Jeri's Bio

Jeri W Stevens PhD, LCPC, CCS, owner of Chandler Bay Resources, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and counselor educator from Maine.  In addition to her 40 years as a psychotherapist, Jeri serves as an assistant professor in the Counseling and Human Relations Department at Husson University  where she provides supervision for school counselors, mental health clinicians and social workers, facilitates ethics trainings through associations and mental health agencies, provides stress resilience training and coaching, and delivers organizational leadership consultation and training.  In her role as assistant professor, Jeri acts as clinical coordinator for practicum and internship, clinical supervisor for practicum, and instructor for internship. In her spare time, Jeri provides mindfulness sports performance training to elite athletes.

As owner of Chandler Bay Resources, Jeri developed and facilitated ethics and clinical supervision trainings. She created the Clinical Supervision Institute and, with her team, trained hundreds of licensed professionals to become clinical supervisors. She continues to present on this topic in the United States and Canada.

Jeri is professionally active and advocates strongly for the mental health profession. She served on the Board for Counseling Professionals Licensure in the State of Maine. Her advocating years have included  licensure development, insurance reimbursement, Medicaid inclusion and professional mental health collaboration. She is highly invested in  advocating for mental health professionals’ parity and Medicare inclusion. She has been twice president of Maine Mental Health Counselors Association, serves as a mentor to the organization and is the ethics chair of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. Jeri belongs to and supports both ACA and AMHCA. 

In 2016-2017 the American Mental Health Counseling Association presented Jeri with the Public & Community Service Award.  In October 2017 the North Atlantic Region Association of the Counselor Education and Supervision awarded Jeri the Janine M. Bernard Outstanding Supervisor of the Year Award. In March 2018 the Maine Counseling Association honored Jeri by presenting the Service to the Profession of Counseling Award.