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MEET Our Team

Portrait of Samantha Tramuta, LCSW

Sam Tramuta

LCSW, LAC

Founder & Psychotherapist

Sam works with people who are excellent at everything except slowing down long enough to feel anything — over-functioning, hard-living, holding it together but falling apart. She specializes in complex trauma, psychedelic therapy, relationships and attachment, and addiction. For the people who are ready to stop running and actually go there.

ALLEGRA LONGO, LCSW
Lead Psychotherapist & Trauma Specialist at Higher Ground Psychotherapy in Woodbury CT and Westport CT

Allegra Longo

LCSW

Lead Psychotherapist & Trauma Specialist

Allegra works with people who got through something — a crisis, a loss, a relationship that hollowed them out, a behavior that stopped making sense. She specializes in EMDR intensives, trauma, women's wellness and body image. For the people who are ready for what comes next.

Portrait of Ray Demers, LCSW

Ray Demers

LCSW

Lead Psychotherapist & Family Consultant

Ray works with clients, families, and couples who need someone to move the needle in moments that can't wait. Neurodivergence, complex diagnoses, post-treatment chaos, high-conflict dynamics — he specializes in creative and blended interventions, family therapy and concierge crisis consultation.

Portrait of William Culpepper, LMFT

Will Culpepper

LMFT

Psychotherapist & Integration Specialist

Will works with the people whose minds won't give them a moment's peace — intrusive thoughts, loops, anxiety that thinking harder has never touched. He specializes in ERP, OCD and psychedelic integration for the overthinker who needs to shift the fear of uncertainty, not just manage it better.

Ashley Guerrera, MAATC, LPC, ATR, Clinician and Art Therapist at Higher Ground in Westport and Woodbury, CT

Ashley Guerrera

MAATC, LPC, ATR

Psychotherapist & Trauma Specialist

Ashley works with people who have run out of words. And with people who never had them to begin with. She uses Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), creative art therapy, somatic trauma processing, and depth-oriented clinical work to reach what talk therapy alone has never quite touched.

An OLD -SOUL APPROACH TO MODERN MENTAL HEALTH

We blend timeless wisdom with cutting-edge science. This is the space where depth psychology meets nervous system regulation, and clinical precision meets radical honesty.

At the foundation of our practice lies uncompromising clinical excellence:

  • Advanced training in trauma, attachment, and psychedelic-assisted therapy

  • Evidence-based modalities tailored to your specific needs

  • Integration across individual, couples, and family work

  • Coordination with psychiatry, medical providers, and care teams when needed

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