Rehab Seminars

Valerie Harrington, PhD is a clinical psychologist with over twenty years of experience working with children and families. Her areas of expertise include child and adolescent mental health and development, complex family trauma, parenting with mental illness, postpartum mood disorders, and intergenerational transmission of anxiety. Valerie began her career in community mental health settings, working in high poverty communities of Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, and Minneapolis, MN. From 2005-2013 she served as a Professor of Practice at Argosy University, Chicago, teaching courses in community mental health, family therapy, and psychopathology. She additionally specialized in remediation of ethical violations of students in clinical training. Valerie settled in the Seattle area in 2013 and completed advanced training in Infant Mental Health through the Barnard Center of the University of Washington. She worked with the Washington Association of Infant Mental Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment and bring IMH endorsement to the state. She is currently in private practice on Vashon Island, providing mental health assessment and treatment, parenting education, and consultation to local schools, non-profit agencies, and clinicians. Financial disclosure: Dr. Harrington maintains a private clinical practice and receives speaking and consulting fees. There are no non-financial disclosures. Andra DeVoght, PT, MPH is a physical therapist with 26 years of experience. Her professional work has been committed to making interdisciplinary connections and building bridges across professions in order to better serve the complexity of human development and healing. Her career began with ten years of work as a physical therapist at a hospital serving highly complex patients with critical injuries and adverse social conditions. The need for more integration of a biopsychosocial model in that setting spurred her to study public health and mind-body practices to elucidate the links between social conditions, stress and health. Andra has applied her knowledge and perspective as an educator in a wide range of settings: health education classes for middle and high school students with an emphasis on sexual health and stress management; mindfulness classes in schools for students and staff; yoga and mindfulness classes for families with young children and for people with chronic illness or pain; and training patients and providers in mind-body approaches to pregnancy and birthing. She maintains a private physical therapy practice on Vashon Island where she integrates a biopsychosocial approach to the care of adults and children with a wide range of conditions that affect how they function in daily life. Andra has co-authored a book chapter on the social determinants of health in an Integrative Rehabilitation Practice textbook and journal articles on teaching the social determinants of health in schools and on a population health perspective on managing chronic pain and opiate use disorder. Financial disclosure: Andra maintains a private PT practice and receives speaking fees. Non-financial disclosure: Andra participates on the advisory board of Vashon Island Midwifery.