Emily Laurita- MFT Student Therapist

Emily Laurita- MFT Student Therapist

Emily enjoys working with individuals, couples, families, and children; she offers both in person and telebehavioral health services to help meet her clients’ needs. Emily is passionate about working from a systems perspective to enhance her understanding of her clients lives, and works collaboratively with her clients to empower them throughout their treatment. Emily’s collaborative approach can be encapsulated by the following quote: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn” (Benjamin Franklin). Life is about learning and therapy is about learning how to grow.

Emily has experience working with depression, anxiety, self-esteem, PTSD, attachment injuries, infidelity, children, and grief. Of her experiences, Emily most enjoys grief work. Death and loss of loved ones, relationships, pets, and expectations can have a devastating impact on individuals and groups. This is a topic that affects people during every phase of life and should be honored and understood.

Emily has worked with terminally ill cancer patients and their families dealing with anticipatory grief and has a background in both Psychology and Human Development-Family Sciences.

Jennifer Tripp-Herring - MFT Intern

Jenn is passionate about creating a transparent, accepting, and healing space. This space is created by forming a sound rapport that is empathetic and founded on an unrelenting positive regard. In a collaborate effort, she works with clients to find strategies that are both expressive and progressive! Jenn strives to support those experiencing relational issues, anxiety, depression, and other life challenges by focusing on effective communication, connection, self acceptance, and fulfillment.

We all experience life's struggles and your unique experiences deserve to be heard, validated, and appreciated! It is her passion to offer a space unlike any other in the world: a place of peace, openness, respect, and an unrelenting positive regard.

She has years of experience with mood disorders, including anxiety and depression. Additionally, she specialize in relational issues, such as communication difficulty or infidelity. Whether an individual, couple, or family unit, each person’s expression and experiences will be valued, explored, and attended to!

Sheryl Goldstein -MFT Student Therapist

Sheryl Goldstein - MFT Student Therapist

Sheryl understands family struggles are complex and challenging. Her commitment is to create the path which enables her clients to live the life they want and deserve. She listens carefully and provides strategy, tailored to clients’ specific needs. Sheryl endeavors to create a safe and secure environment to conquer challenges and move towards a better tomorrow.

She acknowledges the willingness to improve mental health and believes taking that step is a critical and courageous decision. Her clinical approach is to assess situations based on the interactional patterns weaved in one’s life. She utilizes Experiential and Cognitive Behavioral methods specializing in young women, individuals, couples, and families.

Carmen Nieto - MFT Student Therapist

Carmen Nieto- MFT Student Therapist

Carmen is a graduate level student therapist, training to work with individuals, couples, and families. She is bilingual and offers services in both English and Spanish. She believes that individuals are the experts of their own lives and hopes to support her clients in their personal journeys towards healing and growth.

As a clinician, she has developed a passion for helping individuals with their attachment, infidelity, self-esteem, and trauma needs. Carmen is also passionate about expanding the accessibility for mental health resources within underrepresented communities, especially within the Latinx community.  

Jessica Gerloff- MFT-Intern

Jessica Gerloff- MFT-Intern

Welcome to Intentional Therapy! Often words will fail to convey our true intentions. Learned coping mechanisms, inability to choose authentic interactions and learned behaviors can all be changed. With time and work, there is ALWAYS hope. 

Jessi works with couples, families and individuals, offering both telehealth services and in person visits, located in Summerlin, NV. Jessi’s philosophy is that: “You are not alone. You are not merely what your fears tell you. Everyone has an opportunity to grow and let go of what no longer serves their truest self.” She specializes in grief, narcissistic personality disorders, family joining (primary and integration of step/new), recommitment after infidelity or amicable processing of separation, social anxiety, and improving conversational skills through confidence and clarity. Jessi is there to support her clients and guide them on an empathetic human level without any judgement.

Douglas Earle, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Douglas Earle, LMFT

Douglas Earle is a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and is currently working towards his certification with the association. Douglas works with couples, individuals, as well as poly relationships in a safe, sex positive environment. Here, Douglas helps people heal from past traumas, and identify and heal from out-of-control sexual behavior. He aids people identify elements in one’s life that may be inhibiting one from fully experiencing their sexual identity, needs and desires. Even if that means expressing in a way that is unique to you and differs from others. He helps relationships dealing with issues that cause distress in the relationship and inhibit exploration of their sexual selves.

Here you can ask any question free of judgement and criticism. Is it ok if I like this or do that? How does age, injury or medication affect me, my partner, or partners sexually? How do I talk to my spouse about my needs, fantasies, or set boundaries? Could I be addicted to sex or porn? How can we spice things up in the bedroom? How do I protect myself from pregnancy, or sexually transmitted infections? What does it mean if I do have an infection? How do I perform sexually when certain sexual body parts are not functioning like they should? What is “real” sex? In other words, Douglas helps you debunk myths and raise your sexual intelligence. Let us learn how to have sex that doesn’t fail and create closeness and intimacy with ourselves and partner, or partners.

Neeka Wittern, MFT-Intern

Neeka is trained to work with individuals, couples, and families from various backgrounds. Her goal is to help guide you through any challenges, trauma, or unexpected life changes you may experience. She especially has a passion for working with sex workers, infidelity, LGBTQ+, suicidal ideation, disordered eating, multicultural couples/families, sexual issues, and trauma. She believes that clients have everything that they need to make positive changes in their lives within themselves. She focuses on establishing reachable goals with clients that can be maintained even after their graduation from therapy.

She takes an evidence-based approach that combines well-researched interventions from Internal Family Systems, Strategic Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy models to help clients overcome trauma, grow, and navigate life. Furthermore, she is pursuing a certification in Sex Therapy from AASECT as a specialization.

Her practice is open and affirming to all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, socio-economic status, religious or political beliefs, and/or alternative forms of sexual expression and lifestyle. She personally understands the importance of promoting a compassionate and trustworthy relationship with her clients.

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Adryana DeBenedittis-CPC Student Therapist

Adryana DeBenedittis- CPC Student Therapist

As a Latina and as a clinician, Adryana strives to reduce barriers that minorities face by acknowledging, validating, and advocating their experiences, societal barriers, and lack of voice that they may have. Mental health stigmas prevent many individuals from seeking mental health services, especially minority populations. One skill set that helps her serve the Latinx community is being a bilingual clinician who speaks both English and Spanish. She strives to create a safe space with her clients, so uncomfortable topics can be addressed together. She also recognizes that she may not have similar experiences as her clients but she’s willing to listen and hear about theirs. She firmly believes that her clients are her equals and invites them to educate her on topics she may not be familiar with.

Most of her clinical and professional experience involves working with youth and adolescents. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Tampa in 2020. She’s currently working towards her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She recognizes that everyone has their unique struggles and there is beauty in processing and confronting those struggles. As Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

Linny Le-MFT Student Therapist

Linny Le-MFT Student Therapist

Linny’s educational background gives her the opportunity to work with clients of different ages and backgrounds. She is equipped to help individuals, couples, and families cope with a variety of mental health issues. Her passion is helping individuals heal and see healthy changes in their lives- it can be anything from improving relationships, gaining self-confidence, overcoming major life experiences or acute life transitions- healing and change is possible!  

Her approach is supportive, reflective, collaborative and trauma-informed. Linny has an empathetic nature that creates a safe, judgment free environment where individuals will learn to  overcome any blockage that may hinder them from their personal growth and navigate through any limitation they may be feeling. 

Jessica Ingersoll - MFT Student Therapist

Jessica Ingersoll -MFT Student Therapist

Jessica believes that obstacles are vital to individual growth. They allow us to learn and push us out of our comfort zone. But some obstacles can feel absolutely crushing and sometimes that pressure is just too much to bear on our own. As a Student Marriage and Family Therapist, she has received the training needed to help her clients navigate the various obstacles life brings. She believe it is up to you to decide if those obstacles are going to make or break you. Choosing to try therapy tells her that you at least have a little bit of hope for things to get better. She will take that hope and put everything she has into helping you navigate to the place where you would like to be. Whether it’s a relationship that needs repairing, or an individual that needs healing, She is there, and is there without any judgment or bias. 

She works with couples, families, and individuals. She also works with both adolescents and adults. She is especially passionate about working with perinatal and postpartum moms and couples as they navigate that new stage of life. She will work with clients of all backgrounds, including all religions. She works with couples struggling with infidelity or addiction, couples who want a more secure relationship, families dealing with grief, parents who need help connecting to their teenagers, and individuals struggling to cope with anxiety and depression. She is also passionate about helping clients discover their self-worth. She believes every client is unique and just as worthy as the next. She feels privileged to work with every client that comes my way. 

I have a few approaches to therapy, depending on what is best suited to that particular client. Emotional Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are some of my favorites. I believe that the best therapy is done collaboratively. The client knows themselves better than anyone else so I believe that their best chance of success is best done when working as a team. 

Ashley Benoit - CPC Student Therapist

Ashley Benoit - CPC Student Therapist

Ashley believes that every individual can write their own story and change their endings; sometimes, people just need a little guidance on the direction to go, much like therapy. Seeking out counseling can be one of the hardest things, but Ashley makes a point out to show you just how strong you are. She primarily works with individuals who have experienced significant traumas. Ashley has a background in working with youth and families in the child welfare system and individuals who struggle with addiction. She utilizes several approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioral therapy and person-centered techniques, to encourage growth and promote healing.

Connie Fielder - MFT Student Therapist

Connie Fielder - MFT Student Therapist

Connie’s approach is one that is supportive and validating. It is important to her that clients feel heard and understood at all times. I enjoy working with older adolescents and young adults around identity, anxiety, coping skills, communication, and life stressors. She also has a strong interest in perinatal mental health and supporting women and their partners during this new season of life, life transitions, career changes, relationship stressors, managing symptoms of anxiety, depression, grief and loss, stress management, infidelity, and parenting.

She provides a therapeutic environment that is safe and non-judgmental that allows you the opportunity to be completely unfiltered and yourself at all times.

Janina Salmon - MFT Student Therapist

Janina Salmon - MFT Student Therapist

Janina Salmon is a Graduate student at Capella University in the MS Marriage and Family Therapy Program. Nina believes that each individual has the ability to successfully reframe their thinking & behavior in order to lead a healthy and positive life. She approaches each therapeutic relationship from an open minded, honest, and direct foundation. Nina is a warm and empathic therapist who works to provide a safe and non –judgmental space for individuals, couples, and families to feel understood and accepted so healing can begin.

Nina’s role is to provide support and opportunities for growth in an environment that promotes unconditional positive regard and the space to become your best self. Utilizing a Solution- Focused model was appealing to Nina learning positive approaches to treatment as she believes that many individuals want to look to the current and future versus living in the past. Solution - Focused Therapy is based upon changing the view of how to approach the individuals current and future circumstances rather than focusing on past experiences. This theory has continued to make an impact and change the way therapists focus on the goals and solutions attainable by the clients. Nina’s areas of focus are children, individuals, couples, and adjustment to physical disabilities.

Monica James - CPC Student Therapist

Monica James - CPC Student Therapist

Monica believes that each of us are on a journey of self discovery and self realizations, that at times can present real life emotional challenges. Having support on that journey can allow one to reach new heights of healing especially within the confines of a warm, safe and nonjudgmental space. In this space is where she strives towards a holistically, humanistic and person-centered approach while employing empathy and unconditional positive regard for each person I engage with.

Monica was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in a multicultural environment that fostered a sense of inclusivity that she continues to foster since moving to Las Vegas in 2015.

The areas of focus that she can be of the greatest service are with individuals who may be experiencing anxiety, depression, crisis/trauma, relationship/issues etc. She is also very passionate about issues concerning the mental health of LGBTQIA+ and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Available through Telehealth only.