Wadlin Rory

Taken from Lesley University- Counseling Psychology Adjunct Faculty Rory Wadlin is a 1988 graduate of Lesley's Counseling and Psychology program. He has been practicing as a counselor and psychotherapist for over fifteen years. His earliest training was in community mental health and exposed him to the challenges of working with people afflicted with chronic mental illness. From there, he went on to work in hospital-based clinics and programs as a therapist, supervisor, program director, and consultant. For many years he worked directing psychiatric and substance abuse partial hospitalization programs. He also has consulted to other day treatment programs around creating and maintaining therapeutic milieus and on designing interventions to treat trauma-related disorders, affective and anxiety disorders, addictions, and personality disorders. Since 1993, he has worked in outpatient clinics and private practice as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and consultant. He works with a wide array of clients mostly in longer-term therapy, but sometimes in short term treatment. He considers his areas of expertise to be in working with character disorders, couples, affective and anxiety disorders, addictions, and the psychological aspects of serious medical illness. He regularly consults to medical providers around working with people with HIV/AIDS and cardiac disease, as well as around understanding and treating patients with difficult personalities. His clinical orientation is rooted in psychoanalytical and psychodynamic theory. He also, however, incorporates the use of object-relations, self-psychology and relational theory into his work. He has also learned, because his hospital and clinic practice involved working within the confines of managed care, to do brief treatment using cognitive-behavioral and mind-body approaches that focus more on symptom control and mechanical change rather than psychic integration and vital change. As a teacher and supervisor, he is interested in working with students to embrace depth and complexity.