About Amy Armstrong
Amy Armstrong, LICSW is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who received her MSW at the University of WA in 2000. She became licensed with her LICSW in 2003.
Amy currently works part-time as a therapist at The Brandeis Counseling Center at Brandeis University and has a part-time private practice where she specializes in Eating Disorder treatment and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
EATING DISORDER TREATMENT EXPERIENCE
From 2000-2004, Amy worked at Laurel Hill Inn's Residential Eating Disorder program as a clinician and group facilitator, then helped to create and direct their day program as Clinical Director from 2004-2006. Following this, she worked at the Newton Wellesley Eating Disorder and Behavioral Medicine Program, providing individual outpatient therapy. From 2008-2011, she became Clinical Director of the Multi-service Eating Disorder Association (MEDA). In addition to her private practice in Belmont Center, she has also provided clinical supervision to graduate interns and licensed clinicians at MEDA and Metrowest Nutrition and Therapy. Additionally, she worked part- time at Monte Nido's Virtual Eating Disorder Programs, facilitating therapy groups and providing individual therapy.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Prior to graduate school, Amy attended St Michael's College in VT where she interned at a Domestic Violence shelter and received her BA in psychology in 1994. She then spent a year volunteering with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) where she worked with preschoolers of lower income families and with a child abuse prevention program. She went on to work with Single Homeless Adults and Homeless Families in Seattle before attending graduate school from 1998-2000.
During her time at the University of WA, Amy interned as a school counselor and as a therapist in a mental health clinic. She also worked with Adults with Developmental Disabilities through Jewish Family Services, as a research assistant for an AIDS prevention project with HIV+ adults and as a writing tutor at a local community college.
While in MA, in addition to her private practice and Eating Disorder treatment work, Amy also worked part-time at Dana Farber Cancer Institute from 2006-2008, providing therapeutic support to those diagnosed with gynecological cancers. She also worked part-time as the Assistant Clinical Director of a community mental health facility in Cambridge from 2018-2022.
Internationally, Amy was a recipient of the Chester Fritz Fellowship from the University of WA that allowed her to study child labor in Cordoba, Argentina post-graduation from graduate school. She spent a college semester abroad studying in Nigeria and later volunteered in South Africa in 2004 providing AIDS prevention education to children, teens and the larger community.