She teaches courses in Integrative Health and Psychology at Boston College and is Director of a ProBono Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Program using integrative therapies to marginalized and homeless people as adjuncts to traditional substance abuse treatment. She has been an invited presenter on Integrated Approaches to Substance Abuse Treatment to the annual Harvard Addictions Conference in 2012,2014 and 2017. She has presented nationally through Hazelden and is a regular presenter for the Dept of Public Health in MA. Dr Butehorn has her PhD in psychology from Boston University and has had a private practice in Boston since 1985.