Board Members

Mitchell M. Sadar

PRESIDENT

Angelika Sadar

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Thomas Fink

TREASURER

Alexandra Linardakis

MEMBER AT LARGE

Beth Barol

MEMBER AT LARGE

Saul Rosenthal

MEMBER AT LARGE

PRESIDENT

Mitchell M. Sadar

Mitchell Sadar, PhD, BCN, BCB-HRV is a licensed psychologist who was the director of a Pennsylvania Correctional Institution’s inpatient program for over 15 years. In 1999 he was trained in neurofeedback and tried to bring this modality to the correctional population, but his attempts were not accepted by the Department of Corrections. He then resolved to dedicate his work to biofeedback and developed his private practice. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Northeast Region Biofeedback Society. His background in neuropsychology readily lent itself to learning how the EEG can facilitate neurofeedback training. In 2018, along with his practitioner wife, Angelika Sadar, he was invited to be part of BrainARC Switzerland and began developing evaluations and protocols based on the research of HBImed, Switzerland. Since that time, he has focused on developing assessments that include an analysis of EEG and ERPs to help to guide biofeedback/neurofeedback protocols but also include recommendations regarding psychotherapy and lifestyle changes.

email: [email protected]
website: http://www.sadarpsych.com

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Angelika Sadar

Angelika is a licensed psychologist who is board certified in neurofeedback and heart rate variability and is a BCIA approved mentor in neurofeedback. She has been in private practice in the greater Philadelphia area since 1985. Her work over the years has involved all age groups and clinical presentations.
She is a treatment coordinator at Sadar Psychological and is a nationally recognized speaker providing education and offering training to other professionals in neurofeedback, biofeedback, and hypnosis. In 2018 she was invited to be part of BrainARC Switzerland and began developing evaluations protocols based on the research of HBImed, Switzerland. Presently, her clinical focus is on patients with complex/comorbid presentations and consulting with other psychologists, medical practitioners and other clinicians regarding EEG, neurofeedback and practice development. She is the executive director of the Northeast Region Biofeedback Society and a board member at large of The Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

email: [email protected]
website: https://www.sadarpsych.com

TREASURER

Thomas Fink

Dr. Thomas E. Fink is a Pennsylvania-licensed psychologist with over 40 years of experience working in the mental health field with diverse clinical populations. He has been trained in research and experimental approaches to learning and cognitive psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, and has received clinical training and supervision applying psychological techniques in a range of settings, from mental hospitals and community mental health centers to general and specialized outpatient settings.

Dr. Fink has directed an inpatient behavioral modification program; consulted with the medical and psychology staff on complex patients at state mental hospitals, as well as in community settings; and managed outpatient rehabilitation and pain management programs. His most recent area of practice, from which he’s partially retired, has involved providing services in an outpatient psychological service, Acorn Health Associates, P.C., that specialized in rehabilitation psychology, pain management, and the application of EEG Biofeedback techniques to a range of psychological disorders. He helped develop one of the first home-based neurofeedback systems, MindReflector.

He remains interested in theoretical psychology and has presented workshops over the past 20 years critically reviewing the incorrect assumptions of a medicalized American mental health service delivery system. Current research interests involve understanding the language used to talk about mental illness and models of therapeutic interventions.

Email: [email protected]
website: www.mindreflector.com

BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE

Alexandra Linardakis

Alexandra Linardakis, RN BSN BCN works as a neurotherapist in upstate New York. She is the founder and director of Tetraneuronet. Tetraneuronet is a clinic that collaborates with psychiatrists, neurologists and other health care practitioners. The services Tetraneuronet provides include qEEG brainwave recording and neurocognitive assessments, low level stimulation modalities and biofeedback.

Tetraneuronet will soon have a mobile biofeedback clinic. The mission of this clinic is to provide services to clients that have central nervous system dysregulation that do not have access to transportation or services that would support self-regulation and care.

Alexandra works helping to alleviate symptoms with clients who have suffered from concussions, strokes, and trauma. She also works with clients with learning disabilities, cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative conditions and chronic inflammatory conditions to improve their quality of life.

email: [email protected]

BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE

Beth Barol

Dr. Barol has dedicated the past 44 years to serving and supporting people with Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) who also have challenging behaviors and co-occurring mental health issues. She started out as a direct supports worker and live-in “houseparent” and has served a community-based project director, residential program director, facility director and clinician.

She has been working with Biographical timelines for over 30 years, and trained trainers in the process in Pennsylvania when she worked as the Clinical Director of the State-wide Training and Technical Assistance initiative, and through her consultation and training overseas.

Her areas of special interest include: Positive Approaches with people with IDD and challenging behaviors including co-occurring mental illness, the effects of trauma, and neurological differences. She works on the behalf of these individuals through her clinical roles as well as through her experience in Group Process, Conflict Resolution, Partnership Building, Leadership Development, System Change, and Management. She is trained in EMDR, Biofeedback, and Neurofeedback and is integrating these modalities in her current teaching and clinical work.

She is currently an Associate Professor at Widener University’s Center for Social Work Education and Associate Clinical Director of the Clinical Services for Vulnerable Adults clinic. She is also the co-Director of the Capacity Building Institute for Pennsylvania. Dr. Barol consults regularly in the U.S. and internationally.

Beth I Barol PhD, LSW, BCB, NADD-CC
Pronouns (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Associate Clinical Director CSVA
Center for Social Work Education
Widener University

email: [email protected]

Saul Rosenthal

MEMBER AT LARGE

Saul Rosenthal

Saul Rosenthal, PhD, BFB, BCN, BCB-HRV is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the Boston area, specializing in complex and chronic health conditions. His expertise lies in integrative health care, primarily drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, biofeedback and neurofeedback. He has worked in a variety of medical and community health settings, including serving as Training Director and Biofeedback Coordinator of Behavioral Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He also oversaw the biofeedback program at the Edith Nourse Rogers Veterans Medical Center as part of the Primary Care Behavioral Health service. Dr. Rosenthal serves on the Board of Directors for AAPB and NRBS. He is an editor and contributor for the upcoming Fourth Edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback, authoring the chapter on chronic pain. He presents to a wide variety of audiences on topics related to biofeedback and applied psychophysiology, and is involved in training, supervision and biofeedback mentoring. Dr. Rosenthal is also the host of the podcast, Life in the Time of Corona.