Pamela Gagnon da Silva

Pamela is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) dedicated to fostering interdependence, equality, and resilience in response to oppression and trauma. She has over 30-years of experience working in various community-based helping professions and has worked exclusively with domestic abuse survivors for the past decade. She is the founder of Resilient Women, a place of support and connection for women who are impacted by abuse, that is designed in response to the expressed needs of survivors. She offers individual and group mental health counseling services to women seeking to integrate the impacts of abuse, institutional advocacy, and peer-to-peer domestic abuse response education to mental health professionals. She teaches Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics and Community Response and Introduction to Feminist Therapy at College of the Atlantic. Pamela serves on the advisory board of Finding Our Voices https://findingourvoices.net/history/board/sponsors, and she serves on the executive board of the Maine Counseling Association. Pamela is the 2015 recipient of the John D. Burchard Award for her contributions to the mental health field specific to her work with Maine teenagers seeking to end dating violence.