Lorinda M MacDonald, APRN-PMHNP

I have had the good fortune to have held various positions in Behavioral Health including being the psychiatric provider who started the medication management program for Sweetser in Lewiston, ME as well as working with the homeless and chronically mentally ill population and court involved youth in Boston. In a previous life I was the Director of the Learning Center in Lowell, MA where I ran four welfare reform programs offering ABE’s and GED’ , career counseling and parenting classes for teenage and young adult parents including the first Cambodian Parent Aide program in Massachusetts. One of these programs won an Outstanding Performance Award from the state of Massachusetts for the number of young women who were placed into advanced education and taken off welfare. I was also the vice chair and served on a state committee in Massachusetts that developed the Early Intervention and Special Education to ensure the Massachusetts Department of Public Health met ADA requirements. I am still proud of this work, believing that early intervention and education always helps to elevate lives.

My partner Scott and I have two Frenchtons (French bulldog and Boston Terrier mixes) Lucy and Jackson. Combined we have six children and eight grandchildren. In my free time, I hike, bike, antique, garden, read, travel, cook and seek adventure.