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.
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
Kelly received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 2017. 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.
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.
Kylie Li, Psy.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Kylie received her BA in Psychology and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University. Kylie's clinical experience and interests include personality and eating disorders, and suicidal behavior. She is currently completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the Nock Lab at Harvard University, where her research focuses on understanding suicidal behavior and mental health care globally.
Camila Velez Florez, M.D.
Psychiatry Resident
Camila is a resident in Adult Psychiatry at the MGH McLean Residency Program. Originally from Colombia, she completed medical school and worked as a hospitalist in emergency medicine and critical care. She is an active member of the Hispanic Psychiatry Clinic, where she leads the development of a new research program and is working to culturally adapt trauma-based therapies for marginalized communities.
Marija Kamceva, M.D.
Psychiatry Resident
Marija received her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology at Yale College, and her medical degree at Stanford Medical School. She is currently a resident at MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and is in the first year of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Her interests include LGBTQIA+ mental health, community psychiatry and emergency psychiatry.
