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Valerie MacLean, MSN, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Valerie MacLean, MSN, RN

Staff Nurse

Rachel Margolis, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Rachel Margolis, RN

Jim Markham is the woodworking instructor at the Austen Riggs Center.

Jim Markham

Woodworking Instructor

Celeste Martin, RN, is the director of nursing at the Austen Riggs Center.

Celeste Martin, RN, is a staff nurse at the Austen Riggs Center.

Celeste Martin, RN

Director of Nursing

As the admissions clinician and manager, Nicole May, LICSW, oversees the day to day operations of the Admissions department and facilitates the flow of cases. She is directly involved in the admission of almost all incoming patients, assessing, educating, and facilitating the process. As the Human Rights and Privacy Officer, she is involved in educating, advocating for, and assisting staff and patients in exercising their rights to privacy and fair treatment.

In addition to Ms. May’s roles here at Austen Riggs, she is involved in crisis assessment and intervention work through her local community mental health clinic. Her involvement with this organization allows her to both bring a broader knowledge and understanding of issues affecting different populations to her work at Riggs, and also for her to bring parts of the psychodynamic approach to the local community.

For the past few years, Ms. May has been involved in fundraising for and participated in the awareness walk for the local chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

Professional Affiliations/Organizational Memberships

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

Nicole May, LICSW, is the admissions clinician and manager and human rights and privacy officer at the Austen Riggs Center.

Nicole May, LICSW

Admissions Clinician and Manager/Human Rights and Privacy Officer

Research Fellow at Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis

Resident and postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University

Robert Wood Johnson Fellow and postdoctoral fellow at Yale University School of Medicine 

Linda C. Mayes, MD, is a distinguished faculty member in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy. 

Trained as a pediatrician, Dr. Mayes’s research focuses on stress-response and regulatory mechanisms in young children at both biological and psychosocial risk. She has especially focused on the impact of prenatal substance use on children’s long-term outcomes. She has made contributions to understanding the mechanisms of effect of prenatal stimulant exposure on the ontogeny of arousal regulatory systems and the relation between dysfunctional emotional regulation and impaired prefrontal cortical function in young children. Dr. Mayes has published widely in the developmental psychology, pediatrics, and child psychiatry literature. 

Given the nature of her work with children at significantly high-risk for developmental impairments from both biological and psychosocial etiologies, Dr. Mayes also focuses on the impact of parenting on the development of arousal and attention regulatory mechanisms in their children, and specifically on how substance abuse impacts reward and stress regulatory systems in new parents. With other colleagues in the Center, she studies how adults transition to parenthood, especially when substance abuse is involved, and the basic neural circuitry of early parent-infant attachment using both neuroimaging and electroencephalographic techniques. She and her colleagues have developed a series of interventions for parents including an intensive home-based program called Minding the Baby.

Dr. Mayes's research programs are multidisciplinary, not only in their blending basic science with clinical interventions but also in the disciplines required including adult and child psychiatry, behavioral neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, and neuropsychology.

Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director of the Yale Child Study Center

Distinguished Visiting Professor in psychology at Sewanee: The University of the South

Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from The University of the South (1994)

Linda C. Mayes, MD

Distinguished Faculty in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy

Michael McCarthy is the Lavender Door Manager

ceramics instructor in the Activities Program at the Austen Riggs Center.

Michael McCarthy

Lavender Door Manager/Ceramics Instructor

Delia McEwan is a mental health specialist at the Austen Riggs Center.

Delia McEwan

Mental Health Specialist

BA in psychology from San José State University

PhD in counseling psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York

Pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology at the Psychology Internship Consortium affiliated with Albany Medical Center.

Fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center

Kristin L. McLaughlin, PhD, ABPP, is a staff psychologist who provides psychotherapy and psychological testing at the Austen Riggs Center. In addition, she serves as the eating disorder specialist, offering consultation to teams and clinicians, providing psychodynamic supervision to the registered dietician, co-facilitating groups for patients, and providing education for staff to integrate understanding of and interventions for disordered eating within a psychodynamic treatment system. Dr. McLaughlin also coordinates the Friday Night Guest Lecture Series through Spring, 2024.

Dr. McLaughlin has provided psychotherapy in a number of settings including community mental health centers, university counseling centers, VA medical centers, a state hospital forensic unit, and hospital inpatient and outpatient psychiatry departments. She has taught undergraduate courses on the Psychology of Social Justice and Cultural Diversity, and taught and supervised students in a Masters in Mental Health Counseling graduate program.

Dr. McLaughlin has published and presented research on cultural trauma, including racial and gender-related trauma and the links between systemic oppression and mental health outcomes, especially in relation to racism and sexism. She currently supervises practicing clinicians in community mental health settings.

Board Certified by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis

Psychodynamic aspects of cultural oppression, social justice, and identity

The role of insight in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Kristin L. McLaughlin, PhD, ABPP, headshot.

Kristin L. McLaughlin, PhD, ABPP

Staff Psychologist/Eating Disorder Specialist

Rosibel Mejia is a therapeutic community staff member and assistant program manager at the Austen Riggs Center.

Rosibel Mejia is a therapeutic community staff member at the Austen Riggs Center.

Rosibel Mejia

Therapeutic Community Staff/Assistant Program Manager

Elise Miller, PhD

Visiting Scholar

MD from University of Miami School of Medicine

Residency through the Cambridge Hospital/Austen Riggs Center Combined Residency Program

David Mintz, MD, is a staff psychiatrist who joined the Austen Riggs Center in 1996. He presently serves as the director of psychiatric education, the associate director of training, and as a team leader. He also is principal investigator for the research initiative in Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology and author of the book 

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient

 (2022, American Psychiatric Association Publishing). Dr. Mintz also coordinates the Elective in Psychodynamic Psychiatry at the Austen Riggs Center.

American Psychiatric Association, former leader of the Psychotherapy Caucus

American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Fellow and elected Trustee

Medical Student Education Committee member of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Teichner Scholar at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Psychiatry Residency Program

Psychological aspects of taking and prescribing medications, psychodynamic aspects of medical education, professionalism, and clinical care of psychiatric patients with treatment-refractory conditions.

David Mintz, MD

Director of Psychiatric Education/Associate Director of Training/Team Leader

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