Center for Balanced Living

Community Reflections Magazine

One issue a year: the people we work beside, and the places we show up.

2026  ·  2025  ·  2023 and 2024

Community Reflections Magazine

2026

A year of joining in: many chambers of commerce events, a dinner, and crabs at the end of summer.

Dr. Niki Serravalle and practice manager Jada Senter at the MACC Fall Business Luncheon
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Dr. Serravalle and Practice Manager, Jada Senter, represented Center for Balanced Living

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The 2026 Issue

October 14, 2026 · Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce

Back at the Chamber

The second luncheon is when you start recognizing faces.

We were back at Middletown Memorial Hall in October for the Fall Business Luncheon, this time as a lunch sponsor, alongside presenting sponsors Birdie's Links and Drinks and ChristianaCare. Niki greeted guests at the door as a Chamber ambassador, and Jada Senter, our practice manager, came with her. Over lunch they talked with Brian Moreau of AKA Advisory, the Chamber's Ambassador of the Year, Stephanie of Birdie's, and Soluna of Zion Sheet Metal, one of the Chamber's newest members.

Dr. Niki Serravalle beside the presenting sponsors sign at Middletown Memorial Hall
Dr. Niki Serravalle greeting a guest at the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce Fall Business Luncheon
Dr. Niki Serravalle in conversation at the Fall Business Luncheon
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Kim, Niki and Jada at the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce Spring Business Luncheon

Kim, Niki and Jada at Middletown Memorial Hall.

Center for Balanced Living table card and program at the MACC Spring Business Luncheon

Our table, April 15.

Awards Night sign thanking sponsors, with the Center for Balanced Living logo

Sponsors of Awards Night.

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The 2026 Issue

April 15, 2026 · Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce

Connected in purpose

A practice is part of a town, and we want to know ours.

We joined the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce this year and sat at the Spring Business Luncheon as new members and sponsors. We also sponsored the chamber’s 54th Annual Awards Night, where Brian Moreau was named Ambassador of the Year.

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May 4, 2026 · New Castle County Chamber of Commerce

Every introvert needs an extrovert

Niki brought her dad, Dudley Serravalle, to the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce’s 104th Annual Dinner at the Chase Center on the Riverfront. He had just moved to Delaware, follows local government closely, and will talk to anyone in the room. Niki is the introvert of the two. Every practice needs someone who works the room.

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Staff and families gathered around a long table at Meding's Seafood

The long table at Meding’s.

Center for Balanced Living staff in front of the giant propeller at Meding's Seafood in Milford

Under the propeller, after.

A long table covered in crabs, mallets and buckets at the staff crab feast

Mallets down, eventually.

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The 2026 Issue

September 2026 · Meding’s Seafood, Milford

Crabs, together

No agenda, no case talk. Just mallets, Old Bay and a long table.

Our end-of-summer staff crab feast brings everyone’s families along. The people who take care of clients all week deserve an afternoon of being taken care of.

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Community Reflections Magazine

2025

The year we started inviting people in.

Mental health providers gathered around a fire pit on the Center for Balanced Living lawn
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Around
the fire

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The 2025 Issue

October 3, 2025 · Hosted at Center for Balanced Living

An evening around the fire

We invited mental health providers from across Delaware to our Townsend property, including members of the North Wilmington networking group and the Delaware Therapist Connection group. Referrals work best between clinicians who actually know each other. That starts with a fire, a few benches, and time to talk.

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Providers by the fire at dusk on the Townsend property

Dusk on the lawn.

Providers in conversation on benches around the fire

Conversation, not presentations.

The Center for Balanced Living team in gray shirts under the practice banner

Our team, hosting.

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The 2025 Issue

October 3, 2025 · Townsend

Pull up a chair

Community is not a referral list. It is knowing who you are sending someone to.

We host evenings like this for therapists, evaluators and community partners, on purpose and on our own land. If you would like an invitation to the next one, let us know.

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Clinicians at a grief training in a hotel conference room
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The 2025 Issue

October 25, 2025 · Grief training

Grief is never a side topic

Members of our clinical team attended a grief training hosted by Christina Zampitella, PsyD, FT, of The Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy, with faculty from the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Grief comes into almost every kind of work we do, whether or not it is the reason someone first calls.

Photo: Portland Institute for Loss and Transition

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Office door decorated Grinch Into Healthy Habits, with stockings reading be kind to yourself, get plenty of sleep, connect with others, practice mindfulness and setting boundaries

Winner: Grinch Into Healthy Habits, Brianna’s door.

Office door decorated as the Polar Express, with jingle bells and a basket of bells to take

The Polar Express.

Office door decorated Feeling Frosty, Warm Support, with a snowman and notes reading you don't have to hold everything alone

Feeling Frosty, Warm Support.

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The 2025 Issue

December 2025 · At the office

Door to door

You don’t have to hold everything alone.

For the holidays, every office decorated its door and our community voted for a winner. Brianna’s Grinch Into Healthy Habits took the $100 gift card. The themes were playful. The messages were the point: be kind to yourself, get plenty of sleep, be present, and your feelings matter, all of them.

Office door decorated as Rockin' Around the HR Tree, with a tree, a gold bow and paper snow

Rockin’ Around the HR Tree.

Office door wrapped like a present in candy-cane paper with a tag reading Be Present

Be Present.

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Community Reflections Magazine

2023 and 2024

Where it started: the first team, the first traditions.

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The original Center for Balanced Living team under the magnolia, 2024
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The 2023 and 2024 Issue

2024 · 5879 Summit Bridge Road, Townsend

Where it started

Everything on the pages before this one grew from here.

In 2024 we started at Summit Bridge Road. This was the original team, photographed under the magnolia beside the building. These ladies saw the vision and helped in building our community. 

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April 2024 · At the office

Blue for April

For World Autism Awareness Day, the team wore blue. Autism evaluations are a large part of what we do, and the families who come to us for them deserve a practice that shows up for them outside the testing room too.

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The Center for Balanced Living team in blue beside the practice sign for Autism Awareness Day, 2024
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August 2024 · At the office

Kickoff, office edition

To open the football season, the team came to work in jerseys. Three Ravens fans, one Eagles fan, and one brave Cowboys fan. Work this serious needs days like this.

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The team in football jerseys in the Center for Balanced Living waiting room
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Niki and a fellow rider with their bikes before Bike MS: Bike to the Bay
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The 2023 and 2024 Issue

2023 to 2025 · Bike MS: Bike to the Bay

Riding for MS

Niki has ridden Bike MS: Bike to the Bay, the National MS Society’s fundraising ride, since 2023, alongside the Delaware Psychological Association's Cycology Team. 

Niki and a fellow rider in Bike to the Bay jerseys
Niki and a fellow rider in helmets and Bike to the Bay jerseys
Niki with her Bike to the Bay team, including a rider on a handcycle
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Join our community

There is a seat for you

Community is something we build on purpose: one evening, one ride, one long table at a time. Here is where you fit.

For clinicians and referral partners

Come to a provider evening

Our networking evenings bring therapists, evaluators and community partners together on our Townsend property. Ask to be added to the invitation list.

Get an invitation

For readers

Read along

Dr. Serravalle writes Make It Make Sense, plain-language psychology for the questions people actually ask.

Read Make It Make Sense

For anyone seeking care

Start the conversation

If you are looking for therapy or an evaluation for yourself or someone you love, we will walk you through the first step.

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