Tom Cushman

Following graduation from Yale Divinity school, Mary and Tom Cushman were employed as Episcopal priests in large urban parishes, chiefly engaged in pastoral care, education, and spiritual direction. Prior to theological school, Tom was a teacher of interpersonal communications, and later opened a counseling practice. Mary was co-owner of a vocational rehabilitation business, and co-founder and director of the first battered women's shelter in Maine. For the past 16 years, the Cushmans have worked as private practice counselors in Portland, Maine.