Molly (Mary) Corcoran, LCSW, has an eleven-year career in education, grant coordination, and mental health which has helped her recognize the value of intentional organizational culture, where authentic learning and sharing allow people to understand themselves and the world around them. She strives to always expand her own capacity and organizational capacity to ensure all people can access resources, learn, and grow. 

She is a passionate manager, counselor, and learner looking to collaborate and develop best practices. Molly has a BA in Classical Literature from Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an MSW degree from Boston College, and was a New York City Teaching Fellow and attended Pace University for a Masters in Teaching.

Rachel DiBella, PsyD, MSW, LICSW, is a social worker, organizational psychologist, and facilitator whose work focuses on the influence of attachment and gender on leadership development. Drawing from organizational development, social work, and adaptive leadership theories, Rachel has worked with leaders from around the world to promote psychologically safe organizations where members feel they can speak up and make sure their contributions are valued.

Most recently, as a doctoral fellow at William James College, Rachel researched how attachment theory can be utilized to foster more secure and adaptive leaders in an increasingly complex world.

Rachel has previously served on the part-time faculty at Boston College’s School of Social Work, and has served in social work roles spanning community mental health, healthcare, and higher education.

Zane FitzGerald, MSW, LICSW, received an MSW from Fordham University with a concentration in Client Centered Management and a specialization in Social Work and the Law. Zane has worked in child welfare settings; child and adolescent residential treatment programs; community based child, youth, and family services; community based and residential services with adults with severe and persistent mental illness; and other settings. The past 15 years have been spent with Eliot Community Human Services, a large and diverse human services non-profit in Massachusetts.

The past eight years have included adjunct teaching in the Boston College School of Social Social Work, and facilitating workshops with BC Continuing Education. Zane has been trained in, and trained others in, evidence based treatments and has integrated components and interventions into a variety of settings.

Brian Gonsalves, MSW, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and has provided supervision to graduate students in counseling for the past 20 years. He is the former Director of Student Support Services at Boston Green Academy and Boston Day and Evening Academy Schools. He is a Field Advisor and Adjunct Professor who teaches the Diversity Class at Boston College School of Social Work. Brian has also provided group supervision for the past 15 years. He has built his career in supporting adolescent populations and in particular young people of color from the inner city. 

Brian is a graduate of Boston College School of Social Work and leads his interventions and supports to his students with a diversity lens and emphasis.

Victoria Grinman, PhD, LICSW-R, is a psychotherapist, consultant, speaker, and transformation agent. She is also a mentor to rising therapists in curating successful practices and businesses that are value-driven, sustainable, and aligned with purpose. She founded Growing Kind Minds, LLC, a private consulting and therapy practice and global community platform that helps people achieve transformation and growth through their lived experiences and trauma.

Victoria’s academic research and work center on posttraumatic growth, parenthood, relational success, and supporting people of determination. Her public workshops and specially curated custom training for organizations and groups of people aim to empower, inform, and provide a visceral experience of transformation that can be transmitted to others and be an article for greater positive change in the world.

LaMone Downey Leonard, LICSW, MSW, is a clinician, supervisor, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in mental health. She is the founder and owner of Rising Hope Counseling and Wellness, a private practice dedicated to providing culturally affirming, holistic mental health care for BIPOC adults. Her expertise includes anxiety, depression, life transitions, and reproductive trauma, including infertility and pregnancy loss. As a Clinical Supervisor, LaMone mentors emerging therapists, fostering culturally humble, client-centered care. 

She is also a consultant and trainer, working with organizations to enhance mental health programming, equity, and trauma-informed care. LaMone earned her BS in Sociology from Cornell University and her MSW from Boston College.

Teresa Protasio, LICSW, has dedicated the past ten years to supporting Boston’s diverse immigrant community by providing social work services in both Portuguese and Spanish. To enhance access to mental health care, she established a group mental health practice located in the heart of the city, near TD Garden. This practice was created with the core value of delivering high-quality, accessible mental health care to the local community.

Diego Suarez Rojas, MA, MSW, is a bioethicist and clinical social worker specializing in trauma, imagination, stress, and community development. He is the founder and director of Laboratorio en Movimiento, an organization that promotes science, art, and participatory research in the South of Mexico. Since 2018, alongside his team, he has developed mixed-methods interventions with the police force, qualitative research in schools, free educational workshops, and several campaigns to disseminate science. 

Currently, he directs a scholarship program to provide citizens with training in philosophy, creative writing, and neuroscience to have a community impact in Chiapas. As a researcher, he has collaborated at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab (The University of Chicago), Cell to Society Lab (Boston College), and Harvard School of Public Health (current).

Sara Rodrigues, DSW, LICSW, is a clinician with 25 years of experience, educator, and advocate for neurodiversity. She is committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, equity, and access through innovative programs and workshops that empower neurodivergent families. Sara’s work includes curriculum development, training, and policy reform, collaborating with schools and organizations to create supportive environments for neurodivergent individuals. She develops resources for parents, educators, and social workers to promote neurodiversity-affirming practices. 

Sara teaches in social work programs, manages a group practice, directs a nonprofit, the Balanced Learning Center, and is authoring a book on neurodiversity-affirming care. Currently completing post-doctoral fellowships in leadership and neurodivergence, Sara continues to advance the understanding and acceptance of neurodiversity in clinical, educational, and community settings.

As an entrepreneur and licensed clinical social worker, Katie Silversmith, MSW, LCSW, is on a mission to help fellow therapists build the private practice of their dreams. She practiced for 10+ years in clinical settings and facilitated the growth of a large group practice before launching, scaling, and selling a thriving coworking space brand. Through Build My Therapy Biz, she has helped countless therapists start, grow, and realign their private practices. She serves as practice owners' go-to thinking partner, advisor, and project implementer for filling in the gaps and building the therapy business they have always envisioned. 

Katie also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, where she advises social impact startups as they launch and scale.

Rachel Spekman, LICSW, is a Staff Therapist at the Brandeis Counseling Center (BCC) team. She completed her second-year internship and post-graduate school fellowship at the BCC. She has also trained with Atrius Health in a Women’s Health Fellowship and with clients with advanced neurological disorders at The Boston Home. Rachel’s clinical interests include healthy relationships with self and others, life transitions and identity, intergenerational patterns, cultural integration, and spiritual identity work. She utilizes an integrative therapeutic approach in her work. 

Additionally, she is a career coach and works with individuals exploring changing careers. Prior to her current role, she held various roles in startup, non-profit, and for-profit organizations and was a classroom teacher for the first eight years of her career.

Craig Strickland, PhD, graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Doctorate in Psychology and a focus on neuroscience. Past positions include: a faculty position at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty positions at Widener University and Springfield College. He currently has guest lecturer privileges at the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, the Rutgers School of Social Work, and an affiliate professor position at Thomas Jefferson University in the Community and Trauma Counseling program. Dr. Strickland is the owner of Biobehavioral Education and Consultation, LLC.

Susan Lee Tohn, MSW, LICSW, is the Co-Director of Solutions in Behavioral Healthcare, LLC. Ms. Tohn has worked with couples, adolescents, and families using the Solution-Focused model. She has provided training for and consulted with management teams, mental health organizations, hospitals, state child welfare organizations, and managed care organizations, and has presented to professional audiences both nationally and internationally. 

She is co-author of Crossing the Bridge: Integrating Solution-Focused Therapy into Clinical Practice and "Solution-Focused Therapy with Mandated Clients: Cooperating with the Uncooperative," in S. Miller, M. Hubble, & B. Duncan (Eds.): Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.