Counseling Inmates and Their Loved Ones 
​ Presenters:

Candyce SCott, MA, LPC

Candyce Scott has a Master's Degree in Psychology and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Professional Counseling at Central Connecticut State University. Prior to completing her Master’s Degree, she earned a B.A. in Psychology at Central Connecticut State University and her Associates Degree in Social Services at Capital Community College. Candyce has devoted her life to helping others and has provided counseling services to children for over ten years. Candyce is currently employed as  the Co-Owner and Director of Counseling Services for  Insight of New England, LLC, a Clinician with CT Psych Now, and the Youth Services Counselor for the Town of Plainville. Candyce specializes in providing therapeutic services to children and their families, navigating school issues, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her particular areas of interest include multicultural counseling, stress management, relationship challenges, parent-adolescent dynamics, grief and loss.  As an LPC she has a variety of experience providing expressive art, laughter yoga, Narrative Therapy, REBT, Person Centered Therapy, EFT, and Career Counseling. 
 
During the training Candyce will teach evidenced based techniques and research that will help providers work effectively with families who have lost a loved one due to incarceration. She will also share information from her own personal experiences with working with families and incarceration. 
 
Candyce is the proud mom of one daughter Winter Star Scott. Winter and Candyce   spend time rescuing cats in their community and helping advocate for inmates’ safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SUZANNE SCHWEITZER, M.S.
​SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST AND EDUCATIONAL EVALUATOR

Suzanne Schweitzer is currently employed as Co-Owner and Director of Educational Evaluation for Insight of New England, LLC and a School Psychologist for Plainville Public Schools. She earned her Master of Science in School Psychology at the University of Hartford.  Prior to completing her Masters she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Eastern CT State University. Suzanne is the Winner of the 2018 Thomas DiCorleto Service Award  which is given to a person who embodies the passion and commitment to children. Suzanne is also the Winner of the 2007-2008 Connecticut Distinguished Service Award which is presented by the CT Association of School Psychologists for exemplary service and contributions to the rights, welfare, education, and mental health of children and youth. 
Suzanne has over 30 years of experience working with children and adults in the mental health population. She has executed Parent Workshops, Professional Development for Educators, Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Parent/Faculty Consultation, Behavior Management, Pre-vocational Testing, Vocational Testing, Intelligence Testing, Case Management, Grant Writing, and Autism Assessment. Suzanne is a veteran of the U.S. Army National guard where she served as a combat medic. She also worked as a Vocational Assistant for adults with schizophrenia for North Central CT Mental Health Services  and a Vocational Evaluator for Traumatic Brain Injury survivors for the Hartford Easter Seals. Other jobs have included being a Certified Nursing Assistant and a Dental Assistant. All of her work has been working with, and caring for people. 
Suzanne is married to a wonderful and supportive husband named David and the proud mother of four great adult children: Danielle, Alleah, Charles, and Hannah. 

 Kerry Kincy, MA, Community Psychology

Kerry Kincy is an artist, collaborating with private, state and non profit organizations throughout CT, teaching her expressive arts residency, Telling Voices, to children and adults in underserved and often invisible populations in the community, schools and in residential treatment facilities. Kerry is a core faculty member with the Shared Abilities Dance Ensemble, where dancers with and without physical disabilities work in partnership to create performances. 
Kerry produces Artists for World Peace’s annual Dance for Peace, which began in 2013 as a way of featuring diverse professional and cultural dancers and dance companies to perform with the International Peace Belt, which has been worn by artists all over the world.  
Her work with the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc., Moving Matters! afforded her the opportunity to teach in Dreamings, What I Want to Say, and What I Want to Tell You, the Mom’s and Kid’s Project, at York Women’s Prison that focused on issues pertaining to the women behind the razor wire. She performed in the professional version of Dreaming that was presented to the public at the Charter Oak Cultural Center. 
Kerry is a proud mother of two daughters, Zoë and Frankie Blù. She graduated from Trinity College with a self-designed degree in Learning, Movement, and Social Development. She continued to build her craft studying Expressive and Creative Art Therapies at Salve Regina, The New School and Movement Therapy at Antioch University. She completed her Masters in Community Psychology at the University of New Haven.