Alida Engel, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD

Speech and language pathologist Alida Engel has over 35 years of experience in the public schools, and now works exclusively in private practice in New Haven Connecticut, with both children and adults. She is a generalist, with broad experience in autism, voice, language, articulation, auditory processing, and reading. She is also a board recognized specialist in fluency disorders, making her one of only some 300 such practitioners in the country.

Alida has been featured in the New York Times, the New Haven Register, and the New Haven Advocate. In 2009, Alida:

• delivered a talk to the Connecticut Speech-Language-Hearing Association on "Pre-School Stuttering Therapy: Lidcombe and Other Approaches" -- March '09
• was selected to attend the University of Connecticut Central Auditory Processing Disorder "Boot Camp." -- July '09
• participated in the 9th World Conference for People Who Stutter, which brought together people who stutter, researchers, and therapists, in Rio de Janiero. -- August '09

Lisa Greenleaf, MFT

Family therapist Lisa Greenleaf, MFT, approaches treatment with an underlying belief that contained within each person are the solutions to their problems, the seeds of healing their hurts, and the power needed for new beginnings and growth. She works to stimulate client self-access to those solutions, to support, and to empower, nurturing fulfillment and expanded experiences so that healing, renewal, and growth become available. She takes a non-judgemental approach, and views problems as conditions -- not pathologies. She considers all conditions grist for the mill of our humanity, which can be used to move toward health and contentment. To facilitate change and evolution, Lisa's techniques include present-focused emotional and cognitive approaches, behavioral coaching, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).