Lorna Busch

Licencsed Psychologist    

I am passionate about helping people reach the highest version of themselves. My approach is shaped by my personal journey of spiritual emergence and holistic healing. It is also informed by skills gained through professional and academic experience spanning various settings. These include a community mental health center, college counseling center, as well as inpatient and outpatient psychiatry in hospitals. I have published research on the  mind-body connection  and plant medicine, and taught undergraduate and graduate college courses at multiple universities and colleges.

I have been offering psychedelic assisted psychotherapy since 2020 and was initially trained through PRATI and Fluence. This work led to an emphasis on spiritual emergence and becoming certified through Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU). I have also focused on helping people with the end-of-life transition, which has become one of my passions and involves collaborations with professionals in hospice, palliative care, and oncology. With a keen interest in understanding mental health treatment from different cultural perspectives, I traveled to Brazil with IMHU in 2024 to learn at spiritist hospitals and centers. My travels also took me to the jungle in Mexico. I believe we are at a pivotal time in which mental health paradigms are becoming more inclusive of other worldviews, to include a merging of science and spirituality. 

When I am not immersed in the mental health and spirituality literature, I am spending time with my family and deeply value my role as mother of two young men. I enjoy time in nature and feel deeply connected to animals. 

You can find additional information about me through my profiles on Psychology Today, Integrative Mental Health University, Journey Clinical, and ISHA Health. I am also in the provider network of Skylight Psychedelics , Thank You Life, and Choose Your Horizon. 

Credentials

• Licensed Psychologist, NY # 023952
• BA, Psychology, SUNY Buffalo

• MS, Applied Psychology, University of Baltimore

• PhD & MEd, Counseling Psychology, University of Louisville

• Certified Spiritual Emergence Coach, Integrative Mental Health University, VT

Dave Dunn

mental health counselor

My primary strength as a therapist is connecting with clients and helping them understand the feelings and thoughts behind their beliefs and actions, and then helping them learn to love themselves. I strive to help you connect with your core, centered self such that you can make decisions and take actions from a healthy, confident, calm and curious place rather than from a frustrated, angry, depressed or anxious place.

I work with individuals and couples, in addition to specializing in helping caregivers of those with eating disorders. My primary therapeutic approach is Internal Family Systems (IFS). I also offer ketamine–assisted psychotherapy (KAP) to deepen the therapeutic process. Previously, I worked with mentally ill and developmentally disabled adults for five years before going returning school to earn my MBA from Syracuse University. I then worked in upper management for small and medium sized companies, most recently as the CEO of Webucator, a national training company headquartered in Upstate NY, where I worked from 2009 to 2022. Throughout my adult life I remained interested in mental health and over the last few years it became increasingly clear that I wanted to get back into the mental health field. In 2024 I graduated with my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

My oldest daughter (now 24) developed anorexia at the age of 10. Since then, eating disorders have been a big part of my life in many ways. In addition to the obvious personal ways, I speak regularly to other parents who are going through what we went through at home, I joined the board of FEAST (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders) and I wrote and published a book titled Love, Crowd Out, Forgive, Accept: A Guide to Supporting a Loved One with Anorexia. This whole experience was instrumental in my desire to get back into the mental health field.

My primary non-work activities are spending time with my family (my wife and our three children as well as a lot of extended family we live near and see regularly), playing/working in my yard and gardens, reading and walking in the woods. I’m also loving pickleball! I try to live intentionally, which for me has meant spending more time every year doing mindful activities including meditating, stretching, spending time in nature and more. I serve as Chairman of the Board of the Montessori School of Syracuse, which all three of our children attended, and as Chair of the Finance Committee on FEAST’s board.

Read more on my Psychology Today profile. 

Credentials

• BA, Comparative Religions, Hamilton College
• MBA, Finance and Human Resources, Syracuse University

• MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Le Moyne College
• Limited Permit, LMHC

Ashley hammerich

Mental health Counselor