Thomasine McFarlin, LCSW, is a Social Worker in full time private practice with a long history of working at the intersection of internal world of the individual and their environment. For the past four years she has been a member of the CNRG, while at the same time she has become a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Previously she has supervised and taught courses about psychotherapy with both individuals and families.
Clinical Experience:
1988 – 2010 Private Practice, Teaching, Consultation and Supervision
- Evaluation and Individual Psychotherapy
- Assessment and problem centered couple and family treatment
- Consultation & treatment of addictions
- Instructor: Women’s Therapy Center, The Treatment Relationship, Shame
- Instructor: Family Therapy: New College Graduate School (1995 Instructors Award)
- Instructor: Family Institute of Cambridge (including Clinical Supervision)
- Presenter: Eating Disorders, Weightism, Shame, Therapeutic Authenticity,
Family Systems & Negotiating Treatment Systems, Beginning Psychotherapy
- Consultation: Family Therapy in Inpatient & Outpatient Units
- Consultation: Two Home-Based Family Therapy Projects
- Wright Institute Adjunct Supervisor, 2003-9
- Women’s Therapy Institute Supervisor, 2007-10
1995-1998 Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, CA, Outpatient Clinic
- Solution focused brief treatment with individuals and families
- Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
- Facilitator for brief behavioral groups on anxiety and panic
- Clinical Specialist for Eating Disorders, teens & woman
- Community education and referral for Anxiety and Eating Disorders
1986-1988 Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton MA, Outpatient Clinic
Eating Disorder and Family Therapy Specialist
- Problem focused treatment of teens, adults, couples and families
- Short term psycho-education groups on Bulimia & Obesity
- Issue focused treatment planning directed to community referral
- Supervised interns & staff on Individual & Family Therapy
- Conducted department training on effective family interventions
- Designed and led community education on adolescent Eating Disorders
1981-1986 Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA. Inpatient Unit
- Education/brief treatment of families with a hospitalized member
- Treatment planning for Anxiety, Depression, Addictions & Psychosis
- Coordination of Discharge Plan with community & family resources
- Member of hospital-wide Child Abuse Team
- Staff/ Community education on family issues during hospitalization
1980-1981 North Shore Council on Alcoholism, Danvers, MA., Social Worker
- Collaboration on Treatment Plan with individuals and families
- Facilitation of Early Sobriety (12 Step) Group
- Ran Psycho-educational groups for spouse/family
- Evaluation & referral of Court-mandated clients
- Alcohol education for clients, community groups & schools
1980-1981 Coastal Community Counseling Center, Quincy, MA.,
Part-time Psychotherapist, Child Unit
- Evaluated & treated children & families with school problems,
parenting issues, adolescent acting out, eating disorders
- Planning for community referral and resources
Other Related Experience:
1977-1978 New York Public Interest Research Group, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Community organizing for Environmental and Public Health Issues
1974-1976 Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Nassau County, N.Y.
Director of N.Y. State Educational Grants for Special Ed. Students (4-18 y.o)
1973-1974 Holy Cross Campus, Residential Treatment Center for Acting-out &
Addicted Adolescents, Rhinebeck, N.Y., Counselor
1971-1973 Dutchess County Alcohol & Drug Abuse Clinic, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Counselor
Education & Selected Clinical Training:
1980 Smith College, Northhampton, MA
Masters in Social Work, Commencement Speaker
1976 C.W. Post College, Greenvale, N.Y.
Masters in Special Education, Summa Cum Laude
1969 Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
Bachelor of Science in Education
1993-2010 Women’s Leadership Collaboration :A Self-study Group,
Alexander Merrill, M.S./Anthropology, 200 hrs/year
2008-09 Neuropsychoanalysis Maggie Zelllner, Ph.D
2007 Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Susan Johnson, Ph. D., 30 hrs.
2006-2010 Bion/Neuropsychoanalyisis – weekly Study Group, Enid Young, Ph.D.
2006-2007 Infant Attachment and Analytic Ideas, 3 session/yr.
Stephen Seligman, DMH, 12 hrs.
2006-2007 Study Group on Bion, Gender and Sexuality, & The Unconscious, weekly
Peter Goldberg, Ph. D, Jed Sekoff, Ph.D, and Jeanne Wolfe-Bernstein, Ph.D., 30hrs.
2004-2007 Relational Couples Therapy Institute, 1 per yr., 15 hrs. each
Terrance Real, LICSW
2004-2006 Relational Couples Therapy Supervision, weekly, 1hour
Lisa Merlot-Booth, LICSW
2005-2006 NCSPP Intensive Study Group on Dissociation and Trauma, 48 hrs.
P. Goldberg, Ph.D, E. Young, Ph.D., Jeb Sekoff, Ph.D., Jeanne Wolf- Bernstein, Ph.D
2006 Emotions Revealed: Paul Ekman Theory, 8 hrs.
2004-2005 Allan Schore Study Group: The Psychoneurobiology of Self and Relationship
Allan Schore Ph.D., 30 hrs
2001-4 The Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
James Masterson, M.D. and faculty,
1999 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); working with Borderline and suicidal
adults, Thomas Marra, Ph.D., 48 hrs.
1998 Eye Movement Desensitization Retraining, (EMDR), Level 1
Gerald Puk, Ph.D., 17 hrs.
1997 Community Reinforcement Approach to Substance Abuse,
Robert Meyers, Ph.D., 16 hrs.
1996 Brief Treatment with Narrative Approaches, Kaiser Staff, 60 hrs.
1995 Advanced Training in Brief Therapy, Richard Fish, M.D., MRI, 18 hrs.
1993 Intensive Training in Abuse Survival/Recovery, Pia Mellody, 60 hrs.
1992-1994 Professional Coaching: Translating Therapeutic Ideas for Business
Environments,The Newfield Group, 100 hrs..
1989-1990 Program In Systemic Family Therapy, Sallyann Roth, LICSW, 60 hrs.
1990 The Courage to Heal Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass, 8 hrs.
1990-1991 Using Meditation in Psychotherapy, Trudy Goodman, Ph.D., 60 hrs.
1986 Family & Alcoholism, Michael Elkin, Ph.D., 20 hrs.
1985 Woman who hurt themselves: Cutting &Alcohol, Dusty Miller, Ph.D., 8 hrs.
1983-1984 Treating Families with a Psychotic Member, C. Umbarger & C. Marvin, 60hrs
1982-1983 Intensive Program In Family Systems Therapy, Cambridge, MA., 185 hrs
Professional Affiliations:
BCD Board Certified Diplomate in Social Work
NASW National Association of Social Workers
APA Dividion39 Section 9, Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility