voted best therapy psychotherapy practice in New Jersey
voted best therapy psychotherapy practice in New Jersey
LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy is a private therapy practice offering psychotherapy services to adults, teens and children.
We practice individual, couples, marriage and family therapy.
We provide a highly privatized methodology of care.
We offer in-person and virtual therapy sessions.
Our practices are located in
Colts Neck, Little Silver , Hazlet & Sea Girt New Jersey.
LEAF uses individually tailored, creative psychotherapeutic techniques that propel individuals to live their best lives. We provide holistic therapy and counseling that is respectful of the concerns, values, and aspirations of our clients. We believe in empowering our clients by creating a safe space to explore and connect with their deeper selves. Psychological frameworks we use include somatic, cognitive and dialectical behavioral, gestalt, inner child, gottman method couples, humanistic, strengths based, motivational, person-centered, EMDR, experiential, narrative, constructionist, psychodynamic, psychodrama, trauma informed, play and art therapies.
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Noel is an open, honest, highly supportive and understanding psychotherapist. She creates a warm and safe environment where her clients feel comfortable being their full selves.
Using a psychodynamic approach, Noel leads her clients to spark connections between their past and present so that they can actualize their sense of control over their lives through increased awareness. She fosters a process that helps her clients restructure conscious and unconscious patterns of thinking and behavior. Noel works with children, adults and teens. She practices individual, couples and family counseling.
Noel utilizes a highly individualized and tailored approach with each of her clients. Through evidenced based treatment such as EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, meditation and mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and strengths perspective, Noel propels her clients progress toward goals they set for themselves. Noel keeps her client’s goals, wants and needs at the forefront of the work.
Graduating from Coastal Carolina University with an undergraduate degree in Sociology, track in Criminology and Master of Social Work degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey, Noel is a highly educated individual and esteemed clinician.
Reach out to Noel directly via phone or text at 732-947-4447
Email nrapp@leapsych.com
Psychotherapist | Hazlet
Samantha is a warm, compassionate and understanding psychotherapist. She creates a safe and comfortable space for her clients to experience the magic of therapy.
Samantha is dedicated to cultivating a deep connection with her clients that nurtures self-exploration and growth. She provides a positive, strengths-based approach, incorporating mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies. Her goal is to support her clients to live their best lives and be their favorite version of themselves.
Working with children, teens and adults, and practicing individual, family and couples’ counseling. Samantha works closely with her clients toward achieving the goals they set for themselves. Samantha is passionate about the work she does, as this is her life-calling. She stays with her clients every step of the way in their therapeutic journey to self-actualization. Her hope is always to elevate her clients’ experience of themselves and the world.
Graduating from Monmouth University with a bachelor's degree in social work and attaining a master's degree from Monmouth University in Social Work, Samantha is a well trained professional and valued asset to LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy.
Reach out to Samantha directly via phone or text at 732-947-4767
Email SCiparis@leafpsych.com
Psychotherapist | Sea Girt
Kate brings a wealth of experience and commitment to facilitate healing through trauma-informed care. Her professional journey is rooted in the belief that true well-being extends beyond traditional therapeutic modalities, emphasizing a holistic and integrative approach.
One distinctive aspect of Kate’s therapeutic approach is the integration of somatic, body-based interventions. These interventions assist clients in learning how to connect their feelings to the sensations they experience in their bodies. Somatic therapies develop stronger self-awareness and coping skills to manage the challenges that come with life. This approach empowers clients to reconnect with their bodies, fostering resilience and promoting lasting healing.
In addition to general therapeutic practices with adults, couples, and children, Kate specializes in maternal mental health. Here, she creates a safe space to help mothers navigate the complexities of infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum challenges, and the broader spectrum of maternal well-being. Kate integrates evidence-based therapies with a holistic approach, fostering healing and resilience in her clients as they embark on the transformative journey of motherhood.
Graduating with her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences from the University of Oklahoma and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California, Kate is a collaborative and inclusive therapist.
Reach out to Kate directly via phone or text at 732-947-4117
Email KWilliams@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Julia is an insightful, non-judgmental, and reflective psychotherapist. Julia creates an environment that is the most conducive for her clients. By building trusting relationships and using evidence-based practices, each session feels comfortable, safe and supportive.
Julia believes self-awareness is the first step towards an expanded level of consciousness, establishing a deeper understanding and compassion for self. She ensures treatment is collaborative between the client and herself to help individuals live happier and healthier by overcoming struggles life may bring. This line of work comes naturally to Julia; thus, she dedicates her career to improving the lives of others by thinking outside the box.
Julia utilizes eclectic therapy, an approach that adapts to each client's unique needs, which can involve various treatment methods and a combination of therapeutic tools to be most effective for the individual. Julia is familiar with working with all ages while practicing individual, family, and couples counseling.
After graduating from Marist College with a bachelor’s in Social Work and earning a Master’s in Social Work from Seton Hall University, Julia’s care is creative and impressionable.
Reach out to Julia Sgro directly via phone or text at 732-947-4858
Email JSgro@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist | Hazlet
Megan is an empathetic, compassionate, flexible, and supportive psychotherapist. She believes in cultivating an open and safe environment for her clients to express themselves. Megan has always believed in the importance and benefits of therapy as we continue to grow as individuals. She understands each therapeutic path is individualized and is respectful of her each of her client’s journey's.
Her mission is to create a welcoming and non-judgmental atmosphere for her clients to address identified challenges while recognizing their strengths. Megan utilizes a person-centered and strengths-based approach, focusing on the individual and their goals. Megan incorporates motivational interviewing, mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral strategies into sessions to assist her clients in meeting their goals and needs.
Megan has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families of various cultural backgrounds.
Megan graduated from Centenary College with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work before completing her Master’s degree in Social Work at Rutgers University.
Reach out to Dr. Spada directly via phone or text at 732-947-4097
Email MKelly@LeafPsych.com
Psychotherapist | Little Silver
Katarina is a sincere, compassionate, and kindhearted psychotherapist. She creates a soothing and secure space, where her clients can feel comfortable to be their authentic selves. Throughout the therapeutic journey, Katarina considers it to be a privilege and an honor to accompany clients on one, while she believes in always offering them a positive regard and guidance alongside of them through collaboration, in order for her clients to grow and to fulfill their own potential as individuals, as well as valuing themselves and their lives.
Practicing individual, couples, and family therapy with adolescents and adults, Katarina utilizes integrative approaches through aspects of evidence-based treatment, such as dialectical behavior therapy, trauma-focused care, mindfulness-based therapy, humanistic therapy, energy psychology, and strength-based therapy, all of which allows her clients to be the primary focus of the helping process.
Graduating from Monmouth University with an undergraduate and graduate degree in Social Work, Katarina has gained substantial clinical and advocacy experience that has further shaped her into a driven, insightful, and empathetic clinician.
Reach out to Katarina directly via phone or text at 732-947-4076.
Email kgrimaldi@leafpsych.com
Psychotherapist & Founder | Colts Neck
Dr. Spada is a distinguished psychotherapist with over two decades of experience, operating her practice in a discrete location in Colts Neck, New Jersey. She is the founder of LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy, with locations in Little Silver, Sea Girt, and Hazlet, New Jersey.
Her comprehensive experience and educational background provide her with an exhibition of theoretical frameworks at her disposal. Her treatment approach is highly personalized based on her clients individual needs and personalities. Using a highly sophisticated, multifaceted, esoteric approach, Dr. Spada is accredited to creatively move in and out of multiple theoretical frameworks in one therapy session. She is a master at her craft.
Dr. Spada brings a gravitational energy to her practice that is compassionate, warm and authentic. She fosters an environment where her clients feel free to be their unfiltered selves, creating the opportunity to be fully seen, heard and understood. This leads to a special process that allows her clients to access their unconscious world. Learning about this unconscious world sparks deeper connections and awareness that leads to greater control and mobility in one’s life.
Through understanding oneself, clients can connect with patterned states of mind and ways of being as habitual. Henceforth, reconstruct their emotional homeostasis in alignment with their goals.
Through self-love, compassion and healing, a freer more fulfilling existence emerges.
Dr. Spada focuses’ on the relationship with oneself, as it is the most critical relationship in one’s lifetime. It is ultimately the projection of how one sees and experiences the world around them.
Dr. Spada brings high presence, focus, intentionality and deep healing energy to her practice. She appreciates being with her clients on their journey to self-discovery and loves to be a part of the beautiful growth that inevitably ensues.
Dr. Spada earned her master's degree in Social Work from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Adelphi University.
To connect with Dr. Spada directly, reach out via phone or text at 516.236.9401 or email at DrSpada@LeafPsych.com
LEAF by Dr. Dana Spada Psychotherapy is a concierge therapy service.
Our clients receive a highly privatized and personalized therapy experience.
You will feel well taken care of from your first phone call to us -
to walking through our door - and thereafter.
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Visit us at one of our 4 locations
Colts Neck
Little Silver
Hazlet
Sea Girt
Open today | 08:00 am – 08:30 pm |
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Little Silver 34 Sycamore Ave #2e, Little Silver, NJ 07739 Hazlet 49 Village Ct, Hazlet, NJ 07730 Sea Girt 2130 NJ-35, C-311, Sea Girt, NJ 08750 732-947-4777 info@leafpsych.com
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