Experience

Austen Riggs Center

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Jan 2013 - Present

  As Director of Clinical Social Work at the Austen Riggs Center, a private, non-profit psychiatric center providing intensive psychodynamic treatment for treatment resistant patients in an open setting therapeutic community, I am responsible for coordinating and administratively managing the provision of clinical social work services throughout ARC’s integrated system of care. I provide direct administrative and clinical supervision for the Center’s clinical social workers who are members of psychodynamic interdisciplinary treatment teams. ARC social workers conduct patient and family assessments; provide family support, education, consultation and family therapy; as well as dynamic casework services for patients, including discharge planning. In addition, I provide direct clinical care to patients and their families. I also provide education and case specific consultations to other clinicians on the medical staff. Specialties: Individual, family and couples therapy, clinical supervision and consultation, mental health project management, and MSW field education.Co-presenter, “The Disturbing Patient in the Disturbed System.” Annual presentation at the Austen Riggs Center Virtual Psychiatry Residents Conference. Austen Riggs Center. Stockbridge, MA. Presenter, “System enactment: How do we understand this co-constructed phenomenon and the impact on clinicians, treatment processes and organizational climate?” Grand Rounds presentation at the Austen Riggs Center. Stockbridge, MA, August 2019. Co-presenter, “Under Attack: Self Directed Violence and the Embodied Feminine.” Panel presentation at the International Association of Psychoanalysis Conference on The Feminine, London, UK, July 2019. Show less

• • Jan 2013 - Present

• • Jun 2004 - Jan 2013

  Family therapyClinical supervision



Brien Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Individual psychotherapist

  • Apr 2002 - Jun 2004

  Individual, couples, and family therapy Group therapy Individual, couples, and family therapy Group therapy



Berkshire County Jail and House of Correction

• Mental Health Clinician

  • Feb 2001 - Apr 2002

  Short and long-term individual therapy Group treatment Curricula development and implementation Short and long-term individual therapy Group treatment Curricula development and implementation