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Catrina Spicer is an experienced member of the psychology outpatient department at Lindner Center of HOPE. She provides outpatient therapy for young adults, adults and advanced age adults with anxiety and mood disorders utilizing evidence based practices based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution and strength based techniques. Additionally, she provides behavioral health treatment in the areas of relationship counseling, is part of the outpatient eating disorder treatment team and has an interest in grief and women’s services.

Prior to joining Lindner Center of HOPE, Ms. Spicer worked in the behavioral health department at a large primary care physician practice, providing brief, solution-focused interventions that are problem-specific and focused on improving self-management skills and functioning. The skills were based on DBT and ACT interventions, with built-in measurements to assess patient outcomes. Additionally, Ms Spicer worked in a Corporate Health division within a large health care system, providing individual, couples and family counseling for adolescents, adults and the elderly. Ms. Spicer has considerable training and professional experience working with many psychiatric disorders including mood disorders, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders. She has dedicated many years to working in areas such as Women’s medical and behavioral health services and serving and supporting the bereaved.

This provider offers telehealth visits. 

Areas of Specialty and Interest:

• Women’s Health
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Relationship Counseling
• Holistic approach to wellbeing
• Anxiety

Licensure and Certification:

• Member of NASW

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Ms. Connor serves as an outpatient therapist at the Lindner Center of HOPE. She provides individual and family based therapy in the Outpatient Practice. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and is a member of the Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program. As a part of the program she provides services in the outpatient, adult partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and residential programs.

Prior to joining the Lindner Center of HOPE, Heather served as an outpatient therapist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center serving adolescents and families providing individual, family-based, and group therapy in the outpatient setting. Ms. Connor also has past experience working in community mental health and has experience providing care in both the inpatient and residential settings. She also previously served as Manager of Social Work, Recreation Therapy, and Spiritual Care at the Lindner Center of HOPE.

In addition to her interest in eating disorders, Ms. Connor also has interest in working with anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, body image, and is LGBTQ+ affirming. She is trained in Family Based Therapy (FBT) and has taken part in specialized trainings through the International Association of Trauma Professionals. Her approach also utilizes skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

This provider offers telehealth visits. 

Degree(s):

• 2001-2005 Bachelors of Science (BS), Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• 2007-2009 Masters of Social Work (MSW), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Internships:

• 2007-2008 Internship: Psychiatric Emergency Services, University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
• 2008-2009 Internship: Residential Chemical Dependency Program, Veteran Affairs Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Licensure and Certification:

• 2009: Licensed Social Worker, S.0901173
• 2011: Licensed Independent Social Worker – Supervision Designation, I.1200343-SUPV

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Nicole Mori serves as a Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Lindner Center of HOPE, with a primary focus on adults with mood disorders and obesity.  In her role at the Research Institute, Ms. Mori is involved in all aspects of the research process, from screening, evaluating and managing study participants, to the preparation of papers for publication.

Ms. Mori has extensive experience as a Registered nurse and in advanced practice.  She is dually certified as a Family nurse practitioner and as a Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, which enables her to address the needs of complex patients holistically.

She joined the Research Institute at the Lindner Center of Hope in 2008.  As a researcher, Ms. Mori has served as co-investigator, study clinician and coordinator for numerous clinical trials ranging from mood disorders, to obesity, eating disorders and PTSD.

Ms. Mori has co-authored more than 20 original peer-reviewed published articles on the topics of binge eating disorder and obesity, pharmacotherapy of eating and mood disorders.  She has served as an invited expert exam content writer for the American Nurses’s Credentialing Center, which provides the only national certification for Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners.

Areas of Specialty and Interest:

• Eating Disorders (binge eating focus)
• Bipolar disorder
• Obesity
• Psychopharmacology in medical comorbidities

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Valerie Martin oversees the spiritual support program, serving the spiritual & faith needs of patients, families and staff.  Her Team meets with patients who want to include spirituality and faith in their ongoing recovery, helps provide for patients’ spiritual and religious requests while at LCOH, and leads Enrichment groups.

Her passion is helping people know their worth and purpose, while developing and maintaining a healthy spirituality that supports recovery and wellness.  She focuses on encouraging a holistic approach to good mental health and advocates for healthy community support for patients and families.

Valerie completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education here at the Lindner Center and at Vineyard Cincinnati Church, where she served on the pastoral care team for six years. Valerie has also been a volunteer in the church’s Growth and Healing Ministry (Life Reset) for many years.

As a Grief Recovery Method® Specialist, Valerie is certified to facilitate this evidence-based program that can help people deal with unresolved grief.  Helping others navigate loss is a sub-specialty for which she is continuing her training.

Ordained as a chaplain with International Fellowship of Chaplain in 2007, Valerie is a member of the Association of Professional Chaplains, the Spiritual Care Association & the East North Central Community of SCA.

In another life, Valerie worked as a non-profit professional specializing in fund-raising, board and volunteer management & public relations, where she was known for her skill in consensus building. Just prior to joining Lindner Center, Valerie worked with court-referred clients as a life and career coach.  She is a freelance writer and authors a blog, More Hope and is a member of hope*writers.

Areas of Specialty:

• Spiritual Distress and Spiritual Struggle
• Worth of Personhood
• Grief & Loss
• Spiritual Exploration
• Crisis Support

Degrees:

• 1986 B.A. Communications, Wilmington College, Wilmington OH
• 2013 M.Div. Liberty Theological Seminary, Lynchburg, VA

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Kimberly Spivey is a board-certified psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner at Lindner Center of HOPE. She serves adults in the outpatient setting by providing integrative, holistic mental health care, including medication management. Kimberly also provides treatment in Lindner’s esketamine clinic.

Prior to becoming an advanced practice registered nurse, Kimberly served as a registered nurse for more than 12 years. She cared for adults on the inpatient and residential units at The Lindner Center of HOPE where she worked closely with psychiatrists and gained experience in psychopharmacology and working with people struggling with a wide variety of mental health concerns. This is where she became inspired to continue her education so that she could provide more specialized care to those in need.

Kimberly enjoys assisting adults in building a healthy foundation and positive self-growth through supportive relationship and integrative health approaches. Kimberly’s practice is evidence-based, trauma-informed, and incorporates the mind-body-spirit connection.

Education:

• Master of Science in Nursing degree from The Ohio State University - summa cum laude
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The Christ College of Nursing - summa cum laude
  • awarded the Mary Deegan Leadership of Nursing Award
• Active member of the Neuroscience Education Institute - completed the Master Psychopharmacology Program

• Integrative Heath Nurse Coach certificate at The Integrative Nurse Coach Academy
• Continuing education in functional and integrative psychiatry with Dr. James Greenblatt through Psychiatry Redefined

This provider offers telehealth visits. 

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Dr. Conover is a Psychologist and member of the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Team at the Lindner Center of HOPE. She has expertise in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for children and adults with OCD and anxiety disorders. She serves as a therapist for patients with OCD and anxiety disorders and provides specialized OCD consultations on the two residential units, Sibcy House and Williams House. She also provides outpatient therapy services for children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to direct clinical services, Dr. Conover is involved in unit staff trainings on ERP.

Dr. Conover completed her postdoctoral clinical psychology fellowship at the Lindner Center of HOPE. During her fellowship, she provided individual therapy for patients with OCD and anxiety disorders on the residential units. She completed her APA accredited predoctoral internship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in the Child/Adolescent Track. During her internship, she provided outpatient CBT, psychoeducational assessments, and intake evaluations to children, adolescents, and young adults. She also participated in multidisciplinary PANS/PANDAS diagnostic evaluations as a behavioral specialist. Dr. Conover earned an M.S. and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Binghamton University (SUNY). As a member of the Binghamton Anxiety Clinic, she conducted diagnostic interviews and provided ERP and CBT for patients with OCD and anxiety disorders. She also conducted clinical research on the treatment of OCD.

In addition to receiving specialized training in ERP for adults and children with OCD, her clinical experiences have included conducting psychoeducational and autism evaluations (ADOS 2) and providing family, individual and group psychotherapy. She has experience using cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based interventions, parent management training, and social skills training. Dr. Conover enjoys working with patients across the lifespan.

Dr. Conover has published several scientific papers on exposure therapy for OCD and childhood risk for OCD. She also cowrote a chapter on the efficacy and theory of various psychotherapy approaches for OCD in Psychotherapy: The State of the Science and Practice (2018). She has served as an adjunct reviewer for the Journal of Anxiety Disorders and Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Presentation Topics:

• Exposure and Response Prevention
• Challenges in Implementing Exposure Therapy with Oppositional Youth
• CBT for Childhood Anxiety
• Treating Anxiety and Related Conditions
• Pathways to Inflated Responsibility Beliefs in OCD
• Sudden Gains in ERP for OCD

Degree(s):

• 2010-2014 B.A. Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
• 2014-2016 M.S. Clinical Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
• 2016-2020 PhD Clinical Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

Internship and Residencies:

• 2019-2020 APA Accredited Pre-Doctoral Internship, Child/Adolescent Psychology Track, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson AZ
• 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lindner Center of Hope/UC Health, Mason OH

Licensure and Certification:

• 2021 Ohio State Board of Psychology, License # 08185

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Jan Marhefka serves as Chief Nursing Officer at the Lindner Center of HOPE. She has oversight of Access Referral Center, The Welcome Center, Neuromodulation Center, social work, spiritual care, recreation therapy, House Supervisors, Utilization Review, Educators, Staffing Coordinator and direct oversight of both adult inpatient units.

Prior to joining the Lindner Center of HOPE, she worked in an acute medical hospital and served as Director of Nursing with oversight of inpatient psychiatric unit, outpatient partial hospitalization program, ICU, Emergency Department and progressive care unit.  Been in management for 24 years and an RN for 31 years.  Promoted to Associate CNO in November 2021, CNO March 2023. Employee of the Year at LCOH 2020.

Jan joined LCOH in 2015 initially serving in the Manager of Quality and Compliance role.  In 2018, Jan accepted the Manager of Inpatient Units and was promoted to Director of Nursing in 2019.

Degree(s):

• 1992 Associates Degree Nursing, Miami University-Hamilton, Ohio
• 1994 BSN-Miami University-Hamilton, Ohio
• 2010 MSN-University of Cincinnati

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Rebecca serves as the Clinical Director for Sibcy and Williams House at the Lindner Center of HOPE.

Prior to beginning her work at the Lindner Center, Rebecca was the Director of Intensive Services in an Outpatient Behavioral Health setting where she worked primarily with youth and young adults that were experiencing intense mental health symptoms and other co-occurring diagnoses such as substance use.

Additionally, she has worked with youth with developmental disabilities in a foster care setting holding a variety of roles. While there, Rebecca had the opportunity to undergo trauma training from the Sanctuary Institute, which allows her to work with both patients and staff in a trauma informed way.

Rebecca has also had the opportunity to work with the UC Institute for Policy Research and OPRE on a grant funded program called Watch Me Rise (WMR). WMR used a modified approach of High Fidelity Wraparound to work with homeless youth.

Degree(s):

• 2011 B.S. Social Work, College of Mount Saint Joseph, Cincinnati, OH
• 2012 MSW Social Work. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Licensure and Certification:

• 2012  LSW, Licensed Social Worker, Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 2016, LISW-S, Supervising Licensed Independent Social Worker, Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist Board

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Emily Musonza is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Emily currently serves as Lead Recreation Therapist at the Lindner Center of HOPE.  Emily received her Bachelors in Recreation Therapy from the University of Toledo and her Masters in Recreation and Leisure studies from the University of Toledo.

Emily has worked with the Lindner Center of HOPE for 11 years. She helped establish the recreation therapy programming on all the inpatient and residential units. Emily currently works with adolescents through the partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and adults on the residential units at Lindner Center.

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Danielle Beltz is a board-certified psychiatric mental-health nurse practitioner at the Lindner Center of HOPE. She serves adults in the outpatient setting for medication management.

Prior to obtaining her advanced practice degree from The Ohio State University, she earned her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. She worked as a registered nurse at Ohio State Harding Hospital, where she served as a charge nurse on the adult inpatient unit for 7 ½ years. While there she provided emotional support and education to patients and family with thought process alteration, mood and personality disorders and depression.

Her clinical experience throughout her advanced practice education included adult community mental health, outpatient services and inpatient services. Danielle enjoys working with adults and developing relationships that instill trust and growth.

This provider offers telehealth visits. 

Degree(s):

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH
• Master of Science in Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Licensure and Certification:

• State of Ohio Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
• American Nurses Credentialing Center- Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner