SHARON CYRUS-SAVARY

Sharon Cyrus-Savary is a licensed mental health professional with extensive experience in developing and managing comprehensive mental health programs as well as private practice. Her work emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach grounded in health equity, ensuring that children, adolescents, adults and neurodiverse individuals receive high-quality, trauma-informed, and evidence-based mental health and medical care, along with effective care coordination to enhance quality of life.

Her professional experience spans intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, forensic psychology, and substance use. Sharon previously served as a trustee and as Scholarship Chair of the American Mental Health Counselors Association Foundation, where she supported initiatives focused on professional training, public education, mental health research, expanded access to services, and the promotion of high standards in mental health practice. Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Empire State College and a Master of Science in Education from Fordham University. She is currently completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Walden University.