OUR GROUP
Co-Founders
Reena Panchal
MA, NCC, LPC
(Co-Founder and Clinician)
Reena is a National Board Certified Counselor who is solution focused and person centered. Her approach is friendly, warm, gentle, caring, genuine, and result-oriented. She believes the key to effective therapy does not lie in any particular method, but rather in the authenticity of the relationship between counselor and client. She creates a safe environment for her clients to open up and express their wants and needs for a healthier lifestyle and empowers her clients to take charge of their lives and to be the best they can be. She has a deep understanding for multicultural issues which enhances the therapeutic relationship with all types of individuals.
Reena comes with an extensive background working with both adults and adolescents. She has worked with a diverse population in the mental health field which incorporates families, couples, addictions, mental health (anxiety, depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Borderline Personality Disorder), dually diagnosed, and developmental disabilities including but not limited to autism and Asperger's Syndrome. She also has experience with grief and death and dying in which she uses Motivational Interviewing techniques to empower clients with difficult and advancing medical conditions to gain insight into their life values now, and in the future as things may progress with their medical condition.
Insurance Plans Accepted
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
Horizon
Humana
Oxford
UMR
United
Insurance Plans Accepted
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
Horizon
Humana
Oxford
UMR
United
Elise Cirelli
MA, LMFT
(Co-Founder and Clinician)
Elise believes you cannot love someone more than you love yourself. At its core, the goal of most therapy must be harnessing the ability to love and accept ourselves. This is the only path to lasting positive change. To support this goal, Elise is caring and competent. She highly values authenticity and feels it is essential to the success of any therapeutic relationship- always striving to be a genuine presence that creates a safe space for others. She takes a client-centered approach, borrowing from different schools of therapy based on the person/situation.
Elise’s experience includes family therapy with couples, coparents, or those decoupling; and counseling individuals 10 years and older with an array of issues including anxiety, depression, and grief. She also has extensive experience helping individuals learn to manage emotions to better deal with difficult family and work situations.
Elise works to understand and respect each person’s background to provide a culturally sensitive and comprehensive therapeutic experience. She is welcoming to clients of all ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and relationship styles.
Clinicians
Matthew McNally
MA, LPC
(Clinician)
Insurance Plans Accepted
Aetna
United
Optum
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Horizon
Matthew is a supportive and experienced counselor who serves adolescent, adult, and elderly populations. He believes in the power of an empathetic connection to develop a strong bond between client and therapist. Through this alliance he seeks to become an agent of change and work with his clients to achieve measurable goals. Matthew utilizes a variety of therapeutic methods with a focus on cognitive techniques.
Matthew’s past experience includes: a warm approach dealing with mood disorders including anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder and extensive experience with people struggling with opiate, sedative, and alcohol addiction focusing on developing motivation for sobriety in early addiction. Matthew also has experience working with clients leaving suicide wards and assisting in their return to regular life.
Matthew develops a personal therapeutic approach with each of his clients to best support them in addressing their clinical needs, taking into account client's age, culture, family dynamics, religion, sexual orientation, and expressed gender.
Insurance Plans Accepted
Aetna
United
Optum
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Horizon
Victoria Scerbo,
MA, LPC
(Clinician)
Victoria has over 20 years of experience working with adolescents, adults, couples as well as conducting group therapies. She has worked in many different areas of mental health including group homes, out-patient, in-patient, and private practice. Victoria’s areas of expertise include treating anxiety, depression, bipolar, ADHD, dually diagnosed, coping skills, life transitions, grief, and life coaching.
Victoria uses therapeutic methods that are uniquely tailored to each individual. She feels the most important aspect of therapy is to create a genuine warm, trusting, and safe environment for the client to openly express themselves without fear or judgement.
Victoria uses a very interactive counseling approach which is eclectic, cognitive behavioral in nature, and incorporates motivational interviewing. She at times infuses humor into the process to help clients see that sometimes, there is a silver lining in certain situations.
Administrator
Leslie Roman
(Administrator)
Leslie is a driven administrative professional who's passion for people motivates her daily to go above and beyond for the clients she supports. As the first point of contact during the
commencement of the counseling experience, her compassion and gentle spirit cultivates a calm and trusting environment. Leslie’s tri‐lingual experience allows her to easily communicate with clients where she can adapt and blend into a conversation depending on who she’s speaking with.
Her extensive operational background and organizational skills lend themselves to successfully scheduling countless clients for Perspective Counseling Group as well as assisting to verify the client’s insurance for a seamless billing experience. Her patience and ability to connect people to the right service providers speaks directly to her commitment to the mental well‐being of every client.
