Professional staff
Robert Bryant, Program Director
Robert Bryant, Second Growth’s founder, has provided one-on-one counseling to individuals, plus violence-prevention, intervention, and crisis-response services for schools, hospitals, and youth service organizations in the northeast for 22 years. His training at over 200 sites in nine states feature practical early-intervention and prevention strategies, protocols, manuals and curriculum designs that have brought him statewide and national recognition as an educational leader, including the 2004 Hero Award from the NH Youth Suicide Prevention Assembly, and the 2007 Outstanding Educator Award from NAMI-NH. Robert lives in Thetford with his wife and daughter and has been with Second Growth since 1996.
Dr. Thomas Gamble, Ph.D., Clinical Director
Tom Gamble, clinical psychologist in the Upper Valley since 1989, trained at the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and is a member of Deer Creek Psychological Associates. Dr.Gamble has been the school psychologist at Hanover High School since 1992, and his practice also includes providing services to many Vermont and New Hampshire schools and a private practice in Lyme, where he lives with his wife and three children. His clinical interests include loss,trauma and mood disorders in children and adolescents.
Linda Addante, MD
Linda Addante, MD (Hahnemann Medical College), MEd (Antioch New England), completed her psychiatry residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She has been medical director of a substance abuse treatment center, an elementary school counselor, advisor to medical students, headmaster of a Montessori school, and staff psychiatrist at Dartmouth College Health Center. A parent of six, Linda has worked with youth in schools and the community for 20 years. She co-founded B.O.A.S.T., a non-profit that supports youth in reducing risk-taking behaviors, and has worked at the state level chairing the Comprehensive Health Education Advisory Council for six years to develop comprehensive school health programs in Vermont. Linda is also a trainer within the National School Reform Faculty, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students’ learning.
Sara Manns
Sara Manns has been a part-time Second Growth counselor since March 2008, in addition to providing private psychotherapy for adolescents, families, and young adults in Woodstock, So. Royalton and East Thetford. She has worked with teenagers at risk for 13 years in Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere, including private practice, a psychiatric hospital work and a residential treatment center/special-needs school.
Shelly Moses
Shelly Moses, administrative coordinator, has worked for Second Growth since 2007, prior to which she served two years on Second Growth’s board. Living in Lebanon since 1983, Shelly has been an at-home mother for her three teenage children. She helped staff the WISE hotline for five years, has volunteered at her children’s schools in Lebanon, co-founded a gift-book program at the School Street School’s library, and served for five years as PTO co-president there. Shelly served in 2007 on Alice Peck Day Hospital’s 75th anniversary committee, helps fund-raise for the Skip Matthews Road Race, and is currently a commissioner at Lebanon Housing Authority, as well as serving as a deacon of the First Congregational Church of Lebanon.