OUR TEAM
Aimee Gallin, LCSW-R, MA, Managing Director, Clinical Supervisor, SEP
Aimee Gallin (she/her/hers) is Director of MPG, and is a Somatic experiencing practitioner and Gestalt influenced psycho-dynamic psychotherapist, working with individuals, families and groups to assist in meeting therapeutic goals. Aimee works with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression and panic— often as a result of both developmental (growing up) and shock (events) trauma—as well as working to help people maintain positive relationships.
Amie Anderson, LMSW
Amie Rose Anderson, LMSW (she/her), values therapy as an opportunity for connection, empowerment, and exploration. She approaches her work with adults, adolescents, and children from a strengths-based, collaborative framework, creating an environment where clients can express themselves fully and explore areas of their lives where they feel inhibited, distressed, or unable to move forward. Amie has experience working with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship challenges, ADHD, body-based oppression, and trauma. Working within a Body Liberation framework, Amie welcomes anyone who has lived with body-based oppression due to skin color, body size, gender, and the expansive variety of intersectional identities.
Linda Balloqui-Smith, MCAT, LMSW
Linda Balloqui-Smith (she/her) is a dynamic psychotherapist who for the past two decades has been working with families, adults, and couples in private, inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings. She believes therapy is a process that helps us reach our authentic selves through self-awareness, reflection and efficacy where strengths get fortified and challenges confronted.
Bobby Bui, PHD, Clinical Supervisor
Bobby Bui (he/him) is a licensed psychologist who provides therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Trained in multiple therapeutic models he adopts an integrative approach as it is flexible to patients’ needs and sensitive to the therapeutic alliance. He also conducts psychological, educational, and neuropsychological assessments, and is a Clinical Supervisor at MPG. Bobby possesses over a decade of experience practicing psychology in diverse clinical settings. Prior to joining Maverick, Bobby worked at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City, where he completed psychoeducational assessments and provided consultation to teachers and learning specialists in the lower school.
Kelly Carrone, LMSW
Kelly Carrone (they/them) is a skilled and compassionate provider who specializes in working with gender and sexual minorities, particularly clients who are transgender, queer, and/or polyamorous. They focus on trauma (complex and acute), exploration of gender, anxiety, mood disorders, relationships, parenting, ADHD, neurodiversity-affirming care, and all aspects of sexuality.
Ford Fishman, LMSW
Ford Fishman (he/him) practices psychodynamic therapy within a relational framework to foster insight, shift patterns, and cultivate greater ease in oneself and one’s relationships. Ford recognizes the enduring impact of intergenerational paradigms and early life experiences on individuals' relationships with themselves and others. Ford places a strong emphasis on the therapeutic relationship as a secure container for clients to explore interpersonal dynamics, bring unconscious beliefs to light, and experiment with new ways of relating. His approach engages with the effects of trauma, encompassing interpersonal transgressions, systemic oppression, and intergenerational trauma.
Fanon Frazier, LMSW
Fanon (he/him) is a psychodynamic social worker who applies integrated theories and modalities, though is informed mostly by his own journey and learning from teachers and mentors. He holds deep space and presence of mind for the whole person, including his clients’ environment, struggles, relationships, beliefs, and the other complicated areas of life. He has worked with individuals (early adolescents and up), couples, and families – around life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional regulation, and other diagnoses.
Jessica Hong, LCSW, Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, SEP
Jess Hong (she/her) is Korean-American Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and Clinical Supervisor. She practices with the intention that all beings have profound innate capacity in healing and connection with their lived experiences leading to shifts that allow one to gain deep insight into their own embodied resilience and vitality.
Olesya Jacques, MFT-LP
Olesya (Ah-le-see-uh) Kim Jacques (she/her) provides person-centered psychotherapy around a broad spectrum of issues to individuals, couples, and families. She acknowledges the importance of therapeutic alliance as a foundation for healing and the beginning of the explorative journey. Olesya sees each client as a unique being with the innate ability to heal, and with the desire to achieve balance, meaningful in their own way.
Carrie Rubury, LMSW
Carrie Rubury, LMSW (she/her) has built her career accompanying individuals through moments of transformation and believes deeply in each person’s inherent power and strength to heal and to create meaningful change. Through the dynamic, collaborative therapeutic connection, and a relational perspective, her practice is rooted in the resiliency of people, both individually and collectively.
Felix Sabornido, LMSW
Felix Sabornido (they/them) uses an integrated approach to improve the self-esteem and self-worth of their clients while empowering them to build healthy relationships in their own lives. Human connections come in many forms, and Felix honors and has experience working with polyamorous and monogamous relationships.
Sheila Shidnia, MFT-LP
Sheila Shidnia (she/her) holds board certification as a music therapist and has undergone post-graduate training in Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT). Currently pursuing a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University, Sheila's practice is enriched by her extensive background.
Devin Wiesner, LMSW
Devin Wiesner (he/him) works with adults and couples, helping them manage anxiety, depression, conflict, disharmonious relationship patterns, and other mental health issues. He is honored to collaborate with and support people in their journey of change and recognizes the choice to begin therapy can be difficult, that it takes courage to acknowledge one's struggles and problems.
Katherine Young, LMHC, Senior Clinician
Katherine Young (she/her) approaches the sacred work of therapy from a spirit of presence. She believes that what brings you in and what you want to explore lead therapist and client down a path together. She aims to journey with you, offering support where needed, mirroring your integral wholeness, and allowing you to guide. Katherine offers questions, inquiries, and explorations along the way.