Christine Morrissey, LCSW, MSEd

Christine Morrissey, LCSW, MSEd, is a clinical social worker in the Mood Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute. She treats trauma-and stress-related disorders, including PTSD and acute stress disorder in youth and adults. She also works with children, teens, and adults who experience mood disorders, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, cyclothymic disorder, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Additionally, Morrissey has experience working with individuals struggling with anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias. She also has experience treating individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) using exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) as well as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Morrissey specializes in working with clients who experience chronic behavioral and emotional dysregulation, including suicidal and self-harming behaviors and is a DBT Linehan Board Certified (DBT-LBC) clinician. She is a graduate of the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) training program at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where she concentrated in advanced clinical practice with mental health and disabilities. She has training and experience working with parents and families using parent management training (PMT), DBT, as well as supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions (SPACE). Morrissey provides individual, parent, and family therapies where indicated. She has specialized experience and training in working one-on-one with parents who struggle with PTSD or trauma responses that can interfere with goals, values, and demands of parenting.

Prior to her transition into the field of social work, Morrissey pursued a Master of Education as a licensed teacher and taught special education for nine years. She worked primarily with middle school- and high school-age students and specialized in therapeutic programs for adolescents experiencing severe mental health challenges and suicidal behaviors. Additionally, Morrissey has worked in a residential treatment center on a DBT-Linehan Board Certified (DBT-LBC) team, where she was an individual therapist and educational coordinator for clients in residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient levels of care.

Within treatment, Mrs. Morrissey works to support clients and families with a team approach that includes all relevant providers and school based supports. She provides services virtually to clients in California, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training, Behavioral Tech
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Prolonged Exposure Intensive Training
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Couples, Parents, and Families
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Autistic Clients
• Family Connections: Managing Suicidality & Trauma Recovery, NEABPD
• Multi-diagnostic Eating Disorders — DBT
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, Beck Institute
• Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), Yale Child Study Center
• Mood Disorders Center Social Work Intern, Child Mind Institute
• Clinical Intern, Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS), Henry Street Settlement
• Motivational Interviewing, Columbia University School of Social Work
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Medical University of South Carolina

• MSW, Columbia University School of Social Work

• MSEd, Special Education (Mild/ Moderate Disabilities), Simmons University
• BA, Psychology, Simmons University