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Aimee R. McCann, MSW (she/her/hers)

CEO/Founder
Banyan Mental Health
Lewis Center, Ohio, United States

Aimee McCann is the owner and psychotherapist of a group private practice, Golden Oak Counseling, LLC in Powell, Ohio. Golden Oak is focused on the treatment of CPTSD, attachment/developmental trauma and dissociative disorders through a neurobiological lens. While serving patients/clients in need of higher levels of care, Aimee founded and serves as CEO of Banyan Mental Health, a nonprofit treatment, training and advocacy center hoping to bring skilled and empathic providers to those with all forms of abuse, including co-occurring symptoms of chronic suicide ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and eating disorders. Improving attachment from birth, Banyan intends to provide preventative education and support to new clients, caregivers, providers and new parents with perinatal trauma outpatient services.
As a social worker, Aimee brings a macro and micro lens after years of work in pediatric and adult hospitals, nonprofit organizations in prevention services, family preservation and trauma therapy, child protective services and mental health consumer group development. However, Aimee’s focus in serving those with trauma related symptoms and disorders to improve overall healthcare outcomes and with lived experience this has become her passion. Aimee now serves as a supervisor and consultant to therapists focusing on accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatment and reduce re-traumatizing events in all levels of healthcare.
Aimee earned her BSW from Capital University followed by a Master of Science in Social Work from The Ohio State University in 1991. She is trained in Deep Brain Reorienting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I, DBT, TF-CBT, Attachment Theory, Gestalt, EMDR, IFS-Informed, TIST and Finding Solid Ground, Embodied Recovery Approaches will be the foundation of Banyan Mental Health’s IOP/PHP programming. Aimee is a researcher on the Finding Solid Ground group study through Purdue University.
Aimee is the Secretary of the Acute Care Special Interest Group of the ISST-D and member of NASW Ohio Legislative Advocacy Committee.

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