About

Brendan O’Neil, MSW began working in youth programming in 1996 and received his Master’s in Social Work in 2008. He is an honored inductee (2007, Summa Cum Laude) of the Nu Tau Chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Workers. With a clinical background in therapeutic wilderness, residential, outpatient, and psychiatric settings, his experiences include service as an educator, residential therapist, psychiatric crisis clinician, and 10 years as a program administrator in the directorship at a well known therapeutic boarding school for adolescent boys. Brendan has an extensive background in therapeutic experiential education program development, facilitation, and management and brings clinical expertise in adolescent development, young adult development, family and systems theory, the strengths perspective, and cognitive behavioral therapies such as dialectical behavioral therapy and rational emotive therapy. Brendan has contributed consistently to the Social Work field as an adjunct professor at his alma mater since 2010. He is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Education and Human Development at Lesley University, Cambridge MA.

Specializations: Crisis Intervention, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Executive Function Disorder, DMDD, ODD, Autism Spectrum, Psychiatric Services, Social, Emotional, and Learning Needs. Inpatient, Outpatient, Residential, and Wilderness Programming. Adoption, Early Teen, Teen, Emerging Adult, Young Adult.