Jes Leonard PsyD

Dr. Jes Leonard earned her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from West Virginia University and her M.S. in sport psychology from Ithaca College. She completed her postdoctoral residency at the VA Maine Healthcare System in Augusta, Maine and pre-doctoral internship at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. At both training sites, Dr. Leonard exclusively utilized ACT on her various rotations. Additionally, her post-doc fellowship was partly supervised by Dr. Jerold Hambright, one of the co-creators of the ACT Matrix.

Dr. Leonard currently works at Lifestance Health, NH as a licensed psychologist and supervisor who specializes in trauma-focused therapy (using ACT as well as IFS, CPT, and PE).  She provides regular ACT Matrix trainings for fellow clinicians.  She is the current Training Director of the post-doc and practicum program and Regional Clinical Assessment Director of Lifestance NH/ME.  In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Leonard is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Rivier University PsyD program.