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Episode 12: Nichol Ernst, Executive Director and Co-Owner of Summit Achievement

2018/12/12
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Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors

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Will talks with Nichol Ernst, Executive Director and Co-Owner of Summit Achievement, a hybrid wilderness therapy program in Maine. Nichol shares his unique journey into wilderness therapy including his time as a concert pianist, world class sailor and his challenges when getting an ivy league education.  Nichol reveals how he first found out about Summit Achievement and went from being a field guide to clinician to clinical director to executive director and, now, owner.