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Lesley Sanders, PsyD, President

drsanders@lifelongwellnessdc.com

Dr. Lesley Sanders is a clinical psychologist licensed in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She is passionate about working with children and their families who are experiencing difficulties in the area of affect regulation, school performance, attention difficulties, marital discord, and developmental challenges. Dr. Sanders has specialized training and expertise in the areas of Infant Mental Health, Maternal Mental Health, and Attachment. She has worked in various settings including outpatient clinics, hospitals, schools, and private practice. Dr. Sanders has many years experience successfully helping individuals and families with a broad spectrum of concerns and difficulties utilizing different treatment techniques and methodolgies, including psychological assessments and therapy.

Dr. Sanders has specialized training and expertise in the areas of Infant Mental Health and Maternal Mental Health, addressing concerns including feeding/sleeping issues, regulation, transition difficulties, and developmental delays. She also provides psychological, developmental, and admissions testing. Dr. Sanders conducts play therapy, family therapy, parent guidance, as well as school consultations. She works with families who are experiencing developmental, educational, social, mood and sensory challenges. Dr. Sanders obtained her doctoral degree from The George Washington University, completed her predoctoral internship at Tulane University School of Medicine, and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Virginia Department of Psychiatric Medicine.


Amelia Hall, PsyD

drhall@lifelongwellnessdc.com

Dr. Amelia Hall earned a Doctor of Psychology degree in Clinical Psychology (American School of Professional Psychology), a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology (American School of Professional Psychology), a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology (Bowie State University), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology (Towson University). Dr. Hall is a licensed Psychology Associate in Maryland and Washington, D.C., with over 20 years of education, training, and professional experience spanning the fields of medicine, public health and psychology. Her areas of expertise include children and families, diversity and multicultural issues, emotional and behavioral dysregulation, identity, problematic sexual behaviors, complex trauma, forensic interviewing, and child sexual abuse education and prevention. Her research includes the relationship between types of parenting style and adolescent risk-taking, and the impact of religious and spiritual attitudes on sexual minorities. Dr. Hall utilizes a practical approach for guiding and supporting patients through the process of recognizing, understanding, and resolving mental health related challenges.


Brandon Davis, PsyD

drdavis@lifelongwellnessdc.com

Dr. Davis received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center. Dr. Davis currently provides psychological services at Lifelong Wellness in Silver Spring, MD. He believes in meeting his patients where they are and walking along with them in their therapeutic journey. Dr. Davis has several years of experience with working with children, families, adults, and couples. Dr. Davis specializes in issues relating to depression, trauma, behavioral challenges, diversity, and children. He has experience in working in a variety of settings to include hospitals, schools, outpatient services, community counseling, universities, and private practice settings. Dr. Davis is also well versed in the administration and interpretation of psychological assessments. Dr. Davis’ desires to create a space in which his clients are free to be who they are without the fear of judgement.

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Sylvia Sanders, PhD, Literacy

sylviasanders@verizon.net

Dr. Sylvia B. Sanders is a literacy consultant and reading specialist. She believes that learning to read is the new “Civil Right for All Children.” Finding children’s interest is the first important step in helping less proficient readers improve their reading skills. Many times students are identified as having behavioral or discipline problems when the core problem is their inability to read.

Dr. Sanders has been an advocate for helping children see themselves as readers, so they can say, “I can read!” She was instrumental in bringing the world-renowned program, Reading Recovery, to twenty-seven (27) elementary sites, in the District of Columbia Public School System in the 1990’s.

Dr. Sylvia Sanders has expertise in helping schools develop standards-based classrooms, align instruction and assessment practices, implement balanced literacy curriculum and provide professional development directly to teachers/instructional coaches in the schools and through literacy institutes. She has also held positions as an elementary teacher, and reading resource teacher. She has co-authored several research studies on comprehension and has been an Adjunct Professor at Howard University, in Washington, DC and Towson State University in Towson, Maryland.

Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Reading/Curriculum and Instruction, from the University of Maryland; M.Ed., Early Childhood Education/Reading; and B.A., Elementary Education, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Her role with Lifelong Wellness is to conduct reading assessments, identify children’s strengths, needs, and interests, in the area of reading and provide strategies and recommendations to improve their reading proficiency in the home and classroom settings. She will also provide referrals for individual reading tutors, as needed.

Ellen M. Griffiths, MPH, RD, LD

ellenmgrd@gmail.com

Ellen Madison Griffiths is a registered and licensed dietitian. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. She has many years of experience working in a variety of settings including the WIC federal nutrition program, acute care hospitals, nursing homes, group homes, behavioral health facilities, and currently with nutrition services for senior citizens in the District as part of TERRIFIC, Inc. Her areas of clinical expertise include nutrition in chronic disease management especially Type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, weight management, and behavioral health nutrition including eating disorders care and issues of distorted body image. She is the Secretary of the Behavioral Health Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group affiliated with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.