Before clinical work, I was in academia studying the mind. Through conversations with students, I began to wonder about how traumatogenic environments — the format in which material was presented, as well as who was (and was not) included in the curriculum and represented — affect the process of teaching and learning. I became invested in destigmatizing conversations about the impact of academic environments on mental health and psychological well-being.
In 2012, I entered the mental health field. After graduating from Smith College, I went on to receive training in Structural Family Therapy through a collaboration with the Minuchin Center for the Family. I completed additional post-graduate training at Harvard Medical School’s behavioral health fellowship at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Atrius Health, in Boston, where I focused on integrative psychotherapy approaches in an ambulatory healthcare setting with children, adolescents and adults, as well as through a fellowship at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, where I trained in psychodynamic therapy with adults. I completed additional post-graduate education in psychodynamic psychotherapy through a fellowship with the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. I then spent some time working in university mental health counseling before starting a private practice. Currently, I am in advanced candidacy in adult psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Although I currently only see adults, my previous experience working with children, families and adolescents across a variety of social locations informs a developmental lens that I bring to individual work.
Inna Goldberg, LICSW 