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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.