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                               Counseling by JFS Offices are located at

6716 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, VA 23226

Counselors at JFS are seasoned professionals with a variety of clinical specialties. JFS clinicians make every effort to provide quality treatment to everyone - regardless of their ability to pay.

JFS offers:
• Prompt service
• Convenient hours - five days and three evenings a week
• A central location on the city bus line
• An average treatment length of 4 to 8 sessions
• Fee subsidies, based on income, for those with no insurance or inadequate coverage
• Insurance reimbursements
• An experienced staff of clinical psychologists (PhDs), licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs), and licensed professional counselors (LPCs)
• A welcome environment for individuals of every religion, race, age and culture

Specialties:
• Individual Therapy
• Couple & Family Therapy
• Family Life Education
• Anger Management
• Domestic Violence Counseling
• Geriatric Counseling
• Divorce Mediation
• Psychological Testing
• Workshops & Support Groups

Meet our Counselors

Sydney Fleischer, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and have a Ph.D. in organizational development. I practice from a solution-focused perspective, but also like to help clients understand what in their past made them vulnerable to their current difficulties. I specialize in relationship issues and coping with cancer. I periodically co-facilitate, with an attorney, a one-session, free workshop on "Meeting the Challenge of Divorce". As the Chief Operating Officer at JFS, my work is a mix of a small counseling caseload, program development, and training.

Ellen Glass, L.C.S.W.

I have worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at JFS since 1992.  I work with individuals, couples/families, and groups using a multi-theoretical approach (psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and communication theories), depending on the different types of personal difficulty and the uniqueness of each client and their situation.  My focus is on the client-counselor relationship where I provide a safe environment of mutuality, respect, and acceptance.  I assist clients in identifying and utilizing their strengths, and I believe that each client has the ability to grow and reach his or her full potential.  I currently facilitate coping with divorce groups, grief groups, and support groups for adults with developmental disabilities.  I work with individuals of all ages.

Dr. David Israel , Ph.D.

I'm a clinical psychologist who earned my Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Key areas of practice include family systems therapy, psychological evaluations, trauma therapy, hypnosis,
meditation, stress reduction, and forensic psychology. I am also an avid holistic health practitioner incorporating contemporary mind, body, and spiritual practices.

Adele Karp, L.C.S.W.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years experience in counseling individuals, families, groups and couples.  Building upon a psychodynamic and family systems foundation, I have developed an eclectic approach and enjoy working with all ages.  While identifying and enhancing individual strengths, and developing insights into family dynamics, I enjoy developing caring therapeutic relationships, which I feel is paramount to success in treatment.

Fourteen years ago, I created the Special Needs Collaborative at JFS, which now serves nearly 200 people a year in a joint program with the Weinstein JCC.  As part of this multi-faceted program, I provide counseling to individuals with such challenges as learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder, helping to address the social and emotional concerns that are frequently consequences of these conditions.

Deborah J. Mazzarella, Psy.D., CPRP

I am a Licensed Clinical psychologist with specialized experience in chronic and severe mental illness, critical incident stress debriefing, recovery education and training, HIV/AIDS counseling, PTSD, and forensic psychology. I gained experience related to military issues while serving in the U.S. Navy. In a therapeutic setting, I employ a person-centered approach based on trust and respect, and guided by the client. I practice the principles of hope, empowerment, and self-determination and will assist my clients at any stage in their recovery.

Phyllis McCafferty, L.C.S.W.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who has practiced in the mental health field for over 30 years, working with a diverse range of people, concerns and issues. While my formal training has been in the psychodynamic and family systems orientation, at this point in my life as a psychotherapist, I am eclectic in my approach. My goal is to use a therapeutic path, which moves my client toward health and healing as quickly as possible. One underlying theme with all people is “to look for health and build on it”. I primarily work with adults, focusing on individual issues and couples/relationship issues.  I also lead stress management workshops at JFS and for businesses.

Zena Tulchinsky, L.C.S.W.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who is influenced by the humanistic psychologists, although my interventions are drawn from several different approaches. I believe that talking with a therapist who has an accepting, empathic, and nonjudgmental approach is healing, and I work hard to build caring, intimate therapeutic relationships. I am an attentive, compassionate and sensitive therapist.  I believe that therapy should help people to enhance their relationships with others. I am particularly interested in working with couples. I came to this county from Russia and understand, firsthand, the adjustment issues faced by immigrants. I am bilingual in English and Russian, and have evening hours available.     

Types of Therapy Offered at JFS

Note:  All JFS clinicians are generalists and we all, like most therapists, use a combination of theories and methods.  The definitions provided below are “pure forms” but do not do justice to the complexity of the therapy experience. 

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy aims to help a person to recognize his or her own negative thought patterns and behaviors, and to replace them with positive ones. A major aim of CBT is to help clients eliminate or modify beliefs or behaviors that help to maintain problematic emotions and interpersonal difficulties.

Communication Theory addresses how people function and communicate with each other, based on their feelings, knowledge, and previous experiences.  Understanding one another’s perceptions can help couples and family members become more caring and compassionate and even better able to communicate.

Family Systems Therapy is a branch of psychotherapy that treats clients’ difficulties within the context of  the family system of interacting members, rather than as purely individual problems.   In this type of therapy, emotional, behavioral, and psychological problems are seen as occuring within a network of relationships, not in isolation from the client’s interpersonal world.

Humanistic Therapy holds a hopeful, constructive view of human beings and the individual’s substantial capacity to be self-transforming. Humanistic therapy differs from psychoanalytic approaches in that it focuses less-strongly on the client’s past history and more on their current ability to grow and evolve through a multitude of creative methods.  Humanistic therapy seeks a whole view of each client and works to help people integrate new experiences and challenges into a new sense of self.

Jungian Therapy, based on the work of Carl Jung, helps individuals access their inner (unconscious) world and develop greater self-realization. Dreamwork is often an essential part of this type of therapy. Another method for drawing out this unconscious material is sandtray therapy.  Sandtray therapy is a creative therapy in which the client creates a three-dimensional picture with small figures in a tray of sand in the protective presence of the therapist. 

Object Relations Therapy is a modern adaptation of psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes human relationships as the primary motivational force in life. Object relations theorists believe that we are relationship-seeking, rather than pleasure-seeking, as Freud suggested. The importance of relationships in the theory translates to relationships as the main focus of psychotherapy, especially the relationship with the therapist.

Play Therapy allows children to act out their problems with toys and games, since children don’t usually verbalize their difficulties as adults do. Through this creative acting-out, children work through problems on symbolic emotional levels.

Psychodynamic Therapy seeks to help clients explore the roots of their current difficulties in their past and to bring new insight to these early experiences.  Through insight, the client is helped to see their current lives differently and to make different choices.

Solution-Focused Therapy focuses primarily on clients’ current problems and works with clients’ resources for solving problems, rather than looking for causes in their past. 

For information, or to schedule an appointment, please email intake@jfsrichmond.org or call (804)282-5644, ext. 239.