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Jamie Saunt is a licensed clinical psychotherapist who specializes in early childhood mental health and family systems. Her areas of focus and expertise include complex and isolated trauma, parenting challenges and children with behavioral concerns.  Her background and therapeutic methodology is based in child parent psychotherapy and family systems therapy, as well as incorporating body work, stories and play into sessions to promote healing and connection.  
Jamie works for OhioGuidestone, providing trainings across the state of Ohio about the impact of trauma and toxic stress on the developing brain and how to counteract it.   She works on an interdisciplinary team at Bright Beginnings to contribute consultation on how trauma impacts development and she provides mental health services to children under the age of 3 and their caregivers.  Jamie Saunt is a graduate of Cleveland State University, where she received her Master’s degree in Social Work.  She has worked in hospital systems and community mental health agencies, as well as maintaining a private practice.   Jamie has 12 years of clinical experience supporting children, teens and families.  Jamie’s research interests focus on how organizations designed to protect children actually create and perpetuate traumatic experiences in families.  Jamie is hoping to create programmatic and systemic changes through her research and learning in the 2022 Ph.D. cohort.