Mequon Clinical Associates

Our Clinical Team

Our experienced clinicians offer a wide spectrum of clinical approaches and specialties to meet your needs. Our services are tailored for you personally and are delivered in a safe, confidential and comfortable environment.  Whether you are looking for extra support and guidance through a challenging situation or you're just ready to move in a new direction in your life, we look forward to working with you to achieve your goals.

MCA's commitment to doing compassionate and caring work is consistent with our mission of ensuring that our work is respectful, qualified, competent and adheres to the highest professional standards of ethical and effective practice.  And we're proud to say that this is a commitment that we've been able to meet and exceed since the creation of MCA in 1993.

Jeffrey Taxman, M.D., Psychiatrist and Medical Director

A practicing psychiatrist and trained psychoanalyst with over 35 years experience across Wisconsin and the nation, Dr. Taxman has a breadth of experience academically, clinically and medically that strengthens MCA and expands its reach to positively impact the community of Mequon and beyond.

Christina Keppel, MD

Dr. Keppel is committed to treatment of the whole patient. She is board-certified community psychiatrist with extensive activity in private inpatient and outpatient settings. She serves a broad spectrum of adult patients in clinical practice. She has more than 25 years of experience providing psychiatric services within the Milwaukee and Mequon communities. 

Dr. Keppel received her medical degree from Loyola University - Stritch School of Medicine. She completed a four-year residency in psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, including a year as chief resident, and was later a candidate of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. 

Dr. Keppel is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she is an active clinical faculty member teaching psychotherapy skills as a supervisor to residents in psychiatric training. She has been recognized for teaching with the Golden Apple Award. She is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. 

Her therapeutic style is shaped by a background emphasizing psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, and medication management when needed, while focusing on the development of skills to improve psychosocial well-being and strengthen relationships. Dr. Keppel specializes in the holistic approach. She carefully obtains a life history and description of current concerns and then, in a cooperative relationship with the patient, constructs a treatment plan meeting the needs of the whole patient and family. Her broad-based experiences enable her to effectively treat adults experiencing a full spectrum of disorders that affect not not the patients, but also their homes, jobs, and families. 

Areas of Focus:

• Fertility treatment stress & family-building issues

• Adoptions

• anxiety/panic

• Bipolar Disorder

• Career stress

• Chronic illness

• Depression

• Grief & loss

• Medical illness causing emotional trauma

• Obesity & weight management

• Obsessive compulsive disorders/hoarding

• Older adult issues

• Parenting concerns

• Phobias & fears

• Relationship disorders

• Sexual dysfunction

• Sleep disturbance & insomnia

Jason Burns, M.D., Board Certified Child Psychiatrist & Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist

Jason Burns, MD graduated from the University of Iowa's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. He is affiliated with Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Burns specializes in psychiatric evaluation, medication management and psychotherapy with focus in anxiety, ADHD, and depression. He sees patients ages 4 to 25 years of age. 

Dennis Anderson, CADC III, LCSW

Dennis Anderson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Substance Abuse Counselor who specializes in treating individuals, couples, and families with substance abuse issues. However, he treats a broad range of clients, including those with depression, anxiety, and pain management. Dennis believes that the mind, heart, and spirit are affected and diminished with substance abuse.         

His approach to clinical work utilizes a solution-focused cognitive behavioral model of therapy. He believes in safety and coping skills as the root of personal change but believes psychotherapy must offer more than the ability to cope. 

He promotes thriving, rather than merely surviving. He aims to help clients reach their fullest potential through engaging dialogue and action. 

Dennis earned his Master of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a special focus of study in Marriage and Family Therapy. Prior to his work at Mequon Clinical Associates, Dennis worked at Columbia St. Mary's assisting individual and couples improve their lives. His primary focus of therapy has been with the treatment and recovery  of adolescent, young adult and adult and their substance abuse and how their family has been impacted. Dennis incorporates frank substantive information with the wisdom that the human condition is about being joyful with appreciation for self and life. His involvement and support of Women for Sobriety confirms that through empowerment, people, become more capable, competent, caring and compassionate.

Fran Arbetter, LCSW

Ms. Arbetter has over 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist, family advocate, and consultant to schools and agencies. Her clinical interests include women's issues, depression, anxiety, couples counseling, divorce collaboration and recovery, and domestic, sexual, and physical abuse. In addition to adults, Ms. Arbetter sees older children, adolescents, and young adults. Ms. Arbetter is a member of our iTMS Team, providing therapeutic support to those receiving TMS treatment. She believes in therapeutic relationship, to listen to clients to help them take the next steps, to find balance in their lives, and to find their own strengths.

Judy Jenkins, LCSW

Judy has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years. Her practice is built on the belief that all individuals possess inherent strengths. She is committed to supporting individuals as they access those strengths while working through difficult issues and challenging times. Judy’s areas of interest include anxiety, depression, life transitions, women’s issues, older adolescent passages and complicated grief.

Eric Weiner, PhD, LMFT, LCSW

He works with individuals, couples, and families with issues of chronic illness, general medical health, anxiety and depression. He has a specialized interest in heart disease and cancer and how it affects the patient as well as other family members. His work has also grown to encompass the psychological and relationship issues associated with family wealth and estate planning.

Michael Woyach, LCSW, LMFT

As one of the most experienced members of our clinical team Michael brings a depth of expertise to his work. His focus is on all mood disorders, specializing in the treatment of trauma related effects in adults. Michael is a certified Trauma Specialist, receiving his certification through the Trauma Center of the Justice Resource Institute. He is also a member of the iTMS treatment team at Mequon Clinical Associates. He co-developed the brief therapy component of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation treatment protocol. Michael is also well known for his work with perpetrators of violence, and the effects of anger be at home, in relationships and in the workplace.

Alison Kravit, PsyD

Dr. Kravit hopes to be able to help you through this part of your life! She is an empathetic, non-judgmental practitioner who sincerely cares about her patients/clients well-being. If you put in the work, she promises to work just as hard with you in finding the best path toward your desired outcome. In terms of ADHD, she offers services in the area of diagnosis, therapeutic interventions for co-morbid conditions (other conditions occurring at the same time), referrals to medication prescribers that understand ADHD throughout the lifespan, and ADHD Life Coaching. A one (or two if you need a medication prescribing physician) stop ADHD treatment shop!

In her private practice, she is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in treatment and management of diagnoses such as ADHD, depression, anxiety, and Asperger's Syndrome. The practitioners at our clinic frequently refer patients to her for psychological evaluations in order to clarify diagnoses, understand possible barriers to progress in therapy, and provide insight regarding how emotions affect one's ability to cope effectively with stress. She is also a younger practitioner, and is very casual in my approach, which some people find helpful.

ADHD Coaching is a newer specialty of hers, and she received her accreditation through the ADD Coach Academy Accredited Coach Training Program. She has a unique perspective when it comes to ADHD; having been married to an adult with ADHD, treating patients with ADHD, working as a School Psychologist one day per week setting up academic interventions for children with ADHD, and having many friends and acquaintances outside of work who have been diagnosed with ADHD! She fully understands the impact this can have on relationships and communication, as well as the frustrations that come with the inconsistencies in performance across settings. Her life experiences, coupled with her formal training and expertise, has been very useful in helping patients and clients overcome the challenges that having ADHD creates with tools, interventions, and strategies tailored to an individual’s specific concerns, style of learning, strengths, and challenges.

Dr. Kravit is very excited you have chosen her to walk with you on this path to achieving your goals and getting what you want to get out of life! Thank you for letting her be a part of your successes!

Patricia Flanagan, PhD

Diane Matel, PhD, APNP

Dr. Matel is dual licensed as a psychologist and Advance Practice Nurse Prescriber. Her areas of expertise include depression, anxiety, stress and relationship issues. She provides individual, couple and family psychotherapy along with medication management as needed.

Tina Dhaliwal, PsyD

Krin Kramer, LCSW

Krin received her Master's in Social Work form Loyola University Chicago.  She specializes in a trauma therapy approach known as EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalysis and is cross-trained in the holistic approach of Reiki.  Krin works with PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, depression, adjustment disorders, and sexual abuse.  She likes to help clients uncover and release non-productive subconscious patterns.  Additional expertise includes spirituality conflicts and adjustment to chronic medical diagnosis.  

Erin Rachwal, MSW, LCSW

Erin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who graduated from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with her Masters Degree in Social Work with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy. Erin had already gained experience working in her private practice and with inpatient and outpatient clients in other various clinics before coming to Mequon Clinical Associates in July of 2017.

Currently, Erin works with clients of all ages including adolescents, teenagers, young adults families and older adults. She has extensive experience working with couples, in marriages, with those needing parenting strategies, and those needing most of all hope. She welcomes being challenged with clients who are struggling with overuse or preoccupation of phones, electronics, and social media. Erin builds trust with, educates, listens to, and empathizes with her clients all while maintaining the relaxed atmosphere that so many people appreciate.

Her specialties include depression, anxiety, relationships, couples & marriage, family conflict, relational conflict, abusive relationships, grief & loss, trauma, spiritual growth and high functioning Autism.

The most recent area of Erin’s focus has been social media/gaming/pornography addiction, and the effects of our  new "electionic" world on our children, marriages, and how we treat others. She believes that using compassion, empathy and wisdom in her approach encourages her clients to genuinely trust her.

Carolyn Klotz, MSN, APNP, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Carrie is a dual board-certified adult nurse practitioner (ANP) and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) who specializes in treating older adolescents and adults with ADHD including co-occurring mood and anxiety disorders.  Carrie has clinical expertise in medication management for individuals with ADHD, depression, anxiety, and the bipolar spectrum.  Carrie sees adolescents ages 16 and up and all adults, including LGBTQIA persons.

Nurse Career Bio Carrie has a diverse background in nursing, spending the first half of her career in medical oncology, cardiac intensive care, and palliative care consultation. In September 2008, she graduated from New York University with a Master of Science in the dual-degree palliative care and primary care nurse practitioner program. As a palliative care nurse practitioner for 10 years, she worked with her medical colleagues to establish palliative care consultation programs in academic medical centers and community hospitals. Carrie was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing for Nurse Leader in April 2016. In May 2017, she completed a post-master's nurse practitioner certification in psychiatric mental health from Alverno College. Carrie became a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in September 2017 and joined Mequon Clinical Associates in January 2018.

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