Alice McDowell, PhD is a counselor in private practice, retreat guide, and cofounder of Light on the Hill Retreat Center outside Ithaca, New York.  McDowell created the Hidden Treasure program—a three-year training in personal and spiritual growth.

A professor of Religious Studies at Ithaca College for 18 years, Dr. McDowell now facilitates groups devoted to inner work. Alice has trained with healers, humanist and transpersonal psychologists, Sufi and Buddhist teachers, and Christian contemplatives, and has guided people in their personal and spiritual journeys for over thirty years. She draws upon her diverse training and life experience to help others awaken to their true selves, their divinity within.