Brenda Punsky
Senior Clinical Social Worker & Advocacy Director @Montefiore Health System
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Clinical Social Worker & Advocacy Director @Montefiore Health System
Provide trauma-informed individual, family, couple, and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults in the South Bronx, NYC. Through the Terra Firma program (a mental health/medical/legal partnership) embedded in the clinic, provide those services to undocumented immigrant youth, adults, and families. Director of advocacy (for Terra Firma). Specialize in traumatic stress, complex trauma, attachment, family-systems therapy, and acculturation. Expertise includes conducting psychological evaluations and writing affidavits in support of patients\' asylum cases and other forms of immigration relief. Conduct presentations and trainings to mental health, medical and legal professionals across the country.
EDUCATION
Leiden University
International Law and Legal Studies
Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law
New York University School of Law
Master's Degree, (LL.M.) Public International Law and Legal Studies
Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies
Certificate, Relational Psychotherapy
American University
Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
New York University
Master's Degree, Social Work (MSW) - 16-month Accelerated Program
New York Peace Institute (Formerly Safe Horizon Mediation)
Certified Mediator
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