Research Interests

Children, families, and parenting; school systems, teachers, and teacher/child/family relationships; application of psychodynamic theory and social justice perspectives to school-based mental health; trauma and recovery; identity development; human diversity and cultural humility; cross-cultural and interracial relationships; psychodynamic theory and application; relational theory; supervision and training.

Biography

Dr. Margaret Boucher is a licensed clinical psychologist in CA, where she teaches, supervises, and provides psychotherapy to children and adults. Over the course of her career, she has worked in community mental health, private practice, and academic settings. Margaret works within a depth-oriented perspective that acknowledges the power of the unconscious as well as the transpersonal, is deeply humanistic, and recognizes the multiplicity of one’s intersecting identities and accompanying positionalities. Relationships are held sacred, and she is continually awed by what is possible within the co-created, intersubjective space of the classroom and the therapy room. Margaret is passionate about thinking about schools and school-based mental health and how children/families, teachers, and school systems impact one another and are impacted by culture, histories of discrimination and oppression, poverty, trauma, and the sociopolitical backdrop. In addition to her professional pursuits, Margaret is deeply engaged with her family and community and celebrates the ways in which these relationships inform and enrich her teaching, scholarship, and psychotherapeutic work.

Education

B.A., Major: Psychology; University of California, Berkeley, 2000 

M.A., Psychology and Education; Teacher’s College, Columbia University, 2003 

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology; California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012

Courses

Foundational Clinical Skills: Children & Families 

Supervision & Consultation 

Professional Seminar