Molly is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She has 27 years of experience as a therapist and has been in private practice in Vermont for 20 years. She provides therapy for both individual adults and couples, with advanced training and expertise in maternal mental health and marriage & relationships. Her 2019 book, To Have and To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma merged these two areas of expertise by exploring the emotional landscape of early motherhood and the inextricable link during this phase of life between women’s wellbeing and the wellbeing of their marriage or intimate partnership.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University Medical Center (2003)

Predoctoral Internship, San Francisco VA Medical Center (2002)

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Montana (2002)

B.A. in Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz (1996)

Molly was trained in the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology, emerging from graduate school and postdoctoral work with the skills for providing psychotherapy and other clinical services, and for teaching and conducting research. For 15 years, she was a professor of psychology at Saint Michael’s College. Although she left her tenured academic post in 2018 in order to expand her clinical practice, her identity as an educator, scholar, researcher, and supervisor of psychotherapists in training remains a strong influence on her clinical work. Currently, in addition to her psychotherapy practice she serves as a scientific and clinical consultant for several projects and companies. 

Molly has also done extensive training in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and has taught this approach to masters-level graduate students.  EFT is one of very few approaches to marital therapy that has scientific support for its efficacy. Research shows that EFT brings significant improvement for a majority of distressed couples.  Molly is a member of the International Association for Excellence in EFT and has completed Level 1 training (externship) in EFT.

  

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State law requires all licensed psychologists practicing in Vermont to disclose their qualifications and experience (see above), information about what constitutes unprofessional conduct in the Vermont Statutes, and how to file a complaint with the Office of Professional Regulation.

Under the No Surprises Act, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services, when you do not have health insurance or if your provider does not accept health insurance as a form of payment for services.  For more information about  your rights and protections against surprise medical bills visit http://www.cms.gov/nosurprises