Our team comprises dedicated bilingual therapists, community health workers, case managers, and others under the leadership of Kathleen Page M.D, Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Ivan Arellan

Case Manager

Ivan’s work is focused on providing behavioral health support to Spanish speaking undocumented Latino adults in Maryland. Prior to working with BHEAM, he worked for the Johns Hopkins Bayview Community Psychiatry Program providing rehabilitation to individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar, and delusions disorders. He has provided comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services to the community of Baltimore City for five years.

Waleska Cruz

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Waleska has worked with the immigrant community in Baltimore City since 2014. She is a bilingual mental health therapist working whose experience includes working as an abuse intervention program specialist, providing therapy services to survivors of intimate partner violence, and leading a support group for grieving families and individuals.

Chelsea Gleason

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Chelsea Gleason has worked as a bilingual therapist with the immigrant population in Baltimore since 2018. She is passionate about integrating social justice and feminist values into therapeutic treatment. She has experience working with adolescents, adults, and families, immigrants, survivors of gender-based and intimate-partner violence, and unaccompanied migrant youth. She has completed training in EMDR and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and draws from Narrative Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Gracie Greenberg

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Gracie has worked as a social worker and therapist in many contexts and has significant experience working with survivors of interpersonal and oppression-based traumas, particularly sexual violence, intimate partner violence, trafficking, and migration. Gracie uses a feminist lens and an integrative, trauma-informed approach to therapy. In her practice, she strives to cultivate an affirming space where clients can experience acceptance, empowerment, and relief from suffering. Gracie learned Spanish while traveling and studying in South America and feels indebted to the immigrant and LatinX communities in Baltimore.

Kathleen Page

M.D., Director

Dr. Page is a professor of medicine and international health at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an infectious diseases specialist and provides HIV, HCV and substance use disorder care at the Bartlett Clinic and the SPOT mobile clinic. Her work focuses on improving access and quality of care to underserved communities. She co-founded Centro SOL (Center for Salud/Health and Opportunities for Latinos), and is the Medical Director of The Johns Hopkins Access Partnership (TAP), a charity program that provides care to low-income uninsured individuals. Her research focuses on migrant health, health disparities, mobile health, and implementation science.

Jessica Duran Zabala

Senior Community Outreach Worker

Jessica screens clients for mental health and substance use disorders, documenting encounters, providing brief interventions, and referring clients to community resources. Prior to her work at Johns Hopkins, Jessica worked in Colombia as a social psychologist for more than fourteen years. She is dedicated to working with children, youth, and families in contexts of physical, psychological, emotional, social, and political violence and commercial sexual exploitation.

Adrianna Moore

Program Director

Adrianna Moore is a social worker with ten years of experience working in the Baltimore area serving mission-driven organizations. She is an administrator respected for building and sustaining relationships.

Megan Nawrocki

Nurse Practitioner

After working as an Emergency Room/ Critical Care RN for 12 years, Megan found her passion in serving individuals who are struggling with mental health. Megan specializes in HIV Psychiatry, serving those who suffer from cooccurring mental illness, such as trauma, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and substance abuse. By utilizing evidence-based practice to provide medication management and various therapy techniques, Megan focuses on meeting the patient where they are, fostering a trusting and safe partnership and then together, working towards gaining the necessary tools to build a more peaceful and fulfilled life.

Jenny Acosta

Deputy Chief of Behavioral 

Health Integration, Maryland Department of Health, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration

Ramon Croussett

Peer Recovery Specialist,
Helping Up Mission

Jose Ramos

Peer Recovery Specialist,
Helping Up Mission