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Gabriel Corens, LICSW, is a clinical social worker who specializes in the treatment of complex and developmental trauma and in supporting system-level adoption of trauma-informed care.

Corens earned his master’s in social work from the Smith College School for Social Work and completed a postgraduate training fellowship at the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA. He has clinical experience in outpatient and community-based mental health and has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in English and Spanish. He has also worked in the fields of contemplative and experiential education in the United States and internationally.

Corens has particular expertise in early childhood interventions and in supporting caregivers, drawing on attachment and relational therapies as well as approaches targeting physiological self-regulation, including ARC, SMART, EMDR, PCIT, neurofeedback, and biofeedback. He is a PCIT trainer and maintains a private clinical practice.

Previously, he worked on multiple National Child Traumatic Stress Network and other federally funded initiatives, including serving as associate director of Building Resilience through Residential Communities and as a project clinician on MAJECT. He also advises graduate social work students in their field placements.