Amy Tice

Amy Tice, LCPC

I earned my Master of Arts and Educational Specialist degrees in Community Counseling from James Madison University
in Harrisonburg, VA and I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Maine. Throughout my
education, I worked to integrate my development as a counselor with my interest in wilderness and experiential therapy.
I firmly believe, and research has proven, that the wilderness naturally teaches us about actions and consequences and
stimulates change, while also promoting healing and personal growth. In addition to the natural lessons of the wilderness,
I have years of experience using structured experiential therapy activities with the young people I have served, as well
as with their families.

My clinical experience includes providing individual, group, and family mental health and substance abuse counseling
and experiential treatment to adolescents and young adults in homes, hospitals, residential treatment, schools, and the
wilderness of Alaska, Virginia and Maine. I approach my clinical work from a client-centered, strengths-based ideology. By
far the best part of each of my counseling jobs has been interacting with the young people and families that I serve. I grow
with and learn from them every day and the relationships that I have formed leave a lasting impact. I have also had the
opportunity to build meaningful relationships with colleagues and work together with other professionals seeking to help
young people develop and build skills to be successful. While working at Ironwood, a residential treatment center for
adolescents, I collaborated with the Adventure Education Program at Unity College to provide specialized programming
for our students to enhance their self-esteem, problem-solving strategies, and ability to work together toward common
goals. I also served as the Clinical Director for a period of time while I was at Ironwood, providing leadership and
supervision to clinical staff and at Treatment Team, as well as collaborating with and providing leadership to staff
campus-wide.

In addition to my work as a counselor, I am an educator. The guiding principles in my clinical work are similar to those
I implement in the classroom. My philosophy of education is student-centered and I believe that as a teacher, it is my
responsibility to develop relationships with my students, learn about their unique gifts and challenges, and foster a
learning environment where differences are respected and valued. For the last two years, I served as an adjunct instructor
at Unity College, teaching Composition and Communication I, Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. I am
currently employed at Husson University, where I am teaching several sections of Composition and Rhetoric. Involvement
in my community includes volunteering as a mentor and community conference facilitator for the Restorative Justice
Project and being a reader for the non-profit College Guild.