About Amy E. Stein, PhD, LCSW, MSW

Meandering down many a path as an organic farmer, environmental education teacher, oil painter, author, therapist, social worker, and full-time university faculty lecturer in academia for a decade, led to the culmination of Soulful Healing Therapy. I wrote about some of my personal and professional experiences in Fragments: Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (published by Routledge, 2002, available at routledge.com and Amazon).

Skills in writing and research were laboriously (!) honed in my PhD program at Bryn Mawr College and led to several publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as opportunities to present my original qualitative research studies with a focus on social justice for marginalized and vulnerable populations at national conferences such as the American Public Health Association (APHA), Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR).

Over the course of 20+ years, I have been blessed and honored to travel along the journey of life with many individuals of all ages, as well as couples, groups, and families, of diverse and multicultural populations. I met many of these individuals while working in various contexts, such as a federally-qualified community health center in Worcester, Massachusetts, a wilderness therapy program in northern Maine, alternative schools (including a private, Buddhist alternative high school), hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice.

Such experiences challenged, humbled, and taught me more than anything I think I ever could have anticipated or prepared for. I am also eternally grateful for the mentors I met along the way who provided these opportunities, otherwise I likely would never have had the chance to experience them. These experiences have significantly shaped and influenced both my personal and professional life.

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien