Megan J. Murphy, PhD
Director of the Couple & Family Therapy Institute
Areas of Interest: Working with couples (married, dating, cohabiting), the LGBT population, and individual men and women who are concerned with self-esteem and depression. “Outside the clinic, I enjoy baking, trying new restaurants, working out, and spending time with my husband, Joe, and our two boxers, Tressa and Maeve.”
Education/Degree(s): PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy University of Georgia; MS in Marriage and Family Therapy, Colorado State University; BA in Sociology and Psychology, SUNY Geneseo
Experience Working with People: Provided therapy to individuals, couples, and families through the Couple and Family Therapy at Iowa State University for ten years; provided in-home family therapy to families involved with the Department of Human Services; worked in training clinics as a therapist and supervisor; ran support groups for pregnant women and women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS; worked as a rape crisis counselor and supporter for battered women
Stephen Price, D. Min.
Clinical Supervisor
Areas of Interest: “I love doing therapy, supervising, and riding my motorcycle.”
Education/Degree(s): BA, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio; Master of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, New York, New York; S.T.M. in Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York; Certificate in Psychotherapy and Marriage and Family Therapy, the Institutes of Religion and Health, New York, New York; Doctor of Ministry in Counseling and Psychology, Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, Massachusetts
Experience Working with People: Founder, executive director, and senior staff therapist at Counseling and Human Development Center in New York, New York; executive director and senior staff therapist at MAPS Counseling Service in Keene, New Hampshire; private practice in psychotherapy and marriage and family therapy in Keene; adjunct faculty, Antioch University New England in Keene
Kevin P. Lyness, PhD
Clinical Supervisor
Areas of Interest: Substance abuse, therapeutic issues with sexual minorities, postmodern approaches to couple and family therapy, and research methods in family therapy. “Personally, I am an avid landscape photographer and spend much of my free time taking photographs of our wonderful New England scenery.”
Education/Degree(s): PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy, Purdue University
Experience Working with People: Peer counselor on an adolescent substance abuse treatment inpatient unit; certified as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor in the state of Texas in 1988; director of numerous substance abuse programs; licensed marriage and family therapist (since 2000); AAMFT-approved supervisor (since 2001); teacher in MFT programs (since 1999); and director of the MFT programs at Antioch University New England (since 2006)
Walter Lowe, Jr., PhD
Clinical Supervisor
Areas of Interest: Finding the best ways to provide help to the families of men or women who are returning home after long absences, either as the result of military service or incarceration
Education/Degree(s): PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy, Purdue University
Experience Working with People: Assistant professor in the MFT programs; clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; has worked as a clinician for fifteen years, working with couples of all ages, families with multiple problems (mental, behavioral and/or medical), and families from diverse cultural backgrounds; has done extensive work in the areas of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and sexual abuse; worked in a Chicago-area residential treatment facility for adolescent males, where he was the creator and founding director of the facility’s adolescent substance abuse treatment program
Judith Davis, Ed.D.
Clinical Supervisor
Areas of Interest: In the realm of therapy, I most enjoy working with couples (gay, straight, married or not) and with multigenerational families, as well as with individuals. In the realm of research, I have a long-standing interest in both the function of ritual in family life cycle development, and in the therapeutic use of the reflecting stance. (See, among other publications: “Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah Is This, Anyway? A Guide For Parents Through A Family Rite Of Passage,” St. Martin’s Press, 1998; and “The Golden Pig: The Reflecting Process in Teaching Family Therapy,” Family Process, Vol.51, No. 3, 2012). At home, my husband and I are blessed with two grandsons who live close by and with whom we have great pleasure.
Education/Degrees: Ed.D. in Psychological Counseling, specialization in Family Therapy, with Professor Evan Imber Black, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1987); and advanced training at the Brattleboro Family Institute with Lynn Hoffman(1988-1991). Approved Family Therapy Supervisor (1994)
Experience Working with People: In 2002, I retired from the University of Massachusetts where I had been from 1987, a therapist and trainer on the staff of the University’s Counseling Center, and prior to that, from1973, the coordinator of the Resource Network and then the director of the Office of Human Relations (both programmatic efforts to deal systemically with campus-wide issues related to racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-Semitism). Also during these years, I occasionally taught Family Therapy as adjunct professor in the School of Education, UMass, and in the Psychology Department at Springfield College. Currently, I spend most of my week at my private practice in Amherst, and once a week, happily teaching at Antioch.
Janet Robertson, MA
PhD Student, Supervisor-in-training
Areas of Interest: The socialization of gender roles, culture, social justice, and therapy with immigrant families. “My personal interests involve hiking with my dogs, running, mountain biking, cooking and swimming.”
Education/Degree(s): BA in Psychology, University of South Florida; MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, Antioch University New England
Experience Working with People: Provided individual, couples, and family therapy at the Couples and Family Therapy Institute during first year of master’s program; completed an internship with FamilyStrength providing intensive, short-term, in-home therapy to families that included crisis intervention, parent education, and individual, couples, and family therapy; after the internship, continued working with FamilyStrength’s Deployment Cycle Support Program, providing case management or therapy to family members of deployed soldiers
