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Elliot Feld, MD, is an Online IOP Training Program Participant at the Austen Riggs Center.

Elliot Feld, MD

Online IOP Training Program Participant

BS from University of Connecticut Honors Program (University Scholar)

Candidate at the Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis

Consultant Candidate at the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems

Heather Forouhar Graff, MD, is a staff psychiatrist, therapist and assistant team leader at the Austen Riggs Center. She consults to process groups that are aimed at studying relationships to authority.

Dr. Forouhar began her education as a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a special interest in perceptual phenomena such as pattern recognition and the interaction and relativity of color. As an undergraduate, she was a research fellow at The University of Chicago studying the neural correlates of learning and memory in songbirds as a model for language development.

She has presented on the nocebo effect in treatment resistance, the value of process groups in the experiential learning of group dynamics in psychiatric residents and on the narcissistic vulnerabilities of trainees and the associated obstacles to learning within the supervisory relationship.

Professional Affiliations/Organizational Memberships

Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems

Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis

Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship in Biological Sciences at The University of Chicago

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at The University of Chicago

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Award from the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

Boelhouwer Award for excellence in research, teaching and leadership from the Institute of Living

Psychoanalysis and the psychodynamics of groups and leadership

Heather Forouhar Graff, MD

Assistant Team Leader/Staff Psychiatrist

Master's degree in healthcare management from American Intercontinental University

Lisa Fournier, MBA, is the Patient Accounts Specialist at the Austen Riggs Center. 

Lisa’s background crosses numerous industries, starting hands-on in the medical field and switching over to business. She is a creative visionary with a desire to improve the world by making it economically viable and sustainable for generations to come. She offers a blend of executive acumen, global team building, and investor relations.

Lisa has always pursued humanitarian efforts. She has done work for Muscular Dystrophy, Miami Children’s Hospital, HIV Awareness, and most recently started her own non-profit called 

, helping to empower youth and assist in community upliftment in poverty stricken coastal locations She also writes a children’s book series called 

2025 Marcom Platinum Award for OPSEC Cyber Security Poster Campaign for Electric Powe Research Institute (EPRI) and Black Ice LLC

Patient Accounts Specialist 

M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, is a Senior Erikson Scholar in the 

Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy

 of the Austen Riggs Center. He is the former first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute and former director of the Center’s Therapeutic Community Program. 

Dr. Fromm has taught at and consulted to a number of psychoanalytic institutes across the country. His current work includes psychoanalytically informed organizational consultation. In addition to his own practice, he is a past president of both the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and the Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems in Boston. He directed the Center’s residential Group Relations Conferences for three years and has served on the staff of Group Relations Conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. Dr. Fromm was also a visiting Fellow in the Psychotherapy Department of University College, London, and a member of the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis in New York. 

Dr. Fromm continues to teach and present. His publications include a number of books: 

The Facilitating Environment: Clinical Applications of Winnicott’s Theory

 (with Bruce L. Smith, PhD) (International Universities Press, Inc., 1989); 

Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma across Generations

Taking the Transference, Reaching toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area

A Spirit That Impels: Play, Creativity and Psychoanalysis

raveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society

International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations

Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association

Certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology

Assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center

President of the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI)

Partner in College Health and Counseling Service Consulting Services

M. Gerard Fromm, PhD

BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington

PhD in clinical psychology from Georgia State University

Predoctoral internship at Emory University School of Medicine

Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Austen Riggs Center

Kathryn (Kate) Gallagher, PhD, ABPP, is a staff psychologist, clinical supervisor, and faculty member at the Austen Riggs Center. Her graduate research primarily focused on understanding and preventing violence against women, a public health crisis rooted in gender inequality and fundamental human rights issues. Now, as a full-time practicing clinician, Dr. Gallagher has shifted her attention to another significant human rights and equity issue—inadequate access to affordable mental health care. She is particularly committed to supporting efforts to appeal insurer denials of medically necessary mental health treatment.

Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), Steering Committee Member

Board Certified in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP)

Board Certified in Psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP)

Kate Gallagher, PhD, ABPP

Staff Psychologist, Insurance and Utilization Review Specialist

Counseling Certificate from the Gestalt Institute of the Berkshires

Jill Gibbons, a professional fiber artist and printmaker, is the fiber arts instructor in the Activities Program at the Austen Riggs Center. She manages the fiber arts studio, a vibrant and colorful space where students can learn the skills of weaving, basketry, sewing, knitting, embroidery, dyeing, surface design, and jewelry-making.

Ms. Gibbons, who worked in family services and human development for more than 30 years, believes that through creativity, the act of making things with our own hands, we are able to facilitate growth, awareness, and healing.

Jill Gibbons is the fiber arts instructor at the Austen Riggs Center.

Jill Gibbons

Fiber Arts Instructor

Sohael Gilani, PMHNP, RN, is a per diem staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Sohael Gilani, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Sohael Gilani, RN

Staff Nurse

Heather Gingras, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Heather Gingras, RN

Evan Good, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center.

Evan Good, PhD, is a fellow in psychology at the Austen Riggs Center.

Evan Good, PhD

Staff Psychologist

Ruth Guttormsen, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Ruth Guttormsen, RN

MD from the American University of Beirut

Residency training in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic 

Fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center

Samar Habl, MD, is the director of admissions and associate medical director at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Habl is a certified board psychiatrist, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a team leader Austen Riggs.

Consulted at various leadership development programs in different business schools

The study of groups and social systems as it pertains to organizational life and the application of group relation theories to leadership development.

Samar Habl, MD

Director of Admissions and Associate Medical Director

Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD, is the Director of IOP Training and a psychologist in the 

 for College Students and Emerging Adults in Massachusetts at the Austen Riggs Center.

Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD

Director of IOP Training/Online IOP Psychologist 

Meet the Austen Riggs staff of therapists, nurses, administrators, and other healthcare professionals who work as a team on behalf of our patients. 

Staff Directory of Therapists and Teams | Austen Riggs

For more information on our residential treatment programs, or answers to any questions, please feel free to contact us. 

Meet Our Team

Elliot Feld, MD

Heather Forouhar Graff, MD

Lisa Fournier, MBA

M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, ABPP

Kathryn Gallagher, PhD, ABPP

Jill Gibbons

Sohael Gilani, PMHNP, RN

Heather Gingras, RN

Evan Good, PhD

Ruth Guttormsen, RN

Samar Habl, MD

Jacquelyn Harden , PsyD

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