Meet the Team
Kate Taylor, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Kate Taylor is a clinical psychologist who works with children, adolescents and their families. She is most interested in anxiety, emotion regulation and the idea of resilience.
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Dr. Kate received her PhD in clinical psychology with a focus on child development and psychopathology from the University at Buffalo and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University at Rochester Medical Center before accepting a faculty position there. She now maintains her private practice.
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Given the increasing need for mental health services for children and adolescents, Dr. Kate's practice is now expanded and called Rochester Resiliency Center.
Individual therapy for children and adolescents as well as parent consultation, will continued to be offered.
Catherine Cook, MHC-LP
Mental Health Counselor
Catherine Cook is a Mental Health Counselor. She completed her mental health counseling degree from St. Bonaventure University in August 2023. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Brigham Young University. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she stayed home with her three children.
During graduate school, she worked for Easter Seals NY as a behavior specialist and behavior technician. She specialized in children through young adulthood with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual disabilities, as well as various mental health diagnoses.
Her primary focus is on early childhood mental health intervention, with a focus on family work. She has counseling experience for ages 5 through 21 and enjoys working across the full developmental range of early childhood through adolescence. She continues to work with autism in her mental health practice, as well anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavior management. She is also interested in trauma work and play therapy.
Carrie Gardner, LMHC
Mental Health Counselor
Carrie Gardner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and has been in the field for over 10 years. She completed her masters in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Rochester.
Carrie worked for several years with adults experiencing co-occurring substance abuse and mental health concerns. She has been trained in DBT and focused on working with adults who experienced trauma.
Currently she specializes in working with children and youth who have experienced trauma. Carrie approaches therapy using a bottom-up approach. Our brains start developing at the brainstem (bottom of our brain), moving up to our learning brain at the top. Once we are better able to regulate and connect with our authentic selves and our emotions, we can more effectively use our higher-level functioning.
Carrie utilizes various forms of directive and nondirective play therapy with a foundation in child-centered play therapy to help children and families. Carrie is trained in EDMR and certified in TraumaPlay. Carrie also works with children and youth who experience anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, and difficulty with emotion regulation. Working with a therapist is an important decision and at times feels overwhelming. Carrie wants to partner with children and families to create a trusting and supportive environment. Carrie works with families to identify goals for therapy and ways to support caregivers during the healing process.
Ashley Rosselot, MHC-LP
Mental Health Counselor
Ashley completed her undergraduate degree at Nazareth University in 2018, double majoring in psychology and community youth development. She completed her mental health counseling degree from St. John Fisher University in May 2020. During graduate school, Ashley worked for the Society for Protection and Care of Children as an Infant and Early Childhood Therapist. She specialized in serving children and families who had been impacted by all types of trauma, providing non-directive play therapy and family counseling sessions.
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Post graduation, Ashley worked for Hillside Children’s Center as a residential treatment clinician with a heavy focus on family counseling to establish, learn, and practice new skills together. During her time there, she specialized in treating children in early adolescence who suffered from Anxiety and depression disorders, Post- traumatic stress disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder, ADHD, Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, attachment disorders, as well as those with autism spectrum disorder.
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Ashley has an interest in treating children and adolescents with comorbidities that disrupt their daily lives, peer, and family relationships. She works from a strengths-based perspective and specializes in providing Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), and other attachment informed approaches. Ashley has received extensive training in the most up-to-date practices and research on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), which incorporates play therapy and family engagement.
