Sarah Allen Benton, L.M.H.C.

Sarah Allen Benton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the counseling center of a college in Boston, Massachusetts and is the co-leader of the Alcohol Skills Training Program directed towards helping problem drinkers. She is the author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights and has been in recovery from alcoholism since February 2004.

In 2003, Sarah received a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology degree from Northeastern University in Boston. After graduation, she held several counselor positions at McLean Psychiatric Hospital (affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital) and is the Vice-President of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation of Greater Boston. In addition, she has been involved in psychologically-based research studies through McLean Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Northeastern University and the Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.

Prior to Sarah's counseling career, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and produced segments in top markets including the Disney Channel in Burbank, California; CBS affiliate KCNC-TC in Denver, Colorado; and NBC affiliate, WHDH-TV in Boston. Her website is  www.highfunctioningalcoholic.com.

Her PT blog is The High-Functioning Alcoholic.