Hilary Lynch is a psychoanalytically informed therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience working in the Upper Valley. She received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and is licensed in multiple states, including VT, NH, MA, and ME. Ms.Lynch holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music from the Juilliard School and she has a special interest in the connection of creativity to the therapeutic process. She is currently a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

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Prior to opening a private practice, Ms. Lynch worked at Dartmouth College providing mental health services for emerging adults in the Counseling and Human Development Office at “Dick’s House.” In addition to providing individual counseling, she ran groups including mindfulness/stress reduction, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and “food and mood” groups. Ms. Lynch served for part of this time as a co-chair of the Eating Disorder Team. In a collaborative, cross-campus initiative, Ms. Lynch ran workshops at Dartmouth College on performance anxiety through the music department.


Additionally, Ms. Lynch trained and worked at Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, MA. Here she worked in an intensive outpatient adult and adolescent program using psychoanalytically informed therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). She has worked with young adults and adults in intensive day programs, with adults and families in long-term community mental health settings, and with adults and children in bereavement settings.


Ms. Lynch’s psychotherapy practice is infused with a mindfulness perspective. She has training in several mindfulness-based therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (studying directly with Stephen Hayes and Kelly Wilson) and Internal Family Systems. Ms. Lynch is also a registered yoga instructor RYT 200 and has training through the Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults.