Referral Partners

Ellen's passion is education for high school teens, young adults in college, graduate students, and doctorate students.  Ellen is an Executive Functioning Coach and a Certified Educational Psychotherapist.  Parents ask Ellen for assistance when their children need help with academics. 

Ellen meets the child and studies their style of learning, reviews all educational and academic assessments and evaluations from the student's academic years, familiarizes herself with their curriculum, and jumps in on the student portal to help the client organize and learn executive functioning skills to keep up with their school work and succeed in getting the results they have as their goals.  

Oftentimes, Ellen will have to work with the school to help clients acquire accommodations so they can attend school in a manner that is comfortable for them.  Ellen works with students with anxiety, depression, ADHD, school avoidance, learning disabilities, and many other issues. These issues impact their ability to learn.   

I provide therapy for kids with ADHD, anxiety, and concussions. As a team, I work with parents and kids to begin to understand some of the negative messages your child may be internalizing based on their challenges. 

ADHD: Once we explore some of the identity and self-esteem challenges, we begin the practical skills work such as examining how they learn, learning skills, executive functioning skills, when and how to study, and when to take breaks. We also create structure by creating a calendar for their homework and assignments a week ahead.

Anxiety: If your child was anxious pre-covid they are most likely more anxious now. School avoidance is an epidemic post covid. Social anxiety is at an all-time high in kids of all ages. Performance anxiety with tests and sports is rampant at this time Through teaching your child techniques to manage their anxiety they will find success.

Concussion Therapy and Coaching: Your child getting a concussion is a nightmare. All the sudden activities are taken away as well as the endorphins and regimented schedule. Your child is having mental health issues as a result of the concussion. And academics are a challenge. I am your child's therapist and advocate to help your child get back on track.

Justin is a referral partner of Welsh Therapy.

Abby works with adolescents and young adults.  She works in our west coast office in Santa Monica, Los Angeles   Her specialties are Anxiety, OCD, and ADHD.   

For teens and young adults with anxiety, Abby's approach is a combination of talk therapy and  CBT skills work.   In Abby's sessions she and her clients start with talk therapy and then move into CBT skills work.  Her belief is that over time the link between their thoughts, feelings and actions creates a recurring pattern.   And some of the patterns can wreak havoc in their daily lives.  When clients are in a "stuck pattern" with these unhelpful thoughts and emotions CBT can help change these thought patterns.   

For teens and adults with ADHD, Abby works with an Executive Functioning Coach who is a referral partner in the community.  Together they create a plan to move through the mental health issues and educational challenges that are getting in the way of the client's ability to be successful in their daily lives.  Parents are stressed and fearful that their child does not have the ability to function  at a level where they can balance the stress of their daily lives with school, social, sports, activities, basic hygiene, proper sleep, and nutrition,  These parents feel that their child is all over the place with no order in their days or routine to count on.  They simply  want their child to maintain some semblance of a normal routine/schedule.  

Whether it be Anxiety or ADHD,  Abby has a customized plan for each client and works with a network of professionals in the area who refer to each other.   Along  with Abby working with clients weekly,  their customized plan may a recommendation to also see an EFT (tapping) specialist weekly and/or a Neurofeedback Training specialist.  

Abby is a referral partner to  a psychiatric practice that she refers clients to if medication has been requested as part of their treatment for Anxiety or ADHD.  Abby's goal is to create a village around the teen or young adult and their families so they can feel supported and the client can  begin to manage their ADHD or Anxiety.  She uncovers every stone and parents feel their child and family are in great hands with Abby.   

Rob Marchesani and Lynne Welsh studied together at the Freudian Psychoanalytic Institute.  

Rob looks at the childhood and the stages of development in teens, young adults and adults to see what patterns may mirror early childhood development.  Whether it be birth order, trauma, loss or a divorce the first 10 years of life, Rob assists clients in going back to see where clients may have repressed feelings that may have turned up in their later lives as anxiety, depression, self esteem issues or self medicating with cutting, drugs, alcohol, excessive video gaming or sex addiction. 

Rob is back and forth from Philadelphia and New York City and is in the Doylestown office when he is in Philadelphia.  He works virtually from New York City. 

Rob has an interest in working with the LGBT+ community in helping them understand some of the struggles that may present with family, work, community, and in their relationships. For teens that are questioning their sexuality Rob is an avid listener and allows the client to find their own answers.

For clients who are experiencing Gender Identity Issues and are searching for who they were truly meant to be, Rob allows the process to unfold and doesn't lead the client to their answers, or push away their feelings around their gender.  This process is about the client and often outside the therapy they are getting a strong push either way between their parents, their peers and their community. T he therapy room is a space where they can focus on their own feelings around this issue and not have influence around those feelings. 

Rob has many years of experience working with adolescents in the Harlem School District. His work focuses on working through anxiety, depression, body image issues, bullying, social media addiction, gaming addiction, and gender identity issues.

In his free time, Rob is an avid Yogi and a student of various forms of Meditation. 

   Judy has been working with addictions for 12 years.  She works with children, teens, and adults for over 30 years.  Her work setting has spanned from intensive outpatient to private practice.  Judy works with teens who are using excessive amounts of marijuana to cope with their daily lives or to self medicate untreated conditions such as anxiety or ADHD.  

Judy also works with excessive alcohol/binge alcohol use in adolescents and young adults.  If your teen or young adult is participating in binge drinking or blacking out frequently this is an issues of great concern and worry for parents for the safety of their child.  

Families are affected by their teen and young adult's substance abuse issues as they worry, lose sleep, argue and try to regulate and control their child's behavior to no avail.   Judy can help them create some separation emotionally  and identify codependency characteristics and behavior that may be enabling so they can give their child the necessary space to work on and understand their relationship with substances as a coping mechanism to life's pain. 

As Judy works with the teen or young adult individually, another member of our staff can work with the parents or family and they can all come together to work as a team. 

From years of experience with teens and young adults and addictions  Judy will assess the level of care needed for her client, whether it be outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient therapy a partial hospitalization program, or an inpatient facility  If a higher level of care is required, Judy will connect the family with the rehabilitation consultant that is in our network.  Lauren jumps as part of the team to help families decide the best inpatient or outpatient facility for their teen or young adult and whether the facilities accept the client's insurance or not.  

Judy began in juvenile and correctional facilities and within the prison system as a therapist.  Judy has vast experience with teens and their families not only with the role of addictions within the family systems but also with other mental health issues that impact the entire family.
Judy works with other mental health issues teens and young adults such as bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, and ODD.