Therapy that meets you where you are and supports you in where you want to go.

Salem offers virtual therapy sessions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Specialties include, LGBTQ+, Adolescence, Parenting, and Trauma Work. Though Salem has expertise in these areas, he also works with a wider range of needs and disorders; from anxiety and depression to stress management.

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About Salem (He/Him)

Salem Black, MS, MSW, LICSW brings years of experience in working with children and families. He started his academic career with a Bachelor's in anthropology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania followed by a Master's in Biomedical Anthropology from Binghamton University. This view on the intersection between behavioral and public health allowed him to move into work with the criminal justice system. He worked with incarcerated individuals, teaching reintegration classes, which effectively reduced rates of recidivism in a pilot program in Pittsburgh. This program was eventually adopted and implemented nationwide by other detention centers.

Seeing the life long impacts of childhood instability, system failures and lack of mental health supports, he made a quick transition into the world of child welfare, working directly with the Department for Children and Families in the states of Massachusetts and Vermont. He moved from direct social work to the development and training of trauma informed curricula in conjunction with the University of Vermont, where he was a Child Welfare Specialist. He offered trauma informed trainings, informing parenting skills, case management and direct social work that was used state wide with foster/adoptive parents, mental health professionals and The Department for Children and Families. He also participated in state wide work groups that informed policy changes and standards of care.

Further identifying the need for quality mental health care for children, adolescents and their families, Salem obtained a Master's of Social Work from the Catholic University of America, with a clinical focus. With this additional lens, he worked as a child and adolescent therapist with the Brattleboro Retreat. In his continued work with the state, and clinical engagement, Salem gained expertise in best practices for working with LGBTQ+ individuals, identity development and the complex systems in which this community participates. Following his relocation to the Boston area, he has used this knowledge and experience in the high acuity world of inpatient psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital. Salem brings this foundation of knowledge to outpatient treatment, applying a strength based approached and empirically based modalities to his work. He hopes to support youth and their caregivers during a difficult time of transition, identity exploration and the ever growing complexities that are introduced daily.

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“And even if there are aspects of our lives we can’t control, we still have choices in how we actually live them. If we experience pain, we can choose either to wallow in it, to suffer, or we can choose to focus instead upon what is still positive and rewarding in our lives - to immerse ourselves in the things that make us happier. Pain may be unavoidable, but suffering can be a choice.”

— Frank S. Robinson