Facilitators

Facilitators

Andrea Levine

Andrea Levine is a social worker in private practice in Washington, DC, who works with adults across the lifespan, young adults...

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Lashondra Love, LGSW, LMSW

Lashondra Love is deeply committed to the work of Cancer Support Community (CSC), having previously served as a Program Associa...

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Charles Domingue

Charles Domingue, estadounidense residente en España, es cofundador del Healing Circle del Cáncer de Próstata LGBTQIA+. Tiene l...

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Alfonso Luis

Alfonso Luis Nieves, de nacionalidad española. Es fundador y facilitador del Healing Circle Cáncer de próstata y comunidad LGBT...

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Laqwa Matilpi

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Veronica Brady

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Judith McFarlane

Judith McFarlane is a Professor of Nursing at Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas. Trained by Healing Circles Global, Ju...

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Connie Murphy

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Trish Garland

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Joslyn Trovati, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C

Joslyn Trovati MSW, LICSW, OSW-C is an Oncology Social Worker at the George Washington University Cancer Center, where she prov...

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Yann Leu

Yann Joined a Healing Circle Global circle during a life-threatening illness. She was deeply touched by the healing power broug...

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Paul Puccinelli

Since 2011, Paul has been providing counseling services to children, adults, and couples. Paul received a strong educational fo...

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David Brown

David’s wife was diagnosed with a life threatening illness. David experienced what he found out later to be deep anticipatory g...

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Barbara Reid

Barbara lives in the U.K. and has her own supervision, facilitation and training practice. The wonder of Zoom has enabled her t...

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David Spaw

David is the Founder of Healing Circles Houston. Inspired from his personal experience of healing and by his friend, Michael Le...

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Mark Malinak

Mark is retired, having worked as a substance abuse/mental health counselor and wilderness counselor for 25 years. He lives alo...

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Virginia Barnes Ricketts, MS, LCPC

Virginia is a psychotherapist in private practice in Annapolis, Maryland serving adults and adult families with a broad range o...

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Sara Field, LICSW, OSW-C

Sara is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington, DC, and holds a certification in Oncology Social Work. She...

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Kara Garrett

Kara is a health-supportive chef based in Washington, DC. Following her breast cancer diagnosis in 2013, she embraced the chall...

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Cathryn Pethick, AA, AYS, C-IAYT

Cathryn Pethick, AA, AYS, C-IAYT is a certified yoga therapist and teacher, Ayurveda specialist, and professional chef- whole f...

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Candida DeLuise, LICSW

As a contemplative psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience, Candida integrates mindfulness and psycho-spiritual approa...

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Tina Scott Lassiter

A Creative Wellness Consultant/collagist/photographer/author/podcaster, Tina Scott Lassiter uses the arts, senses, life experie...

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Susi Wyss

Susi Wyss is a public health professional, author, therapeutic writing facilitator and—most of all—a believer in the healing po...

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Renee Sandell, BA, MA, PhD in Art Education

Renee Sandell engages diverse audiences in discovering their creativity and insight through Visual Fitness 4 All hands-on works...

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Melanie Edwards

Melanie Edwards is an award-winning singer, songwriter, pianist, violinist, music practitioner and tv/film composer. She holds ...

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Martina Sestakova

Martina Sestakova (owner at RADOST) engages in textile design, painting, and art education. Martina creates scarves that invoke...

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Kathleen O’Toole

Takoma Park Poet Laureate Kathleen O’Toole is the author of 4 books of poetry (find her at https://kathleenotoolepoetry.com). S...

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Julie McCarter, LCSW

Julie is a fine art photographer and therapist, offering workshops that blend her two worlds of creative expression and emotion...

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Gayle Danley

Soon after crushing the competition at Asheville’s National Poetry Slam in 1994, Gayle Danley entered America’s cla...

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Carole O’Toole

Carole, a survivor of advanced cancer since 1994, is the author of two books on integrative cancer care: “Cancer Community Heal...

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Phebe Duff

Phebe Duff is a long-time meditator and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator. She completed the Community Dhar...

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Susan Salek

Susan is a compassionate practitioner who embraces the healing nature of presence and kindness. Her lived experience and bearin...

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Rebecca Spiro, LGSW

Rebecca grew up in Maryland and studied history at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She then worked in reentry servic...

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Mbahlia Colson

Mbahlia is a mother, educator and a previvor. Her mom died from breast cancer and dad from prostate cancer. After two breast lu...

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Lennie Naughton, LGSW

Lennie Naughton, LGSW, is a social worker in Washington, D.C. with over 10 years of direct service experience supporting both a...

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Abigail Osei-Tutu, LICSW

Abigail is a Palliative Care Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Therapist based in Washington, DC. Prior to her current role...

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Tracy Steffek, MPA

Tracy Steffek, MPA, facilitates Healing Circles that support parents diagnosed with cancer through peer connection, reflection,...

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Lauren Sauer

Lauren Sauer is a two-time osteosarcoma cancer survivor first diagnosed in 2017 when her daughter was 22 months old, and diagno...

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Ilene Gast

Ilene is a lifelong knitter. She fell in love with knitting at age 10 when she received a “Knit your Barbie a Ski Outfit” kit. ...

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Erin Price, LICSW, OSW-C Young Adult and Psychosocial Support Program Director

Erin Price, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C

Erin Price, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C was driven to help others facing cancer shortly after her own breast cancer diagnosis when she wa...

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Lauren Broschak, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C

Lauren is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in DC and Virginia. She has both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in S...

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Nueva Vida

Nueva Vida is an independent nonprofit that provides free, comprehensive, culturally competent cancer services to medicall...

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Mindy Brodsky, LCSW

Mindy Brodsky (pronouns: she/her), LCSW/LICSW, specializes in trauma-informed, strengths-based counseling and group work with a...

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Jessica Gelfarb, LICSW, OSW-C

Jessica is a licensed clinical and certified oncology social worker who has experience working with patients and families facin...

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Sara Richman, LICSW

Sara Richman, LICSW is a licensed and certified oncology clinical social worker (OSW-C). She received her masters in social wor...

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Anne Molofsky

Anne has always been interested in promoting health and wellness. She had a forty-year career as a nutritionist, beginning as a...

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Margaret Haggerty

It is a privilege for Margaret to be part of the energy balancing team for Smith Center for Healing and the Arts. Having had a ...

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Pat Spellman

Pat studied English literature and has a special interest in reading and writing poetry. She has been certified as a Reiki mast...

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Sylvia Sturm, EEM-CLP, RM/T

Sylvia Sturm, EEM-CLP, RM/T, heads our Energy Balancing volunteer team. Sylvia is a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Pra...

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Kevin Mutschler, L.Ac.

Kevin is a board-certified acupuncturist (NCCAOM) and Qigong educator with over twenty-five years experience in healing arts pr...

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Beth Lawrence, RYT500

Beth discovered yoga in early 2002 as a mother of six month old twins. She was looking to get back into shape after their birth...

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Yael Flusberg, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, RMT, MS

Yael Flusberg first came to yoga hoping she could get rid of stuff, namely the ways life’s stresses and traumas had become pain...

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Kiersten Gallagher

Kiersten has served as the Cancer Support Program Director for Smith Center since 2014. Before coming to Smith Center, she had ...

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Denise Feldman

Denise Feldman is a local mixed media artist who discovered the power of creativity as a healing practice after her treatment f...

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Noelle Imparato, PhD

For the past 25 years, Noelle Imparato has been leading her “Painting For Life” workshop that fuses art, psychology, and mindfu...

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Liz Lescault

Liz Lescault, a visual artist and sculptor, has practiced and taught art for over 40 years. Liz is also founder and coordinator...

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Lisa Hahn

Lisa Hahn was diagnosed with MBC de novo in the Fall of 2019. In addition to working full-time and attending doctor appointment...

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Kenneth Johnson

Kenneth Johnson, of Owings Mills, MD, is a founding member and facilitator of the Healing Circle Supporting Gay Men with Prosta...

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Chef Laura Pole

Laura Pole, MSN, RN, OCNS, Chef

Laura, Director of Smith Center’s Nourishment Education Programs, has served as the head retreat chef and nurse consultant sinc...

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Julia Rowland

Julia Rowland, PhD, FAPOS, FASCO

Julia Rowland, PhD, FAPOS, FASCO, is a developmental/clinical psychologist, long-time clinician, teacher and broadly published ...

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