John Lally, APRN

John Lally is a retired Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Ellington, CT. with 39 years experience treating those with mental illness and addictions.He has a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Connecticut and a Masters degree in Nursing from Saint Joseph University. He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a certified grief counselor. He is Executive Director of Today I Matter, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the shame and stigma of mental illness and addiction through education, advocacy, and support. He lost his oldest Son, Timothy, to a heroin overdose in January 2016. In service of this mission he has been a featured public speaker at addiction education and awareness events around Connecticut, and appeared multiple times on television news programs. He�s been published in The Hartford Courant, on the web at The Good Men�s Project and writes a blog entitled Addiction: Reports from the Front Lines .Mr. Lally has presented to Hartford Hospital Purple Light program on the influence of family on addiction, and hasp resented in Grand Rounds at Hartford Hospital on Stigma in healthcare.