OUR STAFF

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Christina is a clinical social worker who has specialized in the field of bereavement and end-of-life care for 20 years. She provides counseling services and facilitates support groups for children, adolescents and adults. Her goal is to give clients a safe, nonjudgmental space to process their loss, normalize their emotions and experiences, empower them with knowledge about grief, and provide effective tools to help them cope and find healing. When working with children, she incorporates play and expressive arts. Christina earned her master’s degree in clinical social work at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in grief and loss, terminal illness, life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She utilizes a variety of treatment modalities tailored to meet the needs of each client. She is a member of the National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC), Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), Portage County Suicide Prevention Coalition and National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

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Melanie Tabak, LPC, Ph.D

Email: mt.kellysgriefctr@gmail.com

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Melanie is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with you to approach all problems with empathy, non-judgement and mindfulness. She helps you explore meaning through trauma and grief and helps you to process through the emotions you feel using an existential/humanistic perspective and evidence-based practice. She knows how overwhelmed many of us feel and is ready to help you through life’s difficult challenges. Melanie uses her Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology to inform her counseling practice and specializes in stress and coping and counseling those experiencing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, PTSD and family and relationship stressors. Melanie is a certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider (CTMH). Melanie received her Ph.D in Psychology and M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Kent State University and is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA).

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Phyllis Vair, LPCC-S, CT

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Phyllis works with individuals, couples and children walking with them through their grief and life journey. Using clinically tested and evidenced-based interventions she has worked with many, both individually and in specialized groups for grief. As a licensed professional clinical mental health counselor Phyllis focuses on grief and trauma while also empowering individuals to overcome obstacles with anxiety, trauma and depression. Phyllis is an EMDR Trained Therapist and Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement (CT). Phyllis earned her degree from Kent State University. She is a professional member of American Counseling Association (ACA), Ohio Counseling Association (OCA) and Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC).

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Maria Wentz, LPC

Email: mw.kellysgriefctr@gmail.com

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Maria’s counseling style is to listen intently and form strong collaborative connections when she is working with both children and adults. (Past clients have described Maria as “warm and caring.”) She values a whole-person view of therapy. Maria integrates therapy approaches that weave in multiple psychology theories, including Acceptance Commitment Therapy, CBT, Person-Centered Therapy, creative/art therapies, and mind/body based practices. Maria’s specialties include grief/bereavement, anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, and life transitions. Maria earned her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from John Carroll University and is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA).

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