Dr. Russell received her doctorate in clinical psychology from AUNE and her AB from Smith College. She completed her post-doctoral training at Albany Medical Center in New York, during which her training allowed her to take on multiple roles as clinician, trainer, and instructor while working within outpatient, inpatient, and general hospital settings. In addition, Dr. Russell completed a two-year internship training in community mental health at BHN The Carson Center in Massachusetts.

Dr. Russell’s clinical and research interests include transtheoretical psychotherapeutic practices, the body-mind-spirit integration within psychotherapeutic practice, and voice and multicultural perspectives in the healthcare experience. Her dissertation research explored how different ways of languaging post-surgical experiences may enhance the sense of voice and integration of the medical experience. This research heavily focused on the power of metaphor as a mechanism to understand that which is ambiguous and difficult to articulate.

Before joining Antioch, New England, Dr. Russell was a professor of psychology at Rhode Island School of Design, where she continues to lecture. She is licensed in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York and works clinically within a group private practice. Dr. Russell takes an integrative approach to psychotherapy and incorporates a variety of orientations, including humanistic-existential, third-wave cognitive behavioral, relational-cultural, and psychodynamic. She also has training in mindfulness, polyvagal theory in therapy, and EMDR.