Mackenzie Schweikert, LMHC, completed her Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s in Mental Health Counseling at SUNY Albany. She started her career working with college students and has since expanded to working with adults, teens, and children. She has worked with people experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship difficulties, ADHD, trauma, and grief and loss. Her current clinical interests include working with people to address existential fears, stress and anxiety, OCD, sexual concerns, and processing traumatic experiences.
Mackenzie believes the key to growth lies in developing compassionate self-awareness, building a deeper relationship with one’s self, and processing emotions. She utilizes various treatment modalities in her practice, including person-centered, existential, psychodynamic, acceptance and commitment therapy, somatic and emotion focused approaches. This array of approaches helps Mackenzie give her clients holistic, individualized care through a warm, authentic, and compassionate lens. While she knows doing the inner work can be challenging…it does not need to be done alone.
Erin O’Connor-Slater, LCSW, received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and began her career working with adolescents and teenagers who were living in residential care, due to difficult circumstances within the home setting. After working with this population for 6 years, she received her Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from the University of New Hampshire.
During her master’s studies, she continued to work with children and adolescents in residential care as well as began providing respite and community support for individuals with disabilities. She furthered her career, clinical knowledge, and skills during her employment as a School Social Worker where she provided direct services in support of academic and social-emotional success to students (ages 4-21) and their families. Erin enjoys supporting young individuals in managing their strong emotions and range of feelings that arise when presented with difficult life situations of all kinds.
Her knowledge of challenging obstacles for young minds is vast and she strives to support learning and growth in a therapeutic, compassionate, and calming manner.