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Leah
Harrigan
MA ‘2015, focused on clinical
developmental psychology and
completed the applied track.
Leah is currently a clinical
supervisor, managing a team of
counselors who serve children
with significant emotional and
behavioral needs.
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Leah is a clinical supervisor at Youth
Villages, a private nonprofit dedicated to
helping children and families live
successfully.
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Leah holds a BA in Psychology with minors in Writing and Women’s Studies from
Providence College. After college, Leah completed two years of service through
AmeriCorps, teaching and mentoring in Providence charter schools as well as
creating after school programming. At Tufts, Leah worked as an assistant teacher at
the EP Children’s School and spent her internship leading therapeutic group sessions
at the Walker CBAT (Community Based Acute Treatment) unit in Needham, MA.
Eliot Pearson helped Leah step into the homes of clients served by Youth Villages with
a comprehensive strengths-based, trauma informed approach. Notably, taking
Developmental Psychopathology at Tufts set the foundation for viewing the family as a
system, which has been invaluable in treatment planning, case conceptualization, and
analyzing clinical documentation and assessments. Leah’s applied internship working
with children in short term crisis care provided solid experience for understanding a
population of children and teens who need specialized therapeutic support, exposing
her to hands-on, fast paced clinical training. Gaining leadership skills from initially
working on a collaborative Youth Villages counseling team, Leah now manages a
group of counselors using her approaches carried on from Eliot Pearson.