2023-2024 Board of Directors

Amanda C. Rhodes, PsyD, is a clinical health psychologist. She is the Founder of the ACT Academy, an international consulting firm dedicated to the research, training, and dissemination of contextual behavioral sciences including ACT, RFT, and Processed-Based Therapy. She is also the Owner and Director of Bethesda-Chevy Chase Psychological Services, a group practice providing evidence-based therapy and psychological testing to the DMV area. She also holds academic appointments at NIH and GWU.

Amanda is integrally involved with ACBS International. She serves on the Board of the ACBS Cancer SIG as President. She also serves on the ACBS Awards Committee, Membership Committee, and WorldCon Program Committee and is a member of the Journal for Contextual Behavioral Science’s Editorial Board.

Aimee Caramico, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and the co-founder of North Star Psychological Services in Washington DC. Aimee specializes in using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with adolescents and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also integrates Compassion Focused Therapy into her work. She is an adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology- Washington DC campus, where she teaches ACT to doctoral students, and provides supervision to doctoral students interested in learning more about using ACT with clients. Aimee has been practicing ACT since her first third-wave focused class in graduate school and never looked back. She loves talking and learning more about the contextual behavioral sciences and being part of the wonderfully warm and welcoming ACBS community.

Hannah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker located in Bethesda, MD. She has been practicing as a clinician for nearly 10 years and recently founded Gold Therapy. She has extensive experience working with a diverse group of clients during her time in community mental health supporting individuals with HIV and comorbid mental health needs. Hannah also worked as a school social worker in an underserved community and, more recently, at the Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA), where she supported individuals in a community mental health setting. In the past few years, Hannah has become very passionate about ACT. ACBS WorldCon Cyprus was the first time she stepped into the trainer role, having been accepted to present an In-Person Workshop. Hannah's dedication to the CBS community continues to grow every day. She is honored to take the next step in her ACT journey and serve as President-Elect for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

Simoné Jalon-Main, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of SJM Psychology, LLC, a private practice in Washington D.C. and Maryland. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University in Philadelphia and completed her pre-doctoral internship at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, where she received extensive training in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Her post-doctoral fellowship was at an outpatient practice where she received specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Prior to launching SJM Psychology, LLC, she served as the primary psychologist for students at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine for three years. Simoné currently holds an adjunct teaching position in Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and has previously supervised doctoral students’ clinical work in American University’s Ph.D. program.

Howard Crumpton, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and completed two postdoctoral residency years at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After helping to establish the Primary Care Behavioral Health Service program at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, Howard started a private practice where he continued providing psychotherapeutic and consultative services for children, families, and institutions. Howard serves as an advisor for Get-A-Head, a telehealth company based in Toronto, Canada, and as the Director of Clinical and Community Integration for the ekoe healing collective, a mental health care, integrative wellness, and nutrition team based in Falls Church, Va.

Nidhi Sampath is a licensed clinical professional counselor. She currently works in private practice in Bethesda, MD. She received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Mental Health and Wellness from New York University. Through her journey thus far, she has provided in-home therapy focusing on family conflict and trauma, worked in outpatient substance use treatment programs with both teens and adults in New York, and has provided intensive outpatient treatment to teens in a hospital setting. She began private practice in 2014 and works with anxiety disorders, depression, and substance use disorders. Nidhi has found a passion for ACT with a special interest in FAP. She is highly empathic and genuine in her approach and also leaves room for humor. She works to create a safe therapeutic environment that is both supportive and challenging, allowing clients to build healthier relationships, practice self-compassion, and try new behaviors that are grounded in who they are as well as what they want.

Jeremy Henderson-Teelucksingh (tee-luck-sing) is a counselor, leadership, and management coach, and corporate and community human relations consultant. Jeremy brings passion, innovation, and creativity to his clients to enable them to live fulfilling lives.

As a counselor, Jeremy works with adolescents/teens (15+), adults, couples, and families, focusing on anxiety and anger, trauma, personality disorders, family integration, and family reunification related to adoption and foster care. Jeremy works with the LGBTGEQIAP+ community and is an “out” counselor with a history of diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging advocacy. Jeremy approaches counseling from a multicultural and social justice viewpoint and has lived and worked in many US states and countries, which Jeremy draws from to understand the client’s unique experience.

Jeremy is a Doctor of Behavioral Health candidate at the Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies.