Joan Wheelis, M.D.
Director
Joan Wheelis received her M.D. from Boston University and completed her psychiatric residency at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA in 1989. She founded Two Brattle Center in 1996 and has been its Director since that time. In addition to her work at Two Brattle Center, she is an Assistant Clinical Professor (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School and teaches at the joint Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Program. Additionally, she is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. In 1997, she began training with Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and has been a DBT Trainer with Behavioral Tech Institute since 2002. Her interests include the treatment of borderline personality disorder and suicidal behavior.
Ricardo Benitez
Case Manager & Information Technology Consultant
Ricardo Benitez received a BSBA from Boston University. As part of the TBC team, he serves as Case Manager and Information Technology Consultant.
Raquel Dillem Dargenio, MA
Clinical Mental Health Counselor /
Clinical Administrator
Raquel received her Bachelor's in Clinical Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has worked at Two Brattle Center since 2008. She has completed foundational DBT Training. Her principal clinical interests are DBT and the treatment of trauma.
Ardith Welwood, MA, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Certified Executive Coach
Ardith received her Master of Arts from Lesley University in psychology in 1998. Earning her license as a Mental Health Counselor in 2000, Ardith has training and experience in several treatment modalities including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
In 2006 Ardith completed an executive coaching six day intensive program through the College of Executive coaching conducted by Dr. Jeffery Auerbach. She incorporates her action oriented business and professional coaching skills into her psychotherapy practice and also provides goal oriented peak performance coaching to individuals.
Through Harvard Law School in 2014, Ardith became certified in Negotiations and Difficult Conversations.
Currently, Ardith is the founder and CEO of Boston Accountability in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She conducts DBT and ACT with individuals, couples and families.
Kelly Urban, MA, LMHC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Kelly received her Master of Arts in clinical psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara in 2010. She earned her B.A. in Sociology and Psychology at the University of Connecticut.
She worked at McLean Hospital's 3East Cambridge Residence, a community based residence that utilizes DBT and CBT to help young women increase their independence and skills, as they transition out of treatment. Currently, Kelly works at the Asperger/Autism Network, where she specializes in working with adults on the Autism Spectrum.
Hila Ben-Levi, Psy.D.
Affiliate Psychologist
Hila received her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from William James College (formely MSPP) in 2005, after completing a Harvard Medical School internship at the Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Health Alliance. For almost two decades, Hila served as the Assistant Clinical Director for a Community Mental Health agency, where she treated children, adults, and families, supervised psychologists in training, and consulted to school psychologists and guidance counselors in various school systems. Hila worked for a College Counseling Center for over a decay, and completed a prestigious Fellowship at Harvard Medical School's McLean Hospital 3EAST Residential Program, a DBT program for adolescents and young adults. As an affiliated psychologist with the Two Brattle Center, she co-led the Adult DBT Skills Group, and provides individual DBT treatment and skills training.
Hila is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
Brian Boyle, M.D.
Affiliate Psychiatrist
Brian received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed the Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, where he served as Chief Resident of Psychotherapy and the Program in Psychodynamics. He earned his B.A. in philosophy at Yale College. His interests include biological, analytical, and organizational psychiatry. He holds a faculty position in the McLean Neurotherapeutics department, where he serves on the ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy services. He is Co-founder and President of Measured Wellness, PLLC, a private psychiatric practice in Boston which aims to improve care through the integration of technology. Having completed the one-year fellowship in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), as well as trained in the Mentalization Based Treatment Clinic at McLean.
Miriam R. Rowan, Psy.D.
Affiliate Psychologist
Miriam is a Staff Psychologist within McLean Hospital’s 3East Program and Instructor in Psychology, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School. Miriam earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the P.G.S.P.-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium, where she trained at Stanford Medicine, the Palo Alto VA, and Kaiser Permanente. She completed a combined child and adult focused pre-doctoral internship at Woodhull Medical Center, NYC Health + Hospitals in Brooklyn, NY and a postdoctoral fellowship in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at McLean's 3East Girls Intensive Residential DBT Program. She has been trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), DBT Family Therapy as well as DBT for PTSD. Her clinical expertise includes treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and eating disorders. She focuses on providing care to adolescents, young adults, and families, and also specializes in working with dancers, athletes, and performers.
Kelly Zuromski, Ph.D.
Affiliate Psychologist Post-Doctoral Fellow
Kelly received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 2017 and completed her internship at the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina / Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center). Currently she is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on improving the prediction and prevention of suicide. She has a particular interest in exploring how technology can be harnessed to identify at-risk individuals and deliver interventions outside of traditional healthcare settings. Kelly has clinical expertise working with suicidal patients, trauma-exposed populations and has received training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
R e u b e n A . H e n d l e r , M .D.
Affiliate Psychiatrist
Reuben received his B.A. from Yale College and M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed the Massachusetts General Hospital / McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, where he served as Chief Resident for Addictions and Co-Chief Resident for Psychotherapy and the Program in Psychodynamics. He holds a faculty position at Harvard Medical School and in the McLean Alcohol, Drugs, & Addiction Treatment Program. He completed a fellowship in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, obtained certification in motivational interviewing from the Health Education & Training Institute, and is trained in the Mentalization Based Treatment and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In addition to clinical work, his interests include psychiatric education, and advocacy.
Deirdre Gorman, M.D.
Affiliate Psychiatrist
Deirdre received her M.D. from the University of Chicago. She completed her Psychiatric Residency in the Massachusetts General Hospital & McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. She is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and a second year candidate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
Katie Ledermann, LICSW
Affiliate Social Worker
Katie received her MSW from Fordham University in 2018. In addition to her private practice, she currently works at the Hill Center and Outpatient Trauma Clinic at McLean Hospital where she provides DBT and trauma informed treatment to young adults and adults with co-occurring trauma related disorders and personality disorders. She has received intensive training in DBT and DBT-PE and is currently a fellow in the one-year psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellowship program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI). Her clinical expertise and interests include the treatment of borderline personality disorder, suicidal behavior, and post-traumatic stress disorder. She specializes in providing individual DBT psychotherapy and skills training to adults and young adults.
Joshua Zollman, M.D.
Affiliate Psychiatrist
Joshua completed undergraduate training in psychology and neuroscience at Pennsylvania State University and his M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his Adult Psychiatry Residency Training and is currently a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Mass General & McLean Hospitals.
Michael Hollander, Ph.D.
Consultant Psychologist
Michael developed the Two Brattle Center DBT Adolescent Program in 1997. He has also held numerous positions of clinical leadership at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts including co-founding McLean’s l 3East DBT program, He is known for his work on the causation and treatment of self-injury in adolescents, and lectures throughout the U.S. on the subject. He is on the faculty of the McLean/Massachusetts General Hospital Child Psychiatry Fellowship Program, as Assistant Professor (Part-Time), He is a DBT trainer for Behavioral Tech Institute and the author of Helping Teens Who Cut, Using DBT to End Self Injury.He has been treating adolescents and their families for over 40 years and is committed to training clinicians in evidenced-based treatments.
Alexandra Woolley, BA
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student
Alexandra is a third year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at William James College. She works as a doctoral intern at the Gunderson Residence at McLean Hospital specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization-Based Therapy for adult women with personality disorders. Her interests include the treatment of borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive & related disorders.
