VA Interprofessional Fellowship Program in PSR and Recovery Oriented Services

Bedford

PSR fellows will become part of an interdisciplinary team of postgraduate fellows which may also include social work, nursing, psychiatry, vocational rehabilitation, and/or occupational therapy. Each fellow will select two programs to work in throughout the year. The primary placement will be a program that focuses on serving Veterans with serious mental illnesses. For the second placement, fellows can choose from a variety of inpatient, outpatient, or community-based programs. No specific emphasis is required for the second placement choice, and the options are designed to be flexible and offer the fellow opportunities to pursue individual professional interests.

The program placements provide the fellow with an environment to learn and to apply the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation while working with an interdisciplinary team of experienced professionals. All fellows will provide recovery services to Veterans with serious mental illness through the Program for Outpatient Wellness, Engagement, and Recovery (POWER). In addition, the fellow will be actively involved in recovery-oriented assessments, program development, consultation, and educational dissemination regarding psychosocial rehabilitation within the healthcare system and nationally via conference presentations. Opportunities for participation in research are also available in collaboration with the VISN 1 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC).

The overall goals of the PSR fellowship are to provide training and clinical experiences for fellows so that they become grounded in the principles and values of PSR and incorporate them into their work with Veterans. In addition, fellows acquire knowledge of current PSR research and practices in order to become a skilled PSR practitioner capable of promoting change in the VA system (to act as “agents of change”).

Andrew D. Peckham, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist | VA Bedford
Research Investigator | VISN 1 New England Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Professional Interests: Treatment of bipolar disorder; mechanisms of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation; cognitive remediation.

Adam Kirschner, LICSW

Professional Interests: Recovery-oriented case management and psychotherapy, artistic modalities of mental health treatment, military sexual trauma and intimate partner violence

The Fellowship Class of 2024 - 2025

Charlotte Cole, LCSW

Social Work Fellow
Professional Interests:Includes recovery-based and relation-centric models of treatment for individuals experiencing SMI; treatment of PTSD, including both complex and chronic PTSD; facilitators of post-traumatic growth (PTG); suicide prevention and associated treatments for individuals who experience chronic suicidal ideation and/or treatment resistant depression; and working towards stigma reduction among both client and provider populations. In practice, I believe in providing person-centered care and believe in meeting individuals “where they are at” in their recovery journey. I utilize an integrative and strengths-based approach to psychotherapy as well as utilization of harm-reduction techniques, narrative approaches, and expressive arts.

Tatiana Frangoglu Porrata-Doria, Psy.D., CPNSL

Psychology Resident
Professional Interests:Serious and persistent mental illnesses, acute inpatient settings, early or first episode psychosis, health psychology, multicultural considerations in evaluation and treatment, decreasing stigma associated with mental illnesses, multi-modal approaches to therapy (Third-wave cognitive and behavioral therapy, positive psychology, patient focused-therapy, art and recreation-based treatment modalities)

Victoria O'Neill, LMSW

Social Work Fellow
Professional Interests:Addressing social, economic and racial inequities in the mental healthcare system. Psychoeducation, community reintegration, and empowerment through fostering meaningful dialogue. Person-centered care through a harm reduction and trauma informed lens, incorporating non traditional therapeutic avenues such as art and animal assisted therapy. Offering creative, effective and unique support.

Beth M. Sharp, MS, NCC

LMHC Fellow
Professional Interests:. In 2023, Beth was awarded the National Grand Prize from the ACA for her essay on multicultural excellence in counseling. They are currently a researcher on a team studying Race-Based Trauma dissemination in mental health education. Beth strives to continue developing their own authentic, relational, holistic, and radical counseling style to better serve minoritized individuals and communities.

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