Co-Founder, Being Well Abroad
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Nationally Certified Counselor

Emily is a Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Rochester, NY who specializes in supporting anxiety in young people and their caregivers. Emily takes an eclectic approach to therapy and utilizes the frameworks of trauma-informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE Therapy). Emily has additional training in working with clients of all ages with ADHD, mindfulness in education, parenting and educational psychology. Prior to her career in Mental Health Counseling, Emily was a School Counselor for over 7 years at the high school and elementary levels and has her Permanent Certification as a Professional School Counselor in NYS.

Emily earned her Masters Degree in School Counseling from Loyola University in Maryland and has an additional Masters degree in Education Policy and Leadership from the University of Maryland. Emily received her Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mental Health Counseling from SUNY Brockport in 2020. Emily majored in Cultural Anthropology with a Psychology concentration at the University of Pittsburgh.

Having lived, worked, and studied in over 15 countries around the world, Emily believes in the power of travel to disrupt patterns of thinking and growth trajectories and has seen its transcendent ability to touch people in a way that accelerates transformation and maturity. At a young age, Emily lived with a host family in Iquitos, Peru for a summer and later spent a year in Israel where she lived, studied, and volunteered. After college, she led two Taglit Birthright Israel trips through Israel Outdoors.

In addition, Emily served on the Board of Directors of a local non-profit community center for 5 years where she helped plan the annual fundraising gala and helped move and rebrand a major component of the agency. She accepted the Young Leadership Award in 2019 for her efforts and service to that agency. In her free time Emily enjoys hiking, art, and exploring the world with her husband and two sons.

Co-Founder, Being Well Abroad
Licensed Professional Counselor | Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Erin is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Previously a Clinical Director of a group practice in Pittsburgh, PA, she currently works across Pennsylvania and is specialized in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, trauma, and reproductive-related mental healthcare. Erin provides individual therapy, supervision, and consultation utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Contextual Behavioral Science approaches.

Erin has lived, worked, traveled, volunteered, or studied in 55+ countries across 6 continents and currently splits time between Pittsburgh and the Wild Atlantic Way in County Donegal, Ireland, with her partner and children. She considers travel a powerful mental health intervention and seeks to support others' safe -- and, in fact, stabilizing -- disruption of limiting constructs, patterns, and roles in favor of expansive health, inspiration, connection, and growth. Erin is particularly interested in the parallel features of Post Traumatic Growth, cultural evolution, and therapeutic travel experiences, which share transformative perspectives on de-centering the individual self from collective existence, priorities, meaning making, and altruism (Michael Christopher, 2004).

Erin earned her master's degree in Counseling Psychology, as well as additional trauma treatment certification, from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2008 and has been in clinical practice since. She studied Applied Behavior Analysis at Florida Institute of Technology and received her bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Erin has worked with students, young people, and families across settings. In addition to travel, Erin loves being outside or inside, laughing, and making pithy connections with others or in a book.