Author

Jean Clarke-Mitchell, MSW, LICSW

Jean is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a practicing psychotherapist, living in the Berkshires. She has performed in various roles during her 20-year career as a professional helper including work as a domestic violence/sexual assault counselor, addictions therapist, clinical supervisor, case manager, as well as an outpatient clinician. Her work at the Elizabeth Freeman Center, in Pittsfield, a domestic violence and sexual assault services agency, centers on trauma work for survivors and providing clinical supervision to staff. The agency provides services to individuals and families experiencing domestic violence and sexual assault issues on a 24/7 hour basis each day of the year.

Jean is also employed at the Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services where she performs individual, couples, and family psychotherapy in the outpatient and addictions services departments. She also provides clinical supervision to staff and interns. Jean is a DBT Intensive Trained therapist and utilizes CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, anger management and DBT groups when working with clients.
She is an adjunct faculty in the Counseling Psychology Department at Cambridge College in Springfield, MA since 2009.

Jean is a graduate of STCC, UMASS-Lowell, BCC, MCLA, and Smith College where she earned a Masters in Social Work.

She is currently a third-year PhD student in the Smith College for Social Work PhD Program.

Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC

Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC has many years of experience as an educator and clinician. Providing online continuing education to multiple healthcare professionals has been her mission for many years. Ms. Beaupre's teaching experience has been in staff development in multiple healthcare organizations, as well the education of nursing students at the associates, bachelors and graduate degree level. Ms. Beaupre provides workshops and didactic instruction in face to face educational programs to multiple professionals, as well as provides education consultation to select professional organizations.

Ms. Beaupre is a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner in private practice in the Capital Region of New York State. Her baccalaureate degree in Nursing is from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and her Masters degree is in Psychiatric/Community Mental Health Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her post-masters psychiatric nurse practitioner certificate was completed at the Sage Colleges in Troy, NY.

No conflicts of interest are reported by the author or by educational planning committee members.