Dr. Rachel Enoch, BCBA-D, is a leader in training teachers and staff on the implementation of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) across school-wide initiatives. Previously she created and implemented community mindfulness camps for children and worked as the primary Board Certified Behavior Analyst at a residential eating disorder facility for adolescent females. Rachel is excited to find new and innovative ways to infuse behavior analysis in the classroom as well as in alternative education and community settings.

Rachel is passionate in her support of ABA students in their journey to becoming behavior analysts and infuses a social justice focus into her teaching and training.  In September 2018, Rachel was elected to serve as  President of NHABA, an affiliate chapter  of the Association of Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). She hopes to promote continued support and awareness to the field and bring research practices and professional development opportunities to behavior analysis throughout New Hampshire.

I have been at Antioch University New England since 2004, and was drawn here because of the mission of social justice at the University and in the department, and by the opportunity to build a Marriage & Family Therapy PhD program that had a focus on social justice as well as on teaching, supervision, and quality scholarship. During my time here, I’ve been Program Director for both the MA and PhD programs and have also directed the Antioch University Couple and Family Therapy Institute (occasionally all at the same time). I’m currently Director of the PhD program.

I have been teaching graduate-level MFT courses since 1999, and I’ve also been quite involved in service to the field. I’ve served as the Secretary for the Board for the New Hampshire Division of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and I also spent six years on the Board of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education, including two years as Chair of the Commission. Currently, I serve as a consultant on accreditation issues nationally and have presented at several conferences on accreditation and assessment. I am very interested in leadership, both in academia and in the field at the national level.

I am an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in NH. My initial clinical training was in substance abuse (I was a Certified Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor in Texas and then Indiana, starting in 1988), and I continue to have a strong interest in addiction issues. I am very interested in researching issues related to couple and family therapy and worked with a number of students and colleagues on projects with wide-ranging topics. I enjoy teaching a wide range of subjects and most recently have focused on teaching research methods and statistics, but I’ve taught almost everything in the curriculum at some point.

On a personal note, I am an avid photographer and maintain a website of my personal photography. I also love to spend time outside and you may find me mountain biking, hiking, or kayaking all over New England whenever I can (and snowshoeing and skiing in the winter).

I’m a native Chicagoan who lived in Gary, Indiana for thirteen years before moving to New Hampshire with my wife, Hana. I entered the field of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) after a 21-year career in newspaper and magazine journalism which began in 1971 at the Chicago Sun-Times. I received my Master’s Degree training in MFT at Purdue Calumet University, Hammond and my Doctoral training at Purdue University, West Lafayette. I’ve practiced Aikido (a martial art) for more than 30 years, as well as Hatha Yoga and Yoga meditation, which I taught for several years in the Chicago area. Songwriting and playing guitar, cooking and writing (fiction and essays) are among my favorite hobbies. Both my wife and I are licensed MFTs and AAMFT Clinical Members. I am also an AAMFT approved supervisor.

Teaching at Antioch
Antioch has a long history of devotion to principles of social justice, and social responsibility (as demonstrated by the school’s focus on environmental issues long before such issues began to be addressed by larger, more conventional Universities). Thus, I expected that it would attract the types of faculty and students with whom I would enjoy interacting.

Further, I looked forward to helping develop a PhD program in MFT at Antioch because I knew that a large number of Antioch’s MFT students are adult learners.” As one who entered the field in mid-life as an adult learner, I felt I would understand the challenges that many such students would face in trying to carve out a new career for themselves in this exciting, but extremely demanding profession.

Views on Social Justice Issues
I tend to view social justice issues, multicultural issues and feminist issues through the same lens. They are all founded in a sense of fairness, balance and connectedness with all our brothers and sisters on this planet. They all require the willingness and courage to sometimes be a voice in the wilderness. I come by this attitude naturally from having experienced discrimination; from having been an avid follower of Dr. King’s non-violent movement; from long ago having a developed a sensitivity to what Michael White would call subjugated stories and the ways (sometimes subtle, sometimes horrendously blatant) white male power and privilege have affected my life and the lives of millions of other people who are neither white, nor male, nor heterosexual. As a racial minority in a field (MFT) historically and currently dominated by middle-class whites I hope, even if in a small way, to push our field toward greater inclusiveness and a sense of ethical obligation to address and correct the social inequalities we see around us in America today.

Cathy Lounsbury, EdD, LCPC is a seasoned counselor, educator, and leader in the study and practice of trauma, wellness, and resilience. Cathy has been a clinical mental health counselor for over 25 years working with both children and adults, specializing in those who have experienced trauma.   Currently, Cathy serves as an Associate Professor in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program and past Chair of the Applied Psychology Department at Antioch University New England.  In this role, she founded Antioch’s Institute on Wellness, providing consultation and training nationally on the mitigation of secondary traumatic stress https://www.antioch.edu/resources/centers-institutes/aune-wellness-institute

Within the Applied Psychology Department at Antioch, Cathy has developed training opportunities for students in trauma-informed, strength-based approaches, including an international clinical training opportunity working with children and teens in Peru.  Additionally, Cathy has provided expertise in psychological trauma and resiliency to multi-disciplinary teams exploring the effect of climate impacts on youth and families.  As the former Clinical Director of the Maine Psychological Trauma Institute, she has provided consultation, training, and supervision to schools and communities throughout New England on Post-traumatic Stress Management, Fostering Resiliency in Children, Mitigating the Effects of Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Promoting Positive Youth Development.

Cathy believes strongly in building natural resiliency supports for those who have experienced traumatic events.  To this end, she has served on both local and national community trauma response teams following national disasters, terrorism, and other traumatic events and was the founder and director of the IMPACT Team, a youth-focused community trauma team, consulting on 200+ incidents.   Cathy has also advocated for policy and environmental changes to support youth and has led several federal initiatives, including Safe Schools Healthy Students and Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse, to create better systems to support youth and families.  To this end, Cathy was able to secure over $7 million in grant funding to support the youth of Maine.

Many people lose touch with how the body can be expressive and help release feelings or tension. We work with the healthy parts of people and often impart a sense of fun and joy in their lives, whether for a few moments or lasting long-term. It is so gratifying to see the changes in people’s ability to express themselves and communicate more fully. I know I have made a difference in many people’s lives—patients, babies and parents, and students—which has made my life so full and rich.

Received her MA degree in Dance/Movement Therapy from Goddard College. A board-certified member of the American Dance Therapy Association and a National Certified Counselor, she serves as a member of the ADTA Approval Committee as has served: as co-editor of the American Journal of Dance Therapy (2011-2014), Chair of the Education Committee for the American Dance Therapy Association (1995–1999), and on the editorial board of The Arts in Psychotherapy (1996-2011). She directed the Creative Art Therapy Department at Billings Hospital’s psychiatric unit; worked with infants, toddlers, and parents at the Center for Parents and Children; and also worked with adults at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. A Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) Analyst and considered an expert on the system, she worked closely with Judith Kestenberg for eight years, chaired four conferences on the KMP, has written numerous articles and co-edited three books, including, “The Meaning of Movement: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile.” She currently teaches the KMP system at Antioch University New England and taught the system at the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York City for fourteen years. She has lectured and conducted KMP workshops in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, England, Scotland, South Korea and the Netherlands, as well as throughout the United States.

In December 2014, the ADTA gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifelong commitment to the field of dance/movement therapy. She received the award during the ADTA’s National Conference in Susan’s hometown of Chicago, and celebrated with an evening of accolades and – of course – dancing.

During her spring 2015 sabbatical, Susan developed a series of videos which shows examples of movement patterns in the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) as observed in children six years of age and younger. As the project continues to develop, it is expected to result in a wide range of real-life examples of KMP movement patterns, seen in both children and adults, and will serve as a supplemental learning tool.