Toni Bannon, MS, LAMFT

Toni Bannon, MS, LAMFT, brings an honest and compassionate energy to CFCE as a Marriage and Family therapist. She works with individuals, couples, and families with the goal of inspiring a better understanding of the self, and a deeper connection to others. Toni takes care to balance quiet introspective moments with forward momentum. Therapy is a journey of ups and downs, and Toni will meet you wherever you need her.

Courtney Barbera Putt, MSW, MPH, LSW

Courtney Barbera Putt, MSW, MPH is a Licensed Social Worker who works with teens, adults, couples, and families. Courtney became a therapist because she firmly believes in the power of transformation through connection, compassion, and acceptance. She provides a supportive environment for individuals seeking therapy for a broad range of concerns, including but not limited to general and social anxiety, balancing life stressors and changes across the lifespan, grief and loss, and relationship challenges.

Shaindy Black, MSW, LSW

Shaindy Black, MSW is a Licensed Social Worker who works with teens, adults, couples, and families. Shaindy is dedicated to empowering individuals and families through compassionate and evidence-based practices. Guided by compassion, empathy, and a commitment to social justice, Shaindy strives to make a meaningful difference in the lives of her clients – one person, one family, and one community at a time. 

Liz Blackburn-Gruver, MSW, LCSW

Liz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who has worked extensively with children, teens, and adults in all stages of life. She counsels individuals, couples, and families utilizing an approach that is person-centered and strength-based. She has expertise in parent coaching, anger issues, mood disorders, anxiety, identity concerns, self-injury, eating disorders, and addiction.

Clyde Boucher, MSW, LCSW 

Clyde Boucher, MSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). He has been working in mental health and addiction services providing individual, group, couples, and family therapy for over 35 years. Clyde utilizes an Intergenerational Family Systems approach being attuned to the influence of culture, gender, class, and ethnicity of families, and the debilitating effects of trauma on relationships.

Michelle Jurgens Brooks, MA, LPC, ACS

Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is deeply drawn to helping children, adolescents, young adults, and adults. She has over 20 years of experience across many levels of care including Inpatient Hospital, Partial Hospital, Intensive Outpatient, and Traditional Outpatient settings. Michelle is dedicated to providing a safe space to grow and heal through evidence-based approaches and she values each person’s unique journey of self-discovery.

Brianna Capacchione, MA, LAC

Brianna Capacchione, MA is a Licensed Associate Counselor who has a passion for helping teens and adults working from a client-centered and strengths-based approach. As a former collegiate basketball player and coach, she has a special interest in mental performance coaching and helping individuals and/or teams achieve their full potential. By using techniques of visualization, goal-setting, and mindfulness skills she can help athletes perform at their best when it is needed most. Brianna believes the mind-body connection is essential for performance but also deeply important for an individual’s well-being.

Susan A. Clark, MIA, MS, LPC, ACS, RPT

Susan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the Center for Counseling and Education. She brings over 25 years of experience in health and educational program development and advising to the practice. Susan utilizes a humanistic, client-centered approach to counseling children, teens, adults and families. She integrates a wide variety of interventions in her work including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and attachment-focused family therapy.

Meg Clark Soriano, MA, LPC, ACS, RPT-S, Director

Meg has enjoyed helping children, adults, and their families for over 30 years. She founded the Center for Counseling and Education, LLC in 1996.

Meg’s approach is compassionate and practical. While clients appreciate her warmth and down-to-earth style, Meg has extensive training in cutting-edge therapeutic modalities which offer consistent and often rapid improvements for clients. Her therapeutic style reflects a deep understanding of developmental and attachment theory within a systemic framework.

Huti Cooper, MSW, LCSW

Hutokhshi (Huti) Cooper, MSW, LCSW has been providing therapeutic services for all ages of children with special needs for the last 15 years. Huti utilizes an integrated approach being attuned to the influence of culture, class, and ethnicity of families, and the effects of disabilities and trauma. Huti is passionate about the use of relaxation and mindfulness to alleviate symptoms of stress and depression and utilizes strength-based and problem-focused therapy to improve her clients’ functioning.

Wendy Cunningham, MSW, LSW

Wendy Cunningham, MSW is a Licensed Social Worker with 20 years of experience partnering with children and families who have been impacted by mental health, trauma, substance use, socio-economic challenges as well as the everyday challenges in keeping up with our modern lives. Wendy considers it a privilege to support others through vulnerable and challenging times and helping others to identify their strength and power to create strategies and solutions that help to improve their lives.

Michelle Cwanger, MSW, LCSW

Michelle Cwanger, MSW, LCSW is a warm, compassionate, empathic counselor who enjoys helping individuals connect with and better understand their feelings and relationships. She has a gentle demeanor, and she is able to make great connections with people.  Michelle utilizes a strength-based, client-centered, trauma-informed, empowerment approach.

Sophie Daley-Harris, MSW, LSW

Sophie Daley-Harris, MSW is a Licensed Social Worker who utilizes a client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed approach in her work with clients and families. She is passionate about the use of expressive and creative therapies including play therapy, sandtray therapy, and art therapy to promote self-expression and healing, particularly in the processing of traumatic experiences and difficult life events. 

Lynn DeLaurentis, MA, LPC, RPT, BCB

Lynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working in the mental health field for the past 9 years, with an initial focus on biofeedback and stress management. She currently helps children, adolescents, adults, and couples who struggle with headaches, anger management, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, BFRBs (Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors such as skin-picking, hair pulling & nail biting), grief, loss, life transitions, marriage, parent-child relationship issues and trauma.

Samantha Edwards, MA, LPC

Samantha is a Licensed Professional Counselor who understands that most days, it’s very hard to be a human! So she brings empathy, compassion, kindness, and levity into her therapeutic work. Sam utilizes a playful, person-centered and strengths-based lens to help children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and families understand themselves better and interact more confidently in the world around them. Her highly relational, collaborative, & flexible approach with clients emphasizes that therapeutic growth rarely happens in a ‘straight line’. 

Sara Eisenhuth, MSW, LSW, OTR/L

Sara Eisenhuth, LSW brings a dual background in both counseling and occupational therapy (OT), making her uniquely qualified to support children and families. As an occupational therapist, she is trained to assess and improve children’s physical, sensory, and cognitive development. This holistic approach allows her to identify underlying issues that may affect a child’s ability to learn, interact, and cope with their environment.

Allison Gonzalez, MSW, LCSW

Allison Gonzalez, MSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Bachelor of Science in social work from Monmouth University and a Master of Science in social work from Rutgers, with a specialization in clinical treatment. She is a first-generation college graduate whose parents immigrated from Central America. Her personal experiences and background set the foundation for her client-centered, strengths-based treatment approach as she understands that not one individual is the same and every person has a right to own and understand their personal story. 

Rachel Hutnick, MA, LPC, ACS, RPT-S

Rachel is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor who utilizes a collaborative approach that is playful and compassionate. She brings a friendly and comforting presence to her work with children, adolescents, young adults, families and groups.

Stan Kletkewicz, PhD, MA, LPC

Stan Kletkewicz, PhD, MA is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is passionate about helping those seeking transformation in their lives. Stan is experienced in working with individual adults, couples, and families. Combining 25+ years in the corporate world with an advanced, intensive education in counseling, Stan offers a unique combination of practical, yet compassionate, client-centered skills geared toward creating a comfortable, inviting experience for his clients.

Tara Lorenzetti, MA, LAC

Tara Lorenzetti, MA, is a Licensed Associate counselor who works with children, adolescents, adults, and families from a trauma-informed, person-centered lens. Tara takes a strengths-based approach with all clients and seeks to meet them where they are. Tara is also a certified School Counselor and has training in Child-Centered Play Therapy and Child-Parent Relationship Therapy.

Angela Mancao, MSW, LCSW

Angela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who provides compassionate care to all she meets, striving to create a safe and comfortable environment for her clients to share their story and learn ways to improve their wellbeing. Angela understands that no two people are the same or experience the same hardships, which is why she tailors treatment to best fit her clients’ needs and preferences.

Andrea Nasuti, MSW, LCSW, Client Care Coordinator

Andrea (She/Her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is passionate about working with children, teens, and adults. Andrea fosters an environment of exploration, safety and acceptance. Her genuine compassion and empathy influence her work with individuals of all ages. Andrea has an appreciation for how early attachments impact relationships and a feeling of well-being. She uses a strengths-based approach to meet her clients where they are as she has a deep appreciation for each individual’s unique experience.

Sierra Neal, MA, LAC

Sierra Neal, MA is a Licensed Associate Counselor who has a burning passion to help others heal from current and past stressors, as well as advocating for the liberation and healing of all communities. Sierra understands the importance of being an avid listener to cultivate a trustworthy relationship with others and prides herself on being able to provide a safe space for individuals struggling to cope with life’s hardships. 

Rebecca (Becky) Norris, MSW, LCSW

Becky Norris, MSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Certified School Social Worker.  She has been working in the mental health field for over 15 years.  Becky has worked in a multitude of settings including counseling agencies and schools.  Becky is passionate about helping others and providing a safe, welcoming, and non-judgmental environment.

Alejandra Rodriguez, MA, LAC

Alejandra Rodriguez, MA, LAC is a Licensed Associate Counselor committed to helping others overcome challenges, improve relationships, and achieve personal growth and well-being. With a client-centered approach, she strives to create a safe and non-judgmental space for children, teens, and adults to explore their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. She strongly believes counseling can help transform lives and is honored to be a part of the journey towards healing and living a life filled with purpose.

Jeanne Scala Bauer, MA, LPC

Jeanne Scala Bauer, MA is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience in treating children, adolescents, adults, and couples in a variety of different settings. She is gentle and warm in her approach while utilizing the best, most up-to-date evidence based techniques. Using an attachment lens, she understands that the connection between her and her clients is paramount in that with connection comes understanding and acceptance.

Susan Speas, MA, LAC

Susan Speas, MA, LAC is passionate about making meaningful connections with clients, providing support and assurance to them as they strive to feel better, understand themselves more, and/or seek something new or different for themselves. Susan honors each client and tunes into the unique set of strengths, values, interests, goals, and timelines of each individual. She is guided by a humanistic, client-centered, and holistic therapeutic approach and inspired by both mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral theories into her practice.

Mickey Steinitz, MA, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S

Mickey is passionate about children and has worked exclusively with children and their families for over twenty years. She believes that every child has the potential to be a happy successful adult. She believes that when a child is acting out at home or in school the behavior is an unsuccessful attempt to communicate a problem to the adults in their world.

Megan Thompson, M.A., Ed.S., LAC

Megan is a Licensed Associate Counselor and has over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families. With a professional background as a school psychologist and school counselor, Megan can help explain reports and consult regarding what is reasonable to expect of a school system. She has extensive knowledge in working with people on the autism spectrum and their families along with a variety of mental health difficulties.

Kristin Tomasello May, MA, LPC

Kristin is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings a genuine and compassionate understanding to her work with clients of all ages. Kristin has training in cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, mindfulness, grief and loss, trauma, and integrative medicine. She utilizes a light-hearted, collaborative approach to therapy as a way to promote meaningful healing for children, teens, adults, and families.

Nicole Walters, MA, LAC

Nicole is a Licensed Associate Counselor who provides therapy to children, adolescents, young adults, and families from a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach. Nicole’s empathic and gentle approach helps guide clients through their experiences and toward a path of fulfillment.

Mary Wightman, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S

Mary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Registered Play Therapist – Supervisor who has been passionate about helping children, teens, adults and couples for over twenty-five years. Using strength based approaches and evidenced based modalities, Mary empowers her clients to overcome personal obstacles to improve their relationships and their lives.

Marie Wiliszewski, MA, LAC

Marie Wiliszewski, MA is a Licensed Associate Counselor who is passionate about working with children and adolescents. She creates a safe and positive space for her clients by incorporating empathy and genuineness into the sessions. Utilizing a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Play Therapy, Marie allows for creative and expressive outlets for clients.

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