Sarah Strong, MSSW, LCSW, IMH-E® is the Co-director of the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program, Wisconsin Child-Parent Psychotherapy Learning Community, and Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Training Site at the Department of Psychiatry, UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Sarah is engaged with all aspects of the Capstone Certificate Program, and provides instruction for the program on attachment, the intersection of attachment and exposure to trauma in the early years, trauma principles and treatment for very young children, secondary traumatic stress, and the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System. She provides reflective consultation for clinicians who are in the Wisconsin Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Learning Community and for licensed mental health clinicians in the Capstone Certificate Program. She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Clinical Mentor by the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health. Sarah has worked in the field of mental health for over thirty years as a psychotherapist, reflective consultant and educator specializing in parent-infant/early childhood mental health. She is on the National Roster of Child Parent Psychotherapy Providers and Trainers, and is a Wisconsin State Trainer for Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Sarah has worked with faculty of the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital to become endorsed as a Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Trainer. She has previously worked as a psychotherapist at Group Health Cooperative and at the Mental Health Center of Dane County (now Journey Mental Health Center), where she coordinated and supervised the Family Preservation Program, provided office-based and in-home psychotherapy, and supervised Family Support Specialists, mental health therapists, graduate students and post-graduate interns working toward licensure. She has also served as an Assistant Faculty Associate and Field Instructor for the UW School of Social Work. Sarah completed her Master of Science in Social Work degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Certificate Program. She has participated in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Professional Training with Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, practices mindful meditation and uses mindfulness and mindful meditation in her work.
Kathleen Hipke, PhD, IMH-E® is Co-Director of the Center for Innovations in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health of which the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program is a part, at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Hipke is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience and expertise in perinatal, infant, and early childhood mental health. She is especially interested in program development and educational and professional training opportunities that expand our Wisconsin workforce to provide high quality, therapeutic support to children and families, particularly those who have experienced trauma, in the earliest years of life. Dr. Hipke currently serves as Director of the UW-Madison Prevention Research Center’s Core Research Project, Addressing Postpartum Depression in Wisconsin Home Visiting; provides clinical service and teaching via the Parent Infant Early Childhood Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry; leads an Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Team to campus Early Care and Education; co-directs state-wide training in Trauma Informed Child Parent Psychotherapy (TI-CPP) to licensed mental health clinicians seeking to implement empirically supported interventions for children 0-5 years of age who have experienced trauma and their caregivers; and has provided leadership, teaching and mentorship to multi-disciplinary Wisconsin professionals working with young children via the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program since its inception. Dr. Hipke earned her doctoral degree from Arizona State University and completed psychology internship training at Children’s Hospital in Chicago in the Department of Psychiatry at Northwestern University. She carries the Infant Mental Health Endorsement® as a Clinical Mentor.
Samantha L. Wilson, PhD, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Dr. Wilson is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She provides expanded developmental screening, referral, and follow-up for children in the first year following international adoption, along with community education and agency collaboration/consultation, for the International Adoption Clinic in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Wilson has taught course content and provided reflective consultation in the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Certificate Program since the program’s inception.
Abby Halloran, LCSW, IMH-E® provides Reflective Mentoring for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Ms. Halloran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice at Creating Space in Madison, where she provides psychotherapy for young children, families, and adults. Ms. Halloran specializes in working with families who have experienced trauma and is drawn to supporting caregivers of all kinds. She is nationally rostered as a clinician and supervisor in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and is endorsed as a Wisconsin CPP Trainer. Ms. Halloran has a Master’s degree in Social Work, is a graduate of the UW Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program and is endorsed by the Wisconsin Alliance of Infant Mental Health as an Infant Mental Health Mentor. She provides Reflective Supervision, Consultation, and Mentoring to professionals working in mental health, early childhood education, and home visiting.