voted best therapy psychotherapy practice in New Jersey
voted best therapy psychotherapy practice in New Jersey
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Noel is an open, honest, highly supportive and understanding psychotherapist. She creates a warm and safe environment where her clients feel comfortable being their full selves.
Using a psychodynamic approach, Noel leads her clients to spark connections between their past and present so that they can actualize their sense of control over their lives through increased awareness. She fosters a process that helps her clients restructure conscious and unconscious patterns of thinking and behavior. Noel works with children, adults and teens. She practices individual, couples and family counseling.
Noel utilizes a highly individualized and tailored approach with each of her clients. Through evidenced based treatment such as EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, meditation and mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and strengths perspective, Noel propels her clients progress toward goals they set for themselves. Noel keeps her client’s goals, wants and needs at the forefront of the work.
Graduating from Coastal Carolina University with an undergraduate degree in Sociology, track in Criminology and Master of Social Work degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey, Noel is a highly educated individual and esteemed clinician.
Reach out to Noel directly via phone or text at
732-947-4447
Email nrapp@leapsych.com
Psychotherapist | Hazlet
Samantha is a warm, compassionate and understanding psychotherapist. She creates a safe and comfortable space for her clients to experience the magic of therapy.
Samantha is dedicated to cultivating a deep connection with her clients that nurtures self-exploration and growth. She provides a positive, strengths-based approach, incorporating mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies. Her goal is to support her clients to live their best lives and be their favorite version of themselves.
Working with children, teens and adults, and practicing individual, family and couples’ counseling, Samantha works closely with her clients toward achieving the goals they set for themselves. Samantha is passionate about the work she does, as this is her life-calling. She stays with her clients every step of the way in their therapeutic journey to self-actualization. Her hope is always to elevate her clients’ experience of themselves and the world.
Graduating from Monmouth University with a bachelor's degree in social work and attaining a master's degree from Monmouth University in Social Work, Samantha is a well trained professional and valued asset to LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy.
Reach out to Samantha directly via phone or text at
732-947-4767
Email SCiparis@leafpsych.com
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Katarina is a sincere, compassionate, and kindhearted psychotherapist. She creates a soothing and secure space, where her clients can feel comfortable to be their authentic selves. Throughout the therapeutic journey, Katarina considers it to be a privilege and an honor to accompany clients on one, while she believes in always offering them a positive regard and guidance alongside of them through collaboration, in order for her clients to grow and to fulfill their own potential as individuals, as well as valuing themselves and their lives.
Practicing individual, couples, and family therapy with adolescents and adults, Katarina utilizes integrative approaches through aspects of evidence-based treatment, such as dialectical behavior therapy, trauma-focused care, mindfulness-based therapy, humanistic therapy, energy psychology, and strength-based therapy, all of which allows her clients to be the primary focus of the helping process.
Graduating from Monmouth University with an undergraduate and graduate degree in Social Work, Katarina has gained substantial clinical and advocacy experience that has further shaped her into a driven, insightful, and empathetic clinician.
Reach out to Katarina directly via phone or text at
732-947-4076.
Email kgrimaldi@leafpsych.com
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Julia is an insightful, non-judgmental, and reflective psychotherapist. Julia creates an environment that is the most conducive for her clients. By building trusting relationships and using evidence-based practices, each session feels comfortable, safe and supportive.
Julia believes self-awareness is the first step towards an expanded level of consciousness, establishing a deeper understanding and compassion for self. She ensures treatment is collaborative between the client and herself to help individuals live happier and healthier by overcoming struggles life may bring. This line of work comes naturally to Julia; thus, she dedicates her career to improving the lives of others by thinking outside the box.
Julia utilizes eclectic therapy, an approach that adapts to each client's unique needs, which can involve various treatment methods and a combination of therapeutic tools to be most effective for the individual. Julia is familiar with working with all ages while practicing individual, family, and couples counseling.
After graduating from Marist College with a bachelor’s in Social Work and earning a Master’s in Social Work from Seton Hall University, Julia’s care is creative and impressionable.
Reach out to Julia Sgro directly via phone or text at 732-947-4858
Email JSgro@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist | Hazlet
Megan is an empathetic, compassionate, flexible, and supportive psychotherapist. She believes in cultivating an open and safe environment for her clients to express themselves. Megan has always believed in the importance and benefits of therapy as we continue to grow as individuals. She understands each therapeutic path is individualized and is respectful of her each of her client’s journey's.
Her mission is to create a welcoming and non-judgmental atmosphere for her clients to address identified challenges while recognizing their strengths. Megan utilizes a person-centered and strengths-based approach, focusing on the individual and their goals. Megan incorporates motivational interviewing, mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies into sessions to assist her clients in meeting their goals and needs.
Megan has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families of various cultural backgrounds.
Megan graduated from Centenary College with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work before completing her Master’s degree in Social Work at Rutgers University.
Reach out to Dr. Spada directly via phone or text at 732-947-4097
Email MKelly@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist | Sea Girt
Kate brings a wealth of experience and commitment to facilitate healing through trauma-informed care. Her professional journey is rooted in the belief that true well-being extends beyond traditional therapeutic modalities, emphasizing a holistic and integrative approach.
One distinctive aspect of Kate’s therapeutic approach is the integration of somatic, body-based interventions. These interventions assist clients in learning how to connect their feelings to the sensations they experience in their bodies. Somatic therapies develop stronger self-awareness and coping skills to manage the challenges that come with life. This approach empowers clients to reconnect with their bodies, fostering resilience and promoting lasting healing.
In addition to general therapeutic practices with adults, couples, and children, Kate specializes in maternal mental health. Here, she creates a safe space to help mothers navigate the complexities of infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum challenges, and the broader spectrum of maternal well-being. Kate integrates evidence-based therapies with a holistic approach, fostering healing and resilience in her clients as they embark on the transformative journey of motherhood.
Graduating with her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences from the University of Oklahoma and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California, Kate is a collaborative and inclusive therapist.
Reach out to Kate directly via phone or text at 732-947-4117
Email KWilliams@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist, | Sea Girt
Compassionate and dedicated, Heather draws on strong listening skills and empathy to create a calm and safe environment in order to meet clients where they are and to empower them to be the experts in their own lives. Combining traditional talk therapy with motivational interviewing, mindfulness practices and cognitive behavioral techniques, Heather supports her clients in navigating through their presenting concerns.
After working as a family law attorney for over 20 years, Heather received her MSW in Clinical Practice with Families and Children. During her time as an attorney, Heather focused her practice on resolving issues related to domestic violence restraining orders, custody, parenting time, alienation and reunification and divorce. Heather is also a certified court mediator and has been trained in the collaborative law process.
With this experience, Heather brings a specialized knowledge to her social work practice where she hopes to help couples and individuals who may find themselves entrenched in the court process work through the emotional toll such an experience takes on a person’s mental health. Heather also has experience in treating adolescents, adults, seniors and couples from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and bereavement, life transitions, adverse life experiences, and trauma, as well as other more extensive mental health illnesses.
After graduating from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BS degree in Criminology, Heather attended St. Joseph’s University where she received a MS degree also in Criminology. Thereafter, Heather received her Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law and concluded her education at Monmouth University, where she received her Master’s in Social Work.
Reach out to Heather directly via phone or text at 732.947.4147
Email HMartin@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist, Practice Owner & Founder | Colts Neck
Dr. Spada is an established and highly sought-out psychotherapist. She runs her practice in a private and discrete location in Colts Neck, New Jersey www.DanaSpada.com She is the founder of LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy located in Colts Neck, Little Silver, Sea Girt, and Hazlet New Jersey.
Dr. Spada has been practicing psychotherapy for 22 years. Her sound clinical knowledge and passion towards her work are commendable and make her a valued asset in her practice. She has an individualized approach to client care and carefully considers all aspects of her clients physical and mental health in the interest of properly treating them.
Dr. Spada has a passion for creative and deep-reaching individual, family, and couples’ therapy and does her best to support her clients to live their best lives. A well-trained professional, Dr. Spada earned her master's degree in social work from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She also holds a Ph.D. in social work from Adelphi University.
Dr. Spada is uncompromising in her dedication to the well-being of her clients. Her practice philosophy is to provide holistic care that is respectful of the concerns, values, and aspirations of her clients. She believes in empowering her clients by creating a safe space to explore and connect with their deeper selves.
Working with children, teens and adults providing individual, family, couples and marriage therapy, Dr. Spada brings a gravitational energy to her practice that is compassionate, warm and authentic. She fosters an environment where her clients feel free to be their unfiltered selves, creating an opportunity for them to be fully seen, heard and understood. This leads to a special process that allows her clients to access their unconscious world. Learning about this unconscious world sparks deeper connections and awareness that leads to greater control and mobility in one’s life.
Through understanding oneself, clients can connect with patterned states of mind and ways of being as habitual. Henceforth, reconstruct their emotional homeostasis in alignment with their goals. Through self-love, compassion and healing, a freer more fulfilling existence emerges. Dr. Spada focuses’ on the relationship with oneself, as it is the most critical relationship in one’s lifetime. It is ultimately the projection of how one sees and experiences the world around them.
Dr. Spada brings high presence, focus, intentionality and deep healing energy to her practice. She is appreciates being with her clients on their journey to self-discovery and loves to be a part of the beautiful growth that inevitably ensues.
Reach out to Dr. Spada directly via phone or text at 516.236.9401
Email drdanaspada@gmail.com
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