About Clare McBee, LICSW
(they/them)
Over the course of my career as a clinical social worker, I have focused my work on providing LGBTQI-affirming psychotherapy to individuals who have experienced trauma, in its many interpersonal and systemic forms. As a white queer nonbinary femme therapist, I continue to educate myself on the privileges and power dynamics inherent in my own social position in relation to my clients, and I openly work from an anti-oppression framework.
In 2016, I joined The Meeting Point Collaborative, a community of social-justice minded mental health and body work providers located in Jamaica Plain, MA. The Meeting Point is where my private practice office is located. Prior to going into private practice, I worked in community-based mental health settings that primarily served individuals living with HIV/AIDS, LGBTQI+ folks, and people experiencing addiction or homelessness: Partners in Health/PACT Project, Chicago House & Social Service Agency, Howard Brown Health Center, and Victory Programs/Living and Recovering Community.
My work with each client is integrative and dynamic. My “home base” is in contemporary feminist psychodynamic therapy (e.g. “top-down” talk therapy), but my primary focus is in providing more “bottom-up” interventions from EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy to assist individuals in reprocessing and healing from trauma. I welcome to my practice individuals who are seeking therapeutic support in integrating their personal psychedelic healing work.
I’m a firm believer that a person will not feel safe exploring difficult areas in therapy if they don’t feel comfortable with and understand the human sitting across from them. Therefore, I want you to see my personality and sense of humor as we collaborate, so that we can build a strong working relationship built on trust and mutual understanding. I am an active therapist! I don’t like sitting back and asking “how does that make you feel?” I like to offer interpretations, suggestions and questions with your input to assist us both in reaching a deeper understanding. Most of all, I am open to your feedback about whether things are working for you.
My Clinical Approach
My training:
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Polaris Insight Center
Certificate of Completion, Group Ketamine Assisted Therapy, 2023
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Fluence
Certificate of Completion: Psychedelic Integration, 2023
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SYZYGY Institute
Certificate of Completion, IFS-Informed EMDR, 2022
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Fluence
Certificate of Completion, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, 2022
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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
Certificate of Completion, MDMA Therapy Training Program, 2021
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EMDR Advanced Trainings
Certificate of Completion, EMDR Therapy for Suicidal Clients and Self-Harming Behaviors, 2021
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EMDR Advanced Trainings
Certificate of Completion, Treating Dissociative Disorders with EMDR: The Progressive Approach, 2021
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EMDRIA
Certificate of Completion, EMDR Basic Training, Parts 1 and 2, 2021
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Certificate of Completion, Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory, 2018
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Boston University School of Social Work Professional Education Programs
Certificate of Completion, Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model of Therapy, 2017
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University of Chicago: Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
AM (MSW equivalent), 2013
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Brandeis University
MA, Anthropology & Gender Studies, 2007
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Wellesley College
BA, Anthropology & Music, 2005
Professional Memberships
National Association of Social Workers - MA Chapter, EMDRIA, Psychedelic Medicine Association, American Psychedelic Practitioners Association (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee)
I work, live and consume resources from the traditional territory and homelands of the Massachusett people, the original inhabitants of this land, which was violently invaded by white colonial settlers in what is now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Despite the invasion, massacre and forced assimilation of the Massachusett people by settlers, their descendants have survived and passed on their stories and traditions.