Paul Van Slooten, MSW, LICSW Thank you for coming to our practice. I am a clinical social worker with 30 years of post graduate experience. I have specialized in couple, family, and adolescent/pre-adolescent populations, utilizing family systems, insight oriented therapies, and solution focused behavior therapy. I believe that regardless of ones orientation, that therapy at its core, is understanding the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs of the people we try to help. Then our mutual task is to move forward to change behaviors, eliminate impediments to growth, or discover and uncover strengths that all people possess. I look foward to meeting with you. |
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Susan Mair, MSW, LICSW I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years in practice in mental health and substance abuse settings. I specialize in solution-focused therapy and emphasize wellness and well-being. I work acitively with adults and significant people in their lives. I have special interests in depression, womens' issues, loss and bereavement, adjustments to chronic medical conditions and life transitions such as divorce. |
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Kathie White, LCMHC I have over 15 years experience in the mental health field, in both inpatient and outpatient settings. My training includes cognitive behavioral therapy to help people develop more effective coping skills for depression, anxiety and anger management. I incorporate expressive arts in the form of guided imagery and music and art to create change and move through periods of feeling "stuck." |
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Michael McCay MS, LMFT Thank you for coming to our practice. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I received my Masters Degree from the University of New Hampshire. My clients include children, teens, adults, couples and families. My experience includes working with couples, blended families with co-parenting issues, and individuals experiencing difficulty with life transitions. I also specialize in working with children who are living in foster and adopted homes and may have attachment difficulties, as well as children who have experienced trauma and abuse. I believe that the relationship and trust between the therapist and client is the most important factor in working toward solutions for the difficulties people bring to therapy. I look forward to meeting with you. |
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Elaine Benson Med., LCMHC, LADC
Although I am a new staff member here at Great Bay Mental Health Associates, I have almost 30 years of privileged experience in the mental health and substance abuse fields and I look forward to working with you. As a licensed clinical mental health and substance abuse counselor, I provide services to adults, young adults and couples with an emphasis on the importance of resolving past pain and trauma which may be interfering with joy and happiness in the present. I am certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which can help to heal post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and past abuse, which is very often accompanied with debilitating and maladaptive beliefs. This relatively new modality can be utilized in a vast variety of ways , giving relief and joy.
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Sheila Gardner, PhD Licensed Psychologist
The stressors of life take their toll on the minds and the health of a community’s individuals and families. My practice specializes in working with adults who want to begin to address these emotional, mental, and health-related challenges in order to develop more resilient, effective, and healthy lives. Specifically, I work with clients to help them manage anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship and family conflict, grief and loss, and chronic or unexpected health crises. My style emphasizes an active, strengths-based approach that engages clients to learn to better understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the context of their relationships and within themselves. Whether I'm working with clients who have short term goals or longer term issues, in the process of our work together, we will seek to expand the necessary skills to cope with the challenges life presents and thus enhance and preserve the health of the individual's mind, body, and relationships. I earned my Bachelors degree in Psychology with a minor in Spanish from Union College in Schenectady, NY (1991). In 1998, I was awarded my PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Albany. I have completed a variety of continuing education programs in Mind/Body Medicine and I am currently pursuing additional specialized training in Primary Care Behavioral Health. This reflects my belief that good mental health is an essential component of overall health. In addition to working with clients, I also value being involved in my professional community; I am serving as a board member of the New Hampshire Psychological Association and am actively involved in efforts to improve public policy related to mental health in New Hampshire. |
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Sandra Mote, MS,CS,APRN Welcome to our practice. I have been with Great Bay Mental Health for almost 7 years as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I have over twenty years in the mental health field. I work collaboratively with patients to ensure that they have optimal mental well-being. I believe that this can best be accomplished with both therapy and medication evaluation and management. I have a great passion for women's mental health. I specialize in medication management of a wide spectrum of disorders, including post partum depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and Adult ADHD. I also can provide individual counseling from a Christian perspective. |
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Emily Weston, PMHNP-BC (Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified) I am new to Great Bay Mental Health Associates. I spent six months with the staff, observing and helping to treat clients with Diana Haile, APRN, and conducting a coping skills support group lead by Dr. Sandra Rose while completing clinical hours for completion of my graduate education. Getting to know the staff was a wonderful experience and I was thrilled to be asked to sign on as a practitioner when I finished my studies at UMass Lowell in May of 2010. While this is my first NP job, I have over six years of experience in nursing. I have most recently been working at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Massachusetts on two inpatient adult psychiatric units. The experience and knowledge that I have gained there about treating mental illness has been invaluable. Before that, and concurrently for a short time, I had been employed at Wentworth Douglass Hospital. While working with chronically ill patients on the telemetry units, I realized that the need for mental health services and education exists in every facet of medicine. It refueled my passion to pursue my studies as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse. Treating clients with medical illnesses is certainly an interest of mine based on my experiences. I provide medication management for many psychiatric diagnoses as well as am open to providing therapy for select clients who prefer a goal-directed approach to therapy.
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Racheal Wizwer LICSW, MLADC
Rachael Wizwer is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who specializes in court-ordered drug and alcohol evaluations and other issues involving substance abuse and /or addiction. She is also a LICSW and can address psychological issues such as depression, anxiety and attention disorders. Her approach to therapy is to provide a safe, respectful and nurturing place to allow clients to heal and reach their goals. She has a great interest in working with people whose lives have been touched by alcohol and other addictions. She also has experience working with children, adolescents and families who have been affected by mental illness and other stressful life-challenges.
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