Aynisa Leonardo is a Licensed Clinical Art Therapist (LCAT, ATR-BC), who has been in the field of veteran mental health services for 12 years now. She is the Director of Military Services at Long Island Center for Recovery. Her prior experience includes working in inpatient, outpatient, and non-profit settings with uniformed service members, experiencing PTS, addiction, family conflict, and other transitional challenges. She has concentrated on advanced program development and clinical education, locally and nationally, to best treat and support our nations' military members, families, and uniformed service personnel.  She founded the Military Resilience Foundation in 2013, which offers community and arts-based events for veterans and their families.

 

William Bruck is the Director of Medical Services for Seabrook-The Heart of Recovery.  Seabrook is a non-profit addiction treatment and recovery system consisting of a 40 acre inpatient and long-term detoxification and recovery center and 5 outpatient treatment centers across New Jersey.  Mr. Bruck has a long history of acute and specialty health care experience.  As a Family Nurse Practitioner and professionally certified project manager, he is responsible for all of Seabrook’s medical and nursing operations in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.  Prior to joining Seabrook, Mr. Bruck was the Statewide Medical Services Director for Bellwether Behavioral Health.  In this role he was responsible for overseeing healthcare services for more than 500 developmentally and intellectually disabled individuals in group homes across the state.

 

Marc Wurgaft, LCSW, LCADC, CCS, a graduate of  Wurzweiler School of Social Work, began his career in social services as a psychotherapist with the Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy, Inc., Brooklyn, New York in September, 1980.  Two years following his appointment at Associate Clinical Director of BCP Inc. in l985, Mr. Wurgaft was named Director of the New Directions Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Treatment Program, a new program of BCP Inc., in the fall of 1987.  During his 18 year tenure with New Directions, Mr. Wurgaft was heavily involved in the Crown Heights/Bedford Stuyvesant community through his work at Interfaith Hospital, the Bedford Stuyvesant Crown Heights Community Coalition for Research and Planning, and the Brooklyn Hospital.  A native of New Jersey, Mr. Wurgaft returned to his home state when he was hired by Youth Consultation Center, headquartered in Newark, to develop the YCS Department of Addiction Services in June, 2005.  Eventually evolving into The Dr. Helen May Strauss Clinics of YCS, which he served as Director till 2013, Mr. Wurgaft is currently the Executive Director of The Counseling Centers, state licensed substance abuse and mental health outpatient programs located in  Freehold, Fair Lawn, Monmouth Junction, Middlesex, Clark, West Caldwell, Toms River and Cherry Hill, New Jersey – as well as a clinic in Yorktown Heights, New York .  Mr. Wurgaft is affiliated with the group private practice, Growtherapy, LLC in Montclair, New Jersey.