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Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BCD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Director


Helping You Solve Life's Problems™ since 1980


 

Cheshire

Meriden

Danbury

 

 

(203) 271-1234

(203) 639-1234

(203) 790-1234

 

Our Professional Staff


A&FCC Clinical Administrative Staff

* Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BCD

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Director & Clinical Social Worker

 

* Linda J. Rosenfield, LCSW

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Intake Coordinator & Social Worker

 

* Kathleen A. Lieberman, ACSW, LCSW

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Child and Family Therapist

* Wendy Sauer, LCSW, CASAC

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Alcohol & Addictions Therapist

A&FCC Licensed Professional Staff

* Marty Ernstoff, MEd, LMFT

 

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Child and Family Therapist

 

* Dorothy J. Jackson, ACSW, LCSW, BCD

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Child and Family Therapist

 

* Lynn M. Krieg, MS, LPC

 

Licensed Professional Counselor
Psychotherapist & Medical Counselor

 

* Cynthia M. Davis, LCSW

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Adolescent & Adult Therapist


* Pamela J. Goldin, LCSW

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Family & Adult Therapist

 

 

* Irene Marmo O’Brien LCSW        

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
“Child, Adolescent, Family & Adult Therapist”         


* Thomas M. Foster, LCSW                      

 

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Certified School Social Worker                                          
“Behavioral Change Therapist"        

* Susan Rynkiewicz, LCSW, LADC         

 

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor
“Therapist”


* Keri Loper Fryer, LMFT                   

 

 

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
 “Child, Adolescent, Family & Adult Therapist”

                                           

* John Maloney, Jr., LMFT                  

 

 

 Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
 “Child, Adolescent, Family & Adult Therapist”

                             

* Sarah A. Grondin, LCSW                      

 

 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Certified School Social Worker    
“Psychotherapist & Pre-School Consultant”



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Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BCD
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founded the Adolescent & Family Counseling Center, LLC, in 1980.  He is a CT Licensed Clinical Social Worker (000187) and is a CT Certified School Social Worker (#: 32180 ).  He earned a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from UMass/Amherst in 1967 and his MSW from Boston University School of Social Work in 1970, with a focus on Groupwork. 

Prior to being the Director of the A&FCC, Herb worked in a variety of settings: the YMCA of New Bedford, MA; Boys' Club of Waltham, MA; Jewish Community Centers in Boston, Worcester, and New Haven; and for the Meriden (CT) Public Schools as School Social Worker.  For the practice, Rosenfield also had provided school-based therapy for over a decade at Wilcox Regional Vocational-Technical High School and for Meriden Public Schools at John Barry and Benjamin Franklin Elementary Schools and at Washington Middle School.

In the A&FCC practice, Herb sees a broad range of children, teenagers, adults, and families.  He has particular focus in work with teenagers, ADHD, survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and hypnotherapy and relaxation.  Rosenfield presents the 2 hour workshop, “Relax … and Live Better”™, here in the practice and at the on-site facilities of agencies, business, and industry.  [A copy of the flyer on “Relax … and Live Better” ™ can be downloaded from our “A&FCC News” page.]   He has initiated and provides individual psychotherapy through the A&FCC's "F.I.T. Therapy" (tm), "Face-to-Face Internet Technology Therapy" (tm).    

Rosenfield is also a partner in Connecticut Mental Health Resources, LLC, providing EAP services to clients across the state of Connecticut.  He was the founder of PsychBedFinder Connecticut, LLC, which attempted to increase efficiency and speed by linking the referrors to and the providers of inpatient mental health and substance abuse services via an internet-based network.

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Intake Coordinator Linda Rosenfield, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (004219).  She has a Bachelor's degree in Education from Boston University .  She taught elementary school for the Wrentham, MA, Public Schools and had been Educational Coordinator of the practice since 1985.  Linda earned her MSW degree from Southern CT State University School of Social Work.  As the practice's Intake Coordinator since 1993, Linda attempts to match potential clients who call the A&FCC practice with the most appropriate clinician - the one who can best provide the needed services at the time the client is available, while utilizing the client's insurance benefit coverage.  Linda's wide caseload includes significant couples' work, ADHD, and grief work. 

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Kathleen A. Lieberman, LCSW , is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (004517) who began here as a Clinician in 1999 and has joined us full-time in 2001 as a Child and Family Therapist. Kathy earned her MSW from Fordham University School of Social Work. She brings to the A&FCC her extensive experience with Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Family Services of Burlington County (NJ), and the Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent-Child Resource Center in Shelton. Her clients here are children, teenagers and their families, and adults. Kathy has extensive experience serving families that have adopted children.

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Alcohol & Addictions Therapist, Wendy Sauer, LCSW, CASAC, is the professional mainstay of our Danbury office.  She is a CT Licensed Clinical Social Worker (003662), a New York Certified Social Worker, and certified as an Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York and Connecticut .  She earned her MSW from Adelphi University and worked for the Long Island Jewish Medical Center's Family Treatment Unit prior moving into our practice in 1995.  Wendy works with a broad range of client ages and issues.  Her counseling forte is a wide range of addictions -- alcoholism, drugs, eating disorders, gambling, and sexual addictions.  Wendy can be reached at our A&FCC Danbury office - 203 790-1234. 

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Marty Ernstoff, MEd, MFT, has been a mental-health consultant for the A&FCC since 1993.  A former teacher and certified school psychologist, Marty has two Masters degrees: she received her MEd in School Psychology from John Carroll University in Cleveland and she returned to Southern CT State University to earn her Masters degree in Marriage & Family Therapy. She is a CT Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (000890). She provides the practice with the expertise of her MFT knowledge of family structure and systems.  Marty does therapy with all ages of clients, from preschoolers through adults and she provides "feliel directed play therapy" - teaching parents how to play healthily with their children -- as one of her specializations. 

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Dorothy J. Jackson, ACSW, LCSW, BCD, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (000101) who has been with the practice since 1994.  She has her MSW from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.  She was the Assistant Director of LNV Parent Child Resource Center in Shelton from 1982 - 1988 and had been the Clinical Director and Program Director of the Waterbury Child Guidance Clinic until October of 2003. Dee now performs valuable child, adolescent and family therapy services for the practice.”

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Cynthia M. Davis, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (003459) who had been employed for 20 years at the CT State Department of Corrections facilities with the UConn School of Medicine’s Correctional Mental Health Unit.  Davis earned her MSW degree from Southern Connecticut State University.  At the A&FCC since 2000, Ms. Davis provides therapy services as our Adolescent and Adult Therapist.  In 2003, she is also initiating a program she has developed, “Understanding Sexual Victimization”, a 6-8 week educational-healing series of presentations.

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A Licensed Professional Counselor (#000169), Lynn M. Krieg, MS, LPC, has begun here in 2002 as our Psychotherapist and Medical Counselor.  Krieg is a long-term Cheshire resident and she is employed full-time as a Psychologist at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford.  A recipient of her MS in Psychology degree from Southern Connecticut State University, she is providing psychotherapy and training workshops here at the A&FCC.  Beginning in January, Ms. Krieg will being providing Q.U.I.T.Ô, the practice’s program, “Quit Unwanted Intake of Tobacco”Ô.  A copy of the brochure on Q.U.I.T. Ô can be downloaded from our “A&FCC News” page.
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Pam Goldin earned her BA in Psychology from Oberlin College and her Master in Social Work from the University of Michigan. She brings to the practice her 24 years Clinical Social Worker at the Meriden Child Guidance Clinic, where she continues to provide her clinical expertise and concern. She has also been a member of the Adjunct Faculty for Fordham University and for Southern CT State University, supervising 2nd year MSW students in their field work experience, and as a Clinical Social Worker for the Holyoke-Chicopee Mental Health Center. For the A&FCC, Goldin is working with families to be more successful in their interactions and relationships and providing therapy for adult clients.

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Irene O’Brien, LCSW,  has been the Community Social Worker for the VNA of Wallingford since 2000.  Her extensive previous experience includes her 11 years in the Social Work Department in the Hospital of St. Raphael, with 5 years as Discipline Chief.  Here, she now provides therapy, groupwork such as a Caretakers Group, stress management workshops, and, perhaps, nursery/day-care center consultations.  Irene is very experienced in working with children, adolescents, and adults and she provides couples, group and family therapy here in the A&FCC practice.
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Thomas M. Foster, LCSW, earned his Bachelor degree in Social Welfare from University of California at Berkeley and his Masters degree in social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work.  This fall, Tom has returned to his professional ‘first love’, substance abuse treatment; he is now a social worker at Mountainside, an inpatient substance abuse treatment facility in Canaan, CT.

Previously, Foster was Director of Day Treatment and of Intensive Outpatient Services for The Renfrew Center in Old Greenwich, serving women with eating disorders.   His varied experience resume includes: Director of Outpatient Substance Abuse Services at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center, Harrison, NY 2005-08; eight years with Stony Lodge Hospital in Ossining, NY, finishing as Director of Clinical/Case Management for inpatient Services; five years work as School Social Worker in the Danbury High School’s School Based Health Center; and at Danbury Hospital, work in agencies, private practice, and as an Employee Assistance Counselor.     

As our “Behavioral Change Therapist” here, Tom Foster will start on Saturdays to work with families, counsel teenagers, provide individual and group therapy on substance abuse and eating disorders, and utilize hypnotherapy for the management of chronic pain and for behavior-modification such as smoking cessation.

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Susan Rynkiewicz, LCSW, LADC, received her Masters Degree in Social Work from Fordham University and earned her Bachelors in Social Work from Western Connecticut State University.  In addition to joining our A&FCC staff, Rynkiewicz is a Clinical/Forensic Social Worker at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown. 

Sue Rynkiewicz’s previous experience has included: Grief Therapist at Healing Hearts; Substance Abuse Specialist/Consultant for the Connecticut State Department of Children and Families (DCF); and a range of positions at Arms Acres in Carmel, NY, ultimately becoming the Clinical Director of the Outpatient Clinic.

Sue Rynkiewicz now moves her solo private practice into our A&FCC group practice and office.  As a “Child, Adolescent & Family Therapist”, she offers individual, family, and group therapy services, initially serving clients on Saturdays.  She will focus on services to children ages 8-and-over, teenagers, young adults and adults.  She will also provide workshops, groups, programs, and services centered on improving healthy family interconnections, anxiety, depression, life transitions, stress, substance abuse treatment, grief processing, and in preparing girls to become healthy young women. 

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Keri Loper Fryer, LMFT, earned her Bachelors degree in Criminal Science from Sacred Heart University and her Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fairfield University.  Since 2008, she has been a Family Services Counselor for the State of Connecticut, currently in the New Haven District Court. 

Prior to this position, Ms. Fryer was: Therapist and Evolve Program Coordinator in Bridgeport for Family ReEntry; Case Manager for The Connection, Inc, in Bridgeport; Case Manager for Keystone, Inc. in Norwalk; and Residential Counselor for Vitam, in Norwalk.   

Fryer brings to the A&FCC her broad professional experience from these positions, plus 3 ½ years of being in private practice in Shelton.  In our Cheshire office, she will provide individual, couples, family, and group therapy to a range of ages in situations involving anxiety, depression, substance abuse, or family violence.  Keri Fryer will also facilitate Parenting Education and Anger Management services.

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John Maloney, Jr., LMFT, is also a Licensed Marriage & Family Counselor.  John received his Masters Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Saint Joseph College and earned his Bachelors in Psychology Social at Quinnipiac University.  Besides joining our staff, Maloney is a Clinical Coordinator at the Center for Human Services in Stratford.   

Maloney being his experience as Clinical Site Coordinator for boys and Girls Village, Inc., in Bridgeport, Clinical Supervisor and Outpatient Clinician for Waterbury Youth Services’ Juvenile Redirection Program, and as ADHD Clinician at the Child Guidance Clinic of Waterbury.

John Maloney is moving his 2 year old private practice in Southbury into the A&FCC.  Working part-time in both our Danbury and Cheshire offices, Maloney will serve children, adults and families with an array of services, and with his specialization in serving clients with post-traumatic stress disorder, survivors of sexual abuse, and addictions. 

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Sarah A. Grondin, LCSW, is a CT Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a CT Certified School Social Worker.
Her Masters in Social Work was awarded by Fordham University and she earned her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology at Sacred Heart University.  She has worked with a variety of clients and settings, including: Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant for Wellpath, Inc., in Waterbury; for Catholic Charities on Hartford as a Child and Adolescent Clinician for the Intensive In-Home Program, and Case Manager for the Bridgeport’s Regional Network of Programs.  In addition to providing psychotherapy services for anxiety, depression, and anger management in our Cheshire office, Ms. Grondin will be staffing our Nursery and Day Care Center Consultation Services and offering Parenting

 


We welcome your questions or comments. 
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(203) 271-1234

(203) 639-1234

(203) 790-1234

 

 

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The Adolescent & Family Counseling Center offers therapeutic care and other services including health, mental health and educational services, through individual, adolescents, couples, family and group psychotherapy, by performing assessments and evaluations, and by offering presentations and workshops in psychotherapy, educational assessemnts, substance abuse, addictions, stress, grief, children, divorce, sexual depression, anxiety, attention deficit, hyperactivity, ADHD, EAP, parenting, private practice, insurance, panels. Our staff consists of family counselors, psychotherapists, individual and marriage counseling, child counseling, LCSW, PsyD, LMFT, LPC, social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, MD, MSW in the Cheshire, Meriden, Wallingford, Southington, Danbury and other areas.