Meet Our Providers
Reclaim your inner magick with Art Therapy
At Fox + Feather we have a weekly staff meeting, affectionately known as Goddess Gathering. We use this time for wisdom-sharing and professional support. Taking the best care of one another as staff allows us to take the best care of you.
We also understand that when a potential client reaches out for support it is a precious window of vulnerability. We respond to all inquiries as quickly as possible. Whether it is in session, or while seeking administrative guidance, you will always have compassionate and prompt communication with our team members.
Sarah Guercia
Founder and Director
At age 12, Sarah imagined she would become a heart surgeon. Years later, in her own therapy session, Sarah realized she had in fact fulfilled this vision by opening Fox + Feather.
Sarah’s healership centers around the knowing that pain and trauma are energetically encapsulated in the heart’s center. Using the ancient practice of creativity, Sarah helps clients extract pain from this part of the body. In doing so, clients are then able to listen to the *true* beatings of their heart: desires, wishes, and life’s purpose.
Foxes are clever observers: they weave through the forest noting patterns before acting. Sarah does the same: witnessing client patterns and bringing them into awareness. When we are aware, we are then empowered to create change. Crows can travel between timelines. When we heal today, we are also healing our inner child, as well as our future selves.
Sarah views eating disorders as the complex product of traumatic experiences, societal constructs, diet culture, and generational/familial toxicity. Food itself is not the problem, nor is the client. Together, Sarah and her clients seek to understand the root of symptoms, by listening to them as messengers.
Sarah personally understands the power of creative healing, as she is a survivor of child and adolescent sexual abuse. Art therapy has been the bridge from debilitating eating disorder and PTSD symptoms to a wholesome life full of wonder and play.
Sarah is a Board-Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, SoulCollage® facilitator, Ordained Minister, Artist, and Mother. She graduated in 2014 with a Master’s degree in Art Therapy and in 2015 was awarded the American Art Therapy Association’s Gladys Agell Award for Excellence in Research. Sarah has worked in various levels of care for eating disorder recovery including IOP and PHP, and has experience assessing clients for higher levels of care. Sarah has worked with clients in the hospice setting, using art as a tool to express final gifts before imminent transitioning. In 2017, Sarah opened Fox + Feather with just one client and a fervent calling to healership. Fox + Feather is now a vastly known and respected practice in the state of CT due to Sarah’s dedication to the mission of art therapy as transformative magick.
Katy Hyland
Assistant Director and Lead Adult Clinician
Katy Hyland MAATC, LPC is an art therapist and licensed professional counselor. She received her Master’s degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Albertus Magnus College in 2018. Katy’s experience is working with clients diagnosed with eating disorders, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders, and various forms of disordered eating. She also has experience working with clients struggling with anxiety, depression, and who have experienced trauma.
Katy’s path to helping those struggling with eating disorders began in 2017 with a graduate internship at Walden Behavioral Care. In 2018, she returned to begin her career and during that time worked primarily with adults, joining them as a guide on their journey toward finding their power, their voice and toward healing.
Katy also identifies as an artist. Her career has allowed her to combine a passion for creativity and self-expression with a desire to help others heal, find meaning and reconnect with themselves. She received her BS in studio art and concentration in photography. Katy feels that art has the power to create connections between mind, body, and soul which, in turn, allows individuals to express what words cannot say, reveal a voice that may have been lost, and discover a path towards healing.
Rachel Cataudella
Lead Adolescent Clinician
MAATC, LPC
Rachel Cataudella, MAATC, LPC, is an Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Artist. Rachel believes that the therapeutic relationship serves as a guide in the journey towards expanding personal awareness. Therapeutic art techniques are offered as a means to remove emotional blocks, reveal pathways to awareness, and nourish mind, body, and spirit. Rachel believes in the power of creating art to strengthen the inner voice and reconnect with the Whole Self.
Rachel’s therapeutic approach draws from Expressive Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness Techniques. An eclectic blend of these theories is tailored to the individual experience in order to honor each client’s unique healing journey.
Rachel received her Master’s degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Albertus Magnus College in 2020. As a graduate-level intern, Rachel first began supporting clients diagnosed with Eating Disorders at high-levels of care, including Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) programming in 2018. Since that time, Rachel has developed a niche for serving the adolescent and young adult populations, and has vast experience working with an array of diagnoses including: Anorexia Nervosa, Avoidant/Restrictive Feeding and Intake Disorder (ARFID), Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. Rachel also has experience working with clients healing from anxiety, depression, and trauma. Finally, Rachel views the individual as part of a larger family system, and guides clients in illuminating patterns within the family dynamics that require evolution.
Zoe Schlanger
Associate Clinician
ATR-P, LPC-A
Zoe Schlanger, ATR-P, LPC-A, is an Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor Associate with a master’s degree in Transpersonal Art Therapy from Naropa University. She specializes in creative, somatic, and mindfulness-based counseling. With experience in hospice, hospital, and clinic settings, Zoe supports individuals in their healing of trauma, depression, and anxiety. Zoe has a special passion for working with grieving individuals, those at the end of their lives, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community on their unique journeys toward health and wholeness.
Her approach is strongly rooted in respect for each client’s individual experience, particularly during challenging life transitions. In sessions, Zoe aims to provide clients with a warm, gentle environment to uncover their true nature so that they can make choices that will relieve suffering and build health and connection.
As a sculptor who works with clay, paint, and bookmaking, Zoe knows firsthand that art is a powerful way to discover inner images for illuminating the path to deep healing. Drawing inspiration from her own creative practices and her connection with nature, she views creativity as a bridge to greater self-acceptance, allowing clients to explore emotions and experiences that words may not be able to express. Zoe is committed to helping others heal their hearts so that they may experience belonging and safety.
Amanda Marino
office manager
Amanda Marino graduated from High Point University with a B.A in Criminal Justice. After college, while searching for jobs she found herself working at an eating disorder clinic as a mental health counselor. There she gained her experience working and supporting clients with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating DIsorder, Avoident/Restrictive Feed and Intake Disorder, Other Specified Feeding and Eating disorders. She found her passion for helping others and being a part of their journey to food and body freedom.
She has training in DBT, CBT, Body Image and is certified as an Intuitive Eating Counselor. Amanda transitioned jobs and became a Meal Coaching Specialist at a residential treatment facility specifically training other staff on meal coaching techniques as well as continuing to support and challenge clients to push past their fears and heal their relationship with food.
She now has found herself transitioning out of the supportive role of helping clients and in the role as an Office Manager. She continues to have a passion for helping others and is looking forward to continuing to work in the therapeutic field in a different role.
Abby Ormrod
Adolescent and Adult Clinician
ATR-BC, CLAT, LPC, CEDS
Abby Ormrod, ATR-BC, CLAT, LPC, CEDS is an Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. She has worked in all levels of care, ranging from an Adult Inpatient psychiatric unit to Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) as well as an Outpatient vocational art studio. Most recently, she was an Associate Clinical Director at an Adolescent Residential facility supervising clinical staff and treating a variety of mental health diagnoses including eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression.
Abby believes that art can be utilized as a gateway for self-discovery and healing. She has found art to be personally cathartic, while navigating various seasons of life and facilitating a deeper appreciation and mindfulness for the beauty in each day. Abby is interested in mixed media and incorporating non-traditional materials into artmaking. In addition to encouraging creativity in sessions, Abby’s eclectic therapeutic approach draws from her training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) and Family-Based Treatment (FBT).
Abby received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art at the University of Vermont and her Master of Arts in Art Therapy from Albertus Magnus College in 2015. She was the recipient of the Laurel Award for Excellence in Research for her thesis exploring body image and self-esteem in 2016. Abby was trained as a SoulCollage® facilitator in 2018, and she enjoys using this practice both personally and professionally. Abby enjoys and is inspired by being outside in nature and spending time with family and friends.