Sarah Allen Benton

Sarah Allen Benton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in a counseling center at a college in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the leader of the Alcohol Skills Training Program directed towards helping college-age problem drinkers and has made a variety of psycho-educational presentations including Mindful Drinking: Moderate Drinking for College Students and The Truth About Ecstasy (club drug). In 2003, Sarah received a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology degree from Northeastern University in Boston. She has held several counselor positions at McLean Psychiatric Hospital (affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital) in the Klarman Eating Disorders Center and the Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Institute. She is currently the vice-president of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation of Greater Boston. Sarah has worked at and received training through the Mind/Body Medical Institute affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston (now the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine). In addition, she has been involved in psychologically-based research studies through McLean Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Northeastern University and the Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Sarah is also a proud member of a 12-Step Recovery Program and has been sober since February 2004.