History
I earned my master’s degree in Social Work from Boston College and my bachelor’s degree in music and psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before entering private practice, I worked with veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs in acute inpatient psychiatry. I also worked as a clinical supervisor in community mental health and private practice outpatient clinics.
While I enjoyed the academic study in my master’s program, my experience in childhood trauma healing came from my time as a client. At 19, I stumbled into therapy as a somewhat feral childhood trauma survivor and spent five years with a gifted and profoundly influential trauma therapist and fellow LICSW – Amanda Curtin.
Amanda developed the RRP group model of childhood trauma that I now practice, do research on, train, and talk about on my YouTube channel.
Currently, I spend most of my time making psychoeducational videos on childhood trauma and training clinical therapists in Amanda Curtin’s RRP group psychotherapy model.
