills while also exploring the roots of behaviors and thought patterns. She believes in a holistic practice geared towards reconciling the body, mind, and soul. With an open mind and willingness to dig deeper, Christine strives to hold space for clients to build a toolbox of coping skills, recognize and regulate their emotions, heal and strengthen relationships, and gain a better understanding of themselves.
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Andrew Betro, LAC
Andrew is a Licensed Associate Counselor with experience working with children, teens, and adults in both partial hospitalization and outpatient settings. Andrew has supported clients with a wide variety of presenting concerns including anxiety, depression, substance use, ADHD, and parenting.
Andrew emphasizes a strengths-based and person-centered approach and utilizes techniques grounded in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Andrew aims to make therapy a collaborative and fun process, incorporating creative modalities such as art, music, and interests of each client into session. Andrew recognizes that asking for help can be frightening and unfamiliar, and therefore aims to create a safe, non-judgmental space for clients to use their strengths and skills to achieve change.
Ashlyn Doherty, LAC
Ashlyn is a Licensed Associate Counselor with experience working with individuals and families in both partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient settings. She utilizes her experience to help clients work through trauma, life changes, medical concerns, relationship stressors, anxiety, and mood and personality disorders.
Ashlyn emphasizes the importance of building an open and genuine relationship with clients. She takes time to get to know each client and personalizes their treatment. She believes in learning and growing alongside her clients, while also challenging them appropriately. Ashlyn utilizes an eclectic approach including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, and Psychoanalysis.
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