The Food Allergy Counselor Directory

[The FAC Directory has been featured/mentioned by FARE, End Allergies Together, food allergy support groups & shared by allergists]

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Check back often, as the FAC Directory is consistently being updated! If your area isn't represented yet, please know that I aim to locate providers in every state as quickly as possible, so be sure to check back soon. If you know of a counseling/psychology healthcare provider that should be listed, please share the provider's name here.)

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DISCLAIMERS

Clinicians are independent practitioners (or employed by an institution), and are not employees or agents of FAC Directory. Therefore, the FAC Directory shall not be liable for actions or treatments provided by clinicians. Professionals listed here represented that they have adequate knowledge of and/or work with patients managing IgE-mediated food allergies. All providers listed have completed the vetting process.
FAC DIRECTORY DOES NOT ENDORSE ANYONE ON THIS LIST. ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE. ALWAYS CHECK CREDENTIALS WHEN SEEKING ANY MEDICAL OR COUNSELING PROVIDERS/SERVICES.
Professionals listed here gave permission to be listed in this specific directory on this specific webpage, and/or market themselves as being food allergy-knowledgeable. Reprinting or publishing this directory without written consent from the owner is prohibited.

USA

Click on provider's name for their website, or see the information listed next to their names 
*(Counselors may offer telehealth services to residents of their state who don't live local,
|especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, so be sure to inquire with each provider)*

ALABAMA

ALASKA

ARIZONA

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

Marte Matthews, LMFT - (Northern CA) - Focuses include children, families & chronic illness
Melissa Fisher Goldman, LCSW - (Orange County) - Focuses include grief, trauma, life transitions, self esteem/self worth, food allergies
Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT-S - (Telehealth Only) - Specialties include perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, infertility, relationships, and food allergies; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to CA & TX residents)

COLORADO

National Jewish Health – Pediatric Behavioral Health - (Denver) - Multiple clinicians providing individual and family therapy to children and adolescents with chronic illnesses including food allergies, eczema, and asthma. Outpatient and medical day program services are available. (Call 303-398-1355 to schedule) 
Lyndsy Chavarria RN, LPC - (Parker) - Focuses are: food allergies, chronic illness, perinatal mental health, grief/loss; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to CO residents)
Elena Kyrgos, LMFT, NTP, CDWF - (Telehealth Only) - Specialties include food allergies, digestive disorders, chronic illness, transitions, family of origin issues, shame resilience; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to CO residents)

CONNECTICUT

David Kelly, LCSW - (Fairfield County) - Focuses include teens, parenting and food allergies - Phone: 203.505.8782; Email: davidkellylcsw@gmail.com
Kristen Pagulayan MSW, LCSW - (Telehealth Only) - Focuses include food allergies, men’s health/empowerment, neurological disorders specifically aging and memory loss, trauma; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to CT residents)
Cassaundra Popek, LMFT - (Ellington) - Focuses include food allergies, perinatal mental health, trauma/PTSD, family therapy

DELAWARE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (DC AREA)

Linda Herbert, PhD - (DC/Rockville area) - Children's National Hospital Allergy Clinic - services provided services at Children's National office locations; (Director, Psychosocial Clinical Program, Allergy and Immunology @ Children's National)
Ashley Ramos, PhD - (DC/Rockville area) - Children's National Hospital Allergy Clinic; Provides outpatient and consultation services at Children's National office locations

FLORIDA

Lexie Belle, LMHC - (West Palm Beach area) - Focuses include women, teenage girls, and allergy moms/caregivers
Amy Pope-Latham, LCSW - (Ponte Vedra Beach) - Focuses are grief, trauma, anxiety, food allergies - all ages
Jenna Burton, LMHC - (Orlando; Maitland) - Focuses include food allergies, trauma based psychosis, complex trauma

GEORGIA

Debbie Lieberman, LCSW - (Atlanta area) - Focuses are helping children and families affected by chronic health conditions, including food allergy
Kristen Pagulayan MSW, LCSW - (Telehealth Only) - Focuses include food allergies, men’s health/empowerment, neurological disorders specifically aging and memory loss, trauma
Felicia S. Odum, LAPC* - (Statesboro) - Focuses include food allergy anxiety/depression, trauma, addiction, marriage;
*(works under clinical supervision)*
Stephanie Lemmey, MA, APC, NCC* - (Roswell) - Focuses include food allergy management and concerns, including school and healthcare plan navigation, anxiety, behavioral problems, and anger; *(works under clinical supervision)*

HAWAII

Kristen Pagulayan MSW, LCSW - (Telehealth Only) - Focuses include food allergies, men’s health/empowerment, neurological disorders specifically aging and memory loss, trauma; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to HI residents)

IDAHO

Sarah Kearney, LCSW - (Boise) - Specializes in postpartum depression/anxiety, & parenting children w/complex medical, mental health or developmental issues (including food allergies)

ILLINOIS

Tamara Hubbard, LCPC - (Northern/Nwest Suburbs) - Focuses include food allergies, young adults, women/motherhood, phase of life changes; (Telehealth counseling available for IL residents)
Lisa Lombard, PhD - (Western Suburbs & Chicago) - Variety of clinical focuses, including food allergies & pain management
Oak Park Behavioral Medicine - (Western Suburbs/North Shore) - Focuses includes food allergies, digestive illnesses & other health conditions
Rebecca DeNosaquo, Psy.D. - (Northern Suburbs) - Focuses include food allergies, trauma, depression, anxiety, perinatal mental health
Hilary Davis LCPC, LMFT - (Northern Suburbs) - Focuses include Anxiety, trauma, family counseling, food allergies

INDIANA

IOWA

Sandra Fischer, PsyD - (Cedar Rapids) - Focuses include trauma, adjustment issues, anxiety, food allergies

KANSAS

Lisa Ruff, LSCSW - (Kansas City area) - Focuses include food allergies/Celiac, anxiety, depression, and parenting
Jennifer Schmidt - (Overland Park) - Focuses include food allergies, anxiety, depression, and emotional needs correlating with gifted learners

KENTUCKY

LOUISIANA

MAINE

MARYLAND

Judy Wendkos Liss, LCSW-C - (Bethesda) - Areas of focus include food allergies, tweens/teens, and adults
Marisa Sherman, LCPC - (Bowie) - Areas of focus include food allergies, PTSD, anxiety disorders, depression
Collaborative Counseling Center - (Columbia) - Focuses include food allergies, child & adolescent mental health
Linda Herbert, PhD - (DC/Rockville area) - Children's National Hospital Allergy Clinic - services provided services at Children's National office locations; (Director, Psychosocial Clinical Program, Allergy and Immunology @ Children's National)
Ashley Ramos, PhD - (DC/Rockville area) - Children's National Hospital Allergy Clinic; Provides outpatient and consultation services at Children's National office locations

MASSACHUSETTS

Dr. Anne Welsh, PhD - (Cambridge) - Areas of focus include peripartum concerns and the transition to motherhood; eating disorders and food or body related concerns (including working with IgE-mediated food allergies, dietary limitations/celiac/IBS, or food related difficulties); individuals facing transition points,; college and graduate students; (NOTE: Also provides distance counseling/telehealth to MA residents)

MICHIGAN

Kelly Ahti, LMSW - (Grand Rapids) - Focuses include trauma, anxiety, grief and loss, food allergies, medical conditions; offers telehealth for MI residents
Emily M. Fredericks, PhD - (Ann Arbor) - Specialties: Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Pediatric Psychology;
Area of Practice: Pediatric solid organ transplantation, adherence to medical regimens, transition from pediatric to adult-centered health care, adjustment to chronic illness, pediatric food allergies; (Director, Division of Pediatric Psychology @ C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Michigan Medicine)
Kristen Papke, LMSW - (Ann Arbor)- Focuses include food allergies, adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders, Christian counseling, depression, self-esteem issues, and women’s issues.
Kim Menzel, LMSW, ACSW - (Ann Arbor) - At U of M Food Allergy Clinic, focuses include food allergies, anxiety, depression, stress management, mindfulness training, adjustment to new diagnosis, management of chronic illness. (Note: Services are provided only to those who are established patients of an allergist at the food allergy clinic)

MINNESOTA

Heather Holt, MSW, LICSW - (St. Paul) - Focuses include food allergies, Celiac disease, chronic health concerns

MISSISSIPPI

Ashley Smith, LPC-S - (Madison) - Focuses on challenges impacting family/marital systems, including food allergies; works with children and adults

MISSOURI

Kelsey Torgerson, MSW, LCSW - (St. Louis) - Focuses include child and adolescent anxiety and anger management, trauma, separation anxiety, oppositional defiant disorder, and food allergies; works with age 4 through college
Amy Kopp, M.S, LPC - (St. Louis) - Focuses include food allergies, anxiety, relationship conflicts (codependency, boundaries, etc), adoption; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to MO residents)

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

NEVADA

Joann Carter, LCSW - (Henderson) - Focuses include food allergies, anxiety, depression, grief/transition

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW JERSEY

Brave Minds Psychological Services - (Scotch Plains) - Focuses include anxiety, stress, trauma & food allergies for children teens and adults
Cara Maksimow, LCSW - (Chatham) - Specializes in college-aged, adults, & parents; Also offers Telehealth sessions in NJ
Stacey Pinilis, LCSW - (Montclair) - Focuses include individuals, couples, conscious parenting, & food allergies; Offers groups
The Otter Group - (Red Bank) - Specializes in trauma, anxiety, chronic illness, & life adjustment
Gianine Rosenblum, PhD - (Lawrenceville & Metuchen) - Focuses include food allergies, anxiety/depression, PTSD & trauma
Lisa B. Rosenberg, M.Ed, MSW, LSW*- (Cherry Hill) - Focuses include food allergies, school issues (including 504 plans and IEPs), anxiety, pre-teens & young adults, parents/caregivers. *(works under clinical supervision)*

NEW MEXICO

Ivy Rizzo, LPCC - (Albuquerque); NMfoodallergy@gmail.com or 505-414-9377

NEW YORK

Lori Moussapour, LMSW - (New York City and Tri-State area) - Focuses include parenting, food allergies, chronic health conditions, school issues, social/emotional literacy, relationships, emerging adults.
Amy Malkin-Ingoglia, PhD - (Nassau County, Long Island) - Focuses include anxiety/depression, trauma, grief/loss, parenting & food allergies
Kelly Sullivan Dennis, PhD - (Nassau County) - Focuses include food allergies and sensitivities, children and adolescents, family therapy, parenting
Amanda R DeSio Whitehouse, Ph.D - (East Aurora/Buffalo) - Focuses include food allergies and other chronic medical issues, parent/caregiver/sibling/family issues related to chronic medical needs - Phone: (716) 805-7995 x0, Email: Awhitehousephd@gmail.com
Johanna Bond, LMHC, NCC - (Rochester) - Focuses include food allergies, emotional adjustment to medical issues/medical trauma, anxiety, spiritual and existential concerns
Michael E. Silverman, Ph.D. - (NYC area) - Focuses include anxiety, depression, adjustment, food allergies

NORTH CAROLINA

Claudia Shapiro, MSW, LCSW - (Hillsborough area) - Focuses include food allergies, children/adolescents, families

NORTH DAKOTA

OHIO

Jennifer Blankenship, LISW - (Chagrin Falls) - Focuses include food allergies, autism, anxiety, child & family
Lynsey Pearson, MSEd, PC - (Worthington) - Focuses include food allergies, anxiety, divorce adjustment, behavior, kids; (In-person and telehealth options)

OKLAHOMA

Lyndsay Janzen, MHR, LPC - (Tulsa) - Focuses are anxiety, relationships, grief, stress, trauma & food allergies; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to OK residents)

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA

Jennifer Koehler Fandray, MEd, CRC, LPC - (Munhall) - Focuses are food allergies, celiac disease, adjustment to disability counseling, mental health counseling
Amber Zeiders, MA, LMFT - (Lancaster) - Focuses include food allergies, couple’s counseling, attachment focused family therapy, depression and anxiety
Jocelyn Davco, MA* - (Bethlehem) - Focuses include food allergies, eating disorders, trauma and anxiety. *(Works under clinical supervision)*
Aviva Gaskill, PhD - (Wynnewood) - Focuses include behavioral medicine (including food allergies, cardiac, neurologic, other autoimmune, chronic pain, cancer, other GI issues, insomnia, caregivers, etc), sexual health and trauma including medically induced trauma

RHODE ISLAND

SOUTH CAROLINA

Kristen Pagulayan MSW, LCSW - (Telehealth Only) - Focuses include food allergies, men’s health/empowerment, neurological disorders specifically aging and memory loss, trauma; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to SC residents)

SOUTH DAKOTA

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

Susan Martinez, MA, LMFT-S - (Dallas/Fort worth area) - Specialties include perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, infertility, relationships, and food allergies; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to TX & CA residents)

UTAH

VERMONT

VIRGINIA

Elena Kyrgos, LMFT, NTP, CDWF - (Telehealth Only) - Specialties include food allergies, digestive disorders, chronic illness, transitions, family of origin issues, shame resilience; (Provides distance counseling/telehealth to VA residents)

WASHINGTON

Jodie Hommer, MA, LMHC LMFT - (Spokane) - Specializes in food allergies, trauma, and ASD

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN

Andrea Sandora, LCSW - (Shorewood) - Specializes in food allergies, anxiety, depression, trauma/PTSD
Jeanne Herzog, PhD - (Wauwatosa) -Specializes in medical/health conditions, counseling across the life span (child-adult, individual and family)

WYOMING

Canada

Click on provider's name for their website, or see the information listed next to their names
*(Counselors may offer distance counseling to residents of their state who don't live local; be sure to inquire)* 

TORONTO AREA

Samara Carroll, LCSW - (Toronto area) - Specializes in food allergies

Australia

Click on provider's name for their website, or see the information listed next to their names
*(Counselors may offer distance counseling to residents who don't live local; be sure to inquire)* 

Simone Albert, MACA, AHPRA - (Melbourne/Geelong/Surf Coast area) - Specializes in food allergies; offers in-person or phone/online counseling

United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL LICENSE ABBREVIATIONS
LCPC/LPCC/LCPS - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker
LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
CRPNP - Certified Registered Psychiatric Nurse Practioner
PsyD - Doctor in Psychology
PhD - Doctor in Philosophy (in Psychology)
DSW - Doctor of Social Work
MD - Physician/Doctor