(Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a Haitian American Youth and Trauma Specialist who earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Capella University in 2010. Tamarra has worked as an In-Home Therapist with children and their families throughout the southeast region in Massachusetts since 2011. In therapeutic practice, Tamarra uses a strength based and client centered approach integrating her background in family systems and trauma informed practices. Tamarra provides therapeutic services to couples and families in French and Haitian Creole. She is the owner and Interim Clinic Director at the TJocelyne Counseling and Consulting Clinic in Brockton. In her role at TJJocelyne, Tamarra teaches staff and interns family systems therapies. Prior to joining the faculty of the Intensive Program, Tamarra completed the course in the 2020.2021 academic year. In addition to being a Mom, she is a Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional, Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist, ADHD-Certified Clinical Service Provider.

Faculty Emerita(She/Her) is a clinical psychologist, family and couple therapist, supervisor, teacher/trainer and consultant. She was a board member of the American Family Therapy Academy 2001-2009, Program Chair for the 2010 AFTA Meeting, and served as Secretary from 2011-2013. She was on the faculty of the Family Institute of Cambridge for 25 years during which time she taught the Intensive Program for ten years as well as other courses and workshops. She taught for Therapy Training Boston including the Masters Series in Couple Therapy until 2024. Corky will contribute to the Intensive Program at the annual retreat.  Corky taught family work in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance. She was a Senior Associate of Essential Partners (formerly known as the Public Conversations Project).

(She/Her) is in private practice at The Meeting Point in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She has been working with transgender & non-binary youth, young adults and their families for the past 10 years in a variety of clinical and community settings. Melissa co-directs a socially conscious business called SAYFTEE: Supporting Alternative Youth and Families through Empowerment and Education. SAYFTEE is committed to offering workshops, groups and services to meet the needs of gender expansive and LGBTQI youth and families in Massachusetts. Melissa was a student in the Intensive Program two times before becoming a faculty member in 2018. She has taught family therapy approaches for clincians working with families challenged with their children’s gender identities for the Maebright Group, Therapy Training Boston and SAYFTEE. Melissa is a consultant for Greater Boston PFLAG. Nine years ago she helped start a support group for parents of transgender children. She serves on the Board of Directors and as Assistant Director for Camp Aranu’tiq of Harbor Camps. ​

Faculty Emerita(She/Her) is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. She practiced and taught at the Family Institute of Cambridge for over 40 years as a Director and a Senior Faculty Member. She co-directed the Intensive Family Therapy Program at the Institute with Charles Verge and developed the long running course, New Method’s in Women’s Group Process. Caroline was a faculty member at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology where she originated and taught the Advanced Family Therapy Course. Caroline graduated from the second year of the Intensive Program in 1976 and was invited to teach in the third year of the course. She brings an important historical perspective to the current training, is an important resource with regard to group process, teaching pedagogy as well as supporting younger faculty to be grounded in foundational family therapy ideas and practices. Caroline will continue to contribute to the Intensive Program retreat.

(She/Her) is a clinical social worker and family therapist with 34 years of experience. In addition to post graduate family therapy training, Laura has Level 2 LifeForce Yoga and Level 3 Internal Family Systems Therapy training. Following graduation from The Family Institute of Cambridge’s Intensive Program in Family Systems Therapy in 1991, Laura worked with children and their families at South Shore Mental Health for many years. From 2004 to 2007, Laura co-faciliatated a course for DCF workers hosted by the Family Institute of Cambridge called Partnering with Families in Social Services. She taught Psychology at Curry College, including a course on working with families, and the New England Institute of Technology. Laura joined the faculty of the Intensive Program in 2018. Currently a Behavioral Health Clinical Lead at Reliant Medical Group, she provides integrated care and supervision in a primary care setting. She works with a wide range of issues with individuals, couples, and families. Her specialty is assisting children and adults recovering from trauma. Laura has a private practice. Her training as a Kripalu yoga teacher informs her integration of mindfulness practices in psychotherapy settings. ​

(she/her) is a private practice clinician in Western MA. Kim works with children, young adults, and adult women who have experienced trauma, anxiety, depression, and postpartum depression in individual and family therapy. Kim has worked with children, adolescents, adult women, and families for the past 14 years in a variety of settings including outpatient, preschools, residential programs for youth in DCF care & with adult women with substance use disorders. She has experience as an administrator overseeing residential programs for youth in DCF care. Kim is an adjunct professor at Smith College School for Social Work and Westfield State University in the MSW programs. She has taught graduate courses including family therapy and field work. Kim has supervised Social Work interns for 8 years. In addition, Kim was a student in the Therapy Training Boston’s Intensive Certificate Program in Family Systems Therapies in 2019-2020.