PALM BEACH OUTPATIENT EATING DISORDER PROGRAM

Erica Waldron, MS, LMHC

Erica Waldron joined Center for Discovery in early 2019 as the Assistant Program Director and in May 2020 became the Program Director.  She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health counselor (LMHC) with 10 years of counseling and Eating Disorder experience.  Throughout her life, Erica has been passionate about helping others and feels fortunate enough to have made a career out of it 

Erica received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut and graduated with her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Palm Beach Atlantic University.  While at PBAU Erica counseled undergraduate students at the university’s counseling center.  During her Master’s Degree, Erica also trained and worked with women who struggled with various Eating Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders.  She has extensive experience working with male and female adults and adolescents, couples, and families who are struggling with anxiety disorders. Depression, co-dependency, addictions, trauma, and eating disorders.

Erica is currently on the Board of Directors for The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness.  She strives to create a comfortable, secure, judgement free space where patients can share, gain a new understanding of themselves, and find balance that is missing in their lives.  She encourages her patients to plant themselves where they want to bloom.  

Sydney Reese, M.A., RMHCI

Sydney is a registered mental health counselor intern. She graduated from Liberty University with her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Sydney has worked with people from different backgrounds and age groups, in community mental health and in the field of eating disorders. Sydney enjoys working with families to provide education and explore how family dynamics can affect the patient’s eating disorder. She uses acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with patients as they explore trauma, anxiety, depression and other disorders, and how these mental health issues are connected to their eating disorder. Additionally, Sydney is working on becoming a certified eating disorders specialist. When she is not at work, Sydney can be found hanging out with her goldendoodle, Spencer, and teaching herself how to rollerblade.

Tasmina Shiekh, MD

Dr. Tasmina Sheikh is the psychiatrist at Center for Discovery in North Palm Beach treating both adolescents and adults, as well as their families, impacted by mental health, eating disorders, and substance abuse issues. Dr. Sheikh is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She completed her residency in General Psychiatry at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and a fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in the University of Miami School of Medicine. Dr. Sheikh brings 20 years of experience in psychiatric medicine through various distinguished institutions in both public and private clinical settings. She opened her private solo practice in 2003 and continues to proudly practice psychiatric medicine in Jupiter, Florida.

Amanda Casteel, RD

Amanda is a registered and licensed dietitian. She completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming and completed her dietetic internship in Wyoming through a distance program at Meredith College. Amanda has worked with eating disorders in all levels of care including residential through outpatient. Amanda’s passion for treating eating disorders manifested when she was treating patients at the inpatient level for the medical complications of eating disorders. Amanda wanted to treat the root of these issues, which led her to seek out a position that helps those in need. Amanda’s nutrition philosophies include Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size® and All Foods Fit. Amanda is dedicated to helping people make peace with all foods and rediscover the joy within eating.

Ashley Kaufman, M.A., RMHCI

Ashley joined Center for Discovery in April 2020. Ashley earned her master’s in clinical mental health counseling at Lynn University. She has also completed level III training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2015. Her therapy approach is to provide a safe space where her patients can foster an honest and collaborative therapeutic relationship to promote healing and pursue balanced wellness. During her master’s degree, Ashley trained and worked with all genders who struggled with substance use and co-occurring disorders. She has a sincere commitment to helping others by providing services to adults and adolescents wrestling with eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, depression and emotional dysregulation. Ashley has experience working in a residential, partial hospital, intensive outpatient and outpatient levels of care.

Ashley is continually pursuing personal growth through self-study, conferences and educational literature. She is currently a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), Counselor Education and Supervision, Southern Florida Counseling Association (SACES), and the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp). She wants her patients to understand this, in the words of Brené Brown: “We do not have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.”

Andrea Muchmore

Andrea is a primary therapist at Center for Discovery. Andrea obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s in social work from the University of Memphis. Her experience in the field includes working with adults and adolescents with eating disorders, substance use disorders and mental health disorders. She is a registered clinical social worker intern working towards independent licensure. Andrea’s approach to working with clients includes utilizing emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) while integrating and encouraging client-directed change. In Andrea’s free time, you will find her playing with her three rescue dogs and cat.