2024-2025 Board of Directors

Hannah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker located in Bethesda, MD. She has been practicing as a clinician for more than 10 years and recently founded Gold Therapy. She has extensive experience working with a diverse group of clients during her time in community mental health supporting individuals with HIV and comorbid mental health needs. Hannah also worked as a school social worker in an underserved community and, more recently, at the Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA), where she supported individuals in a community mental health setting. In the past few years, Hannah has become very passionate about ACT. ACBS WorldCon Cyprus (2023) was the first time she stepped into the trainer role, having been accepted to present an In-Person Workshop. Hannah's dedication to the CBS community continues to grow every day. She is honored to take the next step in her ACT journey and serve as President for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

Christina Fox (she/her) is a proud Baltimore resident, member of the LGBTQ+ community, clinical social worker by education, and functional contextualist at heart. She practices Contextually-focused DBT (C-DBT), which is a developing model of psychotherapy in the Contextual Behavioral tradition. Put simply, C-DBT uses the psychological flexibility model processes of ACT within the structure of DBT, and focuses on the immediacy of the therapeutic relationship as set forth in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). Since 2019, Christina has worked closely with Dr. Paul Holmes of the University of Chicago as he has been developing C-DBT, and she was the first to offer the C-DBT group process-training curriculum outside of Dr. Holmes’ practice. She is a contributing author to the upcoming C-DBT group process-training manual: From Chronic Distress to a Meaningful Life. Christina currently offers outpatient C-DBT individual, group, and family therapy with the DBT Center of Greater Washington, as well as a DBT group for teenagers informed by ACT and C-DBT. Within the year, she plans to open her own C-DBT practice.

Amanda C. Rhodes, PsyD, is a clinical health psychologist. She is the Founder of the ACT Academy, an international consulting firm dedicated to the research, training, and dissemination of contextual behavioral sciences including ACT, RFT, and Processed-Based Therapy. She is also the Owner and Director of National Center for Health Psychology, a group practice providing evidence-based therapy and psychological testing to the DMV area.

Amanda is integrally involved with ACBS International. She serves on the Board of the ACBS Cancer SIG as Past President. She also serves on the ACBS Awards Committee, Membership Committee, and WorldCon Program Committee and is a member of the Journal for Contextual Behavioral Science’s Editorial Board.

Simoné Jalon-Main, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of SJM Psychology, LLC, a private practice in Washington D.C. and Maryland. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University in Philadelphia and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, where she received extensive training in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Her post-doctoral fellowship was at an outpatient practice where she received specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Prior to launching SJM Psychology, LLC, she served as the primary psychologist for students at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine for three years. Simoné currently holds an adjunct teaching position in Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and has previously supervised doctoral students’ clinical work in American University’s Ph.D. program.

Naomi LeVine is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She earned her bachelor's degree in Family, Youth, & Community Sciences from the University of Florida and a master's degree in Couple & Family Therapy from the University of Maryland. In addition to providing therapy in private practice and agency settings, some of her favorite projects have included facilitating groups, offering workshops, and creating and implementing mental health infrastructure for staff at an overnight summer camp. Naomi currently is the owner of Naomi LeVine LLC, a solo private practice, where she provides therapy to individuals and couples. She is especially passionate about working with couples who are dating, engaged, and newly married, and is a Prepare-Enrich certified facilitator. She is also a clinical supervisor and works with multiple pre-licensed MFTs. She loves using ACT with her clients to help them build values-aligned relationships and lives, and she is grateful to have found the ACBS community of intelligent and thoughtful clinicians. 

Erin Pressman LCSW-C is a clinical social worker who works in private practice at True North Therapy and Consulting and Kennedy Krieger Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Communication Through Theater from University of Maryland Baltimore County, an AMI Elementary Education Certificate from Centro Internazionale Studi Montessoriani, and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Maryland Baltimore. She is also a certified children’s yoga instructor. Erin’s work focuses on children, teens, and their families in multiple contexts and she works clinically via individual, group, and family sessions using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In her work she has developed and administered a college persistence protocol and a valued decision-making protocol for two Baltimore City high school mentorship programs. In addition, she conducts research on ACT teen groups for depression with Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her current projects include an ACT parent group, ACT individual teen protocol and ACT for substance abuse in Baltimore City Schools. Erin also enjoys training other professionals how to use ACT for children, teens, and parents. She regularly presents introduction to ACT, ACT for parents, ACT for teachers and runs consult groups which focus on applying ACT. She believes that her work with teens and children in different professional capacities, including teaching public and private school, directing plays, teaching yoga classes, and therapy has helped her better understand more of where life happens for families. She holds the belief that therapy is meant to support these environments and help us find meaning and direction as we move in them.

Darian Weaver is a clinical psychology doctoral student at American University where she has been studying the past 5 years. In addition to specializing in neuropsychology, she has been utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in a medical context to work with individuals across the lifespan.