Sessions
Fostering Student Resilience: Creating an Emotionally Healthy School
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM Thu
Deborah Offner is a clinical psychologist who specializes in adolescent mental health and has worked in independent schools and colleges for more than two decades. She currently serves as Consulting Psychologist to Beacon Academy, Worcester Academy and The Winsor School. She is in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. Visit her website here. Dr. Offner has been instrumental to Beacon Academy over the last year as our Consulting Psychologist. Her depth of experience, gained from working on the front lines and in leadership roles in independent schools and colleges for more than twenty years has honed our social and emotional work with Beacon students and alumni. Her openness and sharp intellect combine in nuanced and sophisticated ways to help us figure out, in sometimes very intense moments, how to best navigate the racially diverse, colliding worlds of low- and high-income students.