Dr. Savannah Lord

Clinical Director, Eden Valley · Vice President, Revolution Youth

DSW, LICSW, LADC (Vermont) · LCSW (Maine) · Pronouns: she/her

Clinical director, consultant and Doctor of Social Work. Her style balances compassion with directness.

Dr. Lord leads clinical work at Eden Valley, the clinical program of Revolution Youth in Burlington, Vermont. She joined Revolution Youth full time in 2022 and co-founded Eden Valley with Jo Lord. Her work draws on clinical practice, community partnership and organizational leadership, and she pursues equity and social justice through trauma-informed practice and systemic change.

Clinical work

She works with adults. Her main focus is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias and anxiety, treated with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

She also treats trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with Prolonged Exposure (PE), an evidence-based therapy for PTSD, and provides comprehensive substance use and mental health assessments for adults in recovery. Her training also includes CBT, Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

She sees adults in person in Burlington, Vermont, and online in Vermont and Maine.

Supervision and teaching

She supervises emerging professionals using the reflective supervision model, and she is available for consultation. She teaches social work students, field instructors and practicing clinicians through guest lectures, workshops and trainings. Her doctoral capstone created the Lord Site Readiness Inventory, a tool that helps agencies judge whether they are ready to host social work interns.

Leadership

As Clinical Director and a Revolution Youth board member, she focuses on strategic planning, policy advocacy and organizational change.

Education

DSW, Simmons University · MSW, Columbia University

Licenses

Vermont: LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker) · LADC (Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor). Maine: LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), LC21967

Elsewhere

savannahlord.com · Eden Valley team page · Psychology Today

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