Our clinicians
Sarah Gauthier LCSW
Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who specializes in the Borderline Experience (BPD), Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD),(PTSD), dissociation, depersonalization and derealization. Sarah has a lot of experience in working with individuals who reside within the gender spectrum and who present with concerns around sexual orientation as she too resides within the lgbtq++ community. And while Sarah can pull from her own personal life experiences as a transwoman, she dose not assume to know what is best for anyone based on her own personal experiences, as she believes and understands that everyone is an individual shaped by their own life experiences and how they understand them. Sarah understands that everyone is a sum of their own experiences, and that each individual who comes into her office is the expert in the room when it comes to who they are and what they are looking for, need and want. Sarah is trauma informed and has advanced her education in the area of and around trauma narrative work and trauma informed care. She continues to engage in educational opportunities in order to further enhance her understand of trauma and the impact of trauma on the individual. Sarah has several years of experience in working in Crisis Intervention, often working with clients who struggle with suicidal thinking, self-injury and substance use.
Sarah works with kids, tweens, adolescents and their families, and adults in efforts to help them identify the issues and to address their concerns in a collaborative, client centered, holistic, family oriented approach.
Karen Montgomery Jones, LMSW
My passion is providing my clients with the insight they need to break patterns and behaviors that they find unfavorable. I believe that the power to change comes from within, and I will strive to help you tap that source. My clinical counseling experience spans twenty years and a range of techniques, with a special emphasis on mindfulness and strength based. Using these techniques as a basis, I utilize an approach that effectively blends solution-focused interventions with empathy for and acceptance of oneself. These interventions empower clients to manage their anxiety, depression, and trauma while learning to treat their own feelings with kindness, grace, and the gift of space to be. The foundation of all healing is compassion, and you are worthy of it!
Sierra Bailey LMSW
Sierra Bailey is a provider established in Albany, New York and her medical specialization is Social Work. Sierra helps patients solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives, diagnoses and treats mental, behavioral, and emotional problems.
I am accepting virtual clients only at the moment.
Aine Aldrich LMSW (They/them)
In 2020 Aine earned their MSW from the University of Texas at Arlington and then promptly relocated from the swamps of Houston, Texas to the capital region.
Aine has had a variety of work experience including grocery stores, a craft store, their father’s antiques business, a brief stint as a blackjack dealer, and more recently in psychosocial rehabilitation for people living with persistent mental illness and a residential substance use treatment program for women. They often find themselves saying, “I still don’t entirely know what I want to be when I grow up.” They also has lived experience with mental health challenges and ADHD. Their professional interests include helping people to recover from trauma, how spirituality and mental health intersect, and working with the brain you have. Aine has training in motivational interviewing and internal family systems (PESI, 2020). They strive to create a trauma-informed and recovery-oriented space for their clients and also enjoys incorporating expressive modalities into their treatment plans such as making art and journaling. They are constantly adding new trainings and techniques to their therapy toolbox and the next thing they have their eye on is training in EMDR.
Aine’s hobbies include playing board games, watercolor painting, yarn crafts, collecting shiny rocks, playing World of Warcraft, and reading sciFi and fantasy novels. They lives with her nesting partners and a rescue cat named Sophie. Their personal goal for this year is to get back to writing that Star Wars fanfic that has been languishing on their hard-drive since before grad school.
Lindsey Hobson LMSW
Lindsey is a Licensed Master Social Worker with over ten years experience working to help others address, manage and overcome a variety of stressors in their lives. Her goal is to assist others in finding, accepting and nourishing their authentic selves as they navigate this thing called life.
Lindsey has a background in Medical Social Work and has extensive experience working in the area of grief and loss and helping others to cope with debilitating and chronic illness. Lindsey also has experience working with individuals with Autism and ADHD, Anxiety and Depression, Mood Disorders, Alzheimer’s, and the Veteran population. Lindsey uses a variety of therapeutic interventions to help clients maximize their potential, improve their interpersonal relationships and work through trauma.
Lindsey has a special interest in the field of Neuroscience and emerging research that lends support and understanding to those who identify as Neurodivergent
Emily Trumpfheller LMSW
Emily is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a graduate of the University at Albany. She takes a client-
centered approach and enjoys helping clients identify and make progress toward their treatment (and
life!) goals. She brings a lived experience in the LGBTQIA+ community and offers a safe space to explore
all facets of one’s identity.
Emily has 13 years of experience overseeing services in a variety of mental health, substance use,
criminal justice, and educational settings. She has worked on state policy initiatives aimed at increasing
access to and capacity for community-based services and supports. She most recently supervised
investigations of allegations of abuse and neglect filed against caregivers of youth with disabilities in
out-of-state residential schools.
When not providing direct services to clients, she works with ID/DD service providers to better support
individuals with complex needs in less-restrictive, community-based settings. In her free time, Emily
enjoys taking solo trips, playing trivia, doing puzzles, rock climbing, and hanging out with her cat, Chuck!