Meet Our Behavioral Health Clinicians

Alex Kim, LICSW (he/him pronouns) has been a social worker in settings including school counseling, college mental health, community mental health, and inpatient psychiatry. He has worked with individuals (adults and children), groups, and families to address concerns including anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma, and issues relating to racism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression. Other areas of interest include anti-racism practices in organizations, psycho educational training and consulting, restorative justice practices, and videogame culture and gamer identities. He has presented at the NASW Massachusetts Symposium and the Asian-American Mental Health Forum in Boston. Alex is also an adjunct instructor at Smith College School for Social Work

Laura E. Davis, LICSW (she/her pronouns) comes to CHCFC with 27 years of social work clinical experience. Laura graduated from Rhode Island College School for Social Work with a Master’s Degree in Social Work in 1996. She has lived and practiced social work throughout the United States and has been practicing social work in Franklin County, Massachusetts for the past 13 years. Laura has worked in urban as well as rural outpatient mental health settings serving children, teens and adults of all ages from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Laura is trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, Sandtray and Play Therapy.

Brian Condon is a person in long term recovery from substance use disorder with eight years of sustained abstinence. “Recovery is defined in the dictionary as “a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.” That’s great if you have a broken leg, but in recovery from substance use disorder, why go backward when you go forward? I personally define recovery as seizing the opportunity to grow as a person, reach towards your own goals, while becoming healthier and happier than ever before.” A recovery coach serves as someone with lived experience who truly listens, without judgment, or telling a person what to do. A coach asks questions to help the individual choose their own goals and pathway to recovery and provides support and helps celebrates success. Brian began as a volunteer with the Turning Point of Windham County peer recovery center in Brattleboro, VT before becoming employed as a recovery coach and group facilitator. He was also an instructor at the Vermont Recovery Coach Academy before being employed as the project manager on a SAMHSA funded Pathways to Recovery Project, collaborating with the then new Vermont hub-and-spoke model of care for opioid use disorder. Most recently Brian has worked during the past four years a clinician/counselor at one of the hub clinics in Brattleboro, VT.