The Team Helping Shape Hive
Behind Hive is a team passionate about creating a practice that feels supportive, collaborative, authentic, and refreshingly human, for both the people seeking care and the people providing it.
HIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
FOUNDER + CLINICAL DIRECTOR
Amanda McClellan, LMSW
What started as a passion for supporting moms through anxiety, postpartum struggles, ADHD, and the emotional chaos of parenting eventually grew into something much bigger: a vision for creating spaces where people feel seen, supported, and safe enough to exhale a little.
That vision became not only Hive Wellness Collective, but also Hive Wellness Foundation, a nonprofit initiative focused on increasing access to mental health support and strengthening community connection, as well as The Dopamine Shop, Hive’s lifestyle and apparel brand focused on normalizing mental health conversations in ways that feel approachable and relatable.
As Founder + Clinical Director, Amanda helps shape the culture, growth, and clinical direction of Hive. She’s passionate about creating systems that support meaningful, high-quality client care while also helping providers feel connected, supported and valued in a field that too often prioritizes and normalizes burnout and emotional exhaustion.
Her leadership style is rooted in authenticity, collaboration, connection, and the radical belief that kindness, support, and humanity are not incompatible with strong leadership; they are the foundation of it.
When she’s not working, you can usually find Amanda at a baseball field, redecorating something in her house for the fifth time this month, or hyperfixating on a new creative idea she absolutely doesn’t have time for but is definitely going to start anyway.
DIRECTOR of clinical development
Kelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor, neurodivergent mom of three, every mom’s favorite hype woman, and Hive’s Director of Clinical Development.
She specializes in working with moms, especially overwhelmed, overstimulated, anxious, burned-out, and neurodivergent moms who are trying really hard to hold everything together while quietly feeling overwhelmed underneath it all.
Basically, Kelly in a nutshell.
Alongside supporting her own clients, Kelly also works closely with Hive’s clinicians, supervisors, leadership, and admin team to help strengthen connection, collaboration, mentorship, and overall clinical growth across the practice.
One thing Kelly cares deeply about is helping Hive continue to feel human as the practice grows. She never wants it to feel like a place where clinicians are just independently seeing clients behind closed doors without support, connection, or community.
She wants clinicians to feel comfortable asking questions, collaborating openly, learning from one another, and not carrying the emotional weight of this work alone.
At the core of everything Kelly believes, both personally and professionally, is this:
Show up as a human.
Not perfectly polished.
Not pretending you have it all together.
Just authentically yourself.
Because Kelly genuinely believes people do their best work (and their best healing) when they feel supported, connected, valued, and safe enough to be real.
Outside of work, Kelly is usually juggling kids’ activities, listening to an audiobook, reorganizing something unnecessary, hyper-fixating on a new creative idea, or trying to balance her love of spontaneous adventures with her equally strong love of staying home in comfy clothes recovering from overstimulating herself.
Kelly Swett, LPC
CLINICAL lead
Erica Keith, LMSW
clinical supervisors + mentorship
Supporting the Next Generation of Clinicians
At Hive, we know becoming a therapist is equal parts meaningful, vulnerable, rewarding, overwhelming, and “wait… where is my adult?!”
Our clinical supervisors support limited license clinicians and interns through mentorship, collaboration, consultation, and honest human support as they continue developing their clinical skills and confidence.
We’re passionate about creating a supervision experience that feels thoughtful, connected, neurodiversity-affirming, and genuinely supportive, because we wholeheartedly believe that great care starts with clinicians who feel supported too.
Danielle Davey, LMSW, IMH-E
Christine Buckley, LMFT
Kelly Swett, LPC
Erica Keith, LMSW
mental health care made human.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Hive was never meant to be just a therapy practice.
Because mental health doesn’t only exist in therapy sessions.
It exists in the mom sitting in the Target parking lot trying to regulate her nervous system before going inside after her toddler screamed the whole way there because the granola bar broke in half “wrong.” In the couple silently passing stress back and forth like a game of emotional hot potato. In the teenager trying to hold it together at school all day before completely unraveling at home. In the parent googling “am I ruining my child?” at 1am. In the person functioning so well on the outside that nobody realizes how exhausted they actually are.
Real life is heavy sometimes.
And we believe people deserve support that actually feels connected to real life; not sterile, performative, or buried under a pile of clinical buzzwords and toxic positivity.
That’s why Hive has grown into something bigger than therapy alone.
Through community education, mentorship, the Hive Wellness Foundation, and projects like The Dopamine Shop, we’re passionate about making mental health conversations feel more honest, more accessible, more relatable, and more connected to actual human experience.
Sometimes that looks like therapy.
Sometimes it looks like advocacy.
Sometimes it looks like helping someone finally understand their brain with compassion instead of shame.
And sometimes it looks like a sweatshirt, a community event, a conversation, or a moment that quietly reminds someone:
“oh… maybe I’m not the only one struggling like this.”
At the end of the day, that’s what Hive is really about: helping people feel more connected, more understood, and less alone in being human.
A Radical Idea: Supported Providers = Better Care
We know. Groundbreaking.
But seriously: when providers feel connected, supported, trusted, mentored, and able to grow sustainably, clients feel the difference too.
That philosophy shapes a lot of how we approach culture, leadership, supervision, and support at Hive.
That means prioritizing:
collaboration over competition
mentorship over perfectionism
accessible leadership support
thoughtful systems that make sense in real life
ongoing learning and clinical growth
flexibility, authenticity, and sustainability
creating a culture where people feel safe asking questions or needing support
We know this work is deeply meaningful. We also know meaningful work should not require providers to quietly drown in emotional exhaustion while pretending they’re “fine” because they drank water, lit a candle, and bought another emotional support iced coffee.
At Hive, we believe people heal best when they feel safe enough to show up honestly: messy thoughts, overwhelmed nervous systems, unfinished processing, all of it.
And behind the scenes? We believe the people providing the care deserve that same kind of support too.
Because meaningful change doesn’t happen when providers are isolated, burned out and emotionally depleted.
It happens when people feel connected, supported, valued, and human — on both sides of the couch.
The Mental Health Field Is Hard Enough. Your Workplace Shouldn’t Make It Harder.
We’re building a culture rooted in mentorship, collaboration, authenticity, and sustainable care, not burnout disguised as dedication.
If you’re looking for a practice where you can grow, feel supported, and still remain a functioning human outside of work, there’s a good chance you’d fit in pretty well here.