Joe Mageary

Dr. Joe Mageary is an Associate Professor of Practice and Mental Health Counseling Program Director in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He is the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma’s alumni newsletter, Beautiful Connections, and was most recently Associate Provost for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is a Licensed School Adjustment Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Massachusetts, as well as a nationally certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Connecticut.

He has used his LMHC in inpatient, outpatient, and community-based clinical roles and has extensive experience as a clinical supervisor, having worked as the Director of Emergency Services and Jail Diversion for an eighteen-town catchment area as well as serving as a Clinical Director in therapeutic high school settings for nearly a decade prior to joining Lesley’s faculty. His current projects include co-facilitating evidence-based Suicide Assessment and Intervention Trainings and providing consultation for aid workers who are caring for internally displaced people, asylum seekers, and youth whose educations are impacted by war.