Alice Andrews, M.A.

With degrees from Columbia University (philosophy ’89 and psychology ’93), I began teaching and counseling in the Counseling department at Borough Manhattan Community College in 1996. From 2003-2018, I taught Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, counseling and advising my students in my office hours, and providing therapy and mediation to others in my home office in New Paltz. I taught many courses at SUNY and loved it, but I’m feeling called to do deeper work, so am now practicing Integrative Adaptive Therapy full-time in Kerhonkson, NY.

Some of the relevant courses I taught at SUNY New Paltz:

“The Science of Happiness”; “Clinical Psychology and Counseling”; “Ecopsychology”; “Personality and Psychotherapy”; “Abnormal Psychology”; “History & Systems of Psychology”; “The Biopsychology of Eros”;  “Social Psychology”; “Evolutionary Psychology”; “Psychology of Women.”

Prior to my work at New Paltz, I taught and counseled at Dutchess Community College and several other NYC community colleges.

Before moving to Kerhonkson in 2019, I served on the Village of New Paltz Board of Ethics. I’m also endorsed by the Humanist Society as a Humanist Chaplain and am slowly working on a project I call Sacred Naturalism.

I’m a founding member/council member of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society as well as the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture. I still serve on the Executive Board of SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies program, as well as on the Editorial Boards of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium.

I have a passion for the rights of nature and served on the Environmental Conservation Commission in the Village of New Paltz for 4 years where I helped to pass policies to restrict toxic pesticides on municipal lawns. I also founded the groups Mothers & Others United to Shut Down Indian Point as well as Beyond Pesticides in Ulster County.

I’m the founder and former editor of Entelechy: Mind & Culture and my novel Trine Erotic (evolutionary fiction with behavioral science themes) was recently republished (Omphalos Press). I write essays every so often, as well. This one, “A User’s Guide for Evolutionary Well-being,” is relevant to Integrative Adaptive Therapy.

Singing is another passion; I’m the founder of The Hudson Valley Vocal Improv Collective and was the improvisational singer in Clear Light Ensemble for a time. I’ve done backup vocals on various albums, including Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Consciousness. These days I sing with Biophony Project.