Get to Know Our Skilled Clinicians
Our Team
Our clinicians are skilled in their particular area of expertise with cross-collaboration occurring among staff to optimally support families whose members may have different therapeutic needs.
Our staff specializations include:
Trauma treatment for children, adolescents, and adults
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for trauma treatment and phobias
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Child-centered play and art therapy
Erika Lally, LMHC
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Erika Lally, LMHC is the owner of Center Psychotherapy with a specialization in treating complex trauma. She additionally provides trauma consultation, training, and supervision to help clinicians hone their trauma treatment skills.
Erika works from a humanist approach and tailors her treatment to individual client needs. She is comfortable in verbal and nonverbal modalities and bases her practice on the belief that individuals have resiliency and an innate drive toward wellness. Treatment approaches include EMDR, art therapy, and Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). Self-care practices include swimming, martial arts, and yoga.
Marianne Moskowitz, LMHC
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Marianne is a licensed mental health counselor who works with people across the lifespan. An art therapist by training, Marianne's approach to counseling is deeply informed by her experience with Insight Meditation, also called Vipassana, passed on to the West through Burmese and Thai Buddhist lineages. She listens deeply and helps individuals come into contact with their own wisdom while also shedding their internalized unhelpful beliefs about who they are and who they can become.
Marianne draws upon a combination of EMDR, parts work, somatic interventions, Mindful Self Compassion, art and play therapy, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy to support people living with the effects of complex trauma and dissociative responses.
Melissa Parker, LMHC
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Melissa is a licensed mental health counselor who enjoys working with older adolescents and adults who live with the effects of complex trauma. Melissa’s work and perspectives are rooted in anti-oppression practice, and the lenses of trauma-informed developmental, humanist, and transpersonal psychology. They take an integrative approach to therapy and utilize whole-person modalities such as EMDR, humanistic talk therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), and sensory/somatic-based interventions. Melissa also offers psychedelic integration therapy.
Melissa welcomes the opportunity to connect with individuals from all walks of life and seeks to work from a place of cultural humility and respect. They hold a special interest in providing support and therapy to mental health professionals who have lived experience with mental health concerns, trauma, and dissociation. They also have an interest and experience in supporting individuals who seek to integrate profound spiritual experiences into daily life.
In addition to their clinical work, Melissa draws on their experience as a trauma survivor and clinical professional living with PTSD and DID, to provide anti-ableism-based training, supervision, and consultation to therapists who are interested in deepening their work with clients who live with dissociation.
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Alexander Turowski, LMHC
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Alex is a licensed mental health counselor who works with adults and adolescents. He has been providing trauma-informed care to individuals and families in community, in-home, and outpatient settings since 2014.
Areas of predominant clinical interest include the treatment of depression, anxiety, traumatic stress, and grief. He strives to work from a place of respect and authenticity and values collaboration in order to tailor therapy to best meet the needs of the individuals with whom he works. He draws from humanistic and relational approaches when working with individuals in order to help them foster healing, self-awareness, resiliency, and connection in their daily lives.
Michelle Asbeck, LMHC
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Michelle is a licensed mental health counselor with over 10 years of experience in trauma informed care. Michelle has training in ARC, and TF-CBT, CBT and is an adoption-competent clinician. She is also a Certified First Responder Counselor (CFRC).
Michelle utilizes creativity, collaboration, and compassion to meet clients where they are in their healing journey. She takes a strength-based, solution focused approach with a belief that all clients have an inherent desire to heal and thrive. She joins with clients to help them reconnect to a sense of self, safety, and control in their lives.
Amanda Brickley, LMHC
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Amanda understands that individuals who seek therapy benefit from respectful and supportive therapeutic relationships; she believes that everyone has the capacity to find peace and healing within themselves, and is glad to provide support and witness to her clients.
Amanda is a licensed mental health counselor who is trained and experienced in play therapy, EMDR, ARC, and SMART; she values her work with children, adolescents, and adults who struggle with the effects of trauma, depression, and anxiety. Amanda hopes to offer a grounded and compassionate presence to individuals who seek therapy. In addition to her clinical experience and training. Amanda uses creativity, humor, and spontaneity in her approach to trauma treatment. Amanda also provides Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Neesi Hansen, LCSW
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Neesi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Therapist. She works predominantly with adolescents and adults and has experience in many settings including outpatient therapy, residential programs, and case management for homeless families. Neesi’s approach is strengths-based, warm, and collaborative. She believes in meeting people where they are and listening to their stories. She believes the client is the expert on themselves and therefore should play an active role in their goals and treatment.
Neesi has worked with a wide variety of folks but notes she may be particularly helpful to clients with complex racial and/or ethnic identities, as well as folks who identify as LGBTQ. She also partners with clients to work on concerns such as stress management, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. She is eager to collaborate with you about your problems and goals with compassion and a little bit of humor.
Julianne Corey, MA, MFA
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Julianne is a mental health counselor and expressive arts therapist. She is experienced in working with individuals and groups therapeutically and in delivering wellness programs. Her clinical experience ranges from supporting cancer care and caretaking, end of life, and grief, as well as career development and vocational rehabilitation.
Julianne takes a relational, strengths-based, and person-centered approach to work with clients. She integrates a variety of counseling orientations along with mindful, somatic techniques and art modalities. Much of her work is body-centered supporting chronic and critical illness, medical trauma, sexual trauma, body image, and dysmorphia. Julianne believes that when people feel at home in their bodies, they are better equipped for life’s challenges with greater access to self-acceptance, personal empowerment, and interpersonal connection. She enjoys working with young adults, midlife, and older adults.
Stefanie Lakin, LMHC
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Stefanie is a licensed mental health counselor who works primarily with adolescents and adults and clients who identify as LGBTQ+.
She has experience in outpatient therapy, adult day treatment, and substance use programs including Medication Assisted Treatment. Stefanie is also trained in ARC, EMDR, and ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP).
Her areas of interest and training include grief and bereavement, dissociative disorders, PTSD, complex trauma, depression, and anxiety. Stefanie works from a strength-based, trauma-informed, relational approach and deeply values collaboration with her clients. She uses humor, flexibility, and communication to help clients find their own paths to healing and self-awareness.
Jessica Benedetto, MA, RYT200
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Jess is a mental health counselor and wellness guide who collaborates with each client or couple to uncover their unique path toward integrated mental, physical, spiritual, and relational health. Working from a humanistic lens, Jess employs an eclectic approach that is neuroscience-informed and draws from acceptance and commitment, cognitive behavioral, narrative, and somatic therapies, looking at how we hold our experiences and stories in our minds, brains, and bodies, and how we can intentionally explore, rewire, and rewrite them to find meaning, peace, and health in our lives. As a certified yoga instructor and nature enthusiast, Jess loves to bring movement, breathwork, and fresh air into her work with clients.
Jess comes to the psychotherapy field after a rewarding career helping non-profit human services organizations understand and dismantle the causes and conditions of poverty and inequity. She brings this focus on social justice advocacy to her counseling practice and believes that through healing ourselves and becoming more aware of the systems that impact us, we can help to heal a suffering world.
Shireen Idriss, EdM
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Shireen is a mental health counselor with a focus on children and Adolescent Mental Health. She specializes in working with children, adolescents, and their families providing trauma-informed care. Shireen also has experience working with complex trauma with adults.
Shireen acknowledges the importance of therapeutic alliance as a foundation for the healing journey. She offers a nonjudgmental, warm, caring, and empowering environment. Believing that each client is the expert of themselves, she works collaboratively with each individual to meet their needs and goals, at their own pace. She works within the context of the person’s developmental, socio-cultural, and physical life experiences.
Shireen speaks Italian, English, and (some) Arabic.
Zeenia Kolah, MA
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Zeenia is a clinical mental health counselor and expressive arts therapist. Her practice is rooted in community and social justice-based approaches to mental health and wellbeing. She works with adolescents and adults with diverse mental health needs. Her clinical experience has specifically involved working with womxn and folx of color to address complex trauma and explore issues around gender, sexuality, and sociocultural identity.
Zeenia has a background in social activism, education, and community empowerment that influences her approach to therapy. Her strengths are her warmth, spontaneity, and collaborative approach to building a therapeutic relationship with her clients. Some of Zeenia’s favorite arts-based practices include poetry and bibliotherapy, narrative therapy, and drama therapy. She is also a dancer and believes in bringing an awareness of the body into the therapeutic process.
Zeenia offers telehealth therapy in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.
Sophie McConkie, MA
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Sophie is an expressive arts therapist and clinical mental health counselor. She specializes in working with children and adolescents, integrating over 10 years of professional childcare/teaching experience with her graduate education and clinical practice. Sophie has training in grief counseling, trauma-informed play therapy, and multi-modal expressive arts therapy. She understands that play, creativity and expression are integral to health and wellness. She uses her comprehensive experience in theatre, music, visual arts, and movement to meet individuals in the arts-based practices they feel most comfortable with.
As a therapist, Sophie is informed by a person-centered and family-oriented framework. She honors clients’ self-knowledge and autonomy while recognizing the importance of the social context they navigate. She is also grounded in theories of eco and liberation psychology, with an awareness that individual healing is tied to the collective healing of one another and the more-than-human world.
Liz Hitzel, LCSW
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Liz is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and draws on psychodynamic, liberation health, relational, and attachment theories while utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and narrative therapy. She is committed to anti-oppressive, feminist, and body liberation practices and incorporates these principles into her work. She works with children, adolescents, and adults and specializes in supporting those who live with depression, anxiety, trauma, and chronic and persistent mental health conditions.
During her clinical internships as part of her graduate training, she worked in outpatient psychiatric care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and provided in-home and community-based therapy to people with chronic and persistent mental health conditions while at the Edinburg Center. She has a background in family advocacy for families of children impacted by child abuse and neglect, supporting and advocating for people impacted by sexual and domestic violence, and community health.
Sophie Schoenberg, LICSW
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Sophie Schoenberg is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Therapist. She works from an anti-oppression framework and has increasingly focused on providing LGBTQIA-affirming psychotherapy to individuals who have experienced trauma in its many interpersonal and systemic forms.
Sophie graduated from Boston University School of Social Work with her MSW and went on to complete a post-graduate fellowship at the Boston University Danielsen Institute. At the Danielsen Institute, she worked with individuals and groups using a relational psychodynamic spirituality model. Sophie has practiced in a variety of settings providing trauma-informed care to adults, young adults, and adolescents in the Greater Boston area impacted by a range of traumatic experiences.
Additionally, Sophie has worked with a variety of presenting concerns including anxiety, depression, marginalization, gender identity, eating disorders, mood disorders, self-esteem issues, intergenerational trauma, and issues related to grief and loss.
Sophie’s approach to therapy utilizes psychodynamic informed, somatic, and mindfulness-based approaches to treating the impacts of developmental and relational trauma and attachment wounds with attention to intersectionality, spirituality, and the mind-body connection. Sophie is trained in a variety of trauma informed modalities including EMDR. She seeks to co-create a therapeutic environment where people can more deeply understand themselves, connect with their purpose, and reshape their stories to live-in increasing alignment with their values.
Sarah Gurley-Green, PhD
Clinical Intern
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Sarah works to create a safe environment assisting clients to reinstate autonomy and empowerment. She aids in the identification and fostering of people’s strengths to promote their mental health. She feels therapy is a collaborative venture and draws on integrative feminist, relational-humanist theory. Sarah is certified as a narrative therapist. Narrative therapy (NT) is a form of client-centered and value-focused psychotherapy that has demonstrated benefits for many clients. In addition, she works to help bereaved individuals of any age to reach balance and acceptance, and to rediscover potential for joy in life.
Sarah worked as a patient advocate in the UK helping complicated chronic pain patients navigate their illness and treatment. She was a college professor in health studies for many years. Seeing that the pandemic exacerbated difficulties for her students, Sarah felt drawn to work in mental health. As a mature student and intern, Sarah brings decades of interdisciplinary knowledge to her practice. Sarah is a published writer of academic papers, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Administrative Staff
David Saperstone | Practice Manager, Intake Coordinator
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David is the practice manager for Center Psychotherapy. Prior to joining CP, David worked in a variety of settings within the human services field including juvenile justice, child welfare, public housing, substance use treatment, public health, and forensic social work. David handles non-clinical operations at CP, including intake.
He can be reached at david@centerpsychotherapy.com or (781)-613-0026