Our People

Dr. Tony Issenmann is the Family Programs Director at Blue Ridge Therapeutic Wilderness. Blue Ridge Therapeutic Wilderness combines traditional, evidence-based therapies with a unique wilderness experience to provide adolescents, young adults and their families a powerful setting for hope, change, and healing. Dr. Issenmann oversees the systemic integration of family programming so that the focus of change is not solely on the student who is enrolled in the program. He also works directly with families, facilitates parent workshops, supervises a team of family therapists and has the opportunity to develop new, innovative family programming. Dr. Issenmann’s aim is to partner with others in ways that help them thrive – be they the therapists he is supervising, or the students and families who are enrolled in the program.

Dr. Kendra O’Hora is a licensed MFT and supervisor in the State of Maryland. She specializes in helping couples heal from infidelity. She owns a group practice, Wellness & Co., with her providers serving clients locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. K is passionate about relationship health and check-ins, helping couples be proactive and intentional in their bond. She has written two e-books and created an e-course for those interested in the couples therapy process. She also provides consultation to women launching a self-pay private practice. Most recently, she has become a board member for The Narrative Enneagram, an educational non profit using the Enneagram to create a more compassionate world.

Dr. Manjushree Palit is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling (JSPC) at OP Jindal Global University (OP JGU), India. Her research interests include family and couple relationships, family therapy, mental health, the intersectionality of our social identities and gender-based violence. She has been actively involved in teaching, training, and educating professionals in the community on gender and social justice issues; family systems framework in working with couple and family; and the impact of relationship challenges on the mental health of children, couples, and families. She is passionate about educating and empowering young Indian therapists in systemic training and clinical practice.

Dr. Dana Stone is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a small private practice and an Associate Professor and Fieldwork Coordinator in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at California State University Northridge. She serves as a clinical supervisor and faculty liaison to the Mitchell Family Counseling Clinic where trainees serve clients in the surrounding San Fernando Valley. Dr. Stone teaches the foundational courses of Family Systems Theories through a sociocultural lens and Diversity in Therapy as well as fieldwork supervision classes and chairing culminating experiences. Her research is centered in the experiences of multiracial individuals and families as well as supporting early career therapists with marginalized aspects of identity in bringing their whole selves into their clinical development and training. She is the co-author of the recently published (2020) book Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist.

Dr. Jamie West has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University and Interim Clinical Director and adjunct faculty for the Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s Program at Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Center. She has taught courses on ethical, professional, and legal issues in marriage and family therapy, systems theory, substance misuse and addictions, and trauma informed care. As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, she supervises graduate students in practicum and mentors doctoral students completing their supervision practicum. She is licensed as an LMFT in Virginia and Florida and works with clients in her private practice, J. West Therapy LLC. Her research and clinical interests include resilience and protective factors among at-risk youth, strengthening parent-teen relationships, intersectionality of identities, and navigating major life transitions. She is also interested in being a mental health first responder for mass trauma. Dr. West completed training and is registered as a volunteer through the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology and Vibrant Emotional Health Crisis Team to deploy for future natural and man-made disasters that occur nationally and internationally.