Our team is a carefully selected group of thoroughly vetted providers who have joined Valera because they are dedicated to providing you with high quality care. We pride ourselves on having a provider team that mirrors our diverse patient population.
We’re here to support you and we can’t wait to get started.
Victoria provides individual and family therapy to children and adults, specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, difficult interpersonal relationships, chronic illness, and trauma. Victoria has experience in play therapy, mindfulness, psychodynamic therapy, and evidence-based therapies. Victoria provides a safe space for all and uses a strengths based and trauma informed approach. Victoria is committed to provide a non judgmental space where together we can explore your feelings, supports, goals, and stressors.
Melissa is a Board Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with a post-Master’s Degree in Psychiatry from Sage Graduate School. She has 18 years experience serving various populations including the serious mentally ill population in intensive outpatient, outpatient clinics, homeless shelters, non profit outpatient agencies, nursing homes and private practice providing psychiatric assessments, consultations, medication management with brief psychotherapy. Her leadership approach to both staff and patient care includes forming a partner relationship . identifying each individual’s personal goals and making decisions together on the best approach for staff and treatment options for patients to meet those goals.
Dr. Shukair received his MD from Damascus University, Syria. He completed General Psychiatry Training Program with psychoanalytic training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. Dr. Shukair completed a Child and Adolescents Psychiatry training in Children’s Hospital of Boston, Harvard University. Dr. Shukair‘s current work focuses on attachment, ADHD and the interaction between executive functions and mental wellness.
