CLINICAL CONSULTING CENTERS AND HIGHREACH EDUCATION - Key Persons
Mario Molinaro, LMHC, is our Clinical Director who is a very experienced clinician; educated and trained in New York City. He has worked in psychiatric hospital settings where he was also the clinical instructor of rotating medical students and psychology students in the psychiatric emergency room.
Mr. Molinaro has worked with a broad population of diverse cultural backgrounds, and psychodiagnostic categories. His graduate education includes Forensic Psychology, School Psychology, and Mental Health Counseling. He is a Certified Bilingual School Psychologist in the State of New York where he also holds the license of Mental Health Counselor (LMHC.) Also, because of his extensive background as a psychotherapist/psycho-diagnostician of people with severe mental illness, with the focus on the "Mind-Body" interaction including medical conditions, he holds the certification status Fellow & Diplomate in Medical Psychotherapy by the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists (ABMP).
Additionally, Mr. Molinaro has worked with all age groups, including Early Intervention for infants, pre-school, school age, adolescents, and adults. He is a provider of individual psychotherapy, family therapy, and group therapy. His approach in counselling is advanced and "integrative", as he believes that the modality used depends on the person he is treating and rejects the idea that "one modality of treatment is good for all".
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- Registered Member of the British Psychological Society
Nori Sarman is a registered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is trained in Early Childhood, Special Education and Applied Psychology.
Ms. Sarman has extensive experience conducting a variety of psycho-educational assessments to help determine individual's current level of functioning and learning profiles. She is actively involved in conducting training and coaching to parents in developing their children's communication, academic and socio-emotional skills. Other than training, she is also sought by clients who are having issues with motivation and behaviour change. Ms Sarman is passionate about human development research since she has seen many positive outcomes through early intervention. She firmly believes that education is a predictor for well-being, life quality and equalitarian societies' development.
Ms. Sarman is focused on providing systematic guidance which includes metacognitive and compensatory learning strategies to individuals with the goal to empower them with lifelong skills to integrate successfully into the mainstream. Her guidance often involves cognitive remediation that helps to strengthen the client's specific areas of cognition that are weak. For example helping clients improve their auditory discrimination, visual memory, auditory memory, attention, planning, organisation, abstract thinking, etc.. Her goal is to assist clients in developing confidence and self-understanding, so they could be more efficient in communicating ideas, completing tasks, solve problems and be cooperative team players.