Behavioral Health Team

Lori Vadakin, MA, LADC, LCMHC

Lori Vadakin joined BVHC as the Director of Behavioral Health in July 2025. She holds a Master’s degree from Antioch New England Graduate School (1998) and a Bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (1987). Lori is a certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Psychotherapist, with advanced specialization in EMDR-Sandtray, EMDR for children, and EMDR-Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. She is also certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Greg Kersten’s O.K. Corral Series in Equine-Assisted Learning.

Before joining BVHC, Lori held multiple leadership roles in the region, including positions at the Bennington County Child Advocacy Center, United Counseling Service, and the Vermont Permanency Initiative. Most recently, she served as the Director of Mental Health and Health Integration for the State of Vermont, where she played a key role in launching the integration of Certified Community-Based Health Centers. The first two centers under this initiative became operational on July 1, 2025.

Ryan O’Connell, LICSW

Ryan O’Connell earned his Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University in New York. Prior to joining BVHC in June 2025, Ryan spent five years with St. Peter’s Health Partners, where he provided care across a variety of settings in New York’s Capital Region, including emergency departments, skilled nursing facilities, and home care services. These diverse experiences helped shape his dynamic, person-centered approach to care.

While Ryan has worked with individuals across the lifespan, he has a strong passion for supporting older and aging adults as they navigate both the challenges and opportunities of later life. His work is grounded in compassion, respect, and a deep commitment to helping people maintain dignity and independence.

Originally from Long Island, Ryan is grateful to be part of the BVHC team and is excited to serve the people of southwestern Vermont as a clinical social worker.

Carey Snide, MSW

Carey Snide earned her Master’s in Social Work from The University of New Hampshire. Her early experience was in education as an early educator, elementary substitute teacher and science program coordinator, afterschool program coordinator, and tutor (with adults and youth). After earning her Bachelor’s degree from Johnson State College she began working in the social work field with domestic violence survivors and then in child protection, providing real-time parent education and therapeutic case management. Following the completion of the MSW program, she worked with adolescence in residential treatment; providing trauma-informed therapy. She is trained in EMDR, CBT, and DBT. Her heart is to serve the community through providing compassionate, person-centered care to clients of all ages and stages.

Devyn Thompson, MSW

Devyn Thompson earned her Master’s of Social Work from Stephen F. Austin State University with a specialty in Rurality. Devyn focuses on the importance of examining issues of diversity and differences, values and ethics, social and economic justice, and populations at risk. Devyn had been working at BVHC one day a week as a member of the Blueprint for Health team, but is now providing counseling services to patients Tuesday through Friday.

Kellie-Jean Laramie, MA-CMHC

Kellie-Jean Laramie is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Merrimack College. While she is here at BVHC acquiring her needed clinical hours to graduate, she’ll be seeing patients and receiving individual and group clinical supervision while being exposed to multiple modalities of evidence-based practices.

Kelly Davis, APRN

Kelly Davis, a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, obtained her undergraduate degree from Samaritan School of Nursing in Troy, NY, and her Master’s degree from Regis College in Weston, MA. Kelly spent 26 years as a registered nurse at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, caring for patients at SVMC’s Women’s and Children’s Services at the beginning of her career. She later transitioned to Nurse Case Manager through the Vermont Blueprint for Health. In this role, Kelly provided care to patients engaged in treatment for substance use disorders for seven years. During that time, she saw firsthand the need for mental health providers. Kelly joined the BVHC team in October 2019 and is trained to provide medication management to patients across the lifespan. She resides in Shaftsbury with her husband and two children.

Kelly is currently providing services to patients 18 years and older by referral from their primary care provider.