Life Stages Counseling – Support for Every Life Stage … Every Step of the Way

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Support for Every Life Stage... Every Step of the Way

Our Services

Play therapy for children as young as 2 years old

Parenting support including help answering questions and developing strategies from toilet training and bedtime to how to talk to your teen

Social coaching for children to help them develop social skills within the context of a social setting

Support and connection with difficult to engage teens

Family and couples counseling

Options for home or community based services when appropriate

Collaboration and coordination of services with schools and medical providers

Child counseling

Individual adult counseling

Our Therapists

Owner/Therapist

Leslie Shakespeare

Leslie cofounded Life Stages Counseling in 2004 with her colleague, Maria Muscente. Leslie has over 25 years of experience as

Owner/Therapist

Maria Muscente

Maria cofounded Life Stages Counseling in 2004 with her colleague, Leslie Shakespeare. Maria holds a strength~ based philosophy and focus

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Lisa Pate

Lisa grew up in downstate NY and came to Ithaca in 1987 to attend Cornell University. She completed her BS

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Travis Winter

Travis is a graduate of Tompkins Cortland Community College with an AS degree in Social Science (1991), Ithaca College, With

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Deborah Loewe

Deborah received her MSW from Rutgers University and has been working in the field of social work in a variety

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Pat Dematteo

Pat graduated from Penn State University with Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Spanish and SUNY Buffalo with an MSW. More

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Rebecca DeBell

Rebecca received her Bachelor of Arts in sociology from State University of New York at Potsdam in 1996 and her

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Mary Hicks

Mary was born and raised in North Texas, then lived in New Orleans for 10 years prior to making Upstate

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Alison Bliss

Alison graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelors in Culture and Communication and later received her Masters in Social Work

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Katie Twigg

Katie was born and raised in the Ithaca area. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology from SUNY Cortland and

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Jaquaia Reed

Jaquaia Reid is a New York native born and raised. She started her college career studying Business Management and marketing

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Gretchen Rymarchyk

Gretchen earned her BS in Psychology with a minor in Biologyfrom Hofstra University; her MSW from Syracuse University with a concentration in Child Welfare; and her PhD

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James Burnham

James graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Master’s degree in social work. He has

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Megan Redmond

Megan grew up in the Finger Lakes and continues to enjoy living and raising her two boys in this area.

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Lynn Podhaski

Lynn has over 30 years of experience as a therapist, working with adults, adolescents and couples. His past experience also

We are so thankful to have Life Stages in our lives! Our family has been going to Life Stages Counseling for the last 4 years, starting with sessions for our then 3 year old daughter. Along the way they have always made themselves available to help us when we need them. They offers support and perspective on parenting, and now as our daughter gets older we are seeing her use a lot of the tools she’s learned from her sessions at Life Stages.

Mothers of a 7-year-old

Life Stages Counseling has been a blessing for my children. They have learned strategies to help with their anxiety. It has also been a great outlet for them to have someone to talk to other than mom. Life Stages is a safe space for my children to share what is going on without any judgement. They know that what is said there, stays there.

Mother of two teen girls

Life Stages Counseling has helped me in many ways with my anxiety and depression. If I hadn’t talked to the people there and gotten help, I would continue to be suffering from severe depression and anxiety. I do not know if I would be here today, so I would strongly recommend this agency to people.

15-year-old high school student

Life Stages Counseling took me through my teen years into adulthood as I transitioned from high school to higher education abroad. This time of therapy and self-reflection taught me the tools I needed to manage emotions and hard life events. I feel strong and empowered, knowing that I am not being controlled by my life, but rather am in complete control myself.

20-year-old college student

Life Stages Counseling has been a lifeline for my family. They have helped us navigate our son’s autism diagnosis, and given us great insight into how to best advocate for our son’s needs with his school and in the community. Life Stages truly listens to my concerns as a parent, and has been so helpful in strategies and advice for navigating challenging behavior and situations.

Mother of a 4-year-old

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If you are an established client: Please email your therapist directly using this directory. Therapists no longer have voicemail boxes and WILL NOT receive any message left on our general voice box in a timely way. Please do not use the general Office voice messaging system to Cancel an Appointment.

To cancel an appointment: Please email your therapist directly using this directory. DO NOT use the general voice messaging system to cancel as your therapist will not get your message in time to prevent a cancellation fee.

If you are inquiring about services: Please contact us at info@lifestagescounseling.org.

Questions about billing: Please contact us at billing@lifestagescounseling.org.

If you are an established client and need to speak to a therapist urgently, please call 607-351-1482, or 607-351-1562, and a therapist will call you back within ½ hour. Please do not use cell phone numbers for referral requests or non-urgent matters.

DO NOT email urgent messages.

121 West Court Street
Suite 101
Ithaca, New York 14850

We are in the white house across from “Court Street Chiropractic”. Metered parking is available on Court Street, and free parking is available on Geneva Street, one block west of our offices. You are NOT allowed to park in the parking lot next to our building.

Parking meter fees can be paid directly from your phone by using the ParkMobile App: Zone 2311

Support for Every Life Stage... Every Step of the Way

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