Our Practice

In 2015, Susan completed a one year post graduate inter-professional (NP/MD) residency at the VA BHS/Harvard south shore psychiatry residency.

Upon completion of her NP residency, she stayed on as a staff VA BHS prior to joining Boston Medical Center. As a family psychiatric nurse practitioner, she specializes in providing care in the outpatient setting.

Previously Susan provided consultation services to the Family Medicine Clinic at Boston Medical through the integrated behavioral health in primary care model. Additional experience includes providing consultations to the Framingham CBOC which is part of the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare systems.

Throughout her work in various settings, Susan has advocated for improving care quality and outcomes, her current interests include addictions treatment, behavioral and physical health disparities experienced by individuals with a history of childhood maltreatment and trauma in general.

Her goal is to study barriers to mental health services in underserved populations especially in low and middle income countries. She is a member of the Alpha Chi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. Read about Susan in Voice magazine. Voice is published by the William F. Connell School of Nursing and the Boston College Office of Marketing Communications.

Mary has experience working in outpatient clinics, private practice and inpatient unit (McLean Hospital for 6 years) and academic settings.

She not only prescribes and manages psychiatric medications, she also encourages exercise /fitness balanced nutrition, yoga and meditation as part of holistic mental health care.

She has experience working on multidisciplinary teams and practices using a team approach to medicine; works collaboratively with therapists, counselors, primary care and other community providers.

Mary enjoys working with all ages including college students and geriatrics. She treats a wide spectrum of conditions including Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, PTSD, mood disorders and substance use.

She believes in the biopsychosocial model and believes that every person is a unique individual. As such, she integrates psycho education and an eclectic mix of psychotherapy modalities including CBT, modified DBT and Trauma focused therapy.

She earned her Master’s of Social Work from Springfield College.

She specializes in working with children and adolescents using DBT, CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. She has experience working with a wide range of mental health challenges, including substance use, addiction, childhood trauma, and behavioral disorders.

Chuncie believes in meeting people where they are in order to guide them towards self-awareness so they can develop their full potential. She is supportive, non-judgmental, trustworthy, optimistic, and understanding.

She holds an MSN at Stony Brook University in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program, a second bachelor’s in nursing from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and her first bachelors in biology. She completed the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, NP Residency in 2015. Maria completed the American Psychiatric Nursing Association’s Recovery to Practice Facilitator Program for Nurses in 2014. Her nurse residency capstone involved creating the inpatient psychiatric family mental health recovery group. The group’s purpose was to provide psychoeducation to family members about mental health recovery to support their loved one’s treatment goals. Maria worked for several years in medical-surgical and psychiatric nursing. She influences the next generation of nurses through precepting and mentoring undergraduate and graduate nurses. Her future goals are to engage in projects to benefit veterans, develop preventive mental health strategies, and create a program to educate underserved populations about psychological health, including emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social well-being. Psychological health is attained through a holistic approach focused on the whole person’s transition from illness to wellness and recovery. Whereby applying pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods toward health and healing.

She enjoys speaking with and working with people and finds that to be the most rewarding part of her job. Jen has also worked in customer service roles for over 10 years, and she prides herself in always providing the best service possible. Jennifer graduated CHS in June of 1986 and attended CCRI’s Lincoln Campus. Both in her home state of Rhode Island.

During her free time, she enjoys taking care of her dog, Athena. She also enjoys reading. She is especially proud to be the mother of six, five daughters and one son. She is also the grandmother of four beautiful granddaughters.

Having worked in a community pharmacy setting for almost 8 years, she has broad experience in drug dispensing, administrative tasks, and dealing with people from all walks of life.

When not at work, she enjoys taking road trips to beaches and the mountains with friends.

She also likes to go on food trips and loves taking pictures of everything. She has a dog Pogi who she spends the most time and who means the world to her.