Trauma Related Content

Vanessa M. Cuthbert, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in McLean’s Adult Outpatient Services. She currently works as an outpatient therapist in the LEADER (Law Enforcement, Active Duty, and Emergency Responder) program, where she provides individual and group therapy. Previously, she worked as...

Cathy McCool, LICSW, earned her Masters of Social Work from Boston College and has over thirty years of experience in an array of clinical settings throughout the hospital, including inpatient psychiatry and residential and partial hospital treatment. She has wide-ranging clinical expertise in...

Rebecca Sanford, MSN, APRN, PCNS, began her career in psychiatric nursing at McLean’s Hall Mercer Children’s Center in 1986. After working in a variety of acute care, community-based, and outpatient settings, she returned to McLean in 2005 after completing her master’s degree. Since that time Ms...

Loretta Givens, MS, MSN, PCNS, BC is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist in McLean’s LEADER Outpatient Clinic and at Pentucket Medical Associates. She is currently providing medication management to adults with psychiatric illness in a primary care setting as well as working with first...

Julieta Holman, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program. Previously, Dr. Holman was a part-time psychiatrist in McLean’s Adult Outpatient Services and the Gunderson Residence and was a part-time psychiatrist in private practice. She...

Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, is a neuroscientist whose research is focused on understanding the brain basis for why some people are more likely to develop stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after trauma. His current work in the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, led...

Ashley Beaulieu, DO, is a psychiatrist in charge at McLean Hospital’s Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program. Her areas of interest include women’s mental health, trauma, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, and mood disorders.

Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, is a community psychiatrist who works at the intersection of trauma, addiction, and mental health. Her core mission in life is to do good, serve others, and reduce human suffering. At McLean, Dr. Moreland-Capuia is the director of Trauma-Informed Treatment, Consultation...

Erika Skorupski, LICSW, is a clinical team manager at the Hill Center for Women, where she provides trauma-informed dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment. She is a member of the trauma consultation and DBT consultation teams and provides supervision to social work students during their...

Meghan H. Bowsher, LICSW, worked as a clinical team manager at the Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment (ART) Program at McLean Hospital since 2016. She is now clinical team manager for the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program. Ms. Bowsher provides individual, family, and group therapy to...

James Quackenbush, MBA, RN, is the nursing director of McLean’s Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program. Mr. Quackenbush began his career in finance, changing careers in 2015 to become a psychiatric registered nurse. He is currently enrolled in a psychiatric mental health nurse...

Caitlin M. Nevins, PhD, is the director of psychological services for McLean’s College Mental Health Program. In this role, she is involved in the clinical, research, outreach, and training initiatives of the program, with an emphasis on supporting students as they balance their mental health and...

Catherine Lopes, LICSW, has been interested in working with children and adolescents since the beginning of her training. Her clinical interests include trauma, mood disorders, self-injurious behaviors, anger management, and individual and family therapy. Ms. Lopes works at the McLean SouthEast...

David Shalit, LICSW, has been a clinical therapist/case manager at McLean SouthEast’s Adolescent Acute Residential Treatment Program since 2015. Mr. Shalit earned his MSW in 2008 and has been credentialed as an LICSW since 2011. He has dedicated his professional career to the human services field...

Burook Misganaw, PhD, focuses his research on applying computational methods to biomedical problems with a focus on psychiatric disorders. Particularly, his research interest lies at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology as well as signal processing. His current area of work...

Patricia Mangones, PMHNP-BC, is a nurse practitioner at the Hill Center for Women, a residential and partial hospital program, where she works on a multidisciplinary team. In this capacity, she provides trauma-informed medication management in individual treatment and facilitates dialectical...

Rebecca Schulman, LICSW, began her career working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families. She developed an interest in providing individual and group therapy, family support, and advocating for the improvement of and access to social services. After training at the...

Aleshia Ellingson, LICSW, graduated from the Simmons School of Social Work in 2014 with her Master of Social Work. She started as a clinical social worker at McLean SouthEast in 2016. Ms. Ellingson obtained her LICSW in 2016.

Andrea L. O’Rourke, LICSW, began her career working with veterans and their families as a medical and psychiatric social worker at the Veterans Administration. In that intensive setting, she developed expertise in the areas of mood and psychotic disorders, substance use disorders, trauma, and family...

Kathryn Kieran, PMHNP-BC, believes in holistic health care that treats the whole person. Certified in cognitive processing therapy and trained in motivational interviewing, Ms. Kieran is comfortable working with a wide range of mental health needs. Ms. Kieran’s research interests include trauma...