About Us
The mission of Gentle Giant is to continue Dr. Doyle Patton’s work by providing high quality mental health services in an environment characterized by love and compassion to children and families that are having difficulty accessing these services because of financial hardship or limits to their healthcare insurance. Gentle Giant will connect children and families with financial hardship or limited access to mental health services to qualified and compassionate professionals and will assume the costs of psychological and/or psychiatric services.
Our Providers
Maria Lopez-Patton, Ph.D: Dr. Lopez-Patton is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience providing psychological services to adults, couples and families. Dr. Lopez-Patton specializes in the use of evidence-based approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness-based techniques to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, and loss. She enjoys working with families and couples to establish adaptive communication patterns that contribute to healthy interpersonal dynamics.
Elizabeth Pankey-Warren, LCSW: Mrs. Pankey-Warren is passionate about promoting personal growth and helping individuals, couples and families create a healthy emotional bond so they can connect in loving and fulfilling relationships. Elizabeth offers a safe, gentle space to work through depression, anxiety, workplace stress and grief. Mrs. Pankey-Warrem is trained in EMDR as well as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). In addition to offering psychotherapy, Mrs. Pankey-Warren provides therapeutic yoga for emotional healing. She teaches meditation and breath work, and offers nutritional and wellness counseling.
Marian Rosado, PsyD: Dr. Rosado is licensed clinical psychologist with specialties in Neuropsychology, Rehabilitation/Health Psychology, and Forensic Psychology. Dr. Rosado provides services to children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics who are English and/or Spanish speaking. Her areas of specialty include trauma and grief counseling, depression and anxiety, pain management, Christian counseling, among other complex medical/psychiatric cases. She also provides neuropsychological testing for individuals with traumatic brain injury, possible dementia, as well as other medical conditions that affect cognitive and emotional functioning. Additionally, Dr. Rosado has expertise in administration of psycho-educational testing for children, adolescents, and adults.
Martin Strassnig, M.D.: Dr. Strassnig is psychiatrist with over 15 years of clinical experience treating moderate to severe mental illness in both outpatient as well as inpatient settings. Dr. Strassnig has expertise in treatment of severe mood disorders including treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also has expertise in treatment of disorders that involve psychosis such as schizophrenia and brief psychotic disorder.
Gloria Keiser, LCSW: Gloria is a talented therapist with expertise in hypnosis that has been providing individual and couples counseling for over forty years.