Meet Our Staff
Contact: Cathy
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Catherine Adams, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC (Owner and Clinical Director): Finding your way through a difficult experience (past, present or future) can seem daunting. Going it alone might even seem impossible; yet sharing your story with someone who helps you sort through the pieces and find a best way forward reduces feelings of despair, fear, confusion and hopelessness. Cathy works with individuals, couples and families experiencing mental health distress and/or struggling to initiate desired change in their lives. Her specialties include:
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Contact: Raelyn
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Raelyn Elliott-Remes, LMSW (Co-Owner and Program Coordinator): Raelyn recognizes that each individual arrives in therapy for different reasons. As a clinician who values self-determination, she aims to find what is most helpful to each unique individual. To this end, she serves as a facilitator to enhance personal growth and problem solving for those in distress or in search for greater meaning in their life. This may be through psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, distress-reducing techniques or through the interpersonal process. Her specialties include:
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Kyle Anderson, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Kyle believes that therapy is a place for healing, understanding and personal growth. He knows how hard it is to make it through the front door, taking the leap into the unknown and asking for help. Kyle truly believes that in taking a not-knowing stance and letting the client take the lead in sessions provides the best opportunity for self-improvement. He will often use humor and laughter to provide a safe, relaxed place for self exploration and growth. Kyle’s specialties include:
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Amanda Barratt, LMSW is a passionate advocate who has a rich educational background working with survivors of trauma. She understands that healing happens in many ways and would like to help each person find their own individual track. She believes that therapy means safety, trust, and consistency. With her practice rooted in empowerment theory, Amanda uses a strength-based approach making treatment person-centered. As a clinician she will promise to reflect on power, privilege, and oppression and believes that life-long learning is essential. Amanda’s specialties include:
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Ashley Beard, LPC understands that in many cultures there is a negative stigma surrounding mental health concerns and seeking help for those concerns. She appreciates those who take the step and seek assistance during stressful and difficult times throughout life. Ashley will provide a safe space and meet those where they are at to assist in growth and in gaining skills to overcome life’s challenges. She believes in using a strength- based approach and will work with those to identify the best ways to reach their goals. Her specialties include:
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Beth Creamer, RN (Nurse): Having a strong working alliance and good communication with your treatment team is important. Beth believes in forming a partnership with participants and recognizes that the individual is an expert on their own experience. Listening closely to this experience can lead to discovering new ways to manage concerns or challenges. Beth works closely with our Prescribers to support participants in making decisions about the role medications may play in their recovery.
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Contact: Kelly
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Kelly Curtis, BA (Supported Employment & Education Specialist): Valuing the right of every person to pursue meaningful life goals, Kelly works closely with individuals to develop and take steps toward achieving these aspirations. Whether interests should lie in seeking employment, completing an educational program, or engaging in other personally significant activities, Kelly looks forward to collaborating, exploring these interests, and navigating a way ahead.
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Dale D'Mello, MD (Prescriber): Dr. D'Mello has spent 30 years of his career teaching medical students and residents at Michigan State University and Sparrow Hospital, helping patients with treatment-resistant mood, anxiety, psychotic and cognitive disorders, negotiate the path to recovery. It is his belief that recovery can be achieved with a collaborative approach that employs a combination of self-guided behavioral interventions and medication. Dr. D'Mello will be working exclusively with individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis at ETCH.
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Marsha Harmon, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Marsha believes therapy is a place to encourage an individual’s self-awareness and assist them in reaching their personal goals. She recognizes that making that first step in seeking support can be intimidating and overwhelming. Using a strengths-based approach, Marsha will strive to provide a warm, compassionate, and safe environment for individuals and families to express their needs, while supporting their journey of personal growth and skill development. Marsha recognizes that all individuals are unique and come with their own ideas and strengths that can be utilized in promoting change in their lives and relationships. She will work in collaboration with you in developing your treatment goals and empowering you to move toward a place of more content and peace in your life. Marsha’s specialties include:
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Heather Kalso MA, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Taking the first step to seek out help during a difficult time requires both courage and vulnerability. Heather provides a supportive, peaceful and non-judgmental space for the exploration of life goals. In this safe atmosphere, clients are encouraged to find their inner voice; identifying the core values and beliefs that will help them shape a life reflective of their truest self. Heather believes in the ability of every person to heal and grow using their own unique strengths and insight at all points in their lifetime. Heather’s specialties include:
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Heather McCracken, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Heather understands that struggling with a problem on one’s own can feel daunting and insurmountable. However, working alongside a therapist can provide perspective and hope. She believes a strength based approach brings out a person’s inherent skills, strengths and potential to work through their problem. Heather believes it’s a privilege to be brought into a person’s vulnerability as they work toward recovery. She brings a compassionate and nonjudgmental approach to working with individuals. She believes that recovery is possible in everyone.
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Neeshan Mehretu, LMSW: Neeshan strives to hold a space that feels safe, peaceful, non-judgemental and soothing to clients. As a clinician she aims for therapy to be creative, nourishing and fun by allowing clients to experience change in the therapy room and to walk away with tools that they can use in their day to day life. Neeshan believes in integrating healthy foods, joyful movement and play in an individual’s life. Neeshan uses experiential therapy, sand tray therapy, expressive therapy and cognitive restructuring as well as meditation and mindfulness techniques. Her specialties include:
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Scott Palazzolo, BSW (Supported Employment & Education Specialist): Scott feels that each person’s experience is an opportunity for growth and that everyone has a right to live freely. Life is a journey and everyone’s path is their own, yet life is not meant to be endured or navigated alone. Scott will provide support to people who are seeking to advance education, employment or independent living goals. He feels that focusing on individual’s strengths and positive attributes will allow a person to grow in desired areas.
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Contact: Matthew
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Matthew Remes, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Matthew uses a strength-based approach and holds the belief that families are the most knowledgeable source of information regarding their own family. A belief that families are best working together to achieve goals is at the forefront of Matthew's core values. Strengthening these bonds can come from many different interventions. Cognitive restructuring, greater self-awareness as well is routine-driven behavioral planning are just some of the many directions your time together can take.
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Deborah Richmond, LMSW: Counseling is an opportunity to learn more about yourself and to experience deep, lasting change. Debbie develops a unique therapeutic relationship with each client, and works to promote healing and improved well-being with compassion, sensitivity, and understanding. Whether things just need a little fine-tuning, or your situation feels unmanageable and chaotic, Debbie can guide and empower you to move to a more fulfilling place in your life and your relationships. Debbie works with individuals, families, and couples facing a variety of concerns. Her specialties include:
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Contact: Lauren
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Lauren Sullivan, LMSW (Mental Health Therapist): Lauren believes that each person has the capacity to heal, to grow and to discover what makes their life rich and satisfying. She starts from a place of warmth and compassion and works side by side with people to create the change they seek. Lauren works with individuals and couples and her specialties include:
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