Lori Strolin, LICSW
The Bold Embrace Method was created to encourage clients to be brave in saying “Yes” to their highest and best selves; supporting clients in uncovering, owning and transforming the things that cause distress. The work is deeply supportive, insightful, challenging, client driven, goal oriented, and solution focused. It integrates key clinical skill sets from CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, EFT, Somatics and polyvagal work; along with inspirational readings, educational materials, breathwork and conceptual technologies. Lori weaves mindfulness, yoga, spirituality, with 20 years experience in health care/ hospice/medical social work, trauma work and end of life skills. Lori is an experienced , Fluence trained Ketamine assisted psychotherapy clinician; and recently completed the Integrative Psychiatry Institute’s year long psychedelic assisted psychotherapy training, alongside an intensive 6 month field study in ritual, ceremony in Quintana Roo Mexico; as well as studying shamanism with Chacruna. She is excited to transform lives, heal relationships, end ancestral traumas and expand consciousness on the planet using psychedelic therapies.
Kathleen Angco-Vieweg, LCSW
Kathleen believes in an integrated approach to mental health, through self-empowerment, spirituality, and social work constructs. Kathleen's experience spans the continuum of care in the areas of: medical social work, school adjustment counseling, geriatric care management; dementia; hospice, palliative care, and end of life; professor in higher education and college career guidance; pastoral and spiritual support; and community health education. Kathleen fosters critical thinking and a client-counselor approach to developing coping skills and tools to support and empower clients to maintain well mental health. She has taught social work skills at several colleges in Western Massachusetts; and has served as minister in her parish.