Robinson-Wood Center for Applied Psychology, PLLC
Curriculum Vitae
Geoffrey A. Robinson-Wood, Psy. D.
182 Windmill Road
Campton, NH 03223-4664
(603) 536 - 1902 (o)
(508) 308 - 5745 (cellular)
Education and Certifications
2009 Licensed as Practicing Psychologist in New Hampshire, License # 1187
2006 Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D), Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology Widener University Chester, PA
2003 Certification as Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, specializing in early childhood treatment
2001 M.A. Psychology Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology; Widener University, Chester, PA
2001 Classical Training Psychoanalysis -Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Analyst. Philadelphia, PA
1997 Bachelor of Science –Psychology Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY
Honors and Awards
2003 Dissertation: Assessing the Ego Maturity of a Prelingually Deaf Boy: A Diagnostic Case Study Employing The “World” Sand Tray Test.
1998 The National Dean’s List
1997 Recipient of the Stephen L. Cohen Prize in Psychology.
1997 Cum Laude with Honors in major field (Psychology) Honors Thesis: Assessing the Fantasies of Altruism and Malevolence in ALH Narrative; The
Theoretical and Clinical Implications of Object Relations Representations.
1997 Hobart Deans’ Citizenship Award.
1997 Durfee Scholar. Scholarship recognition
1997 Deans’ List
1997 Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship
1996 Hale Scholar. Scholarship recognition
1996 The Druid Society of Hobart College. Life Member of the Senior Honorary Society
1996 Dean’s List
1996 Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship
1995 Hobart Scholar. Scholarship recognition
1995 Gnatcher Family Scholarship. Merit Scholarship
1994 Hobart Dean Scholar. Scholarship recognition
1994 Deans’ List
Professional Affiliations
- American Psychological Association 8058-5709
- Division 39 – Division of Psychoanalysis
- Division 35: Society for the Psychology of Women
- Division 24: Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
- New York Association for Play Therapy
- New Hampshire Psychological Association
Specialization, Key Competencies, and Areas of Expertise
- Alternatives to DSM-IV diagnostic conventions
- Assessment and psycho-diagnosis of infants, and children.
- Attachment status and separation-individuation correlations.
- Early infant play therapy; psychotherapy.
- Father-daughter attachment. The father wound. The father’s role in the emotional and intellectual development of his daughter.
- Psychotherapy of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing; American Sign Language fluency.
- Patient diversity: racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, class, disability, age, religion and sexual orientation.
- Sandtray apparatus as a psycho-diagnostic tool and adjunct to therapy.
- Theory and treatment of Schizophrenia. Prodromal diagnostics.
- Transference and Counter transference as it concerns the intersection between the patient’s and therapist’s racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, ses,
- religious, and sexual identity.
Professional Experience -Current
12/14 | Robinson-Wood Applied Psychology, P.L.L.C. Campton, NH:, Pediatric psychoanalytic-psychodynamic psychotherapy; ages two to twelve and their parents, and adults. Treatments designed to make durable structural changes to the psychic life of the individual; arrested and delayed development is restored. Supervision and consultation. |
10/09 | Department of Health and Human Services; The National Health Service Corps, at The Center for New Beginnings, Littleton, NH Psychoanalytic- psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision, consultant |
Professional Experience –Previous
10/10 | NorthEast Health Service, Brockton, MA 02301 |
06/09 | Supervision, Psychoanalytic-psychodynamic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, their parents, and adults. Exploratory and supportive psychotherapy. Treatments designed to make durable structural changes to the psychic life of the individual; arrested and delayed development is restored. |
08/08 | Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Brockton, MA |
06/09 | Psychoanalytic-psychodynamic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, their parents, and adults. Provided exploratory and supportive psychotherapy. Treatments designed to make durable structural changes to the psychic life of the individual; arrested and delayed development is restored. |
12/06 | Forensic Health Services, Inc. at Massachusetts Treatment Center, Bridgewater, MA Director of Psychological Assessment. Supervisor. Psychotherapist. |
03/08 | ASL-Fluent Psychotherapist. |
11/05 12/06 | South Bay Mental Health, Inc., Attleboro, Massachusetts. Psychotherapy to children, their parents, and adults. Provided exploratory and supportive psychotherapy. |
11/04 08/03 | Girard Medical Center; North Philadelphia Health System, Philadelphia, PA Outpatient, exploratory and supportive psychotherapist. Sub-Acute inpatient exploratory and supportive psychotherapist. Group psychotherapist on Extended Acute Inpatient Unit. Interventions based upon G. Albee’s Incidence Formula of Primary Prevention. Evaluator: psycho-diagnostics. |
08/03 11/03 | Community Council for Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Philadelphia, PA Central Intake Unit Specialist and Coordinator & Psycho- Diagnostician. Resident specialist and consultant to Department of Psychiatry for the psychodynamic treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders and schizophrenia. Out-patient psychotherapist for children, adults, and families. |
Training –Internships/Practica
12/02 – | University Student and Community Counseling Center Widener University, Chester PA. |
07/03 | APA Approved Pre-doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology. Psych-Diagnostic Evaluator. Psychotherapist. |
12/02 – | Philadelphians Concerned About Housing, Philadelphia, PA |
07/03 | Clinical Psychology Pre-Doctoral Intern. Director PCAH, Counseling Center. Psych-Diagnostic Evaluator. Psychotherapist. Consultant. Workshop Director. |
07/02 – | Elwyn, Incorporated, Elwyn, PA |
11/02 | APA Approved Pre-doctoral Intern. Psychotherapist. Sand Tray Apparatus was utilized as a psycho-diagnostic tool within the psychological evaluation battery. Psycho-diagnostics Evaluator. Resident Consultant. |
07/01 – | Girard Medical Center; North Philadelphia Health System Philadelphia, PA |
06/02 | APA Approved Pre-doctoral Intern. Unit treatment team director; dual diagnosis Acute, Sub-Acute, and Extended Acute Inpatient units. Outpatient Clinic Psychotherapist. Evaluator. Senior clinical psychology intern and consultant serving as on-call consultant for Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, and Art Therapy disciplines for both Acute In-Patient and Extended Acute Units. |
09/00 – | Philadelphia Center for Human Development, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment |
05/01 | Outpatient and Partial Hospital Treatment Center Philadelphia, PA Clinical Psychology Practicum Student. Partial hospitalization program psychotherapist. Outpatient psychotherapist and co-psychotherapist Out-patient support-group. Consultant. |
09/99 – | Iris House, LTSR; Northwestern Human Services Philadelphia, PA |
05/00 | Clinical Psychology Practicum. Psychotherapist: Supportive and exploratory individual psychotherapy. Ongoing psychotherapy with deaf patients diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Provided supportive psychotherapy to three male, deaf residents in preparation for independent living. Group Narrative Psychotherapist. Milieu observer. Director of in-service training. Director of Grand Rounds and treatment plan development. |
09/98 – | Elwyn, Incorporated. Residential treatment Facility Cottage Seven Elwyn, PA |
07/99 | Clinical Psychology Practicum. Psychoanalytic-psychodynamic-pediatirc psychotherapist Co-Psychotherapist |
01/97 - | Canandaigua Veterans Administration Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY |
06/97 | Inpatient Geriatric Unit Canandaigua, The Canandaigua Provided inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy to veterans. Geriatric-psychotherapist employing interpersonal psychotherapy model of intervention: Referral situation: Transitional distress and depression secondary to multi-infarct vascular dementia and corresponding neurological damage. Compromised ego-adaptive functioning resulting in a symptom picture characterized by delusions, depressed mood, delirium with mixed emotional and conduct disturbances. |
09/96 - | Canandaigua Veterans Administration Medical Center; Neuropsychology Center Canandaigua, NY |
06/97 | NeuroPsychology Practicum; Neuro-Psychologist Trainee |
09/95 – | The Anna Freud Centre, Hampstead, England NW3 5SH |
12/95 | Milieu Observer trainee of pre-school aged children conducted within the Center’s outpatient nursery school settings. Observed, recorded, and prepared behavioral formulations present twice monthly to AFC’s Masters of Science in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychopathology diagnostic colloquia. |
Research
09/98 – | The Child’s Sand World Project, Pawtucket, RI |
06/06 | Prinicipal Investigator. The purpose of this pilot study is to validate the Sand Tray Apparatus as an assessment of ego development in deaf children. |
09/98 – | Anticipated Life History Project (NIMH #1 R03 MH55498), Ithaca, New York |
06/00 | Harry Segal, Ph.D. Principal Investigator. Data Collector |
09/96 – | Anticipated Life History Project (NIMH #1 R03 MH55498), Ithaca, NY |
06/98 | H. Segal; Ph.D. Principal Investigator. Project Director. |
09/96 – | Honors Research Hobart College Geneva, NY Advisor: Harry Segal; Ph.D. |
06/97 | An original empirical study in conjunction with the Anticipated Life History Project. Coding system development and validation |
09/95 – | University College London-Anna Freud Center Parent-Child Project London, England |
12/95 | Miriam Steele, Ph. D., Howard Steele. Ph. D, and Peter Fonagy, Ph. D., Supervisors. Designed and validated a coding system to assess the durability of attachment status over the life-cycle for 100 children subjects’ narratives collected from children having participated in the London Parent-Child Project’s Lynn Murray’s Doll House Procedure, a projective developed by Dr. Murray, Ph.D. Oxford University, Oxford, England. |
Principal Presentations, Workshops and Invited Addresses
Imagining the Future: The Effects of Gender and SES on the Anticipated Life History Narratives of Young Adults. Poster Presentation. Society for Research in Child Development. April, 1999 Gender, Future Events, and Mental Health: Data form the Anticipated Life History Project. Paper presentation, Society for Research in Adult Development, Boston, MA June, 1997.
Understanding Our Anger, Understanding Our Fear. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2002, December
Sanitized Grief. 20th Century Bereavement. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, February
Championing your personal Genius. A lecture and workshop developed for Philadelphians Concerned About Housing, Philadelphia, PA 19139 2003, March
The Self Without Integrity. The Contemporary Esteem Model. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, April
Your Newborn’s Wellbeing. A Shared Learning. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing. Philadelphia, PA 2003, May
Punishment, anger and anxiety. Guidance and Love. Reaching out to our Children. Presentation and workshop. Philadelphians Concerned About Housing.
Philadelphia, PA 2003, July
Publications
Wood, G. A. (2003) Assessing the Ego Maturity of a Prelingually Deaf Boy: A Diagnostic Case Study Employing the “World” Sand Tray Test. Widener University;
Institute for Graduate clinical Psychology. (Dissertation Abstracts International 75/05, p 1890)
Segal, H. G., G. Wood, D. & K. Demeis & H. Smith (2003) Future Events, early experience & mental health: Clinical assessment using the Anticipated Life History measure. Assessment, 10 (1), 29-40
Segal, H. G., DeMeis, D. K., Wood, G. A., & Smith, H. L. (2001). Assessing future possible selves by gender and socioeconomic status using the Anticipated Life History measure. Journal of Personality, 69(1), 57- 87.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Segal, H. G., D. K. Demeis, & G. Wood (1998) Anticipated Life History Scoring Manual. Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Wood, G. A., M. Steele, & H. Steele, (1996) Dollhouse Procedure Coding Manual. Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the Anna Freud Centre.