TRAUMA-FOCUSED CARE, TAILORED TO YOU

We treat the person, not the diagnosis. Each plan we design integrates EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and other modalities – always at the pace your nervous system can safety absorb.

SAFETY, AGENCY, CONNECTION

Whether you need a single diagnostic consultation or ongoing therapy, our first pursuit is emotional safety. From there we build agency, strengthen attachment, and nurture authentic connection, inside and out.

Aimee McCann, MSW, LISW-S

Founder & Clinical Director • Ohio License # I.0005875

Aimee is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Supervision Designation in Ohio and earned her Master of Science in Social Work from The Ohio State University. For more than three decades, Aimee has joined with individuals and families navigating the most complex forms of trauma. Her career spans child protection, medical social work, and inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, giving her a rare 360 degree view of how trauma echoes through every stage of life.

Clients describe her presence as authentic, kind, and being truthful, qualities she weaves into specialized care for adults living with dissociation, attachment injuries, or repeated treatment dead ends. Away from the therapy room, Aimee mentors the helpers themselves, providing supervision, consultation, and training to child protection teams, hospitals, and fellow private-practice clinicians.

Quick Facts & Advanced Training

  • Core Modalities: Deep Brain Reorienting (L2), EMDR (certification in process), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (L1), Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (L1), IFS-informed, DBT, TF-CBT, Attachment & Systems Theory
  • Special Assessments: SCID-D for dissociative disorders
  • Professional Leadership: ISSTD • Former Secretary, Inpatient SIG • Researcher, “Finding Solid Ground” (Purdue) • NASW-OH Legislative Advocacy Committee • CEO/Founder, Banyan Mental Health

Marianne Riegel, MSW, LSW, CCTP

Trauma Therapist • Ohio License # S.0024653

Marianne is a Licensed Social Worker in Ohio and earned her Masters in Social Work from The Ohio State University in 1997. Marianne brings the heart of an school social worker to trauma therapy. Since earning her MSW, she has championed youth in child welfare, foster care, and school settings: work that sharpened her insight into how early adversity shapes lifelong coping.

Clients praise her gift for reframing symptoms as adaptive responses, not personal failures. At Golden Oak, Marianne is deepening her focus on complex trauma and dissociative disorders while continuing to advocate for mental health support within Ohio schools.

Quick Facts & Advanced Training

  • Credentials: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional • EMDR trained
  • Foundational Studies: Post-graduate Gestalt Training, Gestalt Institute of Ohio (2006)
  • Professional Leadership: Social Worker / Therapist • Olentangy Local Schools (full-time)

We value transparency.

Questions or concerns? Contact the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board at:

Phone: (614) 728-7790
Address: 77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 4315

GOLDEN OAK COUNSELING

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