Pamela J. Compart, M.D.

Dr. Compart is a developmental pediatrician who treats children with a variety of behavioral and developmental disorders.  She has a special interest in treating children with autism spectrum disorders.  She performs comprehensive assessments and provides ongoing treatment, combining both traditional and complementary medicine approaches in treating these disorders.

“I try to bring to each patient the best of all that I have learned, whether from a traditional or complementary medicine perspective.  Part of each evaluation includes two fundamental questions:

1. Is this child’s brain getting all that it needs to function optimally? and

2. Is there something getting to this child’s brain that is having a negative impact on its functioning? 

These simple questions can lead to a variety of very elegant treatment interventions (therapy, diet changes, nutritional supplements, etc.) which often result in significant improvement in brain functioning.  I believe that the children I see have wonderful gifts hidden within their challenges and that my role is to help bring these gifts to light.  My goal is to help children reach their potential and have the best quality of life possible.  This is achieved by a true partnership with parents whose input is essential and valued.”

Dr. Compart received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University.  She completed a pediatric residency at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and fellowship training in behavioral and developmental pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  After practicing in a variety of hospital and outpatient settings, she founded HeartLight Healing Arts in November 2001, bringing together like-minded and “like-hearted” practitioners to work in a truly integrated and caring environment. 

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Compart, please call 410-880-4215 or 1-877-641-8472, extension 0. 

Cynthia Wilcox, Ph.D. - Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Wilcox is a psychologist specialized in working with children, adolescents, and families.  She provides individual and family therapy and works in a variety of group formats.  Dr. Wilcox also conducts comprehensive psychological and psycho-educational assessments for children and adults. She has more than 10 years of experience treating children with ADHD, anxiety, depression, behavioral and regulatory disorders, and developmental disorders.

Consistent with the philosophy of the practitioners at HeartLight, Dr. Wilcox understands that the emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of well being are interrelated.
At HeartLight, we work together in a truly collaborative way, developing programs and consulting regularly about the care of patients.  We believe that children thrive -- they are happier, more regulated, and more available for learning and for relationships -- when they have a healthy, balanced body, good nutrition, adequate sleep, positive self-esteem, secure attachment relationships, and appropriate limits and structure in their world.  Treatment, therefore, takes into consideration the child’s needs in all of these areas, and provides direction and support for the family to achieve those goals.  The specific needs of each child and each family are unique, and Dr. Wilcox works with parents to address the specific needs of their child.

The HeartLight community of practitioners provides access to a rich array of resources, and Dr. Wilcox consults and collaborates with other practitioners to provide families with a holistic program of care.  Collaborating with teachers and other important people in the life of the child and family is also an important part of her treatment philosophy.

Assessment

In addition to psychotherapy, Dr. Wilcox conducts comprehensive psychological and psycho-educational evaluations for children and adults.  Psychological and neuropsychological tests are tools that are useful for diagnostic clarification and for identifying individual strengths and weaknesses in cognitive functioning, including attention problems and learning disabilities.

Dr. Wilcox uses the process approach to testing.  This approach emphasizes careful observation of how a person performs a task.  Observational information is equally important as the test scores in formulating the results and recommendations.  Session length is limited to ensure that the best performance is obtained and the results are valid.

Assessment reports include detailed test results as well as specific recommendations for school and home.  A feedback session helps parents to thoroughly understand their child’s individual strengths and weaknesses, and how best to address those issues at home and at school.  Dr. Wilcox is available to consult with teachers or attend educational meetings as needed.

Maria Petrucci, D.C. - Chiropractor

Dr. Petrucci uses chiropractic adjustments and CranioSacral Therapy to free up the nervous system and improve communication between the brain and the rest of the body.  She also uses nutrition, kinesiology, massage, and other natural healing methods with her patients.  The combination of these methods can lead to improved posture, reduced stress, increased energy, relief of pain and discomfort, and improved functioning of the entire body.  Dr. Petrucci also encourages patients to take responsibility for their own health by drinking plenty of water, eating healthy food, taking nutritional supplements, relaxing, exercising, and keeping an open, positive outlook.

“I believe that we have an amazing capacity within ourselves to heal and grow.  Mind, body, and soul are connected:  a change in one affects the others.  What we think and feel, what we put into our bodies and how we hold and move them determine how healthy we are.  With healthy daily habits and natural healing methods, we can bring ourselves back to our natural state of health and well being.”

Dr. Petrucci received her B.A. in psychology at Western Maryland College in 1974 and her Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1983.  She also completed a four year program in metaphysics and spirituality at the Baltimore Spiritual Science Center in 1989.

To make an appointment, call (410) 880-4215 and press “O” for the receptionist.

Mary M. Hornish - Energy Medicine Practitioner

Mary Hornish is an energy medicine practitioner who draws upon her Reiki training, highly-developed intuitive guidance, and experience gained while apprenticing with a holistic nurse practitioner/energy healer to utilize and direct life-force energy in a therapeutic, client-directed manner for both adults and children.  She assesses, balances, harmonizes, and enhances an individual’s energy to promote optimal physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.  She uses intuitive guidance to connect deeply into a client’s energy field to identify “frozen energy” or energy imbalances which may represent physical, mental, or emotional pain or blocks creating dysfunction.  In addition, she employs many complementary vibrational modalities such as flower essences, essential oils, color and sound therapy, homeopathy, and guided meditation.

“I believe we are all spiritual beings who have chosen to experience life in a physical universe. We are a latticework of interacting, multidimensional energies composing mind, body and soul.  If these energy systems become imbalanced, there may be resulting pathological symptoms that manifest on the physical/emotional/mental/spiritual planes.  I combine subtle energy healing, therapeutic touch and rebalancing techniques with the use of intuitive guidance.  Working from the mind of the heart, I connect with universal life-force energy to create a strong energy field and a healing space to allow the body/mind to accelerate its innate healing abilities.  Intuitive guidance helps clients to re-establish their connection to Creator/Source/God and to identify core issues and energy blocks, which when released and resolved, result in a greater healing potential.  It is my desire to help clients embrace the holistic view of medicine that has been with humans for thousands of years, and begin to view themselves as multidimensional beings of unlimited growth and healing potential.”

Mary Hornish received a B.A. in liberal arts with highest honors from Duke University.  She has spent the last four years working intensively with an energy healer/holistic nurse healer and intuitive counselor while completing coursework in energy medicine, intuitive guidance, and complementary healing therapies.  In addition, she is a certified Reiki practitioner, and has completed Reiki Level 2 training, a laying-on-of-hands healing therapy.  Mary works with both adults and children, and as a mother of a special needs child, she has a particular sensitivity and interest in working with children with developmental differences. 

To schedule an appointment with Mary Hornish, please call 410-880-4215, and press 0 for the receptionist.

Elaine Trogdon, M.D. - General Pediatrician

Dr. Trogdon is a general pediatrician with an integrative medicine approach to healing.  She is interested in all general pediatric problems, particularly asthma, allergies, GI disorders, headaches, behavior issues and ADHD.  She uses her Western medicine training to lay the foundation for a broader, more integrative approach to these problems in order to promote the best possible health for the child.

“I believe that the best way to optimize a child’s well-being is by evaluating that child in the broader context of his or her physical, social, psychological, and emotional health.  This must be done with the physician, child and family working together in a partnership toward the shared goal of optimal health.  With this as my foundation for patient care, I work to combine the best possible treatment approaches from both traditional western medicine and complementary therapies, based on the patient’s unique characteristics and needs.”

Dr. Trogdon received her M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia and completed her internship and residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center.  Her work experiences have included inner city and multi-national clinics as well as private practice.  Her annual medical missions to an impoverished village in Jamaica have added a whole new dimension to her experience as a pediatrician.  Prior to beginning medical school, Dr. Trogdon worked at the Georgetown University’s Department of Psychiatry Family Center under the direction of Murray Bowen, M.D., family psychiatrist and therapist.  She participated in the post-graduate training program in Family Theory and Therapy, and was part of the Family Center’s Biofeedback Program, using biofeedback training in working with individuals with stress-related physical disorders.  Dr. Trogdon is board-certified in pediatrics.