Our Team in Canton
Welcome! Transformational Choices is a community-based professional service that provides a full range of life enhancing services in a holistic, mindful, and supportive setting.
Our mission is to support mindful change within individuals, groups, and organizations. We are proud to offer a diverse array of services, including mental health counseling for individuals, groups, families, children. We work to address relationship issues between couples, within small groups, and in families. We offer life and wellness coaching and consultation, as well as organizational evaluation and consulting.
We are committed to providing the best professional services by working with our clients and developing and implementing the most effective and customized life enhancing change plans, through the promotion of learning and personal growth.
Transformational Choices uses a natural and organic mind / body approach to restoring healthy emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning. The client and therapist are partners and work together to discover the choices necessary to reach new goals and break old patterns.
Our approach to the helping relationship is especially effective in dealing with depression, anxiety, emotional dysfunction, creative blocks, relationship concerns, and debilitating personality traits that interfere with love, work, and the knowledge to sustain health.
Therapists
Layal Berro, LMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: Addiction/Substance Abuse, ADHD, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict, Grief/Loss, Parenting, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Stress
Populations: Adolescents, Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual, Group, Family
My approach to therapy is to provide a safe and non-judgmental environment. My greatest strength is building trust with my clients and being very empathetic. Everyone's journey is different and unique. I want to help you navigate feelings of stress, anxiety, life transitions, and depression along with any other feelings that have become overwhelming. I am here to offer you support, encouragement, and guidance towards a healthier and more meaningful life. I look forward to meeting you!
I am trained in several different evidence-based treatment approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive-behavioral Therapy. I will work with you in an open, direct, and collaborative manner to thoroughly assess the issues at hand and to develop treatment goals so that measurable progress can be noticed.
Felix Boratyn, LMSW
he/him
734-559-3540
Specialities: Self-Esteem, Anger, Life Transitions, Addiction, Relationship/ Interpersonal Problems, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, LGBTQ-Specific Issues, ADHD
Populations: Adults, Adolescents, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual, Couples
I provide a safe environment and support as you make sense of the past and present, build your relationship with yourself, and move into the future. I consider it an ethical obligation to ensure that what I do is evidence-based, and moves you towards your therapeutic goals. I use a person-centered, psychodynamic approach, as well as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing. If you are seeking a therapist, you are already demonstrating a drive towards building an enjoyable, intentional, meaningful life. Together, we can address the obstacles on your path.
Hassan Jafer, LMSW
he/him
734-559-3540
Specialties: Anxiety, Depression, Grief/Loss, Men's Issues, Personality Disorders, Self Esteem, Stress, Trauma/PTSD
Populations: Adolescents, Adults
Modalities: Individual
My approach to therapy relies on creating a safe environment to assist my clients in processing and healing various aspects of their lives. It is imperative to provide a therapeutic relationship built on trust and compassion, in order to help my client reach their goals. Through empathy and acceptance, I will work with my client towards restoration, happiness, satisfaction, and the unlocking of their true potential.
I am committed in providing and implementing the most effective professional services. My areas of expertise are Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic and Person-Centered modalities. The goal is to provide therapy that thrives through gentle exploration of one’s thoughts, emotions, feelings, and sense of self.
Julliette Mahfouz, LLMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Chronic illness/pain, Codependency, Depression, Divorce, Domestic violence, Family conflict, Grief/loss, Infertility, Infidelity, Marital/premarital, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Parenting, Personality disorders, Pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum, Relationship issues, School issues, Self-harming, Self esteem, Sexual abuse, Spirituality, Stress, Suicidal ideation, Trauma/PTSD, Women's issues
Populations: Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual, Couples
Languages: English, Arabic
I firmly believe that our mind is one of the strongest tools we have and with the right mindset, anyone can overcome life’s challenges, whether they involve anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other emotional struggles. Everyone deserves to experience self-love, build self-confidence, and feel empowered, even when it seems out of reach. I believe the first step toward healing especially after a traumatic experience is opening yourself up to talk about it. Therapy provides a safe, judgment-free space where you can share your story, explore your emotions, and begin your journey toward internal healing. My approach is tailored to each person’s needs, offering coping strategies and tools that fit their unique situation. I strive to create a warm, accepting environment where you can feel comfortable expressing vulnerability without fear of judgment. Therapy is an active process one that takes time, effort, and patience. I aim to guide, support, and empower. I believe the most important relationship we can build is the one we have with ourselves. Internal healing is the foundation for true peace. My goal is to help you develop the tools to not only navigate life’s obstacles but to thrive knowing that you have the strength within yourself to overcome anything.
Katie Poplawski, LMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: ADHD, Anxiety, Codependency, Depression, Divorce, Grief/Loss, Infidelity, Marital/Premarital, OCD, Personality Disorders, Pregnancy/Prenatal/Postpartum, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Stress, Trauma/PTSD
Populations: Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual, Couples
If you are feeling more overwhelmed, anxious, angry or depressed than you were before the pandemic, then congratulations, you have a functioning brain and nervous system! Please feel free to reach out to me if your capacity to deal with emotions or other people are compromised these days. Feeling calm or back in control is not an exercise in logic and rationality; if it were, people would not need therapists. I can assist you with noticing, understanding and regulating the often baffling, subtle/extreme responses that originate from the deepest, most primitive regions of your brain and nervous system so you can regain your footing.
My clinical interests are focused on how human development is affected by chronic stress, multiple losses and trauma--as well as how people survive, recover and flourish in spite of adversity. My practice is informed by current scientific research and evidence-based approaches to grief and trauma recovery.
Kathy Stewart, LMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: Anxiety, Codependency, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family Conflict, Grief/Loss, Infertility, Infidelity, Parenting, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self-Harm, Self Esteem, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma/PTSD, Women's Issues
Populations: Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual
I strive to create a creative, mindful, and contemplative approach towards strengths based positive therapy, led by the client, and based on a shared respect between the client and clinician. I am committed to providing the best professional services by working with clients and developing and implementing the most effective and customized life enhancing change plans, through the promotion of learning and personal growth.
Julia Sultana, LMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: Addiction/Subtance Abuse, ADHD, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict, Grief/Loss, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Spirituality, Stress, Women's Issues
Populations: Adults
Modalities: Individual, Family
Each of our lives are filled with different experiences, and we should not always have to navigate those experiences or challenges on our own. Finding a therapeutic space that allows you to explore those experiences, no matter how big or small they may seem, is the first step in understanding those experiences and how they may be impacting us.
My approach begins in a client-centered environment that focuses on creating a welcoming and open space for all individuals. My goal is to build trusting relationships through an empathetic and compassionate lens that allows clients to be themselves in a judgement free space. In creating this environment, we will work in a collaborative effort to set and work towards your personal goals within your own therapeutic journey.
Jay VanDyke, LLMSW
she/they
734-559-3540
Specialties: ADHD, Anxiety, Autism, Codependency, Depression, Family conflict, Gender identity, Grief/loss, LGBTQ+, Relationship issues, Self esteem, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma/PTSD
Populations: Adolescents, Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual, Couples
You’ve probably read a lot of these by now. Maybe part of you is still hoping to find someone who truly gets it, or wondering if that person even exists. I’m not here to fix you or offer empty reassurances. I’m here to meet you with honesty, compassion, and genuine respect. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, just as no two people are exactly alike. We’re all human here. Therapy isn’t magic, but being seen for who you are and what you carry can be a powerful beginning.
The only reason I’m on this side of the room is because I’ve faced my own challenges and found meaning in helping others work through theirs. I have experience supporting individuals and couples navigating trauma, grief, loss, addiction, anxiety, depression, isolation, oppression, and chronic health issues, as well as questions of sexuality, identity, meaning, and purpose. I've also walked alongside clients through life transitions involving career, family, relationships, spirituality, and gender expression. Above all, my clinical approach is grounded in a humanistic philosophy. By meeting you where you are without judgment and drawing on my training, professional practice, and lived experience, we can
work together to pursue your therapeutic goals in a way that feels authentic to you.
Christine Wright, LMSW
she/her
734-559-3540
Specialties: Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, Grief/Loss, LGBTQ+, Narcissistic Relationships, Personality Disorders, Self Esteem, Sexuality, Stress, Trauma/PTSD, Women's Issues
Populations: Adolescents, Adults, Older Adults
Modalities: Individual
Certifications: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
We all face challenging transitions and changes in life. If you are struggling with relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, depression, anxiety or want to improve your interpersonal skills and coping strategies, therapy can be a life changing opportunity: you can move beyond persistent suffering or dysfunction, feel more alive, creative, and in touch with who you are, relate with greater happiness, feel stronger in difficult situations, and live a more satisfying, fulfilled, life. Let's work together to create a plan for you to feel and function better.