ABOUT

Matt has more than 30 years experience treating patients with both psychiatric and addictive disorders. He has developed education, hotline

and treatment programs for outpatient clinics, hospitals and human service organizations nationwide. Matt began his career working as part of a

co-sponsored program between the Newton Highlands Guidance Clinic/ the Judge Baker Guidance Center (Boston, MA), and the Newton Highlands Public Schools in the role of school psychologist and drug and alcohol specialist for adolescents adjudicated by the court system for drug and alcohol problems.

Matt has authored book chapters, manuals and professional articles on addiction treatment and its impact on individuals, families and the community.

He has been a Treatment Clinician for the National Football League (NFL) Program for Substances of Abuse since 1997. In that time he has treated

players, led Rookie Seminars and developed case presentations for annual NFL Treatment Clinicians Conferences. He has also worked with

Division 1 college basketball players and coaches from Boston College, and Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

In September 1985, Matt delivered testimony to the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. He

also consulted to the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Boston and New York offices. For 10 years, Matt chaired the City of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts Substance Abuse Coalition, was special advisor to the Mayor of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts and was a frequent presenter at the Northeast Annual Conference for Group Psychotherapy, the Massachusetts Association for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors and the National Substance Abuse Programs Administrators Association Conferences.

Matt has been a consultant to HBO (Home Box Office) in the filming of their award winning documentary, “How to Raise a Drug Free Child” hosted by Mary Tyler Moore; he appeared and consulted to the “Health Week” production of “Party Pills” a Newsweek Film Production in association with

PBS (Public Broadcasting Systems); he appeared on a segment for CBS, The Early Show with Bryant Gumbel and has appeared on WBZ - Boston

radio and TV broadcasting various segments with topics of teen addiction and its effect on the family. He has also consulted to various schools,

organizations and corporations including Titleist Footjoy, American Airlines, Boston Police Department and others.

Matt spent 3 years traveling to the Caribbean island of St. Martin in the Netherlands, Antilles, establishing a substance abuse treatment program

called “Turning Point” His work was supported by private capital and sponsored by both the French and Dutch governments.

From 2004 through the present, Matt has worked closely with Dr. John Kelly, Ph.D. currently the Director of the Recovery Research Institute at

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Addiction Research Program. Over the years Matt has participated in research with Dr. Kelly as part of

the Brown University Center for Alcohol Studies funded by Brown University; a Massachusetts General Hospital department of Psychiatry study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and currently a study through the Recovery Research Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital.

Matt currently consults, treats, and supervises physicians and medical school students monitored by Physician Health Services a corporation of

the Massachusetts Medical Society - a program for impaired physicians. He also is a clinical supervisor for doctoral level clinical psychology students as part of their field placement from William James College and Nurse Practitioner Students preparing for licensure as psychiatric nurse

practitioners from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University (MCPHS).

Cheryl is a clinical psychologist and a trauma specialist. Dr. Hunt is also a staff psychologist at the Trauma Center in Boston, MA.

Cheryl has worked in numerous mental health settings including hospitals (inpatient as well as emergency rooms) and various outpatient clinics. She trained and worked at the award winning Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Hospital and was chief psychologist at the Women's Treatment Program at MetroWest Medical Center. Cheryl has held an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and is currently on the clinical faculty at the Trauma Center in Boston (affiliated with Boston University Medical School).

 
In addition to trauma treatment, Cheryl also specializes in substance abuse treatment and is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Cheryl employs EMDR with patients who experience acute stress disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Deborah conducts individual therapy and facilitates recovery groups at Sameem Associates, Inc. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings in the Greater Boston Area, including New England Memorial Hospital and Children's Hospital. Deborah’s work focuses on adolescent girls, women’s issues, trauma, family systems, and eating disorders. Her experience also includes training and supervising mental health professionals in group work with adult sexual abuse survivors.

A graduate of Smith College School for Social Work, Deborah also served as faculty field advisor at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and is currently on the clinical faculties of Boston University School of Social Work and Simmons College School of Social Work. She published “The Diary as a Transitional Object in Female Adolescent Development” in Adolescent Psychiatry (1983) based on her original research.

Deborah is the former publications director at Hebrew College in Newton Highlands and is a freelance writer and experienced editor. She is currently working on a book drawn from her 1960s teen diaries.