About Us

Amy Scott holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Michigan with a concentration in interpersonal practice with children, youth and families.  Amy began her social work career working with infants and parents in a research capacity examining the impact of maternal depression and stress on parent-infant relationships. More recently Amy has experience as a clinical therapist in a community mental health setting where she has provided relationship based therapy. Amy has worked with infants, children, and families for over 12 years and is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist by the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. She has experience providing trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT), child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), infant-parent psychotherapy (IPP), play therapy, family systems work, reflective supervision, developing coping skills for ADHD/anxiety/depression/autism/and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and providing crisis intervention. Amy has worked with children in foster care experiencing separation, grief and loss, mood disorders, and relationship difficulties. Amy is committed to joining with families to focus on their identified goals for growth, change, and healing. Amy is passionate about social justice for historically oppressed groups and committed to providing a safe space for self exploration. Amy enjoys swimming and beach combing, learning new things, spending time with friends and family, and snuggling with her miniature dachshund, Cocoa.

Angela graduated from Michigan State University with Bachelor’s degree in social work in 2013. She also earned specializations is health promotion and bioethics, humanities, and society. She also obtained certificates in diversity and child welfare. She graduated with her Master’s of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan in 2014, where she specialized in interpersonal practice /children and youth in families and society. Angela has worked with children and families for over 10 years. She has held her infant mental health endorsement for 5 years. She has experience utilizing trauma informed cognitive behavioral therapy, infant parent psychotherapy, child parent psychotherapy, play therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (individual and group models), substance abuse counseling, safety planning, perinatal mental health, family systems work, applied behavioral analysis, and reflective supervision. Angela is passionate about meeting families where they are at and collaboratively identifying ways to help them meet their goals. She believes it is important for children, parents, and families to have their own tailored treatment plans to best meet their identified areas of growth and progress. Angela believes therapy is a process and and a journey and we can experience and help each other along the way. She is passionate about helping families heal together. Angela enjoys reading, learning new things, and spending time with her fur baby, Mac

Diane earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of Michigan  where her graduate studies and practicum focused on interpersonal practice with infants, children and families. Her post graduate work focused on promoting healthy attachment and development in families with infants and young children and helping children, families and individuals heal from loss and traumatic experiences using play, expressive and relationship-based interventions. She initially worked in not-for-profit, public health and community mental health agency settings and opened her private practice in 2002.

Little House on Mackinaw was in the dreaming and planning stages for years;  it finally came to fruition in 2015 with a focus on providing  a homey, mindfully designed environment from which to provide developmentally sensitive support to families looking to engage in the deep work of healing and growth.  While Diane is currently retired from direct clinical work, she continues to broaden her interests and learnings and grow services at Little House.   In their spare time, she and her husband, Gordon, continue to putz around Little House when their six cats and 4 grandkids tire of their company.