Clinical Experience

Counseling and Facilitating

• Conduct individual and group psychotherapy in private group practice focusing on substance abuse, addictive behaviors, and recovery; clinic and private practice includes adults and adolescents with depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, adjustment disorders, career and life transitions
• Conducted individual and group psychotherapy at addictions treatment program, ran weekly team meetings, served as manager on duty
  
• Co-led short-term therapy groups for adult women survivors of child sexual abuse
  
• Conducted individual, group, and family psychotherapy with children, adolescents, adults at outpatient hospital clinic and inpatient psychosomatic unit
  

Supervising and Advising

• Supervised master’s-level clinicians at addictions treatment program
  
• Supervised graduate students from Simmons College School of Social Work and Boston University School of Social Work
  
• Advised 46 students and served as faculty liaison for training sites as program coordinator for satellite program at Boston College School of Social Work
  
• As private practitioner, supervise and consult with licensed psychotherapists: expertise in women’s issues, trauma, child sexual abuse, family systems
  

Teaching and Community Service

• Facilitate workshops for elementary school children as volunteer prevention specialist with Newton-Needham Child Assault Prevention Program (current)
  
• Lectured on adolescent diary writing in mental health and educational settings; presented original research at 1985 international psychiatric conference (Paris, France)
  
• Conducted workshops and in-service training sessions on group work with sexual abuse survivors at Boston-area mental health settings, including Brookline Mental Health Center and Arbour Hospital
  
• Researched and published scholarly article entitled “The Diary as a Transitional Object in Female Adolescent Development,” Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 11, 1983
  

Employment

Psychotherapist, private practice, Arlington and Newton, Mass. (1985–present)   

Staff Psychotherapist, Sameem Associates, Inc., Newton, Mass. (2004–present)

Prevention Specialist, Newton-Needham Child Assault Prevention Program (2004–present)

Clinical Supervisor, North Charles Institute for the Addictions, Somerville, Mass. (2006–07)

Assistant Teacher, Lexington Montessori School, Lexington, Mass. (1988–90)

Administrative Director, Family Institute of Cambridge, Watertown, Mass. (1987–88)

Faculty Advisor & Program Coordinator, Boston College School of Social Work, Chestnut Hill, Mass. (1985–86)

Staff Psychotherapist & Supervisor, New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, Mass. (1983–85)

Research Assistant, Family Development Study, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass. (1982–83)

Social Work Intern, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass. (1981–82)

Social Work Intern, Child Service and Family Counseling Center, Atlanta, Ga., (1980–81)

Education

MSW   Smith College School for Social Work, 1982
BGS    University of Michigan (Bachelor in General Studies, with distinction), 1976

Licensed independent clinical social worker, Massachusetts