POST TRAUMATIC STRESS CENTER
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Leadership
David R. Johnson, PhD
Co-Director
Hadar Lubin, MD
Co-Director
Linda Berger, PsyD
Clinical Director
David Read Johnson, Ph.D. (Yale University, 1980) is a licensed clinical psychologist in Connecticut and is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He has written extensively on the treatment of PTSD.
Hadar Lubin, MD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1988) is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a licensed physician in CT. She is an Asst. Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. She developed the Women’s Trauma Program and has written extensively on treatment of PTSD.
Linda Berger, Psy.D (University of Hartford, 2004) is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Connecticut, and Clinical Director of the Center. She specializes in the treatment of adults with PTSD and incorporates EMDR in her treatment of trauma
Clinicians
Christine Castles RN, MHP
Professional interests include community mental health including violence prevention, children's mental health and mental health policy.
Cat Davis, MA, RDT-BCT
Professional interests include acute stress, PTSD, children and adolescents, families, LGBTQIA+, childhood trauma, intimate partner violence, and collective trauma.
Stephanie Kilpatrick, PsyD
Professional Interests include EMDR, trauma centered psychotherapy,
psychedelic & psychodynamic existential approaches for PTSD, depression & anxiety and mood disorders
Chelsea Morales, PsyD
Professional interests include working with minorities and underserved populations. Enjoys working with adolescents and adults of all ages.
Alicia Stephen, MA
Professional interests
include anti-oppression work, creative arts therapy, queer centered
psychotherapy and working with people who have experienced sexual assaults, childhood abuse or gun violence.
Nicole Ventura, MA
Professional interests include trauma-centered psychotherapy and drama therapy with children, adolescents and adults who have experienced sexual, physical or emotional trauma.
Kat Lee, MA, CCLS, RDT
Professional interests include grief and bereavement, illness/medical trauma. LGBTQQIA++, and early childhood and attachment.
AnnaRose Squillante, MA
Professional interests include working with children and teens and passionate about trauma centered creative therapies including art, writing, music, photography, drama and movement.
Erinn Webb, MA, RDT
Professional interests include children or adults who have experienced sexual, physical or emotional harm, loss, infertility and LGBTQQIA2++ individuals.
Business Office
Joyce Vollero
Business Manager
Debbie Samuels
Administrative Assistant