Team Members – Main Street Behavioral Health

Meet Our Team

Christina has worked at Main Street Community Mental Health Center for 12 years. She obtained her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University in Maryland and went on to obtain her Certificate of Advanced Study in Psychology and became licensed as a clinical professional therapist in 2011. She works primarily as a school-based therapist; however, she also works in mobile and in the clinic. Additionally, she has the privilege of supervising upcoming clinicians who are in training. Her passion is to help children, teens and adults cope with symptoms of depression and anxiety, improve relationships, assist them in finding their inner strength, as well as manage stress associated with daily life and highly impactful and traumatic events. Christina has a love for reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family

Pam has been working in the field of psychiatry for about fifty years. Since beginning her career, she has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, had a private practice, provided clinical supervision, and worked in mobile treatment. It was during her first experience working in a mobile treatment that she saw how important the service was in reaching clients who may not otherwise be able to access the benefits of treatment. This experience, in combination with her numerous years in the field, shaped and solidified her strong belief that we need to meet clients where they are. Main Street Mobile Treatment was born out of Pam’s clinical beliefs and commitment to serving clients. It was also strongly influenced by her belief in offering employment to staff members in which they can do a job they love that is balanced with the rest of their lives. Pam currently continues to serve as Main Street’s Director, a position she enjoys immensely. Outside of work, Pam likes spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.

Nicole received her Doctorate of Psychology from Loyola University of Maryland. She has served as the Assistant Director at Main Street for the last 14 years and worked at Main Street in other roles prior to that. Nicole’s current role at Main Street includes coordinating Main Street’s training program for graduate students studying to become therapists, providing supervision to clinical staff at varying levels, fulfilling any duty which contributes to supporting Main Street’s mission and operations, and seeing clients. Nicole is passionate about working in community mental health as an avenue to positively impact people. She believes deeply in an individual’s capacity for change and growth and that the therapeutic relationship is a vehicle for that. When working with clients, Nicole believes that each client should be seen as a unique human and given empathy, positive regard, and acceptance. Nicole loves being a part of the Main Street family and is dedicated to making Main Street the best service that it can be.

Tina Blackwell is a clinical social worker with over 40 years of experience. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She has been the Director of Child and Adolescent Services at Main Street Behavioral Health for the last 17 years, where she coordinates services for children, adolescents and their families, supervises clinical staff, and develops and coordinates in-school community partnerships with Baltimore County Public Schools. Her career has included varied experiences, from working in the Baltimore and Carroll County schools, to working in psychiatric hospital settings with adults, children, teens and addictions, to having a private practice, and as a psychiatric evaluator in an emergency room. Although not currently seeing clients, Tina takes great pleasure in being able to supervise and train clinicians and in her work developing partnerships that provide mental health services to children and their families in the schools. Outside of work, Tina loves spending time with her beautiful grandsons.

Dr. Rudo is a Board-certified psychiatrist who has served as Medical Director for the Main Street Community Mental Health Center in Reisterstown, Maryland since 2006. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Medical Services for Magellan Behavioral Health. In that capacity, he oversaw all medical policy for the company, including medical necessity criteria, medical integration activities with primary care, preventive health programming, quality improvement activities, and clinical practice guidelines. He also supported the recruitment and training of physician reviewers for Magellan, and assisted in the recruitment and training of regional medical directors.

He strives to find things to be grateful for in any situation.

Ari enjoys working with adults and older adolescents in individual therapy.

Ilana is a licensed clinical therapist with a post-master’s degree in psychology. A former educator for many years, she currently helps children thrive in life by providing them with school-based therapy in Baltimore county. She also received training and supervision in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) from the University of Maryland. Having extensive experience treating children, adolescent, and their families enables her to address clients’ mental, emotional, and social difficulties across home and school settings. Establishing a good therapeutic relationship with clients is extremely important to her. Thus, this is accomplished through empathy, humor, and creativity. She treats children who struggle with anxiety, depression, learning issues, ADHD, self-esteem, trauma and loss, aggression, parent-child conflict, etc. The therapeutic approaches she utilizes to cope with these symptoms are: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, teacher consultation, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic, anger management, Family Systems Therapy, play therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Interventions. As a multilingual speaker, she expresses cultural sensitivity toward her Latino clients by conducting individual and family sessions in Spanish. She collaborates with her clients’ care givers and encourages them to be active participants in their children’s treatment. Additionally, she focuses on families’ strengths while working with them to resolve their current concerns. She looks forward to working with your family!

Christy currently sees patients in the clinic, the mobile treatment program, and in schools as part of the school community partnership.

Chelsea earned her Bachelor`s degree in Psychology from Towson University where she pursued an individual investigation on micromomentary expressions. She went on to earn her Master`s degree in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University. She joined the team at Main Street in 2017 where she has since worked as a mobile outreach worker and as a counselor in school and clinic settings. Chelsea`s professional interests include grief and loss, chronic pain and illnesses, trauma, family therapy, and addiction. She works with a diverse caseload of all ages and diagnoses and aligns with techniques which address the client as a whole, including Multimodal Therapy, CBT, DBT, and process-oriented approaches. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys a good cup of coffee, hiking, and spending time with family.

Josh is a Licensed Professional Counselor. He holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology (Counseling) from Loyola University Maryland and received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Josh’s experience includes working for the Kennedy Krieger Institute on the Inpatient Neurobehavioral unit as a Clinical Assistant and for the Shafer Center for Early Intervention as a Registered Behavior Technician, working with children and adolescents on the Autism Spectrum. He also has experience working with young adults, adults, and seniors with various psychiatric diagnoses. He has been utilizing skills from treatment modalities such as Person-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy. In his personal time, he enjoys hiking, dog training, and skiing.

Amy is originally from New Hampshire and received her undergraduate degree from Towson University and her Master’s degree in business from Stevenson University. She began working at Main Street in 2011 and some of her main roles include managing the front desk staff, billing and patient account management, IT oversight, accreditation coordination, and generally keeping the office running smoothly. Her favorite part of working at Main Street is the opportunity it gives her to have a positive impact on the lives of others. Outside of work Amy enjoys the outdoors and spending time with her husband and cats.

Her favorite part of working at Main Street is how supportive everyone is of each other.

Rachael Berman earned her Master’s degree from University of Baltimore in 2007. She is the quality assurance auditor with over ten years of experience. She is also the mobile treatment intake coordinator, and as such, communicates and consults with referring mental health providers and agencies throughout Baltimore County.

Beverly has worked in the medical field for 30 years. In her role of front office coordinator she is responsible for overseeing the front office staff and assisting the patients. Beverly has been with Main Street since 2016 an enjoys working with staff and the patients daily.

Erin joined the Main Street team in 2011. In her role, she takes the lead in completing new patient intakes as well as interfacing with staff around helping clients to access care. As part of the administrative staff, she loves knowing that Main Street is helping adults and children in our community.

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