Meet Our Staff
Compassionate experts in acupuncture, mind/body techniques and counseling
At the Domar Center, we believe that complete, compassionate healthcare requires attention to the whole person, mental and physical. Our therapists, acupuncturists, and program leaders take time to get to know you personally, and to address your individual needs in your quest for health and well-being.
Acupuncture Services
Lili Cai, Lic. M.Ac., Co-Director of Acupuncture Services
Lili received her medical degree from the Shanghai College of Traditional Medicine in 1983 and is a Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology with the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists. She has practiced traditional Chinese medicine in China and Japan. She provides services at the Chinese Natural Health Clinic in Brookline and is on staff at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. She has taught at the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and at the New England School of Acupuncture. Her expertise lies in the areas of fertility, gynecological conditions, chronic pain, and gastrointestinal problems.
Karen Donahue, Lic. M.Ac., Senior Staff Acupuncturist
Karen received her Diploma in Acupuncture and was licensed in 1999. She received her Master's degree in 2001 from the New England School of Acupuncture and is a Diplomate in Acupuncture with the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists. She has taught Tai Chi throughout the Metro west area since 1992 and served on the IRB for the New England School of Acupuncture for three years. She provides services at Donahue Acupuncture in Natick and the Healing Arts Center in N. Falmouth. Her expertise is in areas of fertility, women's health, anxiety issues and pain management.
Yan Jin, Lic. M.Ac., Senior Staff Acupuncturist
Yan received his medical degree from the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1982 and is a Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology with the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists. He has practiced at the Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Longhua Clinic, and the Clinic of the New England School of Acupuncture, and provides services at the Chinese Natural Health Clinic and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. He has taught in China, Japan, Watertown, and Brookline. His expertise lies in the areas of male infertility, male sexual dysfunction, neurological disorders, and pain management.
Michelle P. Hay, Lic. M.Ac., Co-Director of Acupuncture Services
Michelle Hay is a graduate from the New England School of Acupuncture where she received a Masters degree in Asian Medicine and Herbal Studies. Her undergraduate is from Quinnipiac College where she attained a B.S. in Respiratory Therapy. Michelle has worked in numerous hospital and clinical settings in Connecticut and Massachusetts including Hartford Hospital, Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Pathways to Wellness. Her background and education allow her to have a unique perspective of both Eastern and Western medicine. Her expertise is infertility, anxiety, all gynecological issues, digestive disorders and respiratory disorders including asthma.
Psychological Counseling Services
Tara Cousineau, PhD, Mind/Body Group Leader/Individual and Couple's Counseling
Dr. Cousineau received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, New York. She was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School and completed her internship at McLean Hospital. She completed her postdoctoral training at North Shore Children's Hospital, on the Behavioral Medicine Team, and at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in time-effective psychotherapy. She is a licensed psychologist specializing in women's issues and health psychology. She is also a research scientist and has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, including the study of online support for infertile couples. Her work has been recognized with two Prize Papers awards from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Mental Health Professional Group. Her individual counseling expertise is in behavioral medicine, women’s health, wellness, and trauma.
Melissa Freizinger, PhD, Mind/Body Group Leader, Mind/Body Consults, Individual Counseling.
Dr. Melissa Freizinger has her BS from Ohio University, her MA from Lesley College and her PhD in Psychology from Northeastern University. She has extensive training and experience in the treatment of eating disorders as well as other women's health issues. Dr. Freizinger was the 2006 Murphy Fellow in the renowned Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health Center Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program. Early in her career, she was a research assistant on a large NIMH grant with Dr. Alice Domar studying the effects of mind/body medicine on preventing depression in infertile women. Dr. Freizinger is a psychotherapist and consultant and has had private practices in Boston and Cambridge. At the Domar Center she is a Senior Psychotherapist who conducts Mind/Body consults, runs Mind/Body groups and sees individuals for counseling.
Karen Marans, PhD, Mind/Body Group Leader/Individual and Couples Counseling
Dr. Marans is a licensed psychologist and a clinical neuropsychologist. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Boston University, completed a two-year post doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology and is a clinical instructor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. She specializes in treating women's health including infertility. She has extensive experience working with patients with a wide range of presenting problems including mood and anxiety disorders, relationship/marital issues, grief and loss, and the emotional and adjustment issues of pregnancy and postpartum. She is a former patient of Boston IVF and has three healthy children.
April Prewitt, PhD, Weekend Retreat Mind/Body Group Leader
Dr. Prewitt received her doctorate in counseling psychology from Boston College. She did her pre-doctoral training at Boston’s Children Hospital and the Cambridge Hospital, and her post-doctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has over 13 years experience working with both adults and children. She specializes in stress management, infertility issues, and sleep pattern management, and teaches a wide array of cognitive and behavioral skills that can be used to address anxiety, depression, and other life challenges.
Angel Seibring, PhD, Senior Psychologist
Dr. Seibring is a clinical health psychologist, an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and a Staff Psychologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of FL in 1993. Dr. Seibring began working with fertility patients in 1995, and has authored numerous papers and presentations about infertility and women's health issues. She maintains a private practice in Arlington, MA, and conducts Mind/Body consults at the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health.
Nutritional Counseling Services
Hillary Wright, MEd, RD, LDN, Director of Nutritional Counseling
Hillary is a registered and licensed dietitian with a Master’s degree in Health Education from Boston University, and has over 18 years experience counseling clients on diet and lifestyle change. After 12 years as a nutrition educator for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Kenmore and Cambridge practices, Hillary recently transitioned to a part time position at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Hillary is also the founder of New Vision Nutrition in Arlington, Massachusetts, a private nutrition consulting practice that includes nutrition counseling, public speaking, program development, freelance writing, and teaching nutrition for colleges and institutions. Hillary is a contributing editor and regular writer for the newsletter Environmental Nutrition, and is currently working with the Arlington Public Schools on grant funded programs designed to increase nutrition education and physical activity in the schools and community. Hillary’s clinical interests include nutrition and women’s health and nutritional management of polycystic ovary syndrome.
Restorative Yoga
Natalie Engler, Director of Restorative Yoga Services
Natalie has been an avid yoga practitioner for 20 years and a yoga teacher for 5 years. While she has trained with many highly regarded teachers in the Hatha Yoga tradition, her primary teacher and influence is Bo Forbes, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and yoga teacher who is the founder of Elemental Yoga and founder and director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics in Boston. She is also a health correspondent for Harvard Medical International, has written for Reuters Health and Harvard Health Publications, and has co-led body image workshops that combine yoga, journaling, and psychotherapy. Professionally, Natalie has witnessed the potent effects of Restorative Yoga on a wide range of issues from affective disorders to fertility. Personally, she has found Restorative Yoga to be a powerful tool that helps to shift emotional and thought patterns, promoting a deepening sense of self-acceptance, inner calm, and mental clarity. It is her great pleasure to share this empowering practice with others, tailoring it to meet their individual needs.
Jolyon Cowan,, Mind/Body Program Yoga Instructor
Jolyon studied Public Health at Tulane University and has had extensive experience working in reproductive health programs. Jolyon has studied yoga in the UK, India, and the US since 1989, and he has enjoyed teaching yoga to participants of Dr. Alice Domar’s Mind/Body Program for Infertility since 2001. His gentle teaching style is suitable to all participants enrolled. In addition to his 11 + years experience teaching yoga, Jolyon has also worked and studied with the Yoga Biomedical Trust, in London, an organization dedicated to both the medical research of and teaching of yoga therapy.
