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Fahad Ali • Bettina Bernstein • Gillian Blair • Maureen Boyle Cieri • Carl E. Bradford • Joshua Feldman • Elizabeth Frumin • Mary Ellen Goetz • Robert Pileggi • Gabriella Serruya-Green • Annie Steinberg • Rebecca Whitten • Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia • La Puerta Abierta •

Fahad Ali, M.D.

Fahad Ali is a board certified adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist. He joins the Bridge after completing a Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a staff psychiatrist at Penn Foundation with hospital privileges at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Maryland, Fairmount Behavioral Health and the VA Medical Center. Dr. Ali conducts forensic evaluations for the Court Mental Health Clinic at the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice. His clinical expertise include evaluating and treating various psychiatric disorders including mood and anxiety disorders in adults and children.

Bettina Bernstein D.O.

Bettina Bernstein is an osteopathic psychiatrist who is board certified in Adult Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Integrative Medicine. Dr. Bernstein sees adults, children, and adolescents for individual as well as family therapy and medication management.

Dr. Bernstein completed her postgraduate training at Hahnemann University Hospital (now Drexel College of Medicine) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and clinical affiliate faculty member at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Bernstein consults to child-serving agencies including local School Districts, foster care agencies and the Family Court of Philadelphia; she specializes in evaluating and treating a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders including autistic spectrum disorders, learning and developmental disabilities, ADHD, mood disorders, anxiety and trauma in children of all ages. Special interests include telepsychiatry, alternative/complementary therapeutic approaches, and prevention of mental health disorders in her role as a Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer.

Gillian Blair, Ph.D.

Gillian Blair is a clinical, developmental and forensic psychologist until recently on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She co-directed the Juvenile Justice Program of the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia between 1999 and 2006. Previously, she was in private practice in Tennessee and an adjunct clinical faculty member of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her training at the University of London and Vanderbilt University, with a doctoral degree in both developmental and clinical psychology, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Her clinical practice is primarily involved in working with children, adolescents, adults and families, experiencing change. In addition, she provides psychological testing services, particularly to those involved in the legal and child welfare system.

Maureen Boyle Cieri, M.A., LPC, NCC

Maureen Cieri is a licensed and nationally certified professional counselor. She joined The Bridge in October of 2022, bringing with her a unique and varied professional background. Obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Cabrini University in 2008. Maureen held a head teaching position in early childhood education for 12 years. In 2013, Maureen embarked on a new journey to obtain a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Rosemont College. Additional licenses and certifications consist of The Trauma Research Foundation’s Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, and Certifications in Positive Psychology for Character, Grit and Research Methods and Applications and Interventions. Maureen has practiced privately and provided individual therapeutic support to young children in the private school sector.

She works directly with children (10 and above), adolescents and adults with generalized anxiety, social and/or school anxiety, depression, and ADHD. By creating a higher level of awareness and of one’s fluctuating emotions, Maureen creates a clearer link to how these emotions contribute to stress and anxiety in all facets of a person’s life. She works from a compassionate based perspective, using Mindfulness, Positive Psychology and Resiliency training.

Maureen has a special interest in serving people that identify with the HSP trait . She recognizes and respects the complexities of being highly sensitive and understands that these traits can both make the world feel overwhelming and yet amazingly bright and beautiful.

Carl E. Bradford Ph.D

Carl Bradford is a psychologist who has worked in counseling/neuropsychology since 1979. He is a board-certified neuropsychologist (ABN), who completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia. With the Bridge as his base, he currently maintains a telepsychology practice (PA & NJ) in psychotherapy and neuropsychological screening. Dr. Bradford works with adults, including elderly individuals, and has experience with individuals with traumatic brain injury, other neurological problems, and chronic medical concerns.

Joshua Feldman, L.C.S.W.

Joshua Feldman a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and graduate of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He has experience working with children/adolescents, young adults (university students), adults, and families from diverse backgrounds in community-based and residential treatment programs as well as day treatment centers.

Joshua strives to create a warm, affirming, and collaborative space to explore and address the challenges in life. Whether struggling with a life transition, interpersonal/familial conflict, trauma, anxiety, depression, or are simply seeking support, his goal is to facilitate deeper insight into your relationships with others, as well as yourself, to make meaningful changes to your life. His experience working in psychodynamic, CBT, exposure and response prevention, mindfulness, and structural family therapy models enables him to draw upon each to create an approach that meets your individual needs.

While borrowing from a range of treatment interventions, he is grounded in being curious about past contexts and their relationship to the present. Understanding this relationship helps minds (and bodies) make sense of what is impacting us in the present and creates opportunities to gain new insights, break damaging patterns, and explore healthier experiences/relationships with ourselves and others.

Elizabeth Frumin, M.A., M.Ed., M.S.S., D.S.S.

Dr. Elizabeth Frumin has been a therapist, counselor and coach for over 30 years. She also officiates weddings and offers pastoral services. Elizabeth supports clients in experiencing more fulfillment, success, happiness and peace during important moments and life transitions. Elizabeth Frumin helps people to develop tools and skills for augmenting their well-being and happiness. Clients are better able to accept and manage their lives, and take personal responsibility to overcome difficulties in relationships, family, work and self-concept. The counseling process enables her clients to live more successful, joyful and meaningful lives. To assist people in experiencing more inner harmony, Dr. Frumin uses techniques from Gestalt Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Rogerian Psychotherapy, Integrated Family Systems, Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, stress management, spiritual psychology, mindfulness, meditation and relaxation training, trauma recovery, and movement and creative arts therapy. In counseling, the client can complete and come to peace with past disturbances and limitations that have thwarted well being. In a context of compassion and understanding, one creates clear intention, hope and vision for the future, while experiencing a happier life. For more information contact Dr. Frumin at email: elizabethfrumin@comcast.net or by phone: 610-667-8353

Mary Ellen Goetz, Psy.D., ATR-BC

Mary Ellen Goetz is a licensed psychologist and art therapist. Experience includes Head Start Early Intervention Center, Hahnemann Hospital, Belmont Center, Renfrew, Keystone Addiction Treatment Center and STAR (Sexual Trauma and Recovery). Dr. Goetz became a licensed psychologist in 2000 and began a private practice in which she treats children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Goetz uses art therapy to help client’s identify feelings and thoughts not readily accessible through verbal therapy.

Dr. Goetz served on the faculty at Hahnemann University and Marywood College.

Robert Pileggi, LCSW

Bob is a licensed clinical social worker passionate about facilitating compassionate presence to ourselves, each other and life itself.

Bob's work includes psychotherapy, clinical supervision, mindfulness and yoga instruction, and teaching Gestalt psychotherapy.

Bob's clients (individuals and partners, late adolescence through adulthood) tend to want to manage or explore: anxiety, depression, body image, self-esteem, sexual orientation, gender identity, transitioning, relationships, communication, grief/loss, and adapting to change.

Bob's approach supports safe space for self-exploration and is truly integrative, working with awareness of mind, heart, body, and spirit. Bob's practice is guided by mindfulness, Gestalt & Humanist theory, social justice perspective, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a strengths-based approach, and brief/solution-focused interventions. Bob also appreciates body awareness and spiritual perspectives as avenues complementing emotional and mental health.

Bob's training includes a Masters degree from the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research, and completion of training at the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia. Bob has provided psychotherapy in private practice and at public heath organizations since 2016, and he has been teaching Gestalt theory and practice since 2022. Bob's life's work includes 25 years of service to LGBT-focused nonprofit local, regional and national organizations (public education, community organizing, management).

Gabriella Serruya-Green, Psy.D.

Gabriella Serruya-Green is a licensed child, adolescent and adult psychologist. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Literature and completed her doctoral training in 2005 at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University. Dr. Serruya-Green has experience working in a variety of settings, including outpatient clinics and school settings.

Dr. Serruya-Green’s approach draws heavily from the literature on interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, mindfulness, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. In addition, she is an avid reader who believes deeply in the power of sharing one’s truth; mining wisdom from suffering; and honoring the universal human needs for security and a sense of personal value. In the therapy room, Dr. Serruya-Green strives to create a warm and welcoming environment and works from the paradox that meaningful intra- and inter-personal change starts with a foundation of unconditional acceptance, curiosity and compassion.

In her work with children and teens, Dr. Serruya-Green employs a combination of individual play or talk therapy (depending on the age of the client), parent-child sessions, and parent-sessions. In her work with adults, Dr. Serruya-Green collaborates with clients in the process of identifying needs and objectives and understanding the factors - social, emotional and otherwise - that hinder and foster meaningful growth.

Dr. Serruya-Green is the mother of 3 children with special-needs and the daughter of South-American immigrants; she speaks Spanish passably, if imperfectly. Her personal background informs her special interests in neurodivergence, cultural assimilation and the vast complexities of identity-formation and community-building in the modern world.

Annie Steinberg, M.D.

Dr. Steinberg is a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist who is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Steinberg directs the Child Forensic Psychiatry track in the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and supervises adult and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

She is currently in private practice after almost twenty years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she co-directed a center in support of the rights of children to be safe in their homes and families. Previously, her clinical work was based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Children’s Seashore House, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. She is board certified in pediatrics, adult, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Steinberg has treated hundreds of children who have experienced trauma, abuse, and neglect; including cases of sexual abuse involving children and adolescents, many of whom have other developmental disorders. Dr. Steinberg’s current work in forensic, adult, child and adolescent psychiatry has a special emphasis on post traumatic disorders; attachment disorders; and family, education, mental health, and disability law. Since 2002, she has conducted seminars for judges, child protection agencies, and district attorneys’ offices on the mental health and developmental issues of childhood and adolescents. For the past ten years, she has been involved with mass tort litigation and class actions, working both with defense and plaintiff’s firms, and she has been court appointed to assist in the allocation of mediated settlements.

Rebecca Whitten, Psy.D., M.Ed.

Rebecca Whitten is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with adult individuals and couples. She graduated from Widener University in 2009 with both her masters in human sexuality education and doctorate in clinical psychology. She has worked in outpatient settings since.

In addition to working with adults coping with anxiety and depression, she works with couples around a variety of issues across the lifespan. She also specializes in working with women around female sexual pain and dysfunction, and the physical and emotional effects of infertility, pregnancy, and the postpartum period.

Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia

The Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia is a four year psychoanalytic training program concentrating on relational approaches to psychoanalysis and intensive psychotherapy. Local faculty, as well as nationally renowned relational analysts, provide supervision and teach their courses. It is the hope and intent of this institute to provide an educational experience of genuine rigor and excitement and, through the analysis and supervision, an emotional experience of great depth and intensity. It is also the Institutes wish to make training feasible and practical, to prepare therapists to be analysts in the 21st century, responsive to personal and professional contexts of candidates' lives, given that psychoanalytic work now engages different treatment modalities, frequencies of session, and different sets of difficulties in living. If interested in this training program, contact David Mark.

La Puerta Abierta

The mission of La Puerta Abierta is to improve access to quality, holistic mental health support in the Latino immigrant and refugee community through education, collaboration and service. An important aspect of LPA's work is providing pro bono individual and family counseling with youth and families who cannot access services elsewhere due to language, economic, legal and social barriers. La Puerta Abierta works with those who are impacted by immigration, lack of documentation, displacement of various family members, and the subsequent trauma and chaos that is perpetuated by these experiences. In addition, we collaborate closely with other providers, such as schools, clinics and other community programs, with the goal of shifting attitudes and service delivery practices that are responsive to the complex experiences and needs of our immigrant and refugee community members.