Community Lecture Series

Open to all mental health professionals.

Lunch, learn, and refresh your practice. We offer 10 free lectures each year.

The Brookline Center welcomes all mental health professionals who work in the Brookline schools or community to join our staff for our community lectures. Experienced therapists and specialists present a wide variety of clinically relevant topics. During these lunchtime sessions, clinicians learn from experts in the field, while making connections with colleagues. We provide drinks and snacks.

Social workers may purchase continuing education units (CEs); attendance for at least four of five lectures in a semester is required to receive them. Please indicate your interest in CEs when registering.

Registration appreciated but not required

To sign up, email Jeff Brand, PsyD, or call at (617) 277-8107. Drop-ins also welcome!


Spring 2020 Lecture Dates:

Feb. 27, 2020: Lessons from the Gun Debate: What Health Practitioners Should Know
Claire Boine, JD, MPP
Research Scholar, BU School of Public Health

March 12, 2020: Working with Our Patients’ Faith, Religion and Spirituality in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Joe DeAngelis, LICSW, CGP
Private practice (Lexington, MA)
Postponed — rescheduled date to be announced

March 26, 2020: Climate Crisis and Mental Health: Community Clinicians as Advocates
Jim Recht, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School
Postponed — rescheduled date to be announced

April 9, 2020: School-Community Partnership: Building Collaborations to Support Youth Mental Health
Jennifer Greif Green, PhD
Associate Professor of Special Education; Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
This lecture will be held remotely via Zoom — more details to come

April 23, 2020: Post-Traumatic Growth Following a Therapist’s Cancer: An IFS Perspective
Dan Pollets, PhD
Private practice (Medford, MA); faculty member at Boston University School of Medicine and at William James College