Our faculty is comprised of talented, seasoned clinicians and educators who are dynamic, articulate, and passionate about their work. They are committed to enhancing clinician efficacy, and are sensitive to the challenges that face all mental health professionals as they grapple with complex client issues.
Yehuda has a private practice in Baltimore and facilitates individual therapy and groups for trauma survivors under the auspices of Chana and the Shofar Coalition of Baltimore, where he also serves as the director of professional development and training for 40 clinicians providing therapy services to trauma survivors.
Maris Blechner is an adoptive and birth parent, a licensed clinical social worker and educator, and a nationally respected trainer and speaker who has spent the last thirty-six years working for the improvement of the lives of older children in the child welfare system. One of the founders of the parent-led multi-service adoption agency that…
Gil Bliss has a private practice in psychotherapy in Towson, Maryland. His experience includes time spent as a counselor in the Maryland prison system and doing social work with a hospice agency with a special interest in grief and bereavement. His renewed interest in racism, and particularly White Privilege, came about as a reaction to…
Vivien B. Deitz, a licensed clinical social worker, has been known throughout her career for her unique ability to promote self-awareness, understanding, and growth – helping people improve the quality of their lives through individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, self-help training, and psycho-educational seminars.
Timothy is a clinical social worker licensed in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He currently runs a private practice in Arlington, VA focused on supporting gender expansive/transgender children and their families. Additionally, he coordinates youth mental health programs at Whitman-Walker Health, a federally qualified health center in Washington, DC. In this role, Timothy leads a team…
Dr. Kevin Ferentz graduated magna cum laude from State University of New York at Albany, where he majored in Biology and Theater. He received his MD from SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and completed his Family Practice residency at the University of Maryland, along with a fellowship in Faculty Development with an emphasis in Obstetrics.
Judith demonstrates her multi-dimensional skills as a therapist first by attuning herself to the specific, unique needs of individual clients, students, and professional colleagues. Then, using compassionate listening, her physical intelligence, and wisdom accumulated as a psychotherapist over the last 40 years, she helps to guide others through anxiety, depression, trauma, dissociation, adjustments to loss,…
Rabbi Menachem Goldberger is Senior Rabbi for Congregation Tiferes Yisroel, a Jewish Orthodox congregation located in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his varied responsibilities at Tiferes Yisroel, also affectionately known as Rabbi Goldberger’s Shule, Rabbi Goldberger is involved in a plethora of other activities, which include lecturing at several Baltimore educational institutions.
Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye is an integrative psychotherapist and founder of the Heart Nest Wellness Center in Catonsville, Maryland where she lovingly serves women, couples, and other healers. She also provides therapeutic guidance for addictions professionals, recovering addicts and the people who love them. Her approach to healing is a blend of wisdom, science, and ancient spiritual practices.
Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon is the founder and director of the Center for Culture and Sandplay. Her life’s work has been a full commitment to clinical work with sand therapy as a projective process – beginning in the early 1980s with research on cross-cultural aspects of Sandplay.
Stacey Rempert, a licensed clinical social worker, has been in private practice since 2008 and currently works at the Nourishing Journey Wellness Center in Columbia. She does individual therapy with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, trauma, self-harm, grief and loss, addictions and depression.
Suzanne views psychotherapy as a unique opportunity for clients to explore personal growth work, clarify goals, improve self esteem, reduce stress and better understand themselves and their relationships with others. With her extensive training and casual style she integrates numerous modalities to help clients achieve more balanced, fulfilling lives. Suzanne is a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and an iaedp (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) Approved Supervisor.
A descendant of slaveholders in Maryland and Virginia, Cathy Roberts began researching the effect of slavery on the enslavers. Her interest quickly broadened into a quest to understand and dismantle individual and systemic racism. With colleague Gil Bliss, Cathy gives talks and leads workshops designed to educate and heal. A member of the organization Coming…
Dahlia Silberg is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor who graduated from Drexel University. Dahlia has experience conducting therapy sessions with diverse populations and currently works as an in home family based therapist at Child Guidance Resource Centers. She utilizes a trauma informed, strength-based and embodied approach in her work. She combines…
Joyanna Silberg is the Senior Consultant for Child and Adolescent Trauma at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore, Maryland and the Executive Vice-President of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence. Her psychotherapy practice specializes in children and adolescents suffering from dissociative symptoms and disorders, and her forensic practice specializes in child sexual abuse. She has served as an expert witness in 27 states.
Denise Tordella is a licensed professional counselor in Alexandria, Virginia, whose area of clinical specialization is integrated, trauma-informed, mental health, and substance abuse treatment. She is a workshop presenter who provides training and consultation to universities, non-profit organizations, and municipal mental health/substance abuse treatment service providers on the local and national level.
Tally Tripp is a registered and board certified art therapist, licensed clinical social worker and certified trauma therapist working extensively with complex trauma in the DC Metro area. She is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) as well as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and trained in Intensive Trauma Therapy (ITT). Tally is Assistant Professor…
Dr. Joanne Vizzini (Maryland) is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Nationally Certified Counselor. She received her Master’s of Science Degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola College, Columbia, Maryland in September 1997, and completed the Doctoral Program for Pastoral Counseling at Loyola College, Columbia Maryland, January 2003. She is an adjunct faculty member at Loyola College…
Neil Weissman is a licensed psychologist, a VA national consultant for Motivational Interviewing (MI), and a certified supervisor in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). Neil has worked as a psychologist in the VA, holding leadership and clinical roles for 25 years.
Pamela Weissman is a graduate of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. There she earned her Bachelor’s of Social Work having interned and worked with a diverse population of Israeli’s, Israeli Arabs, children and adults hailing from Middle Eastern countries as well as the elderly and those living under the poverty line.
Jade W. Charles, Ph.D. completed her degree in Clinical and Community/Social Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2009. Her research focused on individual and community level risk and protective factors of substance use with a specific focus on African Americans. Dr. Charles is also interested in action-oriented research, and served as assistant…
