Davis Chandler
Founder and Co-Director
Davis Chandler, LICSW (they/them)was clinically trained at the Smith School for Social and graduated in 2011. They have worked in a community mental health setting with children, families and adults; for a small nonprofit working with adults experiencing extreme mind states and major life disruptions and currently maintain a private practice with the Center for Psychotherapy and Social Justice in Northampton. They are a co-director of Translate Gender, an advocacy, education and therapy nonprofit working towards gender justice. They are also adjunct faculty at the Smith School for Social Work.
Their clinical work exclusively serves erotically marginalized communities – queer, trans, nonbinary, poly and kink identified clients, families and relationships. Their areas of interest include: nonbinary and trans identities, alternative family structures, issues concerning sexuality or sexual practices, queer family building, fertility issues, trauma, grief and loss. The models they operate from are: abolitionist, social justice, anti-oppression, intersectional, transfeminist, dialogic and relational. The heart of their work is social justice/decolonization and it is their mission to disrupt and resist white supremacy, patriarchy, cissexism, ableism, heterosexism, fatphobia and all systems of oppression.
Madeline Nussbaum
Founder and Co-Director
Madeline (Maddy) Nussbaum, LICSW (she/her) graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 2011. Madeline has a grounded, thoughtful, and relational style. She believes that therapy should help you access your innate intuition and insight, and that the therapist's role is to provide support and guidance through that process. Madeline’s work is deeply informed by social justice and she is committed to helping people feel empowered while examining the structures and systems in place that create marginalization. She draws on narrative, relational, feminist, and transfeminist approaches in therapy and weaves in evidence based practices such as EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) , IFS, and CBT when needed.
Prior to private practice at the CSPJ, Madeline worked at Northampton Sex Therapy Associates and in community mental health, specializing in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and experiences of trauma. Madeline strives to create a comfortable atmosphere in sessions and is sensitive to helping people who have had negative experiences in therapy in the past.
Shannon Sennott
Founder and Co-Director
Shannon Sennott, LICSW, CST (she/her) is a sex therapist and educator, gender justice activist, and a LGBTQAI family therapist who was clinically trained at the Smith School for Social Work and the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society in New York City. She currently resides and practices in the unceded ancestral homeland of the Norwottuck and Pocumtuck peoples in the Kwinitekw (Connecticut) River Valley of Massachusetts, however, she lived in New York City for over a decade and during that time co-founded the advocacy and education organization, Translate Gender, Inc.
Sennott is adjunct faculty at Smith School for Social Work teaching sex therapy theory/practice and family theory, as well as, maintains a private practice at the Center for Psychotherapy and Social Justice. She utilizes transfeminist, narrative, and dialogic therapeutic approaches in her work with adolescents, individuals, polyships/partnerships and trans families. Sennott's specialization extends to working with polyamorous ecosystems (systems of two or more people/spaces/non-human relatives who are in physical, sexual, intimate, emotional and erotic connection), alternative family constellations, eco-erotic sexual practices and relationship configurations, and kink and BDSM practices. Included in her practice, Sennott offers clinical supervision, clinical training, and therapeutic intensives. She has contributed numerous articles and chapters for publication and is co-author of the clinical guide, Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support published by Routledge Press.
