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Pia Alexander joined Antioch University New England in 2021 as a member of Teaching Faculty in the Couple and Family Therapy program, where she was previously awarded the President’s Doctoral Fellowship as a PhD student in the Couple and Family Therapy program.

Pia is a practicing New York State licensed marriage and family therapist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and she serves as a family wellness educator and clinical justice advocate with multiple community-based service and social justice organizations.

Pia has advanced clinical training in trauma-focused systemic modalities and medical family therapy. Her primary research interest is in applying critical social theories to better understand and support maternal mental health and reproductive health for African American women and families. She sees this work as benefitting all members of our shared communities.

 

Dr. Jinsook Song is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) approved supervisor. She joined AUNE as the Director of the clinical training for CFT MA and PhD programs in 2021 after previously serving as an adjunct instructor and supervisor.

While she was working with military families and children in international communities overseas as a music therapist, her interest in family therapy grew and led her to complete her PhD in marriage and family therapy. She brings many years of clinical experiences working with children, adults, and older adults in school settings, hospitals, a community mental health agency, and in private practice. In addition, she worked in 4 countries as a clinician, clinical supervisor, and adjunct faculty before settling in NH. She worked closely with the refugee community in Concord NH, brought access to the healthcare system and community engagement.

Her clinical and research interest areas are medical family therapy, trauma-informed therapy, intergenerational trauma, child-parent psychotherapy, community engagement in treatment, multicultural and feminist issues, cultural identity, supervision, and strengthening family relationships. She serves on the educational committee for NHAMFT. She is an AAMFT clinical member.

 

Dr. Rachel Enoch, BCBA-D, is a leader in training teachers and staff on the implementation of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) across school-wide initiatives. Previously she created and implemented community mindfulness camps for children and worked as the primary Board Certified Behavior Analyst at a residential eating disorder facility for adolescent females. Rachel is excited to find new and innovative ways to infuse behavior analysis in the classroom as well as in alternative education and community settings.

Rachel is passionate in her support of ABA students in their journey to becoming behavior analysts and infuses a social justice focus into her teaching and training.  In September 2018, Rachel was elected to serve as  President of NHABA, an affiliate chapter  of the Association of Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). She hopes to promote continued support and awareness to the field and bring research practices and professional development opportunities to behavior analysis throughout New Hampshire.

 
 

I have been at Antioch University New England since 2004, and was drawn here because of the mission of social justice at the University and in the department, and by the opportunity to build a Marriage & Family Therapy PhD program that had a focus on social justice as well as on teaching, supervision, and quality scholarship. During my time here, I’ve been Program Director for both the MA and PhD programs and have also directed the Antioch University Couple and Family Therapy Institute (occasionally all at the same time). I’m currently Director of the PhD program.

I have been teaching graduate-level MFT courses since 1999, and I’ve also been quite involved in service to the field. I’ve served as the Secretary for the Board for the New Hampshire Division of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and I also spent six years on the Board of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education, including two years as Chair of the Commission. Currently, I serve as a consultant on accreditation issues nationally and have presented at several conferences on accreditation and assessment. I am very interested in leadership, both in academia and in the field at the national level.

I am an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in NH. My initial clinical training was in substance abuse (I was a Certified Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor in Texas and then Indiana, starting in 1988), and I continue to have a strong interest in addiction issues. I am very interested in researching issues related to couple and family therapy and worked with a number of students and colleagues on projects with wide-ranging topics. I enjoy teaching a wide range of subjects and most recently have focused on teaching research methods and statistics, but I’ve taught almost everything in the curriculum at some point.

On a personal note, I am an avid photographer and maintain a website of my personal photography. I also love to spend time outside and you may find me mountain biking, hiking, or kayaking all over New England whenever I can (and snowshoeing and skiing in the winter).

 

I’m a native Chicagoan who lived in Gary, Indiana for thirteen years before moving to New Hampshire with my wife, Hana. I entered the field of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) after a 21-year career in newspaper and magazine journalism which began in 1971 at the Chicago Sun-Times. I received my Master’s Degree training in MFT at Purdue Calumet University, Hammond and my Doctoral training at Purdue University, West Lafayette. I’ve practiced Aikido (a martial art) for more than 30 years, as well as Hatha Yoga and Yoga meditation, which I taught for several years in the Chicago area. Songwriting and playing guitar, cooking and writing (fiction and essays) are among my favorite hobbies. Both my wife and I are licensed MFTs and AAMFT Clinical Members. I am also an AAMFT approved supervisor.

Teaching at Antioch
Antioch has a long history of devotion to principles of social justice, and social responsibility (as demonstrated by the school’s focus on environmental issues long before such issues began to be addressed by larger, more conventional Universities). Thus, I expected that it would attract the types of faculty and students with whom I would enjoy interacting.

Further, I looked forward to helping develop a PhD program in MFT at Antioch because I knew that a large number of Antioch’s MFT students are adult learners.” As one who entered the field in mid-life as an adult learner, I felt I would understand the challenges that many such students would face in trying to carve out a new career for themselves in this exciting, but extremely demanding profession.

Views on Social Justice Issues
I tend to view social justice issues, multicultural issues and feminist issues through the same lens. They are all founded in a sense of fairness, balance and connectedness with all our brothers and sisters on this planet. They all require the willingness and courage to sometimes be a voice in the wilderness. I come by this attitude naturally from having experienced discrimination; from having been an avid follower of Dr. King’s non-violent movement; from long ago having a developed a sensitivity to what Michael White would call subjugated stories and the ways (sometimes subtle, sometimes horrendously blatant) white male power and privilege have affected my life and the lives of millions of other people who are neither white, nor male, nor heterosexual. As a racial minority in a field (MFT) historically and currently dominated by middle-class whites I hope, even if in a small way, to push our field toward greater inclusiveness and a sense of ethical obligation to address and correct the social inequalities we see around us in America today.

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