Seoka Salstrom, PhD

Seoka Salstrom, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who specialized in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness-based CBTs for the treatment of anxiety, OCD, and depression for 20+ years.

Dr. Salstrom received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2006 from the University of Georgia. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Durham VA Medical Center/Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC and post-doctoral fellowship in health psychology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, WI. She then served as the clinic coordinator of the Anxiety and OCD Treatment and Research Program at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) and practiced at the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in Chicago, IL.

In 2010, Dr. Salstrom co-founded the Chicago CBT Center whose mission was to practice and train evidence-based therapies. At the time of her departure, the center had four locations and ten clinicians. She maintained adjunct faculty positions at RFUMS and the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine while co-directing the Chicago CBT Center. She is the former president of the Mindfulness and Acceptance Special Interest Group within the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) as well as a founding member, 2014 annual conference co-chair, and former Vice President of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Chicago Chapter.

Dr. Salstrom moved to the Upper Valley in 2015 to live in the mountains. Soon after, she started Hanover CBT with the intention of building a team of wholehearted, scientifically-minded clinicians to serve the community.

In addition to clinical work and directing the practice, she acted as a consulting psychologist for Mountain Valley Treatment Center, co-created the Upper Valley OCD Support Group, and served as a Dartmouth Health Grand Rounds and seminar speaker, CHAD Youth Summit facilitator, and therapy supervisor for the chief child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at DH.

Dr. Salstrom has presented at national and international conferences, provided local and national print media interviews related to anxiety in youth, and provided workshops to professionals and community members on topics such as ACT and ERP, Process-Based Therapy, gut-brain connection, mindful parenting, OCD, and anxiety in children and adolescents. She has supervised and mentored under- and graduate psychology students, interns, postdoctoral fellows, residents, psychiatrists, and social workers in mindfulness and acceptance-based CBTs.

Currently, Dr. Salstrom is based in southern France where she directs and supports Hanover CBT and co-owns Athara Adventures, a dream venture that provides mountain and retreat experiences for growth and connection. She leads retreats in Vermont and Europe, as well as conducts virtual ACT-based individual and group coaching. She no longer provides therapy.

If you are interested in working or hiking with Seoka through Athara Adventures, feel free to email her at ssalstrom@atharaadventures.com