Our office supports integrative medicine and firmly believes that a full body approach to treating each patient is very important. We support all Holistic Practitioners and work with them to achieve this goal for each patient.
Diana Lopusny, M.D., F.A.A.P.
After having worked for two pediatric groups to gain valuable experience, Dr. Diana Lopusny decided to open her own practice. A graduate of Ross University, Dr. Lopusny did her residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. With her warm, caring personality, her practice is a welcome choice for parents. Dr. Lopusny's focus is a blend of homeopathic and traditional medicines.
Tina Carlson
Tina Carlson has been dedicated to helping new mothers and families in the post-partum period for ten years. After struggling with bad lactation advice and postpartum depression after the births of her own children, she found a new passion to making sure mothers received the assistance they needed. Tina is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Postpartum Doula. She is happy to offer both home visits and office hours at Preferred Pediatrics for lactation consultations. Tina completed her clinical hours at Stamford Hospital and is committed to evidence-based breastfeeding practices while supporting integrated medicine.
Deborah Pedrick
For over a decade, Deborah Pedrick, founder of Familysleep.com has been educating families on how to create and maintain a healthy foundation for sleep in their children. Deborah began her journey back in 1997 after her son was born. She was at a great advantage in that her son’s pediatrician was renowned children's sleep expert, Marc Weissbluth, author of Healthy Sleep habits Happy Child. Having that foundation of knowledge form the very beginning was critical to maintaining healthy sleep habits throughout her son’s life. Deborah realized the knowledge she had was not readily available to most families so she decided to start a forum on the popular parenting site “Parent Soup”. Over many years she has educated 1,000’s of families on the importance of meeting and maintaining their children's needs. In 2001, Deborah gathered and organized all of her knowledge into as easy to follow resource called, Familysleep.com. Familysleep.com is the number one children’s sleep site on the net, only geared towards children’s sleep issues. Today Deborah’s son is now 13 years old and , yes, a rock star sleeper. She has a private practice in Stamford, Connecticut where she meets with parents one-on-one, over the phone and even does email consults. She has been quoted in Parents Magazine, NY Family Magazine, and other parenting publications and was recently named Parenhood.com’s resident sleep expert. Deborah has also partnered with the popular BabyBites, Westchester (lecture/luncheon organizers) to do a continuing series of lectures on children’s sleep."
Siobhan Lombardi, M.S., L.M.T.
Siobhan Lombardi is a Licensed Massage Therapist and has been a member of the American Massage Therapy Association since 1993. She studied massage at the Connecticut Center of Massage Therapy in addition to a Master of Science Degree from Columbia University in Applied Physiology and Nutrition. She is a certified instructor of Baby’s First Massage, and offers group classes in newborn massage for all caregivers, pre and post-birth. She is available for private in-home sessions for newborn massage as well. She lives in Milford with her husband and three children.
Danielle Elwood
Danielle Elwood is a mother of two beautiful little boys, Camden and Benjamin that were both born via cesarean section, which inspired her to create an ICAN chapter here in Connecticut. Since the chapter started in April of 2008, Danielle has also become the North East Regional Coordinator for The International Cesarean Awareness Network. She is a doula by trait and hopes to become a midwife some day. For now she wants to help reach as many mothers as she can through ICAN and education.
The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) of Connecticut is a mother-to-mother non profit support, education, and advocacy group. We focus on healing for mothers who have had cesarean births, as well as helping to educate first time mothers, and veteran mothers on how to prevent a cesarean birth. ICAN of Connecticut also works to promote Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) and help mothers find VBAC friendly health care providers.
Cathy Freschi
Cathy Freschi received her Reiki Master Cert-ification in 2009 from Roland Comtois, an internationally acclaimed medium and spiritual healer/Reiki practitioner.
Cathy's interest in the Healing Arts began eight years ago with her two daughters. Their positive responses to holistic medicine, acu-puncture, homeopathy, and energy healing/ Reiki peaked Cathy's interest. Having ex-perienced her own personal healing with Reiki over the years, Cathy pursued her Reiki Master Certification. In August 2010 Cathy retired from her secretarial position at an elementary school to dedicate herself full time to helping people heal.
Elizabeth Gomes
Elizabeth Gomes is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She’s trained in cognitive- behavioral therapy, multidimensional family therapy, brief strategic family therapy, multi-systemic family therapy, aggressive replacement therapy and VOICES (girl's social skills group). She works with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. She also runs social skills, anger management, healthy living skills, parenting skills and mother’s support groups. She accepts most major insurances. Elizabeth can be contacted at (203) 671-1785 to schedule an intake appointment
Jerri Ridley
Ms. Jerri Ridley is a Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy Graduate, CT licensed and Insured, and Nationally Certified. She has been an active Massage Therapist for over 9 years. Her continued studies include Myoskeletal Alignment, Deep Tissue, Medical Massage, Sports Massage, Trigger Point Technique, Reflexology, Post Pregnancy Massage and Herbalism. A typical 30, 60 or 90 minute massage may employ any or all styles of body work mentioned, catering to the client's needs and wants for a deeply relaxing, mind and body healing experience.
Karen Coyne, HHC, AADP
Karen Coyne is a certified Holistic Health Coach and member of the American Academy of Drugless Practitioners. Karen is passionate about helping people improve their lives through natural nutrition. She puts her passion into practice at home with her husband and two young children, with whom she maintains an all-natural dietary regime, aimed at maintaining a happy, healthy, and well balanced lifestyle. Beyond her family, Karen loves teaching other families how to apply holistic nutrition techniques in their homes, focusing on cost effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality; living healthy naturally should not be a burden, and can be accomplished even in a typically hectic household. Karen founded www.healthcoachkaren.com as a way to bring her value to other mothers and families. Karen applies her practice through web content, webinars, in-person seminars and private consultations.