OUR TEAM
Shannon Cuthbert-Yates, MHC-LP
Shannon (she/her) is a provisional mental health counselor who works with individuals who are seeking support with anxiety, depression, relational concerns, grief and loss, and life transitions. She is particularly interested in working with clients who identify as caretakers, people pleasers, overachievers, Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), or as those struggling with social anxiety or isolation from others.
She believes therapy can provide clients with powerful tools to connect to others while building a life that feels more joyful and authentic. Her goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental space for clients to heal.
Shannon uses an integrative approach, blending elements of psychodynamic, attachment-based, and schema therapies. She is in the process of completing the Foundations of Jungian Theory and Practice Certificate Program through the C.G. Jung Institute of New England.
Her work is informed by a feminist and intersectional approach that considers the unique lived experiences and identities of each individual when working with clients to set therapy goals and tailor personalized treatment plans.
Outside of counseling, Shannon’s background includes extensive experiences as a childcare provider working closely with new parents, and volunteering with survivors of sexual assault. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz’s Mental Health Counseling master’s program in 2026, having completed field placements working with children at the New Paltz Youth Center and with clients of all ages at a private practice. She lives with her husband and cat Evie in Rockland County, and enjoys hiking, writing, and drawing in her free time.
Caro Maltz, Clinical Trainee, MHC Candidate
Caro Maltz (they/them) is a Clinical Trainee at MPG and a graduate student in the Mental Health Counseling program at SUNY New Paltz. Their approach to counseling is grounded in relational-cultural theory. In practice, this means Caro is drawn to how dis/connection shapes our experiences. From this perspective, they believe connection, therefore healing, can be achieved in a counseling relationship that prioritizes empathy, curiosity, and co-creation.
Before pursuing clinical training, Caro worked as a researcher at Yale University Department of Psychiatry, specializing in substance use disorder treatment with stigmatized and underserved populations. They have also worked with people navigating periods of significant transition, including early recovery and identity exploration. In addition, Caro has experience working with and supporting people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and C-PTSD. Caro works as a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, where their focus is exploring the mental health needs of first responders and frontline workers.
Caro’s clinical interests include relationships and cycles of connection, identity exploration, grief and trauma, and developing greater attunement to emotional and somatic experience. They draw from DBT and ACT while primarily attending to relational and social contexts in which people cope and heal. Caro is also interested in advocacy and education around reducing pathologizing bias in counseling with people who practice consensual non-monogamy (CNM). They are open to working with people from late adolescence through middle adulthood.
Across their personal and professional lives, Caro is drawn to questions of power, identity, and how to hold seemingly conflicting experiences simultaneously. They’re interested in exploring both/and: both autonomy and connection, both acceptance and change.
Kaitlyn Flanagan, LMSW
Kaitlyn Flanagan (she/her) is a LMSW who holds a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. Her clinical approach is warm, authentic, and grounding, offering both practical day-to-day support in shifting patterns alongside an ongoing existential curiosity about each client’s journey through the cosmos. As a collaborator in the healing process, Kaitlyn seeks to honor client autonomy and create a space for growth and exploration of the self that is free from judgment, meeting clients’ lived experience with curiosity, humility, and an intersectional lens.
Kaitlyn has experience providing mental health support in private, public, and therapeutic school settings (K-12) in addition to working in community mental health as part of her clinical training. She integrates the following approaches and modalities: strengths-based, trauma-informed; psychodynamic, relational, and attachment-based; CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing; Internal Family Systems; and EMDR. She supports clients navigating life transitions, burnout, grief, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration, meaning making through creative expression, and digital wellness/smartphone addiction. She is energized by the way that therapy draws from both the arts and the sciences, blending evidence-based approaches with her sense of humor and conviction that each person has within them the strength and tools to heal. Outside of her work in the mental health field, Kaitlyn can be found reading nerdy books, fumbling with her flip phone, and playing bass in her rock band.