Welcome to
Balance Mental Health Counseling
“Changing your relationship with anxiety starts here.”
– Tanairy Fernandez
– Tanairy Fernandez
We specialize in perinatal depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders in the pregnancy and postpartum period.
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.” – Dr. Seuss
Looking for a confidential space to talk about your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors? Click here to learn more about the counseling services we offer.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers
Searching for a therapist that provides play therapy to children? Look no further. Click here to read about the services we can offer your child.
“Toys are the child’s words.” – APT
The Balance Mental Health Counseling (Balance MHC) practice was founded on the basis of expanding mental health services to the communities of Long Island. We pride ourselves in having diverse mental health professionals, extensive clinical training in areas of specializations, and using evidence based treatment to witness improvements in our clients. We have been serving the Huntington Community for almost a decade.
We specialize in working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related anxiety disorders in children and women during the perinatal period (pregnancy and postpartum).
Appearances by Balance MHC.
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. She proudly sits on the Dean Advisory board of St. John’s University School of Education. 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 an Associate Professor of Counseling and Coordinator of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Mercer University.
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 Tanairy Fernandez.
Virginia considers counseling to be about finding the meaningful life you want to create for yourself, within a collaborative environment. Virginia completed her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from 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 dedicated to creating a therapeutic environment where clients can feel safe exploring their thoughts and emotions without fear of judgment. She is devoted to a collaborative process of helping clients define and achieve their goals. Kayla believes in the transformative power of therapy where clients gain deeper self-understanding to attain high efficacy on how to cope in times of adversity and foster significant change in their lives that are parallel to their genuine beliefs. Kayla utilizes interventions from a Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approach to help clients diminish negative thought patterns while fostering positive thoughts, behaviors, and coping strategies. She also integrated techniques including Mindfulness and Self Compassion to increase overall well-being and resilience. Kayla has a strong interest in working with teens and young adults regarding a variety of issues stemming from anxiety, depression, and adjustment challenges. Kayla has completed her graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Molloy University.
Under clinical supervision with Dr. Tyce Nadrich.
Sabirah is a limited permit mental health counselor. She has completed her clinical mental health counseling degree from St. John’s University. Over the years, she has gained some experience working with children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. In addition to working with children, she has a strong interest in working with women during the pregnancy and postpartum period struggling with anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and body focused repetitive behaviors (hair pulling and skin picking). 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, exposure response prevention, and person-centered therapy to help meet her clients’ needs.
Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.
Anna is a graduate mental health counseling intern. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at St. Bonaventure University. Anna is a licensed massage therapist for over a decade, and understands the importance of utilizing a holistic approach in her counseling process. She strives to create a space for her client’s that is respectful, and non-judgemental, where children, adolescents, and adults feel safe and heard. Anna uses an integrative approach, incorporating interventions from Solution Focused Therapy, Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Mindfulness, and Person-Centered Therapy. Her goal is to help clients improve communication and coping skills, promote positive behavior change, identify their own goals and solutions to problems, and strengthen self-esteem. Anna seeks to understand the uniqueness of her clients with the intention of working collaboratively to create an environment where clients will gain the skills to live a happier, healthier, more balanced life.
Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.
Shannon is a graduate mental health counseling intern. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Molloy University. Shannon’s counseling style stems from both a Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approach, as well as integrates mindfulness. Shannon has an interest in supporting children, adolescents, young adults and adults through challenging life transitions. Her goal is to help foster the coping skills necessary to support a healthy lifestyle with meaningful relationships. Shannon aims to give her clients the space to share their story in a supportive and empathetic environment.
Under clinical supervision with Tanairy Fernandez.
Katie is a graduate mental health counseling intern. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at St. John’s University. Katie believes in a humanistic approach that emphasizes a warm and nonjudgmental attitude when working with her clients. Katie strives to cultivate a supportive therapeutic space aiming for personal growth, developing coping strategies, fostering healthy relationships and improving communication. Katie utilizes a Person-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approach to help redirect clients’ negative automatic thoughts and form healthier, more productive thinking patterns. Katie has an interest in working with teens, young adults and adults from all walks of life. Kate aspires to enhance her client’s mental well-being, achieve a greater quality of life and reach their full potential.
Therapy sessions are goal-directed, future focused, and client centered. Each session promotes a time to learn about oneself, and how to apply the skills learned in therapy to the outside world. The therapeutic orientations practiced are Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT), Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), and Mindfulness therapy.
Therapy is also available in Spanish and Creole!
Individual and Family therapy is available for Children, Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults. Balanced Mental Health Counseling provides psychotherapy for the following concerns:
Counseling services are available to children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 years old. Both groups are faced with many daily challenges such as coping with concentration, anger outburst, social development, peer pressure, fears, worries, behavioral issues, and lack of self-image. To engage our children clients we provide Behavioral therapy with a combination of Play therapy. Children clients enjoy Play therapy because it makes them feel like the counselor has entered into their world, while allowing the counselor to understand the child’s behaviors and feelings. For our adolescent clients we focus on CBT. Through CBT adolescents will learn how their thinking impacts their feelings and behaviors. In addition to individual treatment we suggest Family therapy in order to receive the most effective outcome.
Counseling services are available to young adults’ ages 18 to 35 years old. During this period in adulthood one may experience difficult life changes which can cause Anxiety, Depression, stress, relationship conflict, career/college challenges, and Adjustment disorders. We focus on using CBT, SFBT, and Mindfulness orientations to treat young adults. As a young adult, life can get complicated. We are here to help through this difficult transition.
We provide services to adults struggling with issues affecting their daily functioning. Adulthood comes with its unique set of challenges. We are here to help with easing transition like parenthood, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (prenatal and postpartum), relationship changes, loss, and retirement. Our therapeutic orientations for treating adults are CBT and Mindfulness.
The office space at Balance MHC is located in a quiet residential area. Rooms are designed with mindfulness and tranquility in mind. Clients are able to enjoy complementary fresh coffee, tea, and baked goods while waiting for their session. Enjoy a calm and pleasant waiting room with relaxing tunes in the background. Our focus is for you to feel at peace and comfortable in your therapeutic environment.
Online therapy is beneficial for people who find it difficult to commit to a set schedule for therapy. Online therapy tends to be a successful therapeutic tool for Adolescents and Young Adults. At Balance MHC we provide confidential online therapy. Utilizing online therapy we are able to reach clients who live outside the Long Island area.
We happily accept the following insurances:
All major credit/debit cards (including HSA), checks, and cash are accepted for payment. Please write checks to “Balance Mental Health Counseling”.
We also accept Out-of-Network insurance. We can provide you with all the necessary information you may need to receive your out-of-network insurance. Clients who receive out-of-network benefits are typically reimbursed up to 85% of the counseling fee.
For clients with no health insurance Balance MHC provides reasonable out-of-pocket fee.
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical and mental health care will cost. Under the law, health care providers need to give clients who don’t have insurance, or who are not using insurance, an estimate of the expected charges for medical services.
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services. You can ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service. If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. You will receive a copy of your Good Faith Estimate.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.
165 E Main St
Huntington, NY 11743
o. 631-572-8912