​Lighthouse of Hope Counseling Center

Who we are

We offer counseling, support, and education to a diverse community, including families, homeless individuals, adolescent fathers, and high school students. With a 90% African American board and Executive Director, we strongly support Black Lives Matter and recognize the vital role of psychological health in all communities.

How we serve now

We provide virtual counseling via iSalus Healthcare's secure platform, AnywhereCare, ensuring HIPAA compliance. Due to high demand, we're adding a fifth therapist, each serving about 40 clients monthly.

​Lighthouse of Hope Counseling Center - Out Story

Our Story

Lighthouse of Hope provides counseling, support, and education to our diverse community, including families, the homeless, adolescent fathers, and high school students. We have deep connections with the African American community, with 90% of our board members and our Executive Director being African American. We are committed to the importance of Black Lives Matter and understand the critical role of psychological health in every aspect of life.

COVID-19

The ongoing COVID crisis has created a significant demand for psychological support due to the lasting effects of isolation, including post-traumatic stress, depression, confusion, anger, fear, and substance misuse.

​Lighthouse of Hope Counseling Center - COVID-19
​Lighthouse of Hope Counseling Center - COVID-19

This crisis has also led to several disruptions over the past three years:

  • Our outpatient counseling center closed, impacting vulnerable populations.
  • High demand for online or phone sessions has caused phone line congestion.

We've been closed since March 2020. We anticipate serving 1,920 clients (approximately 160 per month) through phone and telehealth platforms for outpatient counseling services.

Our Leadership Team

Leadership Team - Gloria J. Baxter, LCSW, Executive Director

Gloria J. Baxter, LCSW

Executive Director

Gloria is a licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 45 years of experience working with individuals, families and youth. Her mission is to assist people in examining their issues, while learning to make choices and decisions that will support them and their families in becoming physically, mentally and spiritually healthy. She is committed to working with the community to ensure that every person and family has access to the range of services needed to grow and become healthy and self-sufficient individuals.

Leadership Team - Trevor Alexander Powell, Board Chairperson and Secretary

Trevor Alexander Powell

Board Chairperson and Secretary

THIS IS JUST A PLACEHOLDER - Trevor is Board Chairperson and Secretary. He is an associate professor of Counseling Psychology at NYU, clinical psychologist, researcher, and leading expert on ADHD. His research and work focuses on developing engaging and accessible service delivery models for ADHD, ODD, and CD.

Leadership Team - Deryk Clark, Board Member

Deryk Clark

Board Member

THIS IS JUST A PLACEHOLDER - Deryk is Board member. His work focuses on emotion identification and regulation, communication techniques, crisis de-escalation and management, as well as him personal favorites, boundary setting and self-worth.

Meet our staff

  • Jazzel Deloso

    • Billing Administrator/Executive Assistant

  • Trixy Lou S. Manulat

    • Office Assistant/Intake Coordinator

  • Wendy Denton

    • Business Development Manager

  • Lora Baxter, GRMS

    • Director of Grief Recovery Program

  • Alessandra Bassanello

    • MSW

  • Keri Onan-Levy

    • MSW

  • Rawl Campbell

    • MFT Associate

  • Remi Lafayette

    • MSW Associate

  • Tabethia McGee

    • MSW Associate

  • Isaiah Warren

    • Operations