Orlando Family Counseling, Inc. is dedicated to serving you and your family with a full range of counseling services and behavior therapy to promote a happier and more rewarding life. We have two excellent, dedicated, and highly qualified professional mental health therapists on staff: Sylvia S. Roan, MS, LCSW, BCBA, and Jill Bello, MSW, LCSW.

Mrs. Roan is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LCSW), a Nationally Board Certified Behavior Analyst, qualified to conduct counseling and psychotherapy for children, individuals and families. Her approach is strength based: positive and innovative, she focuses on solutions, not on mistakes. In her years of experience working with children and families, she has helped many children and teen clients to overcome their anger, fears, anxieties, trauma, grief and loss, depression, and other obstacles to happy life. Working with adults, she has successfully helped to restore marriages and relationships; to heal many kinds of hurts; and to find positive new ways of seeing situations and finding solutions.

Play therapy, cognitive therapy, family system therapy, and solution-focused brief therapy are Mrs. Roan’s favored approaches, as well as Christian Counseling for those who identify with that path. Mrs. Roan also provides Counseling for Grief and Bereavement.

Parents and children: Mrs. Roan’s substantial training and experience in behavior analysis have made her an effective result-oriented therapist. She helps parents to gain insights into what in their child’s environment is maintaining the problem behavior, and then to find effective strategies to decrease that behavior. She provides proven tools to lessen the stress caused by daily situations such as bed-time battles, sibling rivalries, lying, stealing, and temper tantrums. She has been successful in helping children of divorced parents not blame themselves for the divorce, and continue to strive for their own success in spite of being in a troubling situation. She has helped children who are bullied as well as those who are themselves prone to bullying. She can work with children to improve their self esteem. And her background in the local education system uniquely qualifies her to deal with school-based issues.

Pre-school children: Mrs. Roan also works with pre-school children and their parents, having received comprehensive training in early childhood issues.

Children with special needs: Mrs. Roan works with behavior challenges related to the Autism Spectrum, Reactive Attachment Disorder, ADD or ADHD, OCD, ODD, and Post Trauma Stress Disorder. To serve children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Disabilities, Orlando Family counseling, Inc. is affiliated with Community Ties of America, Inc. (www.comtie.com) to provide Behavior Analysis Services in the Orlando area.

Background: Sylvia Roan graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Master of Science degree of in Social Administration and a specialization in working with children, adolescents and families as a therapist. She has had clinical experience in private practice, hospital settings, and in school settings as a clinical social worker licensed to conduct counseling and psychotherapy.

Mrs. Roan is also a state certified professional educator. As an administrator, she served as an assistant principal in the Orlando area public school system. As a teacher, she worked in both regular and exceptional student education. And as a district wide Family Specialist at the Orlando area public schools, she received referrals from principals and area superintendents to help individual students with challenging behavior concerns.

Mrs. Roan’s professional path: Working in schools, Mrs. Roan felt her greatest strength was in helping individual students troubled by behavior concerns, and this is what led her to her present work with Orlando Family Counseling, Inc. When it became clear to her that her real passion was to help children and families more comprehensively, Mrs. Roan decided to leave the education system behind and return to a career in counseling and psychotherapy. In her efforts to promote students’ success, she developed a solution-focused discipline model which has effectively turned many troubled students around. And her experience with the local school system often gives her insight that is extremely helpful in connecting home and school, to support children’s positive school behavior.

Mrs. Roan says: “I believe that each challenge in our life is an opportunity to grow and to learn more about ourselves and others. I feel honored to be the counselor and therapist for each of my clients. I pledge to continue my learning, to become even more effective in serving you and your family.”

Mrs. Jill Bello received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, and her Master of Social Work degree, from the University of Central Florida. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she is skilled in assessing, diagnosing and treating children, adolescents, and adults with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Mrs. Bello is an excellent communicator and mediator. She is compassionate, empathetic, and effective in working with children, adolescents and their parents. She is trained as a mediator for family disputes, and provides group counseling to adolescents to prevent substance abuse. She brings to her clients a wealth of knowledge and experience in the court systems and in the juvenile justice system, and over nine years of clinical experience in helping children, adolescents, and adults to overcome emotional struggles.

Mr. William “Brad” Littlejohn received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Psychology from Thomas College and his Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Brad has been working with children and families in the Central Florida area since 2000. He has experience serving children and adults in an inpatient and outpatient setting. Mr. Littlejohn is a qualified supervisor for Registered Mental Health Counselor Interns and has over 5 years experience as a manager and supervisor in various community mental health agencies. Mr. Littlejohn has past experience working with sexually abused children and adults as well as other forms of trauma. He is skilled in the areas of diagnostic evaluations, treatment planning and treating children, adolescents and adults with emotional and behavioral problems. Mr. Littlejohn also has training in Behavior Analysis and although not a certified Behavior Analyst, his training and experience in this area are routinely and effectively utilized in treatment. Mr. Littlejohn frequently utilizes play therapy, cognitive therapy, and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. As with Mrs. Roan, Mr. Littlejohn will also utilize Christian Counseling for those that choose that path.