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Irina specializes in providing targeted support for individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, career challenges, and cultural assimilation, leveraging a goal-oriented approach to foster personal growth and resilience.

Irina is dedicated to guiding adults through the journey of overcoming past negative experiences, empowering them to unlock their potential and achieve their goals. In addition to her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling at Brooklyn College, Irina is a certified gestalt therapist and a goal achievement/success coach. In her work, Irina uses EMDR Therapy as well. Her compassionate and goal-oriented approach is designed to create a supportive space for personal growth and transformative changes. Irina is fluent in both English and Russian.

Rachel M. Lee, LMHC, is a skilled therapist and the owner of Kensington Wellness Mental Health Counseling, serving patients virtually throughout New York City, New York. 

Rachel specializes in anxiety, mood disorders, career changes, and couples' work. With over 10 years of experience in the mental health field, Rachel has worked in several environments, including vocational rehabilitation programs, career development agencies, substance abuse facilities, restorative justice settings, community mental health clinics, and educational settings. She is passionate about helping people live their best lives and find and make meaning through fulfilling work, relationships, and self-care.

A life-long resident of Brooklyn, Rachel proudly offers the services of Kensington Wellness Mental Health Counseling to those in the community in an accessible way. She strives to work with diverse populations throughout New York City and encourages them to prioritize their well-being.

Rachel considers self-compassion, along with the desire for meaningful growth, to be the most critical aspects of mental health work, curiosity, a love of learning, and courageous self-inventory. To work with Rachel, call or request a virtual appointment online today.

Tracy L. Dushane, BCETS, LMHC-LP, CASAC-T, LL.M., is a new therapist at Kensington Wellness, providing specialized services in the Capital District, NY and beyond through telehealth. With a focus on trauma-informed care and resiliency training, Tracy works closely with military service members, their families, and first responders, offering compassionate support tailored to their unique experiences. This marks her first year with Kensington Wellness, and she is thrilled to contribute to a team that shares her commitment to mental health and wellness.

Tracy brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her practice, having worked in various mental health settings that cater to diverse populations. Her passion lies in helping individuals navigate the challenges of trauma, fostering resilience, and promoting healing in their lives. She believes in the power of connection and understanding as essential elements in the therapeutic process.

A resident of the Capital District, Tracy is devoted to making mental health services accessible and impactful for her community. She encourages those she works with to embrace self-discovery and prioritize their mental well-being. With a focus on empathy, empowerment, and growth, Tracy is eager to guide her clients on their journeys toward healing and fulfillment. To schedule an appointment with Tracy, please call or request a virtual session online today.

Janie works with individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, and interpersonal difficulties. She adopts a holistic and trauma-informed approach, tailoring the therapeutic process to meet each client’s unique emotional, psychological, and relational needs. Janie integrates mindfulness-based psychosomatic therapies such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Her work is rooted in a person-centered and culturally competent framework, creating a safe and nonjudgmental space where clients feel empowered to explore their thoughts, emotions, and prior traumas. Janie believes that healing is a deeply individual process. She approaches therapy as a collaborative relationship that honors each client’s story, including their identity, culture, spirituality, and life history. With curiosity, empathy, and respect, she supports clients in accessing their inner strengths and fostering resilience. Above all, Janie views therapy as a journey of reconnection—with self, with others, and with the innate capacity for growth that often emerges in the wake of challenge.

Khana Kleyn, MS, LMHC, is a mental health care provider specializing in logotherapy and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) at Cynical Psychotherapy in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.

Khana hails from Russia, Colorado and New York. She has an excellent sense of humor that is counterbalanced with her deep, existential views on life and life’s processes.  

Khana holds a master’s degree in industrial psychology from Brooklyn College, as well as a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Long Island University, C.W. Post. 

Khana specializes in trauma processing, attention disorders, grief counseling, chronic illness support, and family (marriage/divorce/co-parenting) therapy. Khana is experienced and very comfortable working with survivors of emotional, sexual and physical violence, as well as those recovering from narcissistic relationships. 

Khana is qualified to provide evaluations and letters for various communal/career needs. Mental health can affect all areas of life, and Khana is skilled in identifying what is stopping individuals from progressing to the next stage in their careers and personal lives.  

Khana’s approach to therapy is to create organic dialogue and genuine trust between therapist and patient. Khana excels in person-centered, active listening, as well as validation for the extreme suffering we humans endure throughout our lives. After exploring the components that make up an individual, and when the patient feels safe and heard, Khana guides the patient gently and carefully in the rewriting of their life narratives to a place of strength and resilience.

Khana uses an eclectic mixture of modalities, including DBT (helping individuals rediscover the value in themselves), logotherapy (finding purpose and meaning in one’s experiences, both negative and positive), as well as CBT. Khana has also undergone extensive clinical training with the underprivileged/high-risk population. 

Khana is diagnosed with ADHD herself, suffers from chronic illness, and has been married for almost two decades. She is the proud mother of three children. Khana’s range of life experiences helps her view the patients’ world through a realistic lens and with sincere empathy. Khana works with people of all ages and backgrounds.

In her free time, Khana enjoys watching documentaries and starting new hobbies.

People come to therapy for all kinds of reasons — sometimes a specific event, sometimes a slow accumulation of things that no longer feel workable, sometimes a sense that something important has shifted and they're not sure how to find their footing again. Whatever brings someone in, Trey's approach begins in the same place: genuine curiosity about who this person is and what their life actually requires.

Trey is a licensed clinical psychologist, board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), with nearly 20 years of clinical experience across a broad range of settings and presentations. He has worked in the U.S. Army, correctional systems, hospice, university counseling centers, and inpatient/outpatient hospital contexts before establishing Quandary Peak Counseling — a background that means he has sat with people in some of the most difficult circumstances human beings encounter. That experience informs a clinical style that is direct without being cold, intellectually serious without losing sight of the person, and grounded in the belief that real change is possible even in longstanding or complex presentations.

He was primarily trained in an existential and humanistic framework; however, he additionally draws on psychodynamic, relational, and other evidence-based frameworks (CBT, ACT, etc.). In practice, this means the approach is shaped by what each individual client actually needs — not a fixed protocol applied uniformly.

Areas of Focus

Trauma & PTSD
Trey works with survivors of a wide range of traumatic experiences — accidents, assault, medical trauma, occupational exposure, and chronic adverse experiences. He draws on evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and exposure-based methods, alongside deeper exploratory work when the clinical picture calls for it. He is recognized as an expert in traumatic stress by the American Board for Experts in Traumatic Stress.

Depression & Mood Disorders
From persistent low mood and loss of meaning to more acute or complex mood presentations — including bipolar spectrum disorders — Trey brings careful diagnostic thinking and a range of therapeutic approaches to depressive and mood-related concerns. He is particularly attuned to depression that has an existential or characterological dimension, where the question isn't just symptom relief but something more fundamental about how a person is living.

Personality & Relational Patterns
Some of the most entrenched suffering people carry isn't situational — it's embedded in long-standing ways of relating to themselves and others. Trey works with clients exploring personality-related concerns, interpersonal patterns that keep repeating, and the kind of relational difficulty that tends to show up across contexts. This work is often longer-term and depth-oriented.

Grief & Loss
Grief doesn't follow a schedule, and it isn't always recognized as grief by the person experiencing it. Trey works with clients navigating bereavement, anticipatory loss, complicated grief, and losses that don't fit conventional categories — including losses of identity, relationship, or meaning.

Existential Concerns
Questions of meaning, purpose, identity, and authenticity aren't peripheral to mental health — they're often at its center. Trey works with clients for whom the presenting concern is less about a diagnosable condition and more about a felt sense that something isn't right: a life that looks fine from the outside but feels hollow, a crisis of values, or a transition that has called everything into question.

Psychosis & Schizophrenia Spectrum
Trey has clinical experience with psychotic disorders and schizophrenia spectrum presentations, including both diagnostic evaluation and ongoing psychotherapeutic support. This is a population that is underserved in private practice settings, and he approaches this work with the same rigor and respect he brings to any clinical presentation.

Clinical Therapist- Oakbrook Terrace 

Jane Ballis, LCPC, CADC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor at Suburban Behavioral Health Services, which has locations in Wheaton and Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. She appreciates working with people of varied ages and abilities as a therapist. Jane seeks to understand differences in various cultures, races, and religions and strives to be as knowledgeable as possible in treating people with diverse backgrounds.

Jane’s background includes many years of helping children, adolescents, and adults express themselves through various artistic mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, and multimedia. She completed her masters in clinical psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Jane learned behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy and trained and worked under a clinical psychologist’s supervision for many years, learning psychodynamic theory, play, and family therapy while specializing in children, adolescents, adults, and families at an APA-approved training site. Jane has practiced in child welfare and substance abuse settings. Jane has worked with at-risk men who were involved in prostitution as well as many issues such as LGBTQ, homelessness, medical, and employment challenges.

Jane has completed her EMDR Level 1 training and obtained specialized training with Ana Gomez, an author and specialist in EMDR and dissociative disorders with children. EMDR is used to treat many issues, from mild to very complex, such as PTSD, trauma, anxiety, phobias, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive and generalized anxiety disorder, and excessive grief. Children and adolescents have alleviated their symptoms using EMDR, including depression caused by disturbing life experiences. Studies have shown that many crime victims, police officers, firefighters, and field workers were no longer disturbed by the aftereffects of violent assaults and/or the stressful nature of their work. Victims of sexual assault, natural and manmade disasters, accidents, surgeries and burn victims, family, marital and sexual dysfunction, and involvement were also assisted. Clients at all stages of chemical dependency, sexual deviation/addiction, and pathological gamblers have also been treated successfully, along with people with dissociative disorders.

Many people with performance anxiety or deficits in school, business, performing arts, and sports have benefited from EMDR as a tool to help enhance performance. People with somatic problems/somatoform disorders, including migraines, chronic pain, phantom limb pain, chronic eczema, gastrointestinal problems, CFS, psychogenic seizures, eating disorders, and negative body image, have attained relief from suffering with the help of EMDR.

Adults and adolescents have been successfully treated for diagnosed depression. Clients with acute trauma and a wide variety of PTSD and trauma-based personality issues experience substantial benefits from EMDR. There are many applications for EMDR, which has been used by many major treatment facilities, such as the armed forces.

Jane also has completed levels one and two of the Gottman Institute in couples therapy. This is a research-based couples therapy that has three phases. For nearly four decades, Dr. Gottman has conducted research on all facets of relationships, including parenting issues. At the Institute, in collaboration with Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, he developed an approach that not only supports and repairs troubled marriages and committed relationships but strengthens happy ones. One goal of the research is to make the services accessible to the broadest reach of people across race, religion, class, culture, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. For more information, please visit the Gottman Institute. http://www.gottman.com/the-gottman-institute/

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Clinical Therapist—Oakbrook Terrace & Wheaton office's

Biljana Kasum, LCPC, is a skilled therapist at Suburban Behavioral Health Services, which has locations in Wheaton and Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. Her passion is connecting with people in helping relationships, recognizing that we all struggle with various things at some point in our lives. Her primary focus is the well-being of the people she works with as she continues to expand her multicultural approach to counseling.

Biljana’s background includes working with teens, adults, and mature adults struggling with mental health issues of substance abuse and co-morbid disorders, trauma, morbid obesity, and other mood and personality disorders. She spent several years in an inpatient unit helping women of various races, cultures, and backgrounds, including the homeless population. She provided individual and group counseling, including moral reconation therapy, movement therapy, and music therapy. She also spent several years working with people with eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders, and teens and adults with ADHD.

Biljana acquired her master’s degree in counseling from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received supervision from established LCPCs and clinical psychologists in Illinois. She completed her training residencies in Orlando, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia.

Biljana bases her approach to therapy on empathy, trust, and a strong therapeutic relationship. She is integrating different theoretical approaches based on the individual needs of her patients, with a special interest in acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive processing therapy for the treatment of trauma. She is LGBTQ+-affirming.

She is fluent in Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian. 

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Dr. Kaushansky earned his Doctorate of Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his predoctoral internship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s in New York City, subsequently followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Prior to founding Kaushansky Psychology, Dr. Kaushansky worked as a Staff Psychologist with Los Angeles County Mental Health, providing diagnostic assessments, crisis intervention, and individual outpatient therapy to adults with complex psychological presentations, including acute and chronic medical illnesses, addiction, chronic trauma, and personality disorders.

Dr. Kaushansky is a graduate of the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He additionally holds Diplomate status in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

Dr. Kaushansky is a licensed Clinical Psychologist by the California State Board of Psychology (PSY-26660), and current member of The American Psychological Association.

With five years of experience as a medical receptionist, I take pride in being the first point of contact for patients and creating a welcoming, supportive, and positive environment from the very beginning of their care journey. I understand that taking the first step toward improving mental health can feel overwhelming, and I strive to help make that process feel easier and more comfortable.

I believe administrative support plays an important role in the therapeutic experience. I am committed to ensuring that scheduling, intake, and communication are handled smoothly, efficiently, and with compassion.

I chose to be part of Suburban Behavioral Health Services because of its professionalism and genuine dedication to every patient who walks through the door.

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green

 

Dr. Nancy A. Kim is a highly experienced clinical psychologist, certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Kim is also an EMDRIA Certified Therapist.

With over 25 years of experience, she has dedicated her career to helping individuals, especially active-duty military personnel and veterans, overcome a range of challenges. These include combat stress, operational stress, and trauma from military sexual experiences. She is an expert in treating conditions such as post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, and difficulties adjusting to life changes.

Dr. Kim's academic journey began at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts. She then pursued advanced degrees in Psychology, obtaining both Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the California School of Psychology.

Embarking on her professional path, Dr. Kim joined the Navy Medical Service Corps as an active-duty officer, where she provided psychological services at notable military medical facilities such as the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) and Portsmouth Naval Hospital.

Dr. Kim's commitment to supporting military and veteran communities extended to her role at a VA Medical Center before she returned to NMCSD. Her exceptional skills and dedication to patient care were recognized in 2010 when she was named a Master Clinician by the Naval Medical Center San Diego.

During her tenure at NMCSD, she played a pivotal role as a staff psychologist and was instrumental in the establishment of the Comprehensive Combat and Complex Care Clinic (C5). There, she was responsible for creating and leading the mental health component of a comprehensive care approach designed to support the recovery of wounded, ill, and injured service members.

Additionally, Dr. Kim has contributed significantly to mental health services in the NMCSD’s Traumatic Brain Injury and Prosthetics clinics. She notably developed an intensive outpatient treatment program specifically aimed at helping service members dealing with combat-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Through her extensive experience and specialized expertise, Dr. Kim has made a profound impact on the lives of those she has served, demonstrating a steadfast commitment to improving their mental health and well-being.

My approach is to meet you where you are, in an authentic and compassionate way.  I remain challenging yet sincere, open and non-judgmental in an effort to cater to your needs while ensuring a high standard of quality care. With a specialty in marriage and family and organizational counseling. I’m like a primary care physician of mental health care. I treat an array of patients, including kids (ages 5-18), adults, couples, families, groups and organizations.  

Together, we will explore the experiences that have molded your personality and the presenting issues that bring you to therapy in the first place, including depression, anxiety, trauma, self-esteem, insecurity, learning disabilities, relationship & family conflict, grief and loss, rejection, perfectionism, feelings of inadequacy, stigma, prejudice, and marginalization within your family, organizations and in society. Our therapeutic rapport will be the instrument for change in your relationships with significant others. The insight you gain from our relationship will sharpen your awareness of your thoughts, feelings & roles you play in relationships with the people you encounter in your every day life.  

Kelley Hershman, B.S., M.A., M.S., LMHC, is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Clinical Director and Co-Founder of The Soho Center for Mental Health and Clinical Learning in New York City.  She received both her B.S. in Applied Psychology, and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from New York University. She received her M.S. in Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology at The University of California in Santa Barbara.  Her research interests include the study of adult attachment in marriage, family and organizational behavior. She also researches race, interracial marital stress, authority, gender and status as they relate to power and leadership within human systems and cultures. She has been practicing the Group Relations Consultation since 2008.

When scheduling an appointment, you may be seeing Kelley or one of the clinicians on her team.

Serving clients for over 30 years combined practice in a public psychiatric hospital and in private practice: --psychology department management (chronic care psychologists, computerized testing, quality assurance, credentialing/privileging, clinical supervision doctoral training seminar; --Female professionals in paramilitary, clergy and business settings; --Christian mediation; --Grief counseling and education; --Adult targets of workplace bullying; --conducted training inf trauma-informedd care; adult targets of workplace bullying, marriage God-style; My therapy approach is solutions-focused cognitive behavioral emphasizing narrative and polyvagal techniques. I do not try to get clients to conform to my clinical preferences, instead I strive to select from my toolbox, and craft what is best suited to the clients' needs.

Through active listening and thoughtful questioning, I aim to deliver high-quality care that utilizes the most recent advances in psychotherapy. I am especially interested in men’s and women’s health issues, chronic pain, trauma, family therapy, couple’s therapy, and working with adolescents while offering over 20 years of experience. I earned my undergraduate degree from St. Mary’s College of CA and went on to complete my Masters at Pepperdine University. I completed my doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Argosy University. I use an integrative therapeutic approach and am passionate about structuring therapy and evaluations to best fit the needs of the client.