New Lifestyles
Winchester, VA

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New Staff Positions
at New Lifestyles

New Lifestyles staff structure has been modified to reflect a new and more dynamic treatment team approach.

John Wood, Program Director has assumed management of both the Student Life and Clinical departments and will focus on integration of services.

Sally Newton, who has been a member of the New Lifestyles staff since 2010 and has assumed multiple roles to include House Manger and Student Life Manger, has been promoted to Program Supervisor. She will manage day-to-day operations at New Lifestyles. Sally graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, and completed her undergraduate internship at Poplar Springs Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia.

Tina Tomalesky, previously a House Manager, has been appointed Progress Coordinator and will gather, track, and analyze specific data that predicts a student's readiness for independent living. Tina has worked with children, adolescents, young adults and adults with specialized needs in Winchester and Loudoun County, Virginia since 2000. Since 2004, her work has focused primarily on the utilization of the science of Applied Behavior Analysis with an emphasis in verbal behavior in home-based, school-based, and clinic-based settings.

Teresa Shepard and Craig Cole, Senior House Managers, will provide in-vivo supervision of students and staff in each resident house. Craig has returned from California where his position focused on creating a positive role model with adolescents at-risk for gang activity. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Psychology and Biblical Studies from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, and is currently enrolled in graduate school.

New Lifestyles is a small, coed, individualized transition program for emerging adults. Our uniqueness among programs for young men and women 18 years of age and older is in our ability to provide a clinically intensive opportunity for self-development and growth within a typical and non-stigmatizing community setting that promotes a sense of freedom and choice. It is our professional and clinically rigorous approach that allows students to address underlying problems and issues that other programs simply fail to recognize.