Yehuda Union, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
yunion@melbornsteinclinic.org
Yehuda, a graduate of Wurzweiler School of Social Work, works as a clinical therapist at the Mel Bornstein Clinic. He is passionate about helping adults of all ages reach their full potential. To that end, he practices therapy using psychoanalytic and psychodynamic persepctives to help patients learn more about themselves. His patient-centered approach focuses on the relationship between the therapist and patient, providing a safe space for the patient to grow at their own pace, and to share as freely and openly as they can. Yehuda works with patients from a variety of backgrounds who are struggling with relationship issues, anxiety, trauma, or those who simply want to learn more about themselves. Outside of work hours, Yehuda can be found spending time with his family, cooking, or enjoying the great outdoors.
Ryan Keller, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
rkeller@melbornsteinclinic.org
Ryan received his Master's Degree in Social Work from Wayne State University. His clinical experience includes working with individuals with anxiety and depression, complicated grief and loss, and those going through life transitions. He has a particular interest in understanding how these factors may interfere with motivation and accountability and the pursual of larger life goals. Ryan enjoys working with teenagers, young to middle-aged adults. Ryan understands that there are internal and psychological factors along with external and systemic barriers that interfere with people reaching their highest potential. Knowing this, he looks forward to the opportunity to help navigate those barriers with his clients.
Using a psychodynamic approach, Ryan values the importance of considering one’s past experiences, relationships, and interpersonal patterns, to help understand how that influences current choices. Ryan knows the importance of developing good rapport, approaching each session with a smile, and cultivating an environment that is safe and supportive for everyone he works with. Ryan has a particular interest in supporting athletes at various points in their careers, whether they are youth, collegiate, pro, or post-career. Even if you are not an athlete, Ryan is experienced in treating various forms of performance anxiety, and he understands how recognizing and transforming reactions to stress and negative self-thoughts helps people better access their true internal strengths.
Carly Kahn
Staff Therapist
ckahn@melbornsteinclinic.org
Carly provides individual psychotherapy to adults and adolescents using a psychodynamic, trauma-informed approach. She works collaboratively with clients to explore how early relationships and life experiences shape emotional patterns, self-perception, and current struggles. Her approach is grounded in empathy, curiosity, and a deep respect for each client’s unique story and pace of healing.
Carly holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy. Her clinical experience spans outpatient and forensic settings, where she has provided therapy and psychological assessment to individuals navigating various challenges, including mood disorders, anxiety, grief, complex trauma, identity concerns, and relational difficulties. Carly is committed to creating a therapeutic space that supports safety, reflection, and long-term emotional growth.
Telehealth, In Person (Farmington Hills)
Anna Wellemeyer, LMSW
Senior Staff Therapist
Clinical Supervisor
awellemeyer@melbornsteinclinic.org
Anna works with children, adolescents and adults. Her areas of clinical interest include the effects of trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, identity, and grief and loss. She has experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds, identities, life experiences, and with children, teens and families that have experiences with the foster care system and/or adoption. Anna’s approach to therapy is client-centered and psychodynamically based. Anna believes that therapy can be a space for people to increase their awareness and understanding through exploration of themselves, their relationships, past experiences, and their unconscious patterns and beliefs. Therapy can be a pathway to healing and strengthening the resiliency to face life’s complexities, and living a more desired life.
Telehealth, In-Person (Farmington Hills)
Natalie Johnson, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
njohnson@melbornsteinclinic.org
Natalie received her master's degree in social work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York. Natalie seeks to apply a person-centered and psychodynamic approach in her work. She is curious about her client’s inner world (thoughts, feelings, memories, and desires) and hopes to build insight into patterns and beliefs shaping behavior. Her clinical experience has primarily focused on working with children, adolescents, and adults as they navigate grief, traumatic stress, relational difficulties, anxiety, and depression. Given her social work background, she is also curious how identities and social structures impact her clients’ lives.
In her work with children, Natalie believes that play is a child’s form of communication, and it not only provides insight into their internal experiences but is also an opportunity to build a sense of competency and explore their sense of self. Alongside that, Natalie believes in partnering with caregivers to build awareness around their parenting experience and, ultimately, strengthen the parent-child bond.
Vince Moceri, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
vmoceri@melbornsteinclinic.org
Vince has experience working with children, adolescents and adults on a range of topics including trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. He believes that through better understanding and insight about ourselves, we can feel more free to navigate life with its challenges as well as opportunities. Vince aims to help patients explore all parts of their mind with curiosity, not shame, and to understand how they think, act, and feel. Vince believes that lasting change is possible by seeing ourselves more clearly. Through that process we come to enjoy greater satisfaction in our relationship with ourselves and others, as well as more joy in our work and interests. He brings passion and excitement to his work, treating each individual as unique and focusing on their whole experience instead of symptoms and diagnoses.
Andrew Garcia, LICSW
Staff Therapist
agarcia@melbornsteinclinic.org
Andrew’s practice is client-centered. He believes healing begins by attending to what makes us individual—e.g., the unique patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that constitute a self. Informed by psychodynamic theory and practice, he believes these patterns can be unconscious and determined by past experiences that exert their influence across the lifespan.
Andrew believes in every client’s capacity for achieving insight and alleviating inner pain and conflict. He is an attentive and curious listener who is interested in collaborating with clients to achieve their particular goals.
Andrew received his master’s degree in social work from Boston University with a specialization in trauma-informed therapy. Andrew also completed a two-year fellowship in psychodynamic therapy at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England. He has worked with adults, adolescents, and young children from a diverse set of cultural, socioeconomic, and racial/ethnic backgrounds.
Dr. Cassie Garety James
Dr. Garety James is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 10 years of clinical experience practicing from a psychodynamic framework. She is available to work with adults navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, identity development, and perinatal mental health issues. Her approach to therapy centers on working with clients to understand their deeply meaningful inner experiences and how those experiences shape their interactions with the world around them. She sees emotional pain and distress as an expression of a person’s unique story and unmet needs. Dr. Garety James offers a therapeutic space in which to engage in a process of meaning-making that can help clients navigate painful and confusing experiences more easily and allow them to move toward more alignment with the life they desire. She also centers multicultural frameworks, intersectional identities, and understanding the effects of systemic oppression in her work with clients.
In addition to her general practice, Dr. Garety James has cultivated two areas of clinical focus: She has extensive experience supporting healthcare professionals as they navigate the unique demands of their work and life such as moral distress, compassion fatigue, administrative and research expectations, and burnout. She also has a career-long focus on supporting individuals navigating unusual experiences such as hearing voices, seeing visions, and having strong beliefs others do not understand- experiences commonly referred to as psychosis. Dr. Garety James integrates various recovery-oriented approaches in working with these clients.
Ian Bratcher, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
ibratcher@melbornsteinclinic.org
Ian is available to see both adolescents and adults and has experience working with individuals who are experiencing or have experienced anxiety, depression, trauma, existential dilemmas and struggles, as well as grief and loss.
Ian earned his Masters’ of Social Work degree and PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan. As a sociologist, Ian studied how social structures and culture impact the mind, and in his practice he is particularly sensitive to these intersections. Through a collaborative and empathic process, Ian wants to help his clients discover how to live rich, meaningful, and genuine lives and help them become aware of and eventually overcome the various obstacles preventing them from doing so.
Telehealth, In Person (Ann Arbor)
Nitin Rajhans, M.D.
Psychiatrist
Dr Rajhans received training in Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry at Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University. He works as a staff psychiatrist at Development Centers, Detroit and has a private practice in Troy, MI. He is currently a candidate in training in Adult Psychoanalysis at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
Telehealth
Summer Ellerbee, LMSW
Staff Therapist
sellerbee@melbornsteinclinic.org
Summer received her Master’ Degree in Social Work from Wayne State University with a concentration in psychodynamic theory. Summer has a diverse clinical experience working with clients from various backgrounds including adults and adolescents with a focus on anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief.
Summer’s hope as a therapist is to foster a collaborative environment that enables a journey of growth and self-understanding. By taking a holistic approach, Summer hopes to help clients make the connection between past life events and the present challenges. Therapy with Summer involves creating a safe and trusting space for you to begin your healing process.
Telehealth
Nechama Kin, MA LLPC
Staff Therapist
ncynamonkin@melbornsteinclinic.org
Nechama received training in counseling, specializing in mental health through Nova Southeastern University. Nechama has a dual degree, as a limited licenses professional counselor and as a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst). Nechama works with adults but primarily sees teenagers and children.
Nechama has extensive experience in behavioral analysis, where she has thrived in creating a highly motivated atmosphere, infused with unconditional acceptance and unique understanding of the human mind. Nechama believes in each individual's ability to overcome life's challenges and lead a fulfilling life.
Telehealth, In Person (Farmington Hills)
Zach Lyons, LMSW
Staff Therapist
zlyons@melbornsteinclinic.org
Zach holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Wayne State University with a concentration in psychodynamic theory and practice. His clinical experience is primarily with adults and adolescents from diverse backgrounds, especially those who struggle with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, grief and loss, issues related to identity, and interpersonal distress. Approaching treatment with curiosity, patience, and empathy, Zach is first and foremost motivated to learn about and collaborate with his patients. Through an open dialogue, he hopes to cultivate mutual understanding of thoughts, emotions, and motivations that is considerate, thoughtful, and ultimately healing.
Telehealth
Drew Stapleton, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
dstapleton@melbornsteinclinic.org
Drew received his master's degree in social work from Wayne State University with a specialization in psychodynamic theory and technique. He has worked with adolescents, young adults, and adults from a wide array of cultural, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and religious backgrounds. He works with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and interpersonal and family challenges.
Drew’s approach is rooted in the understanding that much of our behavior, emotional responses, and overall well-being are influenced by earlier past experiences, the impacts of which often escape our awareness. He aims to provide a space that allows people to momentarily take time away from the busy demands of day-to-day life, so they can begin the challenging work of uncovering unconscious patterns from a place of calm and stability. It is through this process of developing insight and clarity that we can start living a purposeful life, and ultimately reveal our innate potential.
Drew believes that we are complex beings, and as such, he works to help people understand their individual experiences from a place of non-judgement. He views the therapeutic relationship as important, unique and collaborative. Drew is committed to ongoing professional development and regularly engages in supervision and training to stay updated on the latest advancements in psychodynamic theory and practice.
Danielle Duclos, MA LLC
Staff Therapist
dduclos@melbornsteinclinic.org
Danielle received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Oakland University. She works individually with adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, fluctuations in mood, relationship challenges, and trauma.
Danielle’s approach to therapy is person-centered and psychodynamic. She works closely with clients to create an atmosphere of trust, acceptance, and discovery. She regards therapy as a method of empowerment through which clients can come to know themselves more deeply. It is her hope to foster a safe and supportive environment so that each client can uncover a new level of awareness and understanding that informs their own unique healing process. Danielle views relief from distress as not just a goal, but a turning point as clients increase their self-knowledge and experience greater freedom to embrace happier, healthier lives.
Telehealth
Ellie Sutton, LLMSW
Staff Therapist
esutton@melbornsteinclinic.org
Ellie provides a personalized compassionate and judgment-free space dedicated to helping individuals and families thrive. Combining a psychodynamic and social work approach, Ellie believes that people are wired for connection, and understanding how we connect helps uncover patterns, resolve conflict, and build healthier relationships. She works with adults, adolescents, and children, supporting clients through life transitions, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and self-esteem issues. Ellie’s gentle and creative approach focuses on empowering clients to create meaningful change and lasting emotional well-being. Whether helping individuals navigate challenges or partnering with families to strengthen bonds, Ellie tailors her work to each client’s unique needs.