ICM Directory

Jennifer Onstot, MA, MFT graduated with a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco. She worked many of her post-graduate hours at The Meadows in Wickenburg, Arizona learning The Meadows Model and trauma reprocessing, as well as extensive training in Family Systems and Codependency. Since then Jennifer has worked in a Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Program, and then in private practice since 2011. Jennifer uses many therapeutic approaches, including EMDR and loves how the Adaptive Information Processing model is robust enough to incorporate all skills, knowledge, and approaches that a therapist may have. Jennifer also enjoys writing and teaching about relational skills and concepts.  Her website is jenniferonstot.com and she is found on FB @HealingJourneys, JO.

Sarah Smith, ACSW, LCSW-R is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Buffalo, NY. Sarah obtained her MSW in social work in 1994 and worked in a community mental health for several years. She worked primarily with addictions and mental health. Early in her career she observed women in addiction treatment had encountered specific challenges to treatment, and was able to address some of these needs through specialized groups.

She was trained in EMDR at the University of Buffalo in 2008 and that training was a game changer for her career. She specifically sought training and consultation to work with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders. She continues to specialize in co-occurring disorders. She is currently an Approved Consultant through EMDRIA.

In 2011 she went into private practice and in 2014 founded The Center for Clarity in Amherst, NY. She opened an additional office in July 2019 to be able to combine traditional therapy with complementary approaches such as Reiki, Emotional Freedom Techniques and Coaching. Her goal is to offer a menu of choices designed to provide holistic healing.

Amy S. Wagner, M.A., LMFT, LMHC – Amy shares those are the fancy letters one puts behind their name to look like colleagues in the professional world. If you really want to get to know Amy from her bio, words like pioneering rebel, creative visionary, vulnerable disrupter and gentle warrior would best describe her. However, she is sure you want to know a bit more about her credentials…so here is the real deal, along with the compulsory academic stuff. Amy began her journey to be a therapist during mid life when she got a call from God (maybe it was an iMessage she ponders) while sitting in church one Sunday with her family. Amy reports it hit her like a brick and was honestly the last message she wanted to hear. Although she was “in therapy” and on a messy healing journey to heal childhood wounds, being a therapist was nowhere near her radar. Amy talked to her Pastor, who kept nodding at her while he shared the all-knowing smirk. Amy told him she was not taking the call; reporting she was going to hang up on God. “Sure Amy”, he replied, “you can do that, but you are really hanging up on yourself”. Checkmate! That began a decade long journey to today. Since dropping out of college at 19 to open a dance studio (which began the best 15 years ever, and is another story), Amy had to finish her undergrad degree. Seven math classes later and Amy received a B.S from University of Central Florida and was at Rollins College a month later, where she graduated with a M.A. in Mental Health Counseling and Certificate in Marriage/Family Therapy. Amy feels blessed to be a multifaceted human, thanks to an amazing dissociative response to some tough early life experiences. Amy views dissociation as a gift and knows that “if trauma is walking in the door, dissociation is parking the car”. She specializes in working with complex and developmental trauma and dissociation in all layers of our lives, individuals, couple relationships and family systems. Amy believes we are all influenced and guided by systems; the systems inside of us and the systems that make up our personal worlds. Back in grad school she became trained in EMDR and quickly began the certification journey. Amy is honored to be EMDR Certified and on the Consultant in Training adventure. In her work with clients and consultees, you will notice Amy weave in expressive arts and sand tray interventions. She is holistically based as a therapist, consultant, mentor and human. Amy shares with gratitude that she is looking forward to working with you.