Legacy Mental Health

Meet the Experts Guiding Your Mental Wellness Journey

At Legacy Mental Health, our team is dedicated to providing compassionate, personalized care for every client. Each of our professionals brings a wealth of experience, insight, and commitment to helping you achieve mental wellness, build resilience, and reach your personal goals. We work collaboratively to create a safe, supportive environment where you feel heard, understood, and empowered throughout your journey. Reach out to us and take the first step toward your mental wellness.

Dr. Char Newton

Psychologist, Practice Owner

The term legacy, by definition, means "something of value transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past." As I reflect upon my life, I notice people who laid a legacy for me, a promise and hope. The most influential people who have impacted my life and established a legacy for me were my grandparents. They created a legacy of care, compassion, and goodwill toward mankind. I observed kindness, love, patience, meekness, faithfulness, and gentleness, qualities that I bring into my therapeutic relationships.

I believe that everyone’s birth on Earth occurs for a purpose. There is a purpose attached to your life, and I am dedicated to helping people discover and achieve that purpose. Through the work that I do, I seek to restore hope and establish a legacy of abundant life. As a fully licensed psychologist, my goal is to create an environment where you feel safe being transparent and addressing any issues that concern you. I look forward to entering into an alliance with you so you may begin the healing process, create a legacy, and fulfill your life purpose.

Dr. Char specializes in working with clients who want to build a positive racial identity, develop self-love, and heal from racialized trauma. She is also passionate about training, mentoring, and supervising students and master’s-level clinicians.

Michael Dolan, LLP

Clinical Psychologist

I believe people have a set of values, what they most care about, and often, a lot of our stress and lack of fulfillment in life can be caused by having trouble connecting to those values. I also emphasize building insight during therapy sessions because I believe we make the best decisions for ourselves and our loved ones when we better understand ourselves and the world around us.

I have a client-oriented approach and treat therapy as a collaborative process, where we form a partnership to address your goals. I focus on short-term goals first to help clients work on what they most want to address and then move to long-term goals, with the hope of achieving long-lasting health.

I earned a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan and am licensed as a Temporary Limited License Psychologist by the State of Michigan. I am trained to work with individuals, couples, and groups. My expertise includes boundary setting, improving communication skills, enhancing self-esteem, working with individuals with ADHD and autism, and addressing anxiety, depression, anger, and trauma through evidence-based practices.

Elizabeth Wolf, LLMSW

Life can feel overwhelming at times, especially when faced with challenges like anxiety, depression, substance use, or difficult life transitions. My goal is to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where you feel heard, supported, and empowered to make meaningful changes. I believe that healing happens through connection, and I strive to meet every client with compassion, authenticity, and respect. As a Limited License Master Social Worker (LLMSW) and Certified Recovery Peer Specialist, I bring a blend of professional expertise and lived experience that allows me to truly understand the struggles my clients face.

I specialize in working with individuals managing addiction, co-occurring disorders, mood disorders, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. I provide both individual and group therapy, drawing on evidence-based approaches tailored to each client’s needs.

Reaching out for help can feel intimidating, and it takes real courage to take that first step. If you’re feeling stuck, stressed, or unsure of where to begin, you don’t have to face it alone. Together, we can create a safe, compassionate space where you feel understood, supported, and empowered on your path toward healing and growth.

Alexander Pace

Mr. Alexander Pace is an undergraduate student at Albion College and currently serves as an intern with the practice. While he does not provide direct clinical services, Alexander contributes to marketing, promotional projects, research, and general administrative support. He is also a Presidential Scholar at Albion. Alexander is a co-author of the peer-reviewed paper The Cross-Racial Training Approach: A Practical Training Framework, which provides a coherent framework through which cross-racial psychotherapy skills can be developed among graduate-level students. His future aspirations within the field of psychology include pursuing graduate training in psychology. Alexander is a member of the Albion College men’s golf team and hopes to also use his passion for sports and art to impact the field of psychology.