Melanie Stitt , LMSW, LSW

Psychotherapist

Deciding to make changes to your life is a huge step but once you decide to do it, the most amazing things start to happen! Melanie uses a harm reduction approach and is committed to working with young adults who never believed they had options for self care, wellness and self exploration. She is excited about using her creative and clinical backgrounds to work with young people who struggle with issues of self esteem, peer and family conflict and more. She meets people where they are, works collaboratively to identify goals and missions and makes sure her patients are included every step of the way in their treatment.

Part of what makes her treatment approach unique is her diverse background, having a creative background in the fashion industry after undergrad as well as growing up in other cultures as the child of military personnel. Constant transitions throughout her live provides a different perspective and opportunities to think outside the box in creating interventions with her patients.

As a Social Worker, she has experience working in direct care, school and family court settings, and she uses this as opportunity to expand her skills and knowledge. Forever a student, she is always learning and expanding.

Melanie’s goal is to help you live a life you’re happy and proud of by finding ways to release the stigma placed on us by family, society and ourselves.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
NYU School of Social Work LMSW, LSW (licensed in NY and PA)
Hampton University, BS Merchandizing and Design

Connect with Melanie today and schedule your free consult or first appointment!

Imani Movva, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Imani specializes in evidence-based Psychodynamic Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavioral therapy for individuals, couples and groups. While specializing in a wide range of modalities; CBT, DBT, Humanistic, Holistic, Trauma, Conflict Mediation, Depression, Anxiety and Stress management, and Motivational Interviewing – she thrives in partnering with clients to explore and apply innovative therapeutic methods that are personalized and holistic.

Imani is adept in supporting individuals in managing complex relationships within sensitive dynamics; workplace bullying, managing difficult bosses, helicopter parents, emotional abuse and conditioning within cultural, familial, religious constructs, etc. With a strong background in leading mental health from the lens of diversity, inclusion, LGBTQ, multicultural, first generational, gender and identity – Imani has a deep understanding and proficiency in empowering others to safely explore their identities, fears and strengths to deconstruct negative thinking patterns and conditioning and powerfully recreate healthier, happier and optimal lives, unapologetically.

Her certifications in Executive Coaching and corporate experience allow her to uniquely blend psychotherapy with coaching methods to help clients heal, build confidence, prepare for vigorous interviews in competitive fields, succeed in Fortune companies, create healthier relationships, increase wellness competency, and essentially achieve careers and lives aligned with their vision and passions.

Imani is passionate about exploring the infinite ways in how people can step into the lives they deserve, and knows first hand the courage and strength that demands. Whether through travel, jumping out of an airplane, comedy writing or singing out of tune – Imani is committed to finding inventive ways to be healthy mind, body and spirit – while embracing the imperfectly beautiful journey.

Accessible at our 171 Madison location, Imani is currently accepting new appointments.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
NYU Silver School of Social Work, LMSW
NYU Certified Executive/ Corporate Coach
The Second City Comedy Training Center Graduate; Comedy and Improvisation for Anxiety.

Connect with Imani today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

Arianna Eisenberg, LCSW

Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, BeHER Circle Facilitator

Arianna specializes in working with women who seek to increase their confidence through enhancing their assertiveness, relationship skills, and ability to understand what they want (as well as how to get it). Arianna recognizes that high-achieving women may inadvertently establish negative coping skills in an effort to overcome their perfectionism, anxiety, or stress due to family, social, or career situations.

A top priority for Arianna involves helping clients uncover what motivates them so that they can better communicate their needs to partners, family, and friends – ultimately building more meaningful relationships. Arianna works with her clients so that each woman feels confident in pursuing her needs in most or all aspects of their life. Whether the client focus be on a career shift, a current relationship, or seeking something different or new, Arianna understands that the therapeutic relationship is a partnership; this partnership helps women promote self-worth, growth and change.

Arianna is committed to supporting her clients as they uncover what must shift in their lives so that their goals can be fulfilled. She is ready and eager to help clients figure out what might be missing at present, what they truly want, and how they can build the skills necessary to support their success – both personally and professionally.

Accessible at our 171 Madison location, Arianna is currently accepting new appointments.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
School Of Visual Arts, BFA, Photography,
Fordham University School of Social Service, MSW

Connect with Arianna today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

JAMIE GENATT, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Jamie specializes in assisting her client’s meet their needs by helping them envision a brighter future to improve their emotional well-being.

Jamie especially enjoys working with youth and young professionals to manage distress, reduce anxiety and help modify destructive and unwanted thoughts. She is able to help her clients identify their problem areas and assist them with self-discovery to improve their sense of self and foster independency and self-efficacy. Jamie strives to create a safe and nurturing environment for her clients; a space for them to work through trauma, anxiety, depression, self-destructive behaviors, and other issues.

Personable and passionate, Jamie fulfills her childhood dreams by accepting and supporting her clients authentic and unique selves. Jamie takes a collaborative approach to assisting her clients through self-identification of issues. Jamie integrates evidenced based treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, play therapy, behavioral rehearsal, goal setting and planning, to help clients with their needs. She approaches each client interaction with the goal to improve overall functioning and help the client achieve their goals and to improve their sense of well-being.

Jamie is committed to helping her clients improve their quality of life. Jamie’s holistic approach ensures clients feel valued, accepted and equipped to improve their own well-being.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
NYU Silver School of Social Work, MSW, Phi Alpha Honor Society
The George Washington University, BA, Criminal Justice & Psychology

Connect with Jamie today to schedule your free consult or first appointment. She is ready to help!

EDNESHA SAULSBURY, LCSW

Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, BeHER Circle Facilitator, BeHER Circle Trainer

Ednesha specializes in getting her client’s unstuck in order to clear emotional pathways to growth. Ednesha takes tremendous pride in helping woman figure out who they are by helping them cope with feelings of anxiety, depression, and self-destruction. Through this her client’s are able to communicate effectively and feel close and secure in their relationships. Ednesha has a passion for working with women to help them to understand and utilize all their feelings and expressiveness in ways that have laid dormant or underdeveloped.

Ednesha also provides couples therapy where she helps couples communicate and relate to each other in more emotionally responsive ways, in order to improve and strengthen their union. Ednesha focuses on increasing her client’s understanding of themselves, and their ability to relate to others which helps them create more meaningful, fulfilling, and sustainable relationships. Ednesha is actively supportive of non-monogamous and otherwise “alternative” forms of intimate relationships and works with partners who are exploring open relationships and polyamory. She creates an affirming, non-judgmental space for people in alternative arrangements to explore, thrive, and embrace the lives they want to lead.

Direct and warm, Ednesha takes tremendous pride in helping her clients figure out who they are. She will collaborate by offering firm yet gentle support and direction in a client-centric approach. In addition, it is her strong desire to help people of color build up self-esteem and self-worth, through facing fears and coping with what’s trapping them. She will sit with your deepest thoughts and pain and help you to make sense of them and move forward. She looks forward to supporting you through the ebb and flow of life.

Ednesha feels privileged to have the opportunity to be with client’s as they arrive at the birthplace of change. She is committed to helping client’s feel accepted,valuable, and cherished in their relationships by equipping them with the skills needed to reach the people in their life.

“Psychotherapy cannot enable you to know what you want, but only to risk finding out” Adam Phillips

Accessible at our 928 Broadway and 171 Madison locations, Ednesha is currently accepting new appointments.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
NYU Silver School of Social Work, MSW, 1 yr program certificate from Center for Modern Psychoanalysis, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, BA, Sociology and Media Studies

Connect with Ednesha today to schedule your free consult or first appointment

MARIEL BERRY, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Mariel specializes in helping clients channel their inner wisdom to make positive and desired changes in their life. Mariel takes pride in the belief that each individual is the expert of their own life and has the innate ability to change unhelpful patterns and behaviors. Through a collaborative process, clients clarify their hopes and identify helpful tools needed to overcome the challenges they are up against. Mariel approaches her work with sensitivity and curiosity that fosters a safe and productive therapeutic environment for clients.

Mariel takes great pride in providing her clients with warmth, acceptance, curiosity, and support, to create a safe and collaborative environment for productivity. Mariel’s client-centered approach focuses on uncovering and identifying a clients strengths and utilizing them to disempower challenges and create lasting and effective changes.

Mariel feels profoundly privileged to share space with client’s as they journey through the process of self-discovery and personal fulfillment.

Accessible at our 171 Madison Avenue location. Mariel is currently accepting new appointments.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Columbia University School of Social Work, MSW,
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, BA, Art

Connect with Mariel today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

SARAH MECKLER, LCSW

Psychotherapist

Sarah has been a mental health practitioner for over 14 years. She specializes in helping her clients identify areas for growth within their lives that would result in a happier future for themselves.

Sarah especially enjoys working with the LGBTQIA+ population, people in non-traditional relationships, as well as young adults and adolescents to help them manage stress, clarify identity issues, support them through transitions and help modify destructive patterns of behavior. Sarah focuses on creating a safe, open-minded, and welcoming environment for all clients along their path toward self-discovery. Along the way, she assists clients in analyzing areas they would like to change and she collaborates with them to adjust unwanted behaviors or thought patterns that are holding them back.

Caring and open-minded, Sarah loves helping people to feel better about themselves and their lives. She takes an eclectic approach when it comes to assisting clients in their pursuit of their authentic selves. Sarah integrates psychodynamic philosophy with mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral techniques, goal setting and planning, motivational interviewing, within a relational approach. She is passionate about social justice and enjoys incorporating social awareness into her work with clients. Her overall objective is to help clients reach their personal goals, and improve their sense of emotional well-being.

Sarah’s integrative and holistic approach creates a person-centered environment that prioritizes the client’s individual needs and desires. Sarah is passionate about guiding clients to enhance their lives.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
The University of the State of New York, LCSW (2008)
NYU Silver School of Social Work, MSW (2004)
Oberlin College, BA, Sociology and Gender Studies (1998)

Connect with Sarah today to schedule your free consult or first appointment. She is ready to help!

Sharyn Kline-Felix, LMSW

Psychotherapist

With over 20 years experience in providing counseling/ psychotherapy to individuals and groups in various settings including mental health clinics, medical and psychiatric hospital units, residential drug treatment facilities and supportive housing programs throughout NYC, Sharyn is excited to bring her expertise to Be.WELL.

Sharyn offers an eclectic psychodynamic approach to her work and is particularly interested in providing supportive counseling and psychotherapy to women of color. She is devoted to working with women of all ethnicities and supporting the movement to spread awareness of the importance of addressing ones mental health needs. Additional, Sharyn has a special interest in supporting women and couples who are experiencing reproductive challenges/infertility.

As an academic/personal counselor at CUNY New York City College Technology counseling center, Sharyn has a great deal of experience in working with young adult college students experiencing anxiety/depression; as well as older adults and the stress and excitement of returning to college.

Sharyn is currently accepting new appointments and can be reached at our 928 Broadway location.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Hunter College School of Social Work
Syracuse University
Member of the National Association Social Workers
Corps member/employee of the NYC Mental Health Service Corps.

Connect with Sharyn today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

Lauren D’Ambrosio, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Lauren understands and honors the courage needed to take the first step towards change in your life. Navigating the human condition can often be immensely painful and this is why Lauren believes so strongly in compassionate and supportive therapeutic engagement. The beauty and growth in life that we are all seeking is often discovered amidst pain and discomfort. Lauren’s training and experience allows her to comprehend the human experience, which can include trauma, life stressors, and circumstances from the past and/or present that leave people feeling stuck and confused. Lauren works with individuals and couples on areas of focus such as: anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, life transitions, creativity, and relationship strengthening. Lauren will help you explore limiting beliefs, patterns and behaviors that are no longer serving you, and help you create new ways of living to enhance your current and future quality of life.

Lauren is a former celebrated varsity college athlete and works with individuals under performance-based pressures, which can extend from sports to actors, performers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, corporate and familial pressures and much more. Lauren recognizes the compounded demands that can impede your success and will help you cultivate tools like self-love to achieve your greatest potential while maintaining a balanced life.

Lauren is warm, attentive, solution focused and integrates traditional counseling with holistic therapy to assist each person in the most individualized way. Lauren is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New Jersey and California.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work, MSSW
New York University, BS, Sports Management

Connect with Lauren today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

Val Brindisi, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Val believes that therapy is meant to be a creative, collaborative process in which individuals and couples have the opportunity to find new ways of understanding their unique narratives. She offers a supportive environment and works with clients to develop an individualized, goal-oriented approach to reaching their full potential.

Val seeks to help clients better manage stress, anxiety and depression; to support them through life transitions; to improve communication patterns, strengthen relationships, and process past trauma. A skilled mediator, Val helps couples improve communication, rebuild trust, remove barriers to intimacy and work through struggles due to infertility.

She is dedicated to helping adults, and adolescents navigate obstacles in their personal, interpersonal, and professional lives, fostering happiness, fulfillment, healing and growth.

Authentic and empathic, she draws from her diverse experiences to form genuine connections and create a safe, therapeutic space. By integrating culturally sensitive and psychodynamic perspectives, she helps clients explore their identity with the aim of finding their authentic self and cultivating a greater sense of self-worth. Through evidence-based practices, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, she helps clients to identify the critical thought patterns that are often at the root of negative feelings and self-destructive patterns of behavior, and works with them to develop coping skills and emotional regulation strategies.

Val believes accessing an improved quality of life and the ability to foster lasting change already exists within each individual and couple. Let her be your dedicated and humble guide on the journey to fulfillment.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Columbia University School of Social Work, MSW
San Francisco State University, BA, Art History & Communication Studies

Connect with Val today to schedule your free consult or first appointment.

Rebecca Kavoussi, LMSW

Psychotherapist

Congratulations! By entering therapy, you have made a commitment to embark on a wonderful journey of self-reflection, examination, and understanding. Rebecca is committed to working collaboratively with her patients to better understand their behaviors and feelings in a safe and non-judgmental space. She believes that the relationship between a therapist and patient is sacred. Taking a relational approach, Rebecca strives to meet her patients where they are, and uses motivational interviewing to examine how they relate to the world. Rebecca believes in unpacking the unconscious. She believes that her patients are the experts in their own lives. Her
role as a reflective and compassionate listener will help her patients build self-confidence, and a better understanding of their feelings, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships.

Rebecca has a diverse background working with clients of all walks of life. In addition to working in private practice where she treats individuals, couples, and families; she also provides psychotherapy to individuals as an alternative to incarceration. She has also worked with former street homeless adults with severe and persistent mental health issues. Rebecca specializes in treating substance abuse issues, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and personality disorders.

Rebecca utilizes a harm reduction approach to treat addictive behaviors that her patients have identified as problematic. Whether the goal is abstinence, or simply to cut back, Rebecca helps individuals to identify safer and healthier coping mechanisms. Social justice is very important to Rebecca, and she believes that mental health treatment is important for all people.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

NYU Silver School of Social Work, MSW
The University of Maryland, BA, Sociology

Connect with Rebecca today to schedule your free consult or first appointment. She is ready to help!

DIANA GASPERONI, LCSW-R

Diana is the founder of Be.WELL. Psychotherapy Group, the creator of the BeHER Circle, BeHER Teen Programs and the BeHER Circle Facilitator Training . Diana specializes in developing therapist’s clinical skills to their fullest potential. When working with patients she assists people to better understand themselves, allowing patients to then lead fuller and richer lives.

Diana’s passion is supporting women through painful transitions that may cause them to become stuck and to create a space for understanding their ever shifting identities. She is equally passionate about empowering young women to advocate for themselves and created the BeHER Teen in school program as an outreach of Be.WELL. She is an advocate for all people to understand the importance of making their mental health a priority. The BeHER Teen program is her way of giving young women a place to explore, learn, grow and get the psychoeducation tools for a solid foundation of understanding their mental health.

Both a long term patient and student of modern psychoanalysis, Diana learned in her early 20’s that understanding behaviors, thoughts and feelings for some is a lifelong process. In working from this approach, she develops lasting relationships with patients, helping to clear pathways of misunderstood drives, compulsions and behaviors. Her approach with each patient is to help them to understand what they want from their lives, understand how they want to live and to see a clear way to get there.

Diana supports the emotional growth in her patients as well as her amazing team of therapists. She works tirelessly to create a space that is safe to explore her patients deepest thoughts and a space for her team to build community and thrive.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
CMPS, Center for Modern Psychoanalysis, One year program graduate, Certificate Program in process,
Center for Group Studies, One year local program graduate
NYU Seminar in Field Instruction (SIFI)
NYU School of Social Work, MSW
Salem State College, BS, Psychology/Eastern Religion
On going student of yoga.

Connect with Diana to learn more about Be.WELL.

Barbara Perri

Office Manager

Barbara joined Be.WELL. in 2018 and serves as the Office Manager.

Barbara’s background as a legal secretary and mother of 3, have given her the skills and on-the-job learning reflexes necessary to support the ever growing and evolving Be.WELL. Psychotherapy Group.

Barbara is the CEO and CFO of the Perri Group. She was brought into the Be.WELL. family by way of her sister Jeanne. She specializes in looking into the systems and accounting of businesses, streamlining them, and making them more efficient.

An avid tennis player, when not doing all that she does to support Be.WELL. she can be found on the court or in the stands watching her family members play the game. That same precision and dedication is seen in her work with Be.WELL.

Barbara handles all initial inquiries and all billing.