Kerry is the mental health counselor/expressive art therapist at the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where she also directs patient programming and outreach. When tick borne illness knocked her out of a career as an elementary school teacher in 2010, Kerry knew she had to change her lifestyle, and her career path. While undergoing rigorous treatment for her illness, she worked towards her Master's degree in counseling/expressive art therapy at Lesley University. Serendipitously enough, the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness opened its doors in 2015 just as Kerry was graduating, and she has been running support groups, wellness workshops, and providing individual counseling and art therapy there ever since. Kerry believes that the creative arts can facilitate healing by giving meaning to challenging experiences, and by also connecting the mind, body, and spirit. She is a member of Spaulding's Integrative Medicine Task Force, and recently started a complimentary outpatient Reiki program for patients at the Dean Center. Kerry believes that the arts can play a pivotal role raising awareness for invisible diseases like Lyme, and that art can be used as form of activism in the fight for affordable medical care. She is super passionate about the concept of post-traumatic growth, and the role that creativity and community can play in one's ability to heal.

In 2016, Kerry won a Lyme Innovation Hackathon which led to the creation of The Lyme Tree, an organization that focuses on the mental health impact of tick borne illness. She continues to educate mental health providers on the complexities of tick borne illness while providing support and resources to patients nationwide.

Aside from her work as a counselor and Lyme activist, Kerry enjoys yoga, gardening, and relaxing with her cat and her new puppy, Luna!