Phyllis A. Perna, Psy.D

Matrix Health Systems, operating under the affiliation of Otter Creek Associates, is a regional interdisciplinary mental health practice with multiple locations across Burlington, Essex Junction, South Burlington, and Shelburne, Vermont. They offer a comprehensive range of clinical assessment and treatment services tailored for children, adults, and families, alongside consultation for various community-based agencies. The practice provides individual, couples, group, and family therapy, as well as psychiatric services and medication management. Their affiliated clinicians are dedicated to delivering quality mental health support while also serving local schools and residential treatment facilities with interim or ongoing coverage. Generated from the website

Psychoanalytic therapy focuses on how our unconscious thoughts and feelings influence our behavior. Dr. Robert S. Emmons has over 25 years experience in private psychotherapy practice and he provides sessions for individuals, couples, and families. Call us today to schedule an appointment!

Dr. Rebecca Ruid is a clinical child psychologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Dr. Ruid works with children, adolescents, and parents providing outpatient psychotherapy utilizing a primarily cognitive-behavioral approach, a form of therapy that examines how one can think and behave in a way that reduces problems.Dr. Ruid's current areas of clinical focus include parenting work (which can involve collaborative parenting through divorce/separation); behavioral disorders; anxiety disorders; relationship and family problems; and coping with and adjusting to chronic illness with an expertise working with children and families coping and adjusting to a diagnosis of Type I Diabetes. Dr. Ruid is particularly invested in facilitating mental health integration in primary care systems. Dr. Ruid provides clinical supervision to pre-doctoral clinical psychology students.Dr. Ruid enjoys working with children, adolescents, and their parents and strives to create a comfortable environment in which patients feel heard, understood, and hopeful.Learn more about pediatric psychology at the UVM Medical Center.