our team.
MELISSA JOHNSON, PSYD | Co-Director & Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Melissa Johnson is a depth-oriented therapist and provides individual adult, couple, and group therapy. She has extensive experience in addressing depression and anxiety, loneliness, dysfunctional relationship patterns, life transitions, fertility, pregnancy and postpartum issues, as well as gender, sexuality, and bi/multicultural identity issues.
Dr. Johnson believes that a safe, authentic, and trusting therapeutic relationship plays a key role in healing, learning, and growing . Her approach to therapy is relational, collaborative, active, and nonjudgmental. She values transparency and flexibility and encourages open and direct feedback from clients.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 021039
PHILICIA RUBIN, PSYD | Co-Director & Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Philicia Rubin is a licensed clinical psychologist with experience providing brief and long-term therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples. She specializes in depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, issues related to gender, sexuality, and identity, as well as undergraduate and graduate student mental health.
Dr. Rubin believes that a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship is the key to a successful therapy. She approaches therapy with a warm, collaborative, and down-to-earth style and strives to create a space where her clients can feel safe to be their true, authentic, and open selves. She uses genuine curiosity, compassion and sense of humor to foster connection.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 021098
MARISSA FRUCHTER, PSYD | Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Marissa Fruchter is a licensed clinical psychologist with experience providing short and long-term psychotherapy to adolescents, young adults, older adults, and couples. She specializes in depression, anxiety, trauma, life changes, relationship dynamics and identity. She has extensive experience in college mental health and previously served as a trauma specialist in a university setting, where she provided targeted treatment for survivors of sexual assault. Dr. Fruchter also enjoys working with artists and other individuals in creative fields, and has previously led expressive arts therapy groups.
Dr. Fruchter prioritizes building trusting and collaborative therapeutic relationships. She provides a warm and nonjudgmental environment and is flexible in her treatment, incorporating elements from several therapy approaches in order to tailor treatment to the needs of each individual. Her treatment is influenced by psychodynamic therapy, CBT, and ACT/mindfulness-based treatments, among others.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 022923
MAGGIE DUNLEAVY, LMSW | Therapist
Maggie provides therapy to adults and couples across the lifespan. They enjoy supporting clients in their exploration and healing around issues of gender identity, sex and sexuality, loss and grief, depression, anxiety, cultivating healthy relationships, and self-acceptance. Additionally, Maggie specializes in therapeutic work with queer and trans clients.
Maggie believes that the most important aspect of therapeutic work is the creation of an affirming and safe relationship between therapist and client. Their approach prioritizes warmth, kindness, and authenticity. Maggie’s therapeutic practice is informed by critical race theory as well as queer and feminist theory and grounded in an awareness of the impact of marginalization and systemic oppression on mental health. They work from a trauma-informed and eclectic style of practice, utilizing elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy, relational cultural therapy, internal family systems, acceptance and commitment therapy, and narrative therapy. Additionally, pulling from their experience in the performing arts and in somatic movement practice, they use somatic focused mindfulness practices when appropriate or useful in supporting their clients' relationship with emotions and how they are felt in the body.
pronouns: they/them/theirs
License No. 113423
CORINNE LYKINS, PSYD | Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Corinne Lykins is a licensed psychologist with extensive experience providing therapy to adults and couples around concerns related to depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Dr. Lykins specializes in issues of identity, self-acceptance, trauma recovery, the process of building and deepening relationships. She has worked with a diverse range of queer and trans clients and is experienced in therapeutic approaches that affirm gender and sexual diversity.
Dr. Lykins approaches therapy with an awareness of the impact of social, cultural and systemic factors on wellbeing and centers trauma-informed, feminist, and culturally responsive frameworks in session. She believes that consent, collaboration, and attention to power dynamics are necessary in creating a safe and mutually empowering therapy relationship with her clients.
Dr. Lykins incorporates relational, psychodynamic, and attachment-focused approaches in psychotherapy. She recognizes the importance of humor, connection, and creativity in both coping and thriving.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 026409
WILLIAM HAGEE, LMSW | Therapist
William provides brief and long-term therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples. He has extensive experience assisting clients with emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, sex and sexual identity, recent or resurfacing trauma, and life transitions. He specializes in issues of intimate/relational aggression and other forms of acting out, as well as sexual and non-sexual trauma, internalized stigma, and pressured masculinity.
William utilizes psychodynamic, relational, and narrative psychotherapy from a trauma-focused, person-centered approach in order to foster exploration and understanding of how past experiences inform current challenges. He implements strategies from motivational interviewing and DBT to empower clients to develop skills in emotional processing, mindfulness, and coping with stress and anxiety.
William believes in honoring a client’s authentic experience in regards to culture, race, ethnicity, neurodiversity, gender identity, sexuality, and faith. He approaches clients with empathy, sincerity, transparency, and humor as he honors each client as the expert on their own lives. His top priority is to create a safe and warm therapeutic space that is racially and politically aware, LGBTQ-affirming, spiritually mindful, and sex-positive.
pronouns: he/him/his
License No. 114740
GRACE JOHNSON, PSYD | Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Grace Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist providing individual and couples therapy to adults around concerns including interpersonal/relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, identity development, life transitions, trauma, and loss. Dr. Johnson has particular clinical interest in mindfulness, exploration of attachment patterns, gender and sexual diversity, young adulthood, university/college student mental health.
Dr. Johnson’s approach to therapy is integrative, utilizing relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). She utilizes these technique to guide her clients in understanding their relational patterns, facilitating meaningful changes in their relationships, as well as building skills to better handle day-to-day challenges. She places an emphasis on environmental factors including community, culture, race, and power dynamics with the hope to provide equitable, contextualized, and holistic care. She engages with her clients compassionately, directly, and often with humor to create an authentic and safe therapeutic relationship, while also actively working toward their goals.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 025177
HANNAH GARTNER, LMSW | Therapist
Hannah is a depth-oriented therapist providing therapy to adults and couples across the lifespan. She enjoys working with clients around identity-related and interpersonal issues, and finds joy in helping people build their curiosity and insights about themselves. Hannah also supports clients around issues of self-acceptance, sex and sexuality, loss and grief, loneliness, depression, anxiety, dysfunctional relationship patterns, and existential concerns.
Hannah believes that it is in the context of our most intimate relationships that our most engrained and dysfunctional interpersonal patterns tend to manifest. She strives to help her clients cultivate more self-awareness and intentionality in their relationships (including the relationship they have with themselves), in order to foster the types of connections they want to have, rather than unconsciously repeating what is familiar.
Hannah’s approach to therapy is warm, nonjudgmental, and collaborative. She uses compassion and humor to cultivate meaningful connections with her clients, and to create a space where individuals feel safe to explore all parts of themselves. As a relational, process-oriented therapist, Hannah believes in the importance of attending to the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship, and encourages transparency and ongoing feedback from clients. She works with select clients on a twice-weekly basis to deepen their therapeutic experience.
pronouns: she/her/hers
License No. 119292
ANA LOMIDZE | Postdoctoral Psychologist
Dr. Ana Lomidze is a postdoctoral clinical psychologist with experience providing brief and long-term therapy to adults in outpatient and inpatient settings. She has extensive experience working with patients through varied issues including complex trauma, depression, anxiety, disordered eating, life changes, grief and loss. She is focused on issues surrounding social identity and systemic oppression. She also is dedicated to supporting patients as they navigate self-acceptance, relationship issues and more complex existential concerns about the world around them. Additionally, she has strong interest in working with young adults, college students, and people in the arts.
Dr. Lomidze is dedicated to ongoing learning and growing as a professional. She uses an integrative approach to therapy, utilizing relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, person-centered therapy, attachment-based therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She is highly flexible and able to use different techniques catering specifically to the individual needs of clients. Dr. Lomidze believes in giving people a safe, warm and nonjudgmental environment needed to establish trust to process their inner world. She believes in cultivating a strong, trusting relationship with her patients and encourages ongoing feedback.
pronouns: she/her/hers
Permit No. P125279