Doc Wayne has an opening for a master’s level mental health clinician! We are looking for a candidate who is independently licensed (e.g. LICSW, LMHC) or license-eligible (e.g. LCSW, recent graduate). Please see this job post for additional details and instructions on how to apply.

Individual Therapy for Youth and Adults

Our licensed clinicians involve the individual in planning treatment to emphasize the person’s needs, strengths, and choices.

Chalk Talk®: Sport-Based Therapy Group

Sport-based group therapy program. Our coaches use soccer, basketball, flag-football, and other team sports to support students as they process and persevere through adversity.

Therapeutic Recess

Youth Coaches facilitate interactions and play that reinforce social-emotional skills for K-8 students at recess. Located throughout Massachusetts.

Trainings Through The Champions Network®

The Champions Network® is Doc Wayne’s external training program. We partner with a range of organizations, clinicians, sports coaches, and other youth development professionals

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MENTAL HEALTH
IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Doc Wayne identifies mental health as a human right and that wellbeing encompasses physical movement together with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. In working to change global systems impacting everyday realities, Doc Wayne is catalyzing a movement to help ensure that all youth have equitable access to effective mental health care.

Doc Wayne provides training, tools, and services that address emotional, behavioral, traumatic, racial, gender, and cultural-based barriers by providing equitable access to better mental health for all. Our clinician-led curricula put sport into practice, strengthening social-emotional skills in young learners to build healthier, more resilient global communities.

Countries Served

Youth Impacted

Coaches Trained

Our Results Speak For Themselves

Doc Wayne constitutes success by measuring positive changes such as youth beginning to use healthier coping skills, feeling confident to engage in sport and movement, and becoming leaders in their school or community. During the 2021-22 school year, Doc Wayne students self-reported positive change in many key life skills. The tool we use is the Holistic Student Assesment (HSA.)

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Increase in Critical Thinking

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Greater Reflection

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More Empathy

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Increase in Learning Interest

HSA measures Social-Emotional Development linked to academic performance, long-term health outcomes, mental health & resilience. The HSA is a self-report survey from students in Doc Wayne. Percentage total includes positive change and students who reported no change.

More Detailed Studies

Journal of Education Article (2021) Journal of Family Violence (2013)