Meet our expert team.

The founder of Bryn Mawr Mental Health and Wellness, Dr. Raena Khorram is a board certified psychiatrist. She has extensive experience working with undergraduate and graduate students at a number of Pennsylvania area schools including Villanova, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Penn State, Lehigh University, Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh. She also treats students from out of state colleges who are Pennsylvania residents.

Dr. Khorram graduated from Johns Hopkins University. She completed a year of health policy research at Childrens’ Hospital of Philadelphia before medical school at Sidney Kimmel Medical College/Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

She completed adult psychiatry residency at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she was chief of psychopharmacology and completed a one year externship at MIT in the Department of Mental Health and Counseling.

Prior to Bryn Mawr Mental Health and Wellness, Dr. Khorram has worked as a staff psychiatrist at a large community hospital treating both adolescents and adults in outpatient and inpatient settings.

She is also a psychiatrist at Swarthmore College serving the needs of their diverse student body.

Angela, a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience as a therapist, graduated from the Bryn Mawr College of School Work and Social Research. She also completed both the Child and Adult  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Programs at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Center, where she also taught. Today Angela supervises therapists who work in private practices and school settings.

She applies her clinical experience in working with people throughout the lifespan, including treating infant/mother dyads and adults as mature as ninety-two. With professional expertise and passionate interest, Angela helps people move confidently through times of transition, loss, relationship conflict, and life challenges that are hard to solve on their own. Her experience with adolescents and young adults has familiarized her with the issues of peer struggle, feelings of inadequacy, stress, and self-injury.  Her work ranges from college students separating from their families, developing autonomy, and a sense of self, to people dealing with infertility, and or adjusting to the different stages of parenthood and aging. Angela helps people see the beauty at every stage of life, mourn losses and to expand their minds to solve problems.

Although psychodynamic training anchors her work, Angela employs trauma informed treatment, mindfulness, play therapy and aspects of cognitive-behavioral therapy, depending on what approach is the best fit for the person.

She works with many families to reduce conflict and deepen relationships. She believes that relationships provide a path for growth and that her job as a psychotherapist is to help people develop healthy, generative relationships with themselves, their families, and their communities. In her view, psychotherapy is a collaborative and creative process. It can be brief or extensive, depending on the person’s goals and the complexity of the issues.

Mandy has 20 years experience working integrating human behavior, health and healing to create lasting and positive changes as a therapist.

She integrates brain health, nutrition, family systems theory as well as art & music into the treatment process.

Her professional history includes individual, family & group therapy for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma & eating disorders. Her background in family systems allows her to look at learned roles & behaviors; blending the past & present to design a future her clients get excited about. While Mandy engages clients in examining their daily habits and how that impacts brain health, she also helps them understand how their subconscious is at play. She allows clients to set goals and a pace that feels useful and individualized.

Mandy has been on the forefront of providing telecounsling for young adults & their families, needing transitional support post high school & college. While this transition is often associated with freedom & fun, there are significant stressors that accompany this new found independence. After 5 years of working on Temple University’s campus, she has gained more awareness of those stressors and has developed therapeutic interventions to best support her clients.

Mandy received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology, James Madison University and Masters of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Christine Gearhart, CRNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of experience. She is excited to be joining Bryn Mawr Mental Health and Wellness where she will provide comprehensive weight management services.

Christine obtained her BSN from Johns Hopkins University and her Master of Science in Nursing from Catholic University. She has worked at many large institutions including NIH, The Washington Hospital Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Penn, Johnson and Johnson and Mainline Health.

In 2015 while at Penn, Christine found her passion within the medical field when she started focusing on weight management and helping her patients achieve their optimum health. She has continued this practice at Mainline Health. Christine removes the stigma behind weight focusing on the genetic, hormonal, and lifestyle factors. She meets clients to develop individualized longterm successful plans which may include medications, comprehensive laboratory testing, and referrals to nutritionists or mental health therapists based on clients needs.

Outside of her professional life, Christine loves live music, hitting the pickleball court, weightlifting and spending time with family and friends.

She looks forward to partnering with clients on their unique health journeys.

Initial intake 45 min
Monthly follow-up 30 minutes

Katie is a licensed social worker who received her Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr College and her Master of Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated cum laude from Yale University.

As a clinician, Katie believes in leading with unconditional positive regard, curiosity, and respect for the client as the expert on themselves, and she views clients contextually, considering the impact of their environments, especially systems of power and oppression. Katie is informed by psychodynamic theories and integrates cognitive behavioral and somatic techniques as appropriate, adapting to the unique needs and strengths of each client. She is passionate about creating a safe, collaborative, and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment.

Being trauma-informed is core to her work, and she is skilled in pacing trauma work with clients. She has extensive experience working with survivors of sexual trauma and relationship violence and knows trauma goes much further than individual acts of violence.

As a lesbian and as someone with a decade of experience working within the LGBTQ community on issues of sexual violence and mental health, she is aware of the unique concerns LGBTQ clients experience. Katie is passionate about working with LGBTQ clients and those exploring their sexuality and gender identity.

Previously, Katie worked in interpersonal violence prevention at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as both a prevention specialist and a survivor advocate for students, and she also worked in health care policy research at the university.

Cassidy Shaver is a licensed social worker who joined our practice as the clinical coordinator in April of 2020. Cassidy works full time for Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood PA as their kidney transplant social worker and financial coordinator.

Cassidy graduated from University of South Carolina with her undergraduate degree in social work in 2013 and from Temple University with her advanced standing masters of social work degree in 2014.

Cassidy earned her clinical social work license in October of 2019.

Cassidy has experience as a social worker working with clients with chronic health conditions and has a background in research of health disparities. Cassidy is happy to help our patients with scheduling, appointment inquiries, prior authorizations, and general needs as it relates to their care at our practice.

Tracy is a licensed clinical social worker and has experience working with adolescents, young adults, families, couples, and individuals of all ages. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Business from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and her Master of Social Science from Bryn Mawr College of Social Work and Social Research.

Tracy is dedicated to helping clients identify and explore difficult feelings, thoughts, and maladaptive behaviors in a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space. As a psychotherapist and clinical social worker, she takes a holistic approach in building understanding in the problem-solving process by providing empathic listening, validation, and insightful questions using curiosity, compassion, and connection. Tracy has experience working with a variety of mental health issues through work with a diverse client base drawn from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds, education, age, and life experiences.

She has a particular interest in relational dynamics within peer and personal relationships, family conflicts, and workplace interpersonal stressors. Tracy also supervises graduate level counseling students and provides life transition and career management coaching.