Catamount Community Clinic

Catamount Clinic Supervisors

Dr. Anna Elliott, LCMHC (VT)

Pronouns: She/her. Anna is an associate professor at the University of Vermont and current clinical supervisor for the Catamount Community Clinic. She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and clinical supervisor, with twenty years of experience working in mental health, and 12 years working as a counselor educator and clinical supervisor. She specializes in working with families, adolescents, and trauma recovery from a relational-cultural psychodynamic approach.

Hannah McKinney, LCPC (MT)

Pronouns: She/her. Hannah is a licensed clinical professional counselor and current doctoral student of Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Vermont. She has experience as a counselor, program manager, and clinical director working with eating disorders and other complex presentations at higher levels of care. She currently provides counseling to individual adults through a feminist psychodynamic lens. Hannah also holds a PhD in neuroscience and is a certified yoga instructor.

Catamount Clinic Interns

Ella Tschurwald

Pronouns: She/her. Prior to Spectrum Ella worked one-on-one with youth at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, where she focused on patient advocacy and facilitating inclusion. She earned a B.S. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. While in school she interned at Community Corrections and after graduation went to work at a mental health urgent care in her local community. In her free time, she enjoys fostering dogs, learning to snowboard, and exploring her new home in Vermont!

Alexa Arnold

Pronouns: She/her. Lexi is a Mental Health Counseling Graduate student at UVM completing her practicum at Spectrum. She will be working with the Catamount Community Clinic as a counselor to help extend more mental health resources into the community. Prior to graduate school, Lexi worked in environmental education and the food service industry for several years. Her most recent work was on a team facilitating weeklong residential science camp sessions in central Pennsylvania. She holds a B.S. In Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management from Penn State University. She is passionate about connecting people to people and people to nature. In her spare time, she loves to spend time with family and friends, play outside, and tap into her creativity through cooking, crocheting, or puzzling!

Regan Bruns

Pronouns: She/her. Regan began working with Spectrum as a counselor in training at the Catamount Community Clinic in January 2025. She is a current graduate student at the University of Vermont pursuing her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Prior to coming to Spectrum, she worked as Community Support Specialist in Missouri for 2 years, providing community-based services to a diverse, adult population and supporting clients in recognizing and utilizing their strengths to meet their goals and needs. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from Truman State University. In her spare time, she loves to get outside with her dog, Ollie.

Justine Horton

Pronouns: She/her. Justine is thrilled to be part of Spectrum’s counseling staff, where she works with youth and young adults as part of her graduate coursework pursuing a master’s degree in clinical Mental Health Counseling at UVM. Prior to beginning her master’s program, Justine spent the last decade working with youth and young adults in a variety of settings, including summer camps, outdoor education centers, adventure-based empowerment programs, public schools, alternative schools, and wilderness-based residential treatment centers. Justine is passionate about creating safe, encouraging, and inclusive spaces in which individuals can explore their authentic inner experiences, challenge themselves to grow in novel ways, and learn the skills necessary to reach their goals. Justine received her B.A. in Human Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University and moved to Vermont to be closer to the mountains, lakes, and fields, and rivers she loves to explore.

Duncan Gamble

Pronouns: Any. Duncan previously worked with K-5 elementary students in Burlington as a one-on-one paraeducator, then as a behavior specialist working in school-wide behavior support, totaling five years of experience. His students had diverse needs and backgrounds, and he helped them explore their abilities and experiences and develop skills to successfully navigate the academic and social aspects of school. He has non-behavioral/non-clinical work history with middle school students through the Edmunds Middle School afterschool program and Burlington-Winooski middle school summer program, facilitating several student interest groups, principally Dungeons & Dragons as a dungeon master. He has an existential approach to counseling but has a strong background in humanistically-oriented behavioral work through his work with elementary students.

Harry Mooney

Pronouns: He/him. Harry’s interest in mental health began while working as an EMT. He describes how the intimate human interactions he had, often with people who were experiencing some of the worst days of their lives, planted the seed within that would grow into the decision to pursue mental health counseling. His areas of professional interest include masculinity, the mental health of boys and men, mindfulness, trauma, wholistic healing approaches, and existential counseling.

Shelby Thornton

Pronouns: She/they. Shelby joined Spectrum in 2026 while attending the University of Vermont to gain their master’s degree in counseling. They are excited to begin this journey with such an amazing program and look forward to engaging with clients under supervision! Shelby has a background working with children and adolescents in clinical and in-home settings. They achieved their Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and moved to Vermont in 2025 to begin their graduate program in counseling. Shelby has spent the previous six years dedicating themself to their work with children and adolescents with autism and has a deep passion for working with the youth in their community. Shelby goes by she/they pronouns and in their spare time, they enjoy sailing on Lake Champlain, hiking with their dog, crocheting, watching movies, and exploring Vermont with their friends!

Jake Vincel

Pronouns: He/him. Jake is currently a Graduate student at the University of Vermont studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He earned a B.A. in Physics at the University of Iowa in 2023 and immediately pivoted to the Mental health field following graduation. He worked as a direct-care supervisor at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for adolescents in 2024 and hopes to do more work in addictions in the future. With 5 years of sobriety as a recovering addict, he has been active in the NA and AA communities and has served as a sponsor for recovering addicts in early sobriety. All these work, education, and life experiences lend Jake a unique perspective to help clients along their journeys. In his free time, he tends to a forest of house plants and has been enjoying the Vermont winter season by snowboarding every chance he gets.

Gaby Brinck

Pronouns: She/her. Gaby started working at the Spectrum Catamount Community Clinic in 2026. She is currently a Counseling Master’s student at the University of Vermont. In the past, she has worked with neurodiverse youth, to help provide equitable education environments. She also worked in a Spanish immersion preschool for two years, as a lead teacher. Gaby holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Vermont, which is what led her to pursue counseling. She is especially drawn to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is interested in working from a part-based framework. Gaby is bilingual in English and Spanish and finds it important to create spaces where clients can express themselves authentically. In her free time she loves to craft, mostly crocheting and knitting, and she loves nature photography.