Our Team

it all started when…

Ally & Kelley met during the early years of their clinical careers, and quickly bonded over their love of working with families and children (and also avocado toast). Through our hours of conversation and co-regulation as we served families together, we discovered a huge gap in the “business as usual” care for mothers in our culture. Themes of depletion, exhaustion, and loneliness emerged, and we began to reimagine the ways that we care for mothers in particular. From here, Upstream was born. Our desire at Upstream is to guide women into a paradigm shift about mothering and to grow and support benevolent circles of women caring for another throughout this country.

ally berttucci

Ally Berttucci, MA, LPC/LCPC has a passion for working with families and helping children and parents thrive in their relationships with one another. Specifically, Ally has significant experience counseling biological, foster and adoptive families with issues including: attachment, trauma, anxiety, depression, illness, early hospitalizations, sensory processing disorders, and parenting difficulties. Ally is particularly drawn to the field of attachment science, helping parents identify the specific needs of their family in order to move toward change and healing. She holds a MA in Counseling from Covenant Seminary and practices as a licensed therapist. She is a mother of two sweet and active boys and resides in Richmond, VA with her husband, Mike.

Kelley munger

Kelley Munger, PhD, LPC has more than a decade of experience working in the context of families, particularly with struggles related to adult attachment and trauma, parenting, adoption and foster, prenatal and postpartum issues, childhood disabilities, and early childhood mental health. Her experience as a mother, doula, and therapist have given her a deep desire to connect with parents and walk with them as they experience healing and growth in their families. She holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from Covenant Seminary and a PhD in Early Intervention from the University of Oregon with an emphasis in attachment, families, and early childhood mental health.