New CE/CME Course - When The Patient Isn't Getting Better

We are committed to equal opportunity, a diverse workforce, and an inclusive environment. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Our dedicated staff come from all over, bringing talents and skills they put to use in service of our mission.

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our organization stronger.

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Current Openings

Education and Training

The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center provides extensive psychoanalytic education and clinical training for professionals in all stages of their careers.

Elective in Psychodynamic Psychiatry

The Elective in Psychodynamic Psychiatry is designed to provide students of psychiatry (including both medical students and psychiatric residents) with a perspective that complements the medical model that is dominant in mainstream psychiatric approaches to major psychiatric illness.

Apply for the Elective

Benefits

Riggs provides comprehensive benefits to our staff. Benefit offerings have evolved over time by listening to our employees and making it a top priority to offer the highest quality benefits package possible. More complete information, including summary plan descriptions, is available from Human Resources.

View our Benefits Highlights or download it below:

2022 Benefit Highlights.pdf

Staff Testimonials

At Austen Riggs, you have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with patients in a supportive environment where your voice and creativity are both valued and welcome. I have found Riggs to be a place where people recognize when you are carrying too much and offer to help. You can make a difference in people’s lives and work with really good people."

- Brian O’Gara (Mental Health Specialist)

Community is not only a big part of the Riggs therapeutic model but the way Riggs operates in general. I have never felt more supported and cared for in a working environment before."

- Nicole May, LICSW (Admissions Clinician and Manager)

Our Values

Riggs stands for a passionate commitment to an idealistic mission serving suffering patients. I can't imagine a better opportunity for a clinician to engage in intensive work. As the saying goes, 'If you love your job, you never work a day in your life.' in which case I haven't worked in over 35 years."

- Eric M. Plakun, MD (Medical Director/CEO)

Our Team

At Austen Riggs, you have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with patients in a supportive environment where your voice and creativity are both valued and welcome. I have found Riggs to be a place where people recognize when you are carrying too much and offer to help. You can make a difference in people’s lives and work with really good people."

- Brian O’Gara (Mental Health Specialist)

At Austen Riggs, you have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with patients in a supportive environment where your voice and creativity are both valued and welcome. I have found Riggs to be a place where people recognize when you are carrying too much and offer to help. You can make a difference in people’s lives and work with really good people."

- Brian O’Gara (Mental Health Specialist)