Tanairy Fernandez is the Founder and Clinical Director of Balance Mental Health Counseling located in Huntington, New York. She is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in Anxiety Disorders. Tanairy has extensive experience counseling clients with Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder (Pregnancy and postpartum). Treats children, adolescents, and adults. Her love for evidence-based therapies she utilizes treatment approaches: Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT) with a focus on Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), and Play therapy. She has completed her graduate education from St. John’s University, and right after graduate school she began her postgraduate training. One of her greatest goals in life is to never stop learning. As a result, she has completed Postgraduate clinical training from International OCD Foundation, Beck Institute, Postpartum Support International, The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors, The Gottman Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health. She serves as a Clinical supervisor for the Graduate Mental Health Counseling internship program at Balance Mental Health Counseling. She provides a warm and welcoming environment for all clients to feel comfortable, and safe to talk about their personal concerns. Her goal with providing counseling is to increase clients’ level of personal understanding through their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Tanairy has a passion for helping clients decrease their fears, and gain control of their life again. In her free time she is cooking, reading, enjoying her family, exploring the historical sights of Long Island, and traveling.

Dr. Tyce Nadrich is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (NY), Board Certified Counselor (NCC), and Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS). He currently serves as the Coordinator of Clinical Training and specializes in providing services for adolescents and adults working through racial ambiguity, biracial identity development, and the intersection of social and mental health issues and racial identity. He also provides services to fathers challenged with paternal postpartum depression, and has extensive experience working with clients with depression, anxiety, and difficulties adjusting and coping. His goal is to provide a warm, welcoming, and culturally competence counseling environment, and assist clients in their development of wellness, stability, and self-sufficiency. He is also a full-time professor at Molloy College’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling program in Rockville Centre.

Darcy Barillas is a bilingual Mental Health Counselor in Long Island, New York. She specializes in counseling adolescents and young adults, and has experience with counseling those who struggle with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Self-harm, and new life transitions. Darcy has a background in a psychodynamic approach to help others gain valuable insight to their past, as well as a background in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help others live a more fulfilling life while teaching healthy new coping skills. She is also a full-time school-based Therapist at Nassau BOCES Middle School.

Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.

Gisela Rivera is a bilingual (Spanish/English) Mental Health Counselor in Long Island, NY. She specializes in working with children, adolescents and adults to help manage life changes and to learn how to cope with stress, anxiety, depression and to promote healing. With a Humanistic or Person Centered approach, the focus of treatment will be supporting the client’s work towards their full potential. Gisela is also a Higher Education Officer for a CUNY college.

Gisela Rivera es una consejera bilingüe (español / inglés) de salud mental en Long Island, Nueva York. Se especializa en trabajar con niños, adolescentes y adultos para ayudar a controlar los cambios en la vida y aprender a lidiar con el estrés, la ansiedad, la depresión y promover la curación. Con un enfoque humanista o centrado en la persona, el enfoque del tratamiento será apoyar el trabajo del cliente hacia su máximo potencial. Gisela también es Oficial de Educación Superior en una Universidad de CUNY.

Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.

Kaitlin is a Mental Health Counselor. Her work focuses on helping clients build stronger relationships with themselves and others, finding coping skills that work for them, and collaboratively identifying and overcoming the patterns and challenges that are getting in the way of having a satisfying life. As a counselor, she seeks to understand her client’s story, concerns, and strengths, and work with them to create increased awareness, safety, and movement toward change. Kaitlin has experience and training with counseling LGBTQ+, anxiety, depression, intimate relationships, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs), and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders. She works with children, adolescents, and adults, and is particularly passionate about helping young adults and teenagers find their way in an increasingly complex world. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Theory, Play therapy, and Mindfulness, and completed her graduate degrees at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan.

Under clinical supervision with Dr. Tyce Nadrich.

Christopher Cannizzaro is a Mental Health Counselor.   After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in  Psychology from The University of Tampa, Chris went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health with a concentration in Athletic Counseling from Springfield College.  Christopher spent time working as a Mental Health Counselor embedded in a Division 1 Athletic Department where he served the student-athletes providing mental health and mental performance services.  Christopher also has experience working with children and their caretakers when he was an In-home Therapist in Springfield, MA.  Alongside using a CBT based therapeutic approach, Christopher likes to incorporate music and arts as a way to provide his clients an opportunity to explore other ways of self- expression.  In his free time, he likes to play the drums and bass guitar, read, and spend time with his family.

Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.

Virginia considers counseling to be about finding the meaningful life you want to create for yourself, within a collaborative environment. Virginia is currently a graduate Mental Health counseling intern, pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Hofstra University. She has an interest in working with women with Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. In addition, counseling children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She considers herself to have an integrative, eclectic approach to therapy with a focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, person centered, and psychodynamic orientations. Virginia welcomes clients of all stages of life to a safe and non-judgmental space to develop an understanding of self, to learn and to heal.

Under clinical supervision with Darcy Barillas.

Kayla is a graduate mental health counseling intern. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Molloy University. Kayla strives to cultivate a therapeutic space where clients feel safe to fully express their thoughts and feelings in an empathetic and nonjudgmental environment. She is devoted to a collaborative process of assisting individuals with identifying and achieving their goals. Kayla believes that the therapeutic process is beneficial in helping clients gain a deeper understanding of their own emotions, attain self-efficacy on how to cope in times of adversity, and ultimately become self-aware to foster significant changes in their lives that are parallel to their genuine beliefs. Kayla utilizes interventions from a Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approach to assist individuals in decreasing negative thought patterns and behaviors while increasing positive thoughts, behaviors, and healthy coping strategies. Kayla has an interest in working with teens, young adults, and adults regarding a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, and adjustment issues.

Under clinical supervision with Dr. Tyce Nadrich.

Melissa is a bilingual, graduate Mental Health Counseling Intern. She is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She has professional experience working with kids and adults in various individual and group counseling settings. Melissa has a passion for working with individuals who have a variety of intersectional identities as she understands the importance that it may place on that individual’s mental well-being. Melissa has an integrative approach to therapy with a focus on Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Overall, her goal is to provide support and guidance in a safe, warm, and open environment.

Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.

Sabirah is a mental health counseling intern, currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling at St. John’s University. Over the years, she has gained some experience working with kids in schools. Sabirah aims to create a therapeutic environment clients feel safe in, encouraging them to express and process their emotions/concerns, while learning healthy coping mechanisms. Her objective is to enable positive change within clients, promote ideas of mindfulness, and guide them through personal discoveries through their mental health journey. Additionally, as an individual of the Indo-Caribbean culture, she hopes to provide treatment to those of similar backgrounds, aiming to decrease the stigma within the culture’s community. She strives to create a judgement-free zone that is comfortable, and will center you in the counseling relationship. Sabirah’s approach is integrative, utilizing interventions from the schools of cognitive behavioral therapy, and person-centered therapy to help meet her clients’ needs.

Valerie Goding is an administrative assistant. She recently completed a Bachelors degree in psychology from Stony Brook University and is working towards pursuing a Masters in social work. Valerie believes everyone deserves the highest level of care and will go the extra mile to assist patients with their needs or concerns. Her goals are to promote a warm, comforting, and welcoming experience for all clients on their journey to healing and wellness. In the future, Valerie hopes to practice therapy with her own clients.