Dott Kelly
LMHC, Clinical Director and Founder
Dott Kelly holds a master’s degree in child and family psychology, with specialized training in adoption, foster care and abuse. Dott has worked with children in a variety of settings for over 30 years. She is trained in parent education and has facilitated parent groups. Dott has taught seminars at Antioch University, Seattle University and Evergreen College and has facilitated workshops in child development and attachment. She is a Washington State-certified supervisor.
Dott is an active member of the National Association of Counselors, Sandplay Therapists of America, and the Association for Play Therapy. She is also a licensed private practitioner in mental health.
Dott was a founding board member of The Boiler Room, a youth-driven nonprofit coffeehouse and meeting place. She was a teacher and a parent consultant in the Montessori school program for eight years. She has worked in the alternative OPEPO Education Program, as well as managed a family planning clinic. Her own two children have been her most unrelenting and loving teachers.
Catharine Robinson
LMHC, Lead Therapist and Parent Clinician
Catharine Robinson holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Boston College. She has been with Jumping Mouse Children’s Center since its inception in 1999. Previously, she volunteered as a therapist at Bergita House in Port Townsend for several years. Prior to arriving in Port Townsend in 1989, Catharine worked with children, families and adults. She has a wide range of experience in mental health work, including working with psychiatric patients, children and families, and domestic violence victims, as well as coaching adolescents. She is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington.
In 2008, Catharine initiated the Securing Connections parenting program to augment and expand the therapists’ ongoing work with the parents of the children seen at Jumping Mouse. This program offers weekly support for parents to help them better understand their children’s needs in terms of developmental phase, temperament, and life experience.
Catharine is currently a member of the Port Townsend City Council, Jefferson Transit Authority Board, several governmental advisory boards and the Port Townsend Rotary Club.
Lisa Madelle Bottomley
LMHC, Staff Therapist
Lisa is a licensed mental health counselor, a National Board-certified counselor and a child mental health specialist. She is in private practice and holds a master’s degree in depth-oriented counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
She began at Jumping Mouse as a clinical trainee in 2002 while pursuing her master’s degree and went on to train in expressive arts therapy, sand-tray work and internal family systems therapy. She joined the Jumping Mouse staff in 2005.
Lisa did her undergraduate studies in cultural and child psychology at The Evergreen State College, The New School for Social Research and Antioch University Seattle. She worked with children and families in New York City at Columbia University’s Child and Family Center and taught creative arts programs for elementary and middle school children. For several years she provided counseling programs in the schools for the Domestic Violence Prevention Program of Jefferson County and served as the family resource specialist in the Jefferson County schools.
Gila Fein
LMHC, Staff Therapist
Gila Fein holds a master’s degree in family systems counseling from Bastyr University and is a a licensed mental health counselor . She has worked with children and families since 2006 when she began her internship with Valley Counseling in Renton, Washington. She also worked at Horizon School for Children with Learning Differences and facilitated groups for both parents and children in connection with her internship. In addition to her work at Jumping Mouse, she has a private practice in Kirkland, Wash. where she works with couples, families, and individuals. She is an active member of Seattle Counselors Association where she recently served as president.
Jean Scarboro
LMHCA, Staff Therapist
Jean Scarboro is a licensed mental health counselor associate who earned her master’s degree in school counseling in June 2011. She is a National Board-certified counselor and is licensed as a kindergarten through 12th grade school counselor in Washington State. Jean completed her counseling practicum at Western Washington University, using primarily person-centered and cognitive behavioral counseling techniques.
Prior to graduate school, Jean worked with children of all ages in classrooms and in outdoor education. She particularly enjoyed her time teaching sailing, navigation, outdoor skills, and teamwork to youth as ways to foster resiliency, self-competency, and community engagement. Jean and her husband returned to Port Townsend in January 2011, after living aboard a boat in Seattle for many years.
Steve Roe
LMHCA, Extern Therapist
Steve Roe graduated in 2008 with a master’s degree in counseling/psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School, located in Seattle. He is a licensed mental health counselor associate and has a private therapy practice in Sequim, Washington. He first worked at Jumping Mouse as an intern during graduate school in 2008. He was eager for further exposure and experience from the staff and volunteers. As a result, he returned in 2010 to continue as a volunteer therapist. He has worked with children, adolescents and adults for many years in a variety of settings including private practice, street work with at-risk youth and directing a children’s ministry.
Brigid Mosher
LMHCA, Extern Therapist
Brigid Mosher earned a master of arts in psychology at Antioch University. She is a Board-certified trainer, educator and practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She worked in private practice from 1998 to 2010 as a registered counselor in Washington, co-leading therapy groups, workshops, and trainings. She is co-author of “Cycles of Healing: The Treatment of Developmental Trauma,” a chapter in the book, Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors: Acting Out your Pain.
Brigid has completed a supervised internship working with children at Cobb Center, a trauma-focused residential treatment center under the administration of Children’s Home Society of Washington (2010-2011).
Brigid came to the field of psychotherapy after a career as professor of literature. Her interest in the arts has led her to focus on the healing power of art, first as a teacher of poetry, and later in the expressive form of psychodrama.
Luci Chambers
LMFTA, Extern Therapist
Luci Chambers is a licensed marriage and family therapist associate and art therapist. She graduated from Antioch University in Seattle with her master’s degree in psychology in June 2011.
Luci began her career working with children as an elementary teacher in 1978. She acquired her K-12 art teacher endorsement in 1997 and her master’s degree in education in 2001. After teaching art for nine years, Luci decided to become an art therapist and lived half-time in Seattle to attend school. During this time she lived on a boat on LakeUnion.
In addition to externing at Jumping Mouse, Luci teaches art at Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend and provides counseling services through her private practice in Port Angeles. Luci and her partner Craig have four grown children and one grandchild.
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