Joseph Winn MSW, LICSW
226 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 3
Arlington, MA. 02474
Phone: (617) 461-8479
Office Phone: (978) 897-1140
Fax: (978) 897-4713
Website: www.josephwinnlicsw.com
Education:
Boston University School of Social Work. Boston, MA. M.S.W. May 1995.
University of Massachusetts. C.P.C.S Boston, MA. B.A. June 1993
License number: 1028690, Renewal Date October 1, 2008.
Interests:
Sex Therapy with couples and individuals:
Men “coming out” from heterosexual marriages:
Gay male identity formation:
Existential approaches to the treatment of sexual compulsivity:
Shame, affect regulation and co-morbid addictive processes:
The impact of mutual aid groups in recovery from sexual compulsivity, substance abuse and process addictions:
The development of self care skills in the recovery process:
Authenticity and use of self in therapeutic relationships:
Professional Experience
11/03 to Present: Private Practice Clinician: Arlington, MA.
Provide individual, couples and family therapy. Areas of practice specialization include GLBT issues, gender variant populations including MTF, FTM trans-gendered adolescents and adults in transition, adults struggling with PTSD, substance abuse and sexual compulsivity and addiction. Other responsibilities include maintaining contracts with third party payers, documentation of clinical services provided, conducting clinical assessments, treatment planning and implementation, monitoring client progress, crisis intervention and collaboration with other service providers. Provide periodic training in the area of family therapy and support as well as substance abuse issues to community based treatment programs.
2/00 to 11/03: Family Therapist: The Family Center, Inc. Somerville, MA.
Provided out patient services to families, couples and individuals. Co-facilitated multifamily groups for mothers and children exposed to domestic violence. Co-facilitated group for latency aged boys exposed to domestic violence. Participated in weekly live supervision services, as a supervisee, and supervisor. Co-developed domestic violence group therapy curriculum for multifamily groups. Coordinated The Family Center intake services. Co-developed, and co-directed The Family Center’s GLBT Services Team. Supervised clinical interns and staff. Provided substance abuse and process addiction consultation and training to clinical staff and Quality Improvement Team. After hours crisis coverage provided four weeks of the year.
02/00 to 05/01: Adjunct Lecturer: Simmons School of Social W Work.
Developed and taught course 425-01 Family Centered Clinical Social Work. Taught second year graduate students family systems therapy and intervention techniques. Specific topics include domestic violence, substance abuse and collateral relationship building. Course also addressed working with family structures of varying class, culture and sexual orientations. Developed and taught course 479-01 Community and Home Based Work with Families. Focused on working in home-based settings and developing collaborative approaches to engage collateral providers. Topics included domestic violence, substance abuse, chronic mental illness, and engaging family as resources.
12/98 to 2/00: Home Based Clinician: The Home For Little wanderers. Boston, MA.
Provided intensive home based services to Department of Social Services involved families. Provided stabilization services to families with children discharged from psychiatric facilities. Provided family reunification services to families with children in long term out of home placement. Provided emergency pager coverage.
4/97 to 12/98: Clinician: Brighton Allston Mental Health Association. Brighton, MA.
Provided clinical services to individuals, families and couples. Provided interdisciplinary case management, outreach and home based services to chronically mentally ill and difficult to engage populations. Supervised graduate social work interns and organized weekly training seminars.
5/95 to 4/97: Home Based Clinician: Boston Community Services. Roslindale, MA.
Provided "wraparound" services to DMH involved families struggling with substance abuse, domestic violence and early onset mental illness. Provided individual, family and couples therapy. Provided clinical services in home based and residential setting.
9/94 to 5/95: Intern. Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center. Jamaica Plain, MA.
Worked with a variety of Individuals and families struggling with issues of HIV / AIDS, substance abuse, domestic violence and other psychosocial stresses. Co-led women's group of the Parents And Children Together program for families dealing with substance abuse and early recovery.
9/93 to 5/94: Intern. DYS, Judge John J. Connelly Treatment Center. Roslindale, MA.
Worked with incarcerated male children dealing with issues of substance abuse, gang involvement and trauma histories. Made referrals for psychopharmacology evaluations when appropriate. Provided individual, family and group therapy on locked forensic unit.
Sex Therapy Seminar with the Institute for Intimacy and Sexuality: October 2007 April 2008:
Intensive Course of study taught by Suki Hanfling LICSW ASSECT Sex Therapy Diplomat, focusing on a variety of sex therapy and human sexuality topics taking sexual histories, stages of human sexual response, sexual dysfunction e.g., arousal, desire, sexual pain and orgasmic disorders, working with GLBT populations, sexual compulsivity and the diagnosis and treatment of intimacy related disorders.
Addiction Interaction: 06/2001: Online course of study, which focused on ways in which one addictive process underlies and supports another form of addition.
Sex Addiction Assessment I: 06/2001: Online course of study, which provided basic modes of assessing clients sexual behaviors and activities for assessing the presence of addictive processes.
Understanding Addictive Disorders: 06/2001: Online course of study, outlining the basic behavioral, psychological and emotional processes involved in addictive behaviors.
Courtship Disorders: 06/2001: Online course of study, which explored the processes involved with behaviors as exhibitionism, erotomania and other forms of intrusive sexual activity related to sexual compulsivity.
Eroticized Rage: 06/2001: Online course of study, which focused don issues related to the use of sexualized behaviors to address and cope with intense feelings of anger and rage.
Sex Addiction Assessment II: 06/2001: Online course of study, continuation of Sex Addiction Assessment I, in which further guidelines are offered for the assessment sexually compulsive behaviors are addressed.
Sexual Anorexia: 06/2001: Online course of study, in which the avoidance of sexual activity is explored as a form of compulsive abstinence, and barrier to emotional intimacy.
Trauma Bonds 06/2001: This online course of study, explored the interaction between PTSD, attachment styles within intimate relationships, and the maintenance of addictive and self-defeating behaviors.
Sex Offenders: Typology, Assessment & Treatment. January 2006. Course created and offered by Rita Budrionis, Psy.D. provided basic information about the etiology, typologies and modes of assessment and intervention utilized when working with sex offenders. Social policy issues such as “Megan’s Law”, community notification and post sentence “civil commitment” of sex offenders, were also addressed. Course also explored common co-morbid paraphilias associated with sex offenders.
Psychosexual Disorders: January 2006: Course of study focusing on understanding and diagnosing and treating sexuality disorders. Materials studied included sexual desire, arousal and pain disorders, male and female orgasmic disorders and sexual disorders due to medical conditions as well as those sexual disorders not otherwise specified in the DSM-IV. Other areas of study included the legal and psychological issues related to various paraphilias, as well as guidelines for interventions designed to alleviate psychosexual dysfunction.
A Brief Summary of Assessment and Treatment Issues for Compulsive Online Sexual Activity: December 2005: Self paced course of study, offered by the American Psychotherapy Association, focusing on current theorists e.g., Kafka’s "Paraphilia Related Disorder", Carnes sexual addiction model, and Cooper, Scherer, Boies, and Gordon’s "Triple A-Engine" model of compulsive internet sexuality, and their respective positions on assessment, treatment planning and intervention protocols.
Sexual Addiction Treatment and Intervention: May 2005: Course focused on Patrick Carnes stages and cycles of sexual addition, treatment strategies and working with couples and families to break intergenerational patterns of sexual addition.
Ethics for Addiction Professionals: May 2005: Course of study focusing on the ethical, thoughtful and practical delivery of chemical dependency treatment and intervention services.
Substance Abuse Treatment and Domestic Violence: May 2005: Course of study focusing on the interaction between substance abuse and dependency and domestic violence. Course focused on recovery strategies recognizing the interaction between personal responsibility and violence as well as evaluating for the lethality and dangerousness of the batterer. Other issues included safety planning, evaluating for mental illness and the cycle of violence and abuse.
Human Sexuality: October 2004: Intensive course of study focusing on human sexuality, reproduction, stages of arousal, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, gender and violence, gender variance and expression and a variety of other topic related to the social and psychological aspects of developmental human sexuality and expression.
The Role of Shame in Marital Conflict: May 2004: Course of study taught by Rhoda Greenspan LICSW focusing on the hidden role that shame, and other painful emotional processes, contributes to undermining communication and emotional connectedness in intimate relationships. Course offered techniques to identify, intervene, name and transform shame from a private pain into a couple’s issue that both partners can work towards changing and healing.
Assessing and Treating Sexual Behavior Problems in Children.
February 2004: Course taught by Linda T. Sanford LICSW focusing on identifying trauma reactive sexualized behaviors in children and adolescents. Course explored how to differentiate between sexualized play and predatory behavior. Course offered guidelines and interventions in the assessment and treatment of sexually based behavioral problems in children as well as the family systems in which they live.
From Victim to Survivor: Understanding and Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: March 2004: Course offered by The Boston University School of Social Work which focused on common alterations of the central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, neurotransmitter, hormonal balances and other endocronological activities in the bodies of those struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Topics of discussion included self soothing, using various techniques to assist clients in regaining control of their emotions, as well as other interventions designed to reduce the intensity of intrusive memories, flashbacks and hypervigilance.
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, CBT, of Substance Abuse: June 2003: Course of study focusing on the development of treatment interventions with substance abusers, utilizing direct behavioral and cognitive strategies for intervention. Course included the development of self-monitoring skills in substance abusers, integrating 12 step recovery programs into the use of CBT, as well as harm reduction models of intervention designed to assist substance abusers in reducing physical harm to themselves prior to engaging in full recovery from the drug of choice.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Substance Abusers: December 2002: Focused on the development and use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy principals with substance abusing populations.
Motivational Interviewing: January 2001: Course offered by Boston University School of Social Work focusing on the use and application of MI in the treatment of a variety of clinical issues. Course focused on stages of the conceptual structure of change processes, working with resistance and defenses as well as the development of a collaborative treatment plan of intervention.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: March 2002: Two day workshop focusing on the use of DBT skills in therapy with individuals struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder. Program focused on the use mindfulness skills to regulate affective states, self-injurious behaviors and self-destructive behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Substance Abusers: October 2001: Two day workshop focusing on the use of DBT skills in therapy with individuals struggling with dual diagnosis issues of substance abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder. Program focused on the use of mindfulness skills to regulate affective states, self-injurious behaviors and self destructive behaviors with emphasis on relapse prevention skills.
Counter-transference in Family Therapy: September 2000 to June 2001: Program of intensive study offered by The Family Center, Inc. Course focused on working with individuals, families and couples and the ways in which the clinician’s life experiences influence this work. Course utilized readings, video consultations and live supervision of clinical work.
Emerge Counseling Program for Men who Batter: March 2000: Four day intensive program designed to deepen the understanding of the dynamics of violence in intimate relationship among heterosexual as well as gay and lesbian couples.
EMDR Level I Training: August 2000: Intensive program of study introducing the concepts, techniques and utilization of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
Family Therapy Institute of Washington DC: October 1996 to December 1996. This post-graduate program of study focused specifically on family intervention with families and adolescents, utilizing systemic models of intervention such as strategic and structural family therapy, narrative, post-modern and solution focused approaches to family intervention. Class utilized didactic, case consultation and video taped presentation of participants’ clinical work to engage and apply theoretical models of family intervention.
Family Therapy Institute of Washington DC: September 1995 to May 1996: This post-graduate course of study utilized a variety of systemic based family therapies, such as strategic, structural, post modern and narrative approaches as well as family life stage development, as a base for clinical thought and intervention. Program utilized case consultation, video taped and live supervision of participants’ clinical work to engage and apply theoretical models of family intervention.
Professional Affiliations
National Association of Social Workers
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health
International Foundation for Gender Education
American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists
The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
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