Karen Kennedy, LCSW has over 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families, helping them to achieve greater health and well-being.  She views each client as an expert on themselves while she is an expert on helping clients make change.   Karen helps each client identify treatment plan goals, supporting them in envisioning how they want to evolve their life.  These goals guide the work.  Karen’s primary evidence-based modalities include CBT, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness and DBT.  She emphasizes a holistic approach that integrates mind and body.  She helps clients with a variety of challenges including anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar disorder, ADHD, obsessive/compulsive thoughts and behaviors, substance and behavioral addictions, psychosis, relationship challenges, grief/loss, and managing change.  She has specialty in trauma and addiction treatment.  While therapy naturally involves exploring difficult thoughts and feelings, Karen sees humor and joy as essential elements for healing.  Karen received her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Vermont.  She is the mother of two adult children.  In her free time she enjoys reading, playing the keyboard, surfing and pickleball.

Dr. Michael Price (MD) is a psychiatrist who has been in practice providing clinical services to people across the state of Maine since 2002, practicing all over the state from Ft. Kent to Bangor to Augusta to Portland. He sees patients in-person at our Portland office at 560 Brighton Avenue Portland, ME and via telehealth across the state of Maine. Dr. Price has robust experience been providing professional psychiatric services for the state and local hospitals, for the state’s social service agencies, and for independent clinics, providing high quality mental health psychotherapy and medication services and substance use disorder treatments.  He attended medical school as part of the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also did his medical internship, followed by residency at the Austin Psychiatric Residency program at the Austin State Hospital in Austin TX, then coming to Maine soon after.  His priority is patient-centered care that attends to people’s personal goals while resulting in meaningful functional maintenance and recovery.

Our 2 offices in Saco Maine at 110 Main St provide ample parking and a relaxing space for in-person visits with our Therapist Alix Buckvar, LCSW, our Psychologist Dr. Ashley Shaw and our Founder and Psychiatrist Dr. Nicolas Sikaczowski.

Dr. Jaana Lehtinen is a licensed psychologist in Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, as well as a school psychologist in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Originally from Finland, she moved to California and began her academic journey at San Diego Mesa College, where she earned her A.A. in Psychology. She then received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by an M.Ed. in Human Development and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. With over 20 years of experience, she has worked extensively with children, adolescents, and emerging adults in various settings, including private practice, college counseling centers, K-12 public and private schools, residential treatment facilities, and hospital clinics.

Her goal in therapy is to provide a supportive, non-judgmental environment where clients feel comfortable expressing themselves freely. She takes a holistic and integrative approach, tailoring evidence-based treatments to meet the unique needs of each client. Her areas of expertise include ADHD, learning disabilities, executive functioning skills, anxiety, depression, autism spectrum disorder, behavioral disorders, stress management, and adjustment to life changes. Her therapeutic style is casual and approachable, and she believes humor plays an important role in fostering connection and growth throughout the therapeutic journey.

Nicolas Sikaczowski, DO is an ABPN Dual Board Certified Psychiatrist and Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist.  He is the founder of Peace Behavioral Health. He sees patients in-person and via telehealth from Saco/Biddeford Maine throughout the year and seasonally from our Miami location. Dr. Sikaczowski is licensed in both Florida and Maine. He specializes in treating child, adolescent, and adult patients with conditions including ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, OCD, Eating Disorders, and Schizophrenia.

Dr. Ashley Shaw PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist who is passionate about helping adolescents and adults who struggle with strong emotions, such as anxiety and depression. She strives to help her clients gain self-efficacy about their ability to cope with strong emotions and stressors. Dr. Ashley Shaw has extensive clinical training in cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and dialectical behavioral (DBT) treatments for adolescents and adults, with a special emphasis on emotional disorders (including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, and hoarding) and is licensed in both Florida and Maine.

Dr. Vincent Kennedy is an ABPN Dual Board Certified Psychiatrist and Forensic Psychiatrist.  He is licensed in Florida, Pennsylvania, and California. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree at Georgetown University, followed by a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Irvine, and then attended medical school at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, CA. He completed his psychiatry residency training in South Florida followed by a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of California, Davis. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University, where he provides supervision to psychiatry resident physicians in an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unit, testifies regularly in involuntary commitment hearings, and presents lectures on forensic psychiatry and medico-legal topics. He has delivered presentations at regional and national psychiatric conferences on topics ranging from bipolar disorder to methamphetamine-induced psychotic disorder. Dr. Vincent Kennedy works with Peace Behavioral Health in Forensic Psychiatry cases and providing expert witness testimony and services.

We offer Telehealth Services throughout Florida and Maine. Our Miami Florida office at 3081 Salzedo St offers ample parking is currently available for in-person for a brief time annually during winter months with Dr. Nicolas Sikaczowski.