Before clinical work, I was in academia studying the mind and found that I enjoyed conversations with students the most. Through these conversations and my own teaching experiences, I began to wonder about the impact of traumatogenic environments– the format in which material was presented, as well as who was (and was not) included in the curriculum and represented–on students’ capacities to learn. I became invested in destigmatizing conversations about the impact of academic environments on mental health and psychological well-being.
Over a decade ago, I switched professions and 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. 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 background working with children, families and adolescents informs a developmental lens that I bring to individual work.
Inna Goldberg, LICSW 