Katherine Wilson | Medical Services
Specialties
Programs & Services
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
- Performing Artist Athletes Program
- Sports Medicine Division
- Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program
Languages
- English
Katherine Wilson | Education
Undergraduate School
Trinity College
1989, Hartford, CT
Graduate School
Smith College School for Social Work
1994, Northampton, MA
Fellowship
Social Work
Yale Psychiatric Institute
1995, New Haven, CT
Katherine Wilson | Certifications
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)
Katherine Wilson | Professional History
Katherine L. Wilson, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Throughout her career, she has dedicated herself to treating the behavioral health needs of adolescents, young adults, and their families. Her expertise lies in providing empirically based psychotherapy treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders and eating disorders.
Her interests lie in working with the construct of perfectionism, specifically its unhealthy manifestations and the ways it interferes with the effective treatment of many psychological disorders. As a former professional ballet dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, she also possesses a strong interdisciplinary understanding of dance medicine and sports psychology and works with dancers at all levels.