CAROLYN YAFFE

Carolyn is a Clinical Social Worker and CBT therapist with considerable experience in providing clinical therapy to adults, children, and adolescents from culturally diverse and socio-economic backgrounds who face the challenges of coping with mental health disorders, substance abuse, and trauma.

Carolyn began her career working for an alternative high school providing counselling and crisis intervention for adolescents who required special education programs due to: Emotional difficulties, truancy, academic failures, verbal and physically abusive behaviours, socialisation problems, ADD/ADHD, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She has also been involved in Early Intervention services, providing home and centre-based services to children and their families, conducting mental health assessments and counselling.

Before relocating to Dubai in 2013, Carolyn was head clinician at the Department of Youth Services in Boston, MA., administering clinical evaluations and counselling to incarcerated youths and their families while helping with assessment and clinical evaluations and facilitating groups in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and substance abuse.

Previous positions:

• Behavioral Consultant, Doris Duan-Young Autism Center, Dubai, UAE
• Behavioral Consultant, Kids in Motion Pediatric Therapy Services, Dubai, UAE
• Psychotherapist, All Care Home Care, LLC, Stoughton, MA, USA
• Psychotherapist, Arbour Counseling, Norwell, MA, USA
• Clinical Therapist, Department of Youth Services, Metro Assessment/Treatment Unit, Roslindale, MA, USA
• Clinical Social Worker, Family and Children’s Service Early Intervention Program, Norwood, MA, USA
• Clinical Social Worker, Associates for Human Services Early Intervention Program, Taunton, MA, USA