Madilynn Rutherford, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Licensed Psychologist | Clinical Supervisor
Dr. Madilynn Rutherford is a licensed psychologist at Learning Solutions, where she provides psychological and neuropsychological assessments, clinical supervision, and consultation. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Vermont.
Madilynn works with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and with diverse clinical concerns, with a particular interest in trauma. Her clinical approach draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), feminist therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.
Madilynn holds a Ph.D. in combined Counseling/School Psychology from the University at Buffalo. Her doctoral dissertation examined the relationships among sexual assertiveness, sexual satisfaction, and internalized transphobia in transgender and gender-diverse adults.
She completed her predoctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at the Brattleboro Retreat, a nonprofit psychiatric hospital in southern Vermont. She has also received clinical training and supervision in private practice, community mental health, and college mental health settings. She completed additional training in EMDR therapy through Open Like Blue Sky, a psychotherapy training institute and private practice.
Madilynn earned a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from Texas A&M University, where she researched mindfulness meditation for the treatment of chronic pain. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at the University at Buffalo.