Pasadena Villa Outpatient – Charlotte

Regional Executive Director, Outpatient Services

Sloan Huggins, MEd, NCC, LCMHC

Sloan brings a wealth of clinical and operational experience to the Pasadena Villa team. In her role as Regional Executive Director, Outpatient Services, she provides multi-site leadership and coordination for the entire outpatient network in the state of North Carolina. Prior to her role with Pasadena Villa, Sloan was the Executive Program Director of Legacy Freedom Treatment Centers where she oversaw programming for a network of substance abuse treatment facilities in North Carolina and Ohio. Her responsibilities included program and staff development, ensuring programmatic and regulatory compliance, and providing clinical direction and leadership. During her tenure at Legacy, Sloan also developed and implemented a Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program (MHIOP) and was instrumental in establishing the very first standalone, private detox facility in the state of North Carolina where she also served at Executive Program Director.

Sloan’s clinical experience spans across the continuum of behavioral healthcare. She has facilitated individual, group, couples, and family therapy in both outpatient and inpatient treatment settings and has provided clinical services for community mental health centers and corrections facilities. Sloan previously worked as a Psychotherapist for Carolinas Healthcare System (now Atrium Health) at the Behavioral Health Charlotte Hospital, where she worked on the adult inpatient unit with severe and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) patients. In 2014, Sloan founded her own private practice specializing in the treatment of personality, mood, and substance use disorders. Sloan obtained a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Winthrop University, is a National Certified Counselor, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina. Sloan is also a member of the American Counseling Association.

Board-Certified Psychiatrist Attending

Dr. Katie Chambers

Katie Chambers, M.D., is honored to serve patients at Pasadena Villa.  Originally from South Carolina, she wanted to stay in the area and treat individuals in the community in which she had been a part of throughout her life.  She completed her medical school education at the University of South Carolina (a Gamecock from the “other” Carolina).  She continued to complete her General Psychiatry Residency training, Child & Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at PRISMA Health in Columbia, S.C.  She has worked in a variety of settings from inpatient to outpatient and with children to adults.  Her goal is to approach patient care with empathy and compassion while providing treatment recommendations based on validated approaches considered standard of care within the psychiatric specialty.

Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Jamison Lord, DNP, MSN, PNC, PMHNP-BC

Jamison comes to Pasadena Villa with over 13 years of experience in the mental health field and over 26 years of experience in the medical field. She has worked in various levels of care including inpatient and outpatient settings. Jamison is a distinguished mental health professional, holding credentials as both a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and a Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC).

Through her work she helps individuals struggling with persistent mental health concerns live fulfilling and independent lives. Jamie Lord also works as an instructor for Duke’s School of Nursing in the MSN Program and the Durham’s Veterans Affair in the VA Nursing Academic Partnership for Graduate Education Program (VANAP-GE).

Psychotherapist

Philip Falco, MA, LCMHCA

Phil received a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Purdue University and an M.A. in Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His areas of interest in counseling include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and LGBT+ concerns, but he has experience working from various treatment modalities with clients from many different cultural backgrounds and is always looking to continue learning and growing as a counselor. Outside of work he enjoys golfing, participating in community sports leagues, watching movies, video gaming, watching home renovation TV shows, and spending time with friends and family.

Psychotherapist

Camari Claiborne-Scott, LCSWA

Camari is a psychotherapist who received her Master of Social Work degree from Winthrop University and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from North Carolina A&T State University. She has worked in various settings including non-profit organizations, residential care, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Camari utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and strengths-based perspective treatment modalities to help individuals identify their own strengths and intrinsic motivation. Camari is passionate about serving individuals and empowering those who are learning to overcome any issues related to mental health

Office Coordinator

Dayana Vincent

Dayana was born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti and raised in Charlotte, NC. She obtained a Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Scranton and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Community Health from East Carolina University, where she graduated magna cum laude. Dayana has worked in various capacities in the areas of social services, healthcare administration, and health operations and quality management. She is determined to improve health equity by providing culturally competent care and addressing health disparities that adversely affect specific populations. In her spare time, Dayana volunteers with Matthews Free Medical Clinic and the American Red Cross. She also enjoys hiking, yoga and traveling

Music Therapist

Amos Fisher, MT, BC

After an adventurous New York City career in all kinds of music and healing arts, Amos Fisher returns to his native NC with music psychotherapy training from the seminal humanistic program at NYU Steinhardt. His style is informed by the evidence-based Nordoff-Robbins improvisational approach, noted in the 1950s for its efficacy with nonverbal, multiply handicapped children; also by such composers as John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and R. Murray Schafer. He is currently launching a private practice in Winston-Salem called Empathetic Resonance Music Therapy, driven by his own foundational theory The Philosophy of Listening.

Under the tutelage of such pioneer music therapists as Alan Turry, Diane Austin, Ken Aigen, and Barbara Hesser, as well as Gestalt Therapy Institute president Frank Bosco, Amos learned to harness his deeply cultivated musicianship, sense of spiritual health, and interpersonal empathy toward reflecting clients’ own musical being back to them, nurturing a new self-awareness and Confidence In Life And Self (Psychospiritual Maturation, Kass, 2015). His clinical experience includes preschool-aged children with hearing impairment and speech delays, acute inpatient adult psychiatry, and adults and children with developmental disabilities, PTSD, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). From nonverbal to intellectually verbose, Amos’s clients learn to listen to themselves and engage with their world in a new way, in a process ultimately transcendent of words.

Amos believes that music adds dimensionality to therapy, sinking deeper than words or concepts alone. He is excited to offer this as part of the program at Pasadena Villa, at a time when we are all fatigued with isolation from the coVid-19 pandemic. His mission is to create group cohesion in a clinical setting which can grow into the genuine community in the world, fostering mass mental health from where it starts—in the individual’s Listening.

Psychotherapist

Briana Mack, MA, LCMHCA

Psychotherapist

Brittany Fuller, LCMHCA

Psychotherapist

Meredith Turner-Toth, LCSW

Meredith is a licensed clinical social worker with experience working in a variety of settings, with patients across the lifespan with differing needs. Meredith was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from NC State University and her master’s degree in Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to her time at Pasadena Villa, she provided crisis intervention and assessment to individuals accessing the Emergency Department or local mental health hospital. She is professionally trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma-Informed CBT. Meredith’s priority in therapy is treating individuals with their inherent dignity and self-worth, meeting clients “where they are at” and providing individuals with practical skills to cope with challenges in their lives.