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Chloe Rovitz, LICSW, LMSW Interim Board Co-President (she/her)

Chloe received her MSW from the Smith School for Social Work in 2021, and currently works as part of a group practice in Hadley, MA. After attaining her MSW, Chloe completed a fellowship at the Trauma Institute, where she facilitated week-long memory-processing intensives utilizing EMDR, Progressive Counting, the Flash technique, and various ego-state methods. Following this, she completed a fellowship with the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. She now integrates these two worlds, bringing powerful trauma-resolution tools into a broader treatment framework that is informed by psychodynamic, relational, and anti-oppressive theories. Chloe has been on the Board since 2022, and took on the role of Interim Co-President in 2024.

Carol Ostiguy-Finneran, LMHC Board Clerk and Interim Board Co-President (she/her)

Carol (she/her) graduated with her MA from Antioch New England in 2007 where she majored in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy. She has worked as a sexual assault crisis counselor, as a correctional counselor and forensics clinician, in substance abuse treatment, in residential programs for adults with disabilities and in community mental health clinics. She has training and experience evaluating and treating both survivors and perpetrators of sexualized violence. She completed her EMDR basic training in 2016. She is most drawn to Feminist/Empowerment and Client Centered models of care along with the application of EMDR for trauma recovery.She is currently in full time private practice in Easthampton MA.

Sarah Burnham, LICSW Board Treasurer (she/her)

Sarah received her MSW from University of Maryland in 1993. Since 2012 She has worked the VA on a Residential Unit for Veterans with PTSD. Prior to that she had many years experience working in Community Mental Health Centers in New Mexico and Massachusetts. She was trained in EMDR and Acceptance Commitment Therapy in 2012. She has since gotten certified in EMDR and in the Trauma Resilience Model, a somatically based trauma approach. She believes in empowering clients by helping them to understand and befriend their nervous system through a Polyvagal lens, helping them to understand that they are not broken, they just didn’t have a manual.

Hanna Vaughn, LCSW (she/her)

Hanna (she/her) is a dedicated psychotherapist that specializes in treating disordered eating, OCD, complex trauma, and works extensively with the kink/queer/polyamorous community. She integrates person-centered and eclectic therapeutic approaches, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She upholds the belief in the inherent worth and dignity of all bodies, advocating for Health at Every Size (HAES) principles to navigate disordered eating and promote holistic well-being.

Jennifer Wright, LMHC (she/her)

Jenny received her first Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation and Counseling with a focus on Pervasive Developmental Disorders from Springfield College in 2008. From there she worked in Early Intervention in Springfield for over ten years evaluating and providing in-home therapy to infants and toddlers and their families. This work encouraged her to continue on in 2018 to attain a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and move into community and private practice in 2021. Jenny is trained in EMDR and Somatic Experiencing Beginner Level. She is passionate in her work with individuals of all ages experiencing disability, trauma, perinatal and post-partum adjustment, neurodivergence, and attachment.

Devon Ruesch, LCSW (he/him)

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Norbert A. Belliveau, MSW, LICSW, CIT (he/him)

Norbert is a 2001 graduate of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC where he earned his MSW specializing in School Social Work with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. He was once fluent in American Sign Language and spent the early part of his career working as a counselor at Willie Ross School for the Deaf in Longmeadow, National Deaf Academy in Mt. Dora, Florida, and in the Adult Vocational Services Dept at American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT. Norbert worked briefly in Child Protective Services for DCF, and in various roles at a local school system over the course of 16 years. Norbert has worked in part time private practice since 2010 and transitioned into full time solo private practice in July 2021, after retiring very prematurely from his school-based position. Norbert received training in the Shambala Tradition of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation from the local Shambala Meditation Center. Norbert completed basic and advanced training in Clinical Hypnosis and completed EMDR Basic training in 2020. Norbert has a deep commitment to evolving personally and professionally and has participated in many of the great local EMDR Advanced Training & Distance Learning opportunities over the last four years. Norbert has a deep sense of pride and gratitude for the work he does with clients, many of whom are from the LGBTQIA+ community. He is grateful to be a member of the board and to have this opportunity to contribute to and give back to the EMDR community that has given him so much on a professional level.

Past Board / Steering Committee Members

Cheryl Case, LICSW
Joanna Vaughn, LICSW
Joel Coburn, LICSW
Jacquelyn Olmeda, LMHC
Jim Helling, LICSW - Past Board President
Stephanie Baird, LMHC
Gary Loomis, LMHC
Anna Kogan, LICSW
Jason Rose-Langston, LICSW
Lee Paddy, LMHC
Jane Laskey, LICSW
Elizabeth Barron, LMHC
Sandra Stephenson Murphy, LICSW/ACSW
Melysa Friedman, LICSW
Stephanie Baird, LMHC
Desiree Lowit, LICSW
Christine Catania-Rachlin, MSW, LICSW
Michelle Marchese, LICSW

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