Our Team
Our Team
Psychotherapist
Psychotherapist, Registered Dietitian & Eating Disorder Specialist
Virginia Inglese, MA, RD, LCSW, CLC, CEDS
Virginia Inglese is a psychotherapist and registered dietitian, specializing in eating disorders, healing families, empowering teens, and launching young adults. She is also a certified yoga and movement therapist, using these skills to help clients improve their health and release traumas and physical and emotional pain.
Psychotherapist
J.R. Lippold, MA, MSW, LGSW, LCSW
J.R. has extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families in crisis, as well as adolescents, young adults, and members of the LGBTQ community. His unique and direct approach draws from his multifaceted experiences to provide insight into how environmental, mental/emotional, and health-related factors can influence an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors – all factors that can lead to emotional distress, anxiety, and depression.
Psychotherapist
Tamara Christman, MA, MEd, Resident in Counseling
Tammy enjoys helping clients identify and use their strengths to regulate negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors in their daily lives.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Cynthia Libby, RDN
Psychotherapist
Mosammed Miah, MSW, CSW
Mosammed obtained her Master Degree in Social Work from Touro University. She is currently working as a Clinical Social Worker Supervisee.
Mosammed is experienced in working with children, adolescence, and adults. Her current work involves working with families and couples. Her therapeutic style focuses on client’s strengths, self-understanding and personal growth. She is passionate about helping her clients process and cope with life challenges. Mosammed encourages to make long-lasting changes to sustain healthy and positivity relationships.
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transformed.”
-Roy T. Bennett
Psychotherapist
Angelica Karns, MA, Resident in Counseling
Angelica Karns is passionate about working with adolescents and adults, with a special focus on empowering teens and helping young adults launch. Angelica works with individuals to help them process life experiences, discover their identity, transform relationships, cope with life changes, build self-esteem, heal from eating disorders, improve body image, decrease anxiety and depression, and…
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Liana Waybright, RDN
Liana Waybright is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with experience in pediatric nutrition, childhood and adult disordered eating, body image concerns, eating disorders and other mental health disorders including anxiety, depression and trauma. Liana obtained undergraduate degrees in Culinary Arts and Nutrition from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed her Dietetic…
Psychotherapist
Samantha Singer, MSW, Supervisee in Social Work
Samantha received her Bachelor of Social Work degree from George Mason University and her Master in Social Work degree from the University of Southern California and is currently working as a Clinical Social Worker Supervisee. She began her career working in a Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient setting for eating disorders, working with clients diagnosed…
Psychotherapist
Nailah Washington, QMHP-A, Resident in Counseling
Meet Nailah Washington. She is a Resident in Counseling in the State of Virginia. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Regent University. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from South University. She is a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps bringing honor, courage and commitment to serving her…
Psychotherapist
Jeannie Cha, MSW, QMHP-T, Supervisee in Clinical Social Work
My therapeutic approach prioritizes trauma-informed practice and empowering the individual through their strengths. I create a nonjudgmental space for dialogue that is facilitated with empathy and active listening. I am passionate about getting to know the client and collaborating on ways to complete their goals by utilizing treatment modalities that will work for the individual. I integrate…
Psychotherapist
Jamilla Abughali, MBA, MSW, RCSWI
Jamilla (Ja-ME-La) specializes in a strengths-based approach utilizing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Trauma-Informed therapy. She creates an atmosphere of trust and confidence amongst patients and their social support. Jamilla is compassionate and caring with a welcoming personality providing a nonjudgmental environment for…
Psychotherapist
Amanda Yi, MSW, Supervisee in Clinical Social Work
Amanda received a Master’s in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently working towards LCSW Licensure. Amanda has experience working with individuals and groups, and has worked in a variety of treatment settings including outpatient counseling, residential treatment facilities, and schools. Amanda has a passion for helping clients who struggle with disordered eating,…
Psychotherapist
Eugenia Stokes, MA, Resident in Counseling
Healing is a process when working with couples, families, and individuals that happens in the context of relationships, and despite the issues that life presents, there is always hope. Eugenia considers it a privilege to work alongside her clients who are struggling with many issues including, depression, anxiety, and a range of emotional and behavioral…
Psychotherapist
Isha Sengupta, MS, Resident in Counseling
Healing is a journey rather than a destination. Isha strives to be a co-passenger on this journey by providing her clients with a safe space in which they feel unconditionally accepted and actively heard. She uses a strength-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approach to therapy, to enable empowerment and foster resiliency in her clients. While…
Psychotherapist
Ioana Montel, MSW, MSc, Supervisee in Social Work
Ioana believes that when we know better, we do better. As a trauma-centered practitioner, she helps her clients explore and process the emotions and physical sensations that are interfering with their life. Her approach draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR); attachment & polyvagal theories; ego states; and emotionally focused therapy. Ioana encourages and…
Psychotherapist
Dani Hulse, MS, Resident in Counseling
Dani received her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling in June 2020 and is currently a Ph.D. student in General Psychology. Dani is a Resident in Counseling pursuing her LPC Licensure. Her clinical focus is on trauma, complex PTSD, anxiety and mood disorders, military service-related stress, dissociative disorders, and crisis intervention with families and individual adults,…
Psychotherapist
Haley Gaetani, MS, Resident in Counseling
Haley is passionate about assisting adolescents and adults in processing their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors associated with their current struggles in a healthy way. She works with her clients to identify their core beliefs that contribute to their identity, self-worth, and communication style and uses a strength-based approach to promote positive change and growth. Haley…
Psychotherapist
Shelly Johnson, MSW, LCSW
Shelly enjoys helping individuals and families struggling to manage challenging life circumstances. She uses a strengths-based approach to encourage healing, life transitions and promoting a positive change in an individual’s life. Shelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has a passion for working with adolescents and families while supporting the goal of healing and…
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Maya Rizkala, RDN
Maya Rizkala is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a passion for providing evidence-based, culturally competent care to help clients improve their relationship with food, mind, and body. Maya has experience in public health, food service management, adolescent and adult disordered eating, body image concerns, and eating disorders.
Psychotherapist
Shaina Anderson, MSW, Supervisee in Social Work
Shaina Anderson received a Master’s in Social Work from Howard University and is currently working towards LCSW Licensure. Shaina also has a Master of Science in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice from Longwood University. She has experience working with a variety of individuals; including children, adolescents, and families. Shaina brings her passion and…
Psychotherapist
Bekah Allred, MSW, Supervisee in Social Work
Bekah is currently working as a LCSW supervisee, and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Duke University and her Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina. Bekah loves working with youth of all ages, adults and families, and firmly believes everyone should have a safe, nonjudgmental, and healing place to work…
