Psychotherapists
Jennie Kramer, MSW, LCSW-R, CEDS
Jennie’s style of therapy is direct, compassionate, collaborative and trauma-informed with a foundation based in attachment theory. Jennie’s approach provides both practical coping skills and techniques for seemingly intractable compulsions and behaviors, while also exploring the underlying history that drives thoughts and behaviors. She has facilitated countless groups and has a penchant for family and couples work.
Jennie received her BSW from Adelphi University and her MSW from Fordham University.
For more details, please visit OUR FOUNDER page.
Jennie Kramer
Founder, Executive Director, Individual, Group, Family and Couples Therapist
Kerri Anderson, LMFT
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Kerri Anderson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who graduated from Fairfield University in 2011. She is Level 2 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy model as well as having completed training in EMDR.
Kerri’s professional journey has been dedicated to providing supportive and affirming care to individuals and, especially parents and families, navigate the complexities of disordered eating, ADHD, anxiety and depression, as well as Late Realized Autism. Her approach is rooted in understanding the unique challenges and strengths associated with differing neurotypes, and she is committed to fostering an inclusive and empathetic environment where clients feel heard, respected, and empowered.
Kerri Anderson
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Kimberly Gevint, LCSW-R
Kimberly Gevint, LCSW-R
Individual, Group and Family Therapist
Kimberly Gevint has over ten years of experience in the field of mental health, practicing as an L.C.S.W.-R in several states. She graduated as a Hartford scholar, receiving her MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.
Kimberly provides individual, family and group psychotherapy for those with a variety of issues including managing life transitions, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and one’s struggles with relationships to food and body. She works with all age groups, from adolescents and young adults to older adults. In addition to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapies, her training includes use of Behavioral Activation Therapy, particularly with individuals who are struggling with depression.
Kimberly is warm, culture and weight neutrality sensitive, engaging and empathetic. She uses a holistic approach with her clients and believes that physical and mental health are intertwined and have a symbiotic relationship.
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Psychotherapists
Founder, Executive Director, Individual, Group, Family and Couples Therapist
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Jennie Kramer, MSW, LCSW-R, CEDS
Jennie’s style of therapy is direct, compassionate, collaborative and trauma-informed with a foundation based in attachment theory. Jennie’s approach provides both practical coping skills and techniques for seemingly intractable compulsions and behaviors, while also exploring the underlying history that drives thoughts and behaviors. She has facilitated countless groups and has a penchant for family and couples work.
Jennie received her BSW from Adelphi University and her MSW from Fordham University.
For more details, please visit OUR FOUNDER page.
Jennie Kramer
Kerri Anderson, LMSW
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Kerri Anderson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who graduated from Fairfield University in 2011. She is Level 2 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy model as well as having completed training in EMDR.
Kerri’s professional journey has been dedicated to providing supportive and affirming care to individuals and, especially parents and families, navigate the complexities of disordered eating, ADHD, anxiety and depression, as well as Late Realized Autism. Her approach is rooted in understanding the unique challenges and strengths associated with differing neurotypes, and she is committed to fostering an inclusive and empathetic environment where clients feel heard, respected, and empowered.
Kerri Anderson
Kimberly Gevint, LCSW-R
Individual, Group, and Family Therapist
Kimberly Gevint has over ten years of experience in the field of mental health, practicing as an L.C.S.W.-R in several states. She graduated as a Hartford scholar, receiving her MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.
Kimberly provides individual, family and group psychotherapy for those with a variety of issues including managing life transitions, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and one’s struggles with relationships to food and body. She works with all age groups, from adolescents and young adults to older adults. In addition to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapies, her training includes use of Behavioral Activation Therapy, particularly with individuals who are struggling with depression.
Kimberly is warm, culture and weight neutrality sensitive, engaging and empathetic. She uses a holistic approach with her clients and believes that physical and mental health are intertwined and have a symbiotic relationship.
Kimberly Givent, LCSW-R
Amanda Lehrer, LMSW
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
With over 25 years of clinical experience, Amanda Lehrer, LMSW holds a Masters degree in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and utilizes a diverse clinical toolkit that includes CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, EMDR, Ketamine Assisted Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory. Her approach is grounded in building genuine therapeutic partnerships, guiding clients toward healing and resilience.
Amanda brings extensive knowledge and compassion to behavioral health. Specializing in trauma-focused interventions, Amanda is dedicated to empowering diverse communities, including individuals in recovery form disordered eating or addiction, parents, those navigating fertility issues, LGBTQ+ individuals and young adults navigating/launching into adulthood.
She collaborates closely with colleagues to provide comprehensive, personalized support, emphasizing inclusivity and understanding in her practice. Amanda is committed to supporting clients in achieving well-being and realizing their fullest potential, recognizing the unique challenges and needs within these diverse communities, including young adults navigating identity.
Amanda Lehrer
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Alex Kurjiaka, LPC
Individual and Family Therapist, Addictions Specialist, Interventionist
Alex is an LPC with a Master’s Degree in clinical mental health counseling from Western Connecticut State University. She specializes in all forms of substance use and addiction drawing from trauma-informed, psychodynamic, and family systems approaches. Alex is also an ARISE trained interventionist and carries a diverse background in crisis intervention and treatment placement, helping individuals and families navigate a collective recovery. Alex utilizes motivational interviewing, CBT and DBT skills, narrative therapy, and mindfulness techniques to encourage clients to be authentically engaged in therapy.
Alex’s clinical philosophy invites clients to be curious about early learning and family-driven coping patterns. This can create a space for self-compassion and a better understanding of how to manage challenging experiences.
Alex Kurjiaka, LPC
Individual and Family Therapist, Addictions Specialist, Interventionist
Renee Pastolove
Renée Pastolove, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT
Individual, Family, Group Therapy and Creative Arts Therapist
Renée works with children, teens, and adults in a gentle and relaxed atmosphere to help clients find venues for authentic self-expression. Art making produces powerful images and symbols that offer a lens into the uniqueness of our own lives. Through the creative process clients discover freedom in self-expression and find release from anxiety, fear, distorted body image, traumatic life events and so many other troubling thoughts and beliefs. Renee is dedicated to helping her clients discover their own seeds of resilience along such a personal journey.
Art therapy does not require any artistic talent but rather a willingness to explore different artistic modalities such as clay, watercolor, pastel, painting and more. Renee also often uses journaling and other written imagery as well.
Renée received her Master of Science in Art Therapy and Counseling from The College of New Rochelle and is licensed by the state of New York. She has also received post-master’s certification in Creative Arts Therapies for Trauma Treatment from the KINT Institute and has received certification in Resource-Oriented Music and Imagery from the Institute of Music and Consciousness.
Individual, Group, Family Creative Arts Therapist
Patricia Sommer, L.M.S.W.
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Patricia holds a B.A. from the University of Florida with focused studies in psychology and foreign languages. She began her career in airline industry management as a supervisor and instructor. She received additional training and experience as a peer support counselor through the airline employee assistance program.
As a second career path, Patricia later followed her dream to receive her Masters of Social Work (MSW) from Fordham University. She has had extensive clinical experience working with clients and families struggling with disordered eating. She is trained in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, trauma support, substance use disorders and eating disorders and integrates a variety of useful modalities.
Patricia believes in helping clients recognize their own inner wisdom and in working with them to acknowledge and develop their natural strengths.
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Individual and Family Therapist, Addictions Specialist, Interventionist
Individual, Group, Family Creative Arts Therapist
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Amanda Lehrer, LMSW
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
With over 25 years of clinical experience, Amanda Lehrer, LMSW holds a Masters degree in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and utilizes a diverse clinical toolkit that includes CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, EMDR, Ketamine Assisted Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory. Her approach is grounded in building genuine therapeutic partnerships, guiding clients toward healing and resilience.
Amanda brings extensive knowledge and compassion to behavioral health. Specializing in trauma-focused interventions, Amanda is dedicated to empowering diverse communities, including individuals in recovery form disordered eating or addiction, parents, those navigating fertility issues, LGBTQ+ individuals and young adults navigating/launching into adulthood.
She collaborates closely with colleagues to provide comprehensive, personalized support, emphasizing inclusivity and understanding in her practice. Amanda is committed to supporting clients in achieving well-being and realizing their fullest potential, recognizing the unique challenges and needs within these diverse communities, including young adults navigating identity.
Amanda Lehrer
Alex Kurjiaka, LPC
Individual and Family Therapist, Addictions Specialist, Interventionist
Alex is an LPC with a Master’s Degree in clinical mental health counseling from Western Connecticut State University. She specializes in all forms of substance use and addiction drawing from trauma-informed, psychodynamic, and family systems approaches. Alex is also an ARISE trained interventionist and carries a diverse background in crisis intervention and treatment placement, helping individuals and families navigate a collective recovery. Alex utilizes motivational interviewing, CBT and DBT skills, narrative therapy, and mindfulness techniques to encourage clients to be authentically engaged in therapy.
Alex’s clinical philosophy invites clients to be curious about early learning and family-driven coping patterns. This can create a space for self-compassion and a better understanding of how to manage challenging experiences.
Alex Kurjiaka, LPC
Renee Pastolove
Renée Pastolove, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT
Individual, Family, Group Therapy and Creative Arts Therapist
Renée works with children, teens, and adults in a gentle and relaxed atmosphere to help clients find venues for authentic self-expression. Art making produces powerful images and symbols that offer a lens into the uniqueness of our own lives. Through the creative process clients discover freedom in self-expression and find release from anxiety, fear, distorted body image, traumatic life events and so many other troubling thoughts and beliefs. Renee is dedicated to helping her clients discover their own seeds of resilience along such a personal journey.
Art therapy does not require any artistic talent but rather a willingness to explore different artistic modalities such as clay, watercolor, pastel, painting and more. Renee also often uses journaling and other written imagery as well.
Renée received her Master of Science in Art Therapy and Counseling from The College of New Rochelle and is licensed by the state of New York. She has also received post-master’s certification in Creative Arts Therapies for Trauma Treatment from the KINT Institute and has received certification in Resource-Oriented Music and Imagery from the Institute of Music and Consciousness.
Patricia Sommer, L.M.S.W.
Individual, Family and Group Therapist
Patricia holds a B.A. from the University of Florida with focused studies in psychology and foreign languages. She began her career in airline industry management as a supervisor and instructor. She received additional training and experience as a peer support counselor through the airline employee assistance program.
As a second career path, Patricia later followed her dream to receive her Masters of Social Work (MSW) from Fordham University. She has had extensive clinical experience working with clients and families struggling with disordered eating. She is trained in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, trauma support, substance use disorders and eating disorders and integrates a variety of useful modalities.
Patricia believes in helping clients recognize their own inner wisdom and in working with them to acknowledge and develop their natural strengths.
Dietitians
Dietitians
Stephanie Dorfman, MS, RD
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Stephanie is a Registered Dietitian. She earned her M.S. Nutrition with a concentration in Exercise Physiology at Long Island University, Post Campus. Stephanie is passionate about helping clients make peace with food, movement, and their body through an individualized approach focusing more on behavioral changes and less on numbers. She is quite experienced with a diversity of clients ranging from adolescents through adulthood.
Stephanie is here to inspire others to question diet culture beliefs and appreciate the value of intuitive eating and intuitive living in a safe and supportive space through a H.A.E.S. lens.
Stephanie Dorfman
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Megan Fahey, MS, RD, CDN
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Megan is a Registered Dietitian and Functional Medicine Nutritionist specializing in eating disorders. Megan works with clients to heal their relationships with food through nutritional intervention and psychological exploration, unraveling beliefs from years of dieting and restriction to truly experience freedom at the table. As a certified Health at Every Size® (HAES) Facilitator, Megan believes that one’s relationship to food and body can be transformed into a nourishing expression of self-care.
Megan earned her M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. She has served as a Clinical Dietitian Specialist at Western Connecticut Health Network and has worked with Monte Nido & Affiliates in residential and intensive outpatient eating disorder treatment programs in New York and Miami.
Megan regularly contributes to articles published on MindBodyGreen and is also a Registered Yoga Teacher. She is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA), and the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD).
Megan Fahey
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Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Stephanie Dorfman
Stephanie Dorfman
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Stephanie is a Registered Dietitian. She earned her M.S. Nutrition with a concentration in Exercise Physiology at Long Island University, Post Campus. Stephanie is passionate about helping clients make peace with food, movement, and their body through an individualized approach focusing more on behavioral changes and less on numbers. She is quite experienced with a diversity of clients ranging from adolescents through adulthood.
Stephanie is here to inspire others to question diet culture beliefs and appreciate the value of intuitive eating and intuitive living in a safe and supportive space through a H.A.E.S. lens.
Megan Fahey, MS, RD, CDN
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Megan is a Registered Dietitian and Functional Medicine Nutritionist specializing in eating disorders. Megan works with clients to heal their relationships with food through nutritional intervention and psychological exploration, unraveling beliefs from years of dieting and restriction to truly experience freedom at the table. As a certified Health at Every Size® (HAES) Facilitator, Megan believes that one’s relationship to food and body can be transformed into a nourishing expression of self-care.
Megan earned her M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. She has served as a Clinical Dietitian Specialist at Western Connecticut Health Network and has worked with Monte Nido & Affiliates in residential and intensive outpatient eating disorder treatment programs in New York and Miami.
Megan regularly contributes to articles published on MindBodyGreen and is also a Registered Yoga Teacher. She is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA), and the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD).
Megan Fahey
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Administrative Team
Thamirys Tonioli
Office Manager
Tami earned her law degree while born and raised in Brazil. With a passion for helping people, she creates a friendly office environment, greeting all our visitors and staff with kindness and compassion. Her intelligence, warmth and commitment to both staff and patients alike is invaluable to MBHA.