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Lorenzo Azzi PhD                                                                                         Trauma

Dr. Azzi received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2001 and has focused his career on Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health and Child Welfare. He received his IMH and Child Welfare training at the Tulane/Jefferson Parish Infant Team, a multidisciplinary team of professionals responsible for providing comprehensive evaluations, therapeutic services and recommendations to the Juvenile Court, under the leadership of international experts Dr. Charles Zeanah and Julie Larrieu. Throughout Dr. Azzi’s career, he has provided therapy to young children/families, supervision to early childhood therapists, training to a variety of students/therapists and consultation to many programs, including the Department of Child Safety, where he currently consults. 

Heather Bonitz Moore ATR-BC, LPC, IECMH-E®                                   Observation and  Reflective Supervision

Heather has been in practice in the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health field for more than 20 years in a variety of settings including center-based care, hospital and residential settings, community mental health, and home based IECMH treatment.  Heather is currently on Faculty at the Yale Child Study Center working in the Family Based Recovery, Minding the Baby, and IICAPS programs on model development, implementation, and training. She is also the IMH Endorsement Coordinator for ITMHCA and CT-AIMH and provides trainings in Reflective Supervision, Infant-Parent Observation, and other IECMH topics.

Sara Clancey, Ph.D., MOTR/L, IMH-E®           Sensory Processing

Sara is the assistant director for community services at the Institute for Human Development (IHD) at NAU. She works as an occupational therapist in early intervention and specializes in supporting social emotional development in children ages 0-3 through the lens of IMH. Her projects at NAU include director of the Growing in Beauty Partnership Program and the director of the Interdisciplinary Developmental Evaluation Clinic.  She has completed both years of the Harris Institute and continues to provide reflective supervision to early intervention teams. 

Laura Gonzales MA, LPC, NCC, IMH-E®              Ethics in IMH

Laura is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor who works with children and their families, as well as individuals throughout the lifespan, in private practice. She is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and has earned a certificate in Infant-Family Clinical Practice from The Harris Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Training Institute. She has been endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist since 2009 and has over 20 years of experience providing therapeutic services in Arizona. Additional experience includes the provision of mental health consultation to the Early Head Start and Preschool Head Start programs. She taught Early Childhood Intervention at her alma mater, Arizona State University and has presented at a National Conference for Alternative Therapies, for the Arizona Play Therapy Association, and the Infant Toddler Mental Health Coalition of Arizona. She is a member and volunteer for the Infant Toddler Mental Health Coalition of Arizona. 

Cathleen M. Phelan, LCSW, IMH-E®           Perinatal & Maternal MH

Cathleen is currently the Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the Arizona Psychiatry Access Line (APAL), where she draws on her 16 years of experience in community mental health to support providers and families in accessing mental health expertise.  As an Infant Mental Health Clinical Mentor, Cathleen also provides Reflective Supervision/Consultation to IMH practitioners across Arizona. Cathleen utilizes her training and experience in Circle of Security Parenting, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Perinatal Mental Health to inform her work and consultation. Cathleen consistently focuses on increasing the capacity of child and families to navigate challenges with tools, reflection, and compassion. Cathleen is passionate about the role of reflective practice in supporting personal and professional growth to help practitioners be regulated and able to hold hope for families facing challenges. 

Vilma Reyes, Psy.D                         Culturally Sensitive Practice

Dr. Vilma Reyes is the Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2009, she has been providing Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) services, training, clinical supervision, consultation and coordinating community-based mental health outreach services and evaluation. She is bilingual and has provided training and consultation in both English and Spanish internationally.  Dr. Reyes is an immigrant from Peru and is devoted to increasing access to trauma informed services for Latinx immigrant families.

Nicole Rambeau, MOTR/L                          Sensory Processing

Nicole earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Pacific University. She has worked in the field of pediatrics since 2015 and loves working with families in early intervention. Ms. Rambeau’s interests and training gravitate toward sensory processing as well as identifying and treating feeding concerns. Nicole is currently completing her Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Training at the Harris Institute.

Genett Tomko, MSW, LCSW, IMH-E®         Attachment and Assessment & Diagnosis

Genett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been providing mental health services for children birth to 5 years old for the past 26 years in AZ.  She is Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor - Clinical. Genett opened a private practice in 2010 and in 2020 co-founded Ground Work, a nonprofit organization offering counseling for children and support services for Mental Health professionals. She is the Clinical Director of Ground Work’s counseling center in Chandler.  Genett has been providing Reflective Supervision/Consultation for Child Therapists for the past 15 years and facilitates trainings on Infant Mental Health, attachment, trauma, assessment & diagnosis, social/emotional development of young children, emotional regulation and trauma informed care. Genett has volunteered for the Board of Directors of the AZ Association for Infant Mental Health for the past 15 years and serves as the Chair of the Training & Education Committee where she organizes community-based trainings for professionals working with Infants and Toddlers.  Genett chaired the planning committee for their national conference, “The Risk to Resiliency Training Institute” in 2016, 2018 and 2021. Genett is rostered in Child Parent Psychotherapy and is trained in the Circle of Security Parenting program. She has over 200 hours of training in Play Therapy and completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher training program.

Robert Weigand, MSW, IMH-E®  Child Development & Self Regulation

Robert Weigand is an Emeritus Principal Lecturer of Family and Human Development at Arizona State University. Prior to his retirement he served as Director of the Child Development Laboratory, a full day early childhood program serving 50 toddlers and preschool-age children. While at ASU, Bob taught early childhood intervention and child development courses and was co-director of the Master of Advanced Study in Infant-Family Practice degree program. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Infant Toddler Mental Health Coalition of Arizona ITMHCA and was endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor by the Coalition’s Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive Relationship -Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health.  He has chaired the planning committees for ITMHCA’s training institute and the Sally Campbell Memorial Best for Babies Seminar, a state-wide conference focused on the special needs of infants and toddlers in the child welfare system. Bob has also served as Director of Child Laboratory Programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, supervising both the CDL and the Department of Psychology’s Child Study Laboratory.  Before joining ASU’s faculty, Bob was a faculty member and taught toddlers and preschool-age children in the laboratory preschools at Purdue University and at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development.