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Beth
O'Rourke, LISW, Executive Director
Beth
O’Rourke is a licensed clinical social worker. She provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to treat disorders including
those involving mood, anxiety and personality.
Beth received her Master’s degree from New Mexico Highland University. She has a BA in Psychology
from the University of New Mexico.
Experience Includes:
- Working with persons with severe psychiatric disorders in inpatient, outpatient and community
settings.
- Working with persons with developmental disabilities and brain injuries.
- Medical Social Work.
- Vocational Rehabilitation with special populations to include traumatic brain injury, mental illness
and hearing impairments.
She is currently the Executive Director of Albuquerque Collaborative Therapeutics. A primary mission
of the agency is to serve persons with developmental disabilities and brain injuries using a multi-modality approach to treat
behavioral disorders. Services include the collaborative delivery of both occupational therapy and behavior therapy services
designed to more holistically treat our clients.
She has advanced training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a treatment demonstrated to be useful in
the treatment of borderline personality disorders. It has now been shown to be effective in treating the depressed elderly,
persons with substance abuse issues and persons with eating disorders.
Lydia Fabbroni LISW
Lydia J Fabbroni is a licensed independent social worker
with a private practice within ACT for the past four years in addition to her full-time work as the lead social worker on
an inpatient acute psychiatric unit for children and adolescents. She is a graduate of New York University
in journalism and political science and gravitated to social work due to its emphasis on advocacy, social awareness, policy
development and the focus on assisting individuals, families and communities in developing the skills to live a fuller life.
Her past experience includes working with families experiencing
violence, incarcerated women and those who wind up in a hospital environment due to severe crisis. In her current private practice she in an individual DBT therapist as well as a group facilitator for adults,
adolescents and parents of adolescents. This work has given her the privilege to work with individuals and families of all
ages with mood dependent behaviors and mental illness, as well as those who support these individuals and seek a better understanding
of what their loved ones are experiencing.
Her DBT training includes the following though she continues
to enhance her skills and knowledge by sitting on DBT consultation Team with other intensively trained and experienced DBT
therapists:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Individuals with
Eating Disorders
March 2009
Individual Psychotherapy in Dialectical Behavior
Therapy
March 2008
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Multi-Problem Suicidal
Adults
December 2007
Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
March 2007
Foundational Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(Intensive)
October 2006
In her spare time, Lydia practices mindfulness through yoga and African dance and the daily challenges
of motherhood.

Chris Curry LISW
Chris
Curry has his Master's degree in Social Work, with advanced independent licensure. He has worked with ACT for almost
10 years now, though he left us for a couple of years to work as program director for a local agency that provides residential
and adult habilitation services for people with developmental disabilities. He has worked with the state's developmentally
disabled Medicaid waiver program as a behavior support consultant since 2000. He received advanced training in Dialectical
Behavior Therapy (DBT) in Seattle, Washington in 2005. In his career, Chris
has also worked with children in treatment foster care as a treatment coordinator and as a treatment social worker with the
Children, Youth and Families Department. He enjoys working with children and adolescents and with the GLBT community
as an individual therapist, specifically with a cognitive/behavioral orientation. He was awarded Advocacy Inc.'s Social
Worker of Year in 2002 and currently enjoys playing tennis and hiking in his free time.
Contact Chris Curry, LISW

Kneelynn Gray, LISW
Kneelynn Gray is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, receiving her Master's Degree from the University of Connecticut
School of Social Work. Kneelynn has been part of the ACT team for approximately ten years. Her current clinical
practice includes working with adults providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and
Behavioral Consultation services for adults who have developmental disabilities. Kneelynn's practice involves working
with adults in individual therapy and co-facilitating a DBT Skills group.
Her professional
clinical background includes working with children, adolescents and adults. She is able to provide a wide range of services
including: case management, advocacy, child welfare, crisis intervention, evaluation and assessment, case planning, and supportive
psychotherapy.
Kneelyn completed
the DBT Intensive Training Course in 2003 and continues to receive advanced training in DBT. She is committed to helping
adults who struggle with issues related to long term chronic mental illness, mood dependent behavior, and encouraging individuals
working on making positive life changes.
Kneelynn has a
keen interest in science fiction and physics. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, spending time with her family, walking
her two miniature dachshunds: Oki and Chorei, exercising, and remaining healthy.
Contact Kneelynn Gray, LISW

Jennifer
McCash LISW
Jennifer
McCash is a licensed independent social worker who has had a private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico
for the past nine years. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelors in Psychology and earned a Masters degree (with honors) in Social Work
from New Mexico Highlands
University. Prior to coming into private practice, she worked with the
Rape Crisis Center,
Domestic Violence Shelter, Allfaiths. ARCA, and Children, Youth and Family’s Department with the State of New Mexico. She is trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and has
practiced as part of a DBT team for seven years. She has advanced training in EMDR and is a certified mediator. She has extensive
training in parenting and developed the treatment foster care training for ARCA when she worked there as the adoption consultant.
She taught Common Sense Parenting through Allfaiths and was a facilitator of the Parent Education and Support Program.
In her
current practice she is an individual therapist for DBT and a group facilitator. She also works on the DD Waiver as a Behavior
Support Consultant. She is committed to working with adults who struggle with mood dependent behaviors and mental illness.
She also specializes in working with individuals and families regarding issues of trauma, abuse and neglect, parenting, and
developmental disabilities. She also conducts self-defense workshops.
In her
spare time Jennifer enjoys staying active: working out, being with family, meditating and doing construction projects. She
has both coached and played soccer for most of her life.
Contact Jennifer McCash, LISW
Linda Orell, MA, LPCC
Linda has been a clinical counselor in
private practice for fifteen years
in Albuquerque. An initial interest in working with adolescents evolved
into work with court-mandated adolescents
and their families; homeless
women and families; children (using Sand
Tray therapy); and developmentally-
disabled clients on the DD Waiver. For the past three years, Linda has been
part of the ACT-DBT Consultation Team,
practicing Dialectical Behavior Therapy
with adults and adolescents and their
families. Linda practices
Mindfulness meditation, and has an interest
in Buddhism and psychology.
DBT Trainings:
· DBT Skills: The Essentials
· DBT: Treating the Eating Disordered
· Coping with Chaos: Treating Multiple Severe Disorders with DBT
· DBT: Individual Psychotherapy
· Introduction to DBT for DVR
· DBT Intensive 5-Day Training (October 2010)
Contact Linda Orell, MA, LPCC

Judy Madewell, LPCC
Judy Madewell joined Albuquerque Collaborative
Therapeutics in August 2007. She received a master’s degree
in Counseling from the University of New Mexico and a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Eastern New Mexico
University. She is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(November 2009) and has been a member of ACT's DBT team since 2007.
Judy is especially interested in working
with women’s issues and health, wellness, and physical fitness as it relates to mental health. She has worked in the field of women’s growth and development and parent/child relationships for
over 12 years and has published articles in the Educational Psychology Review, North American Journal of Psychology and
the Journal of Sexuality and Relationship Therapy. Additionally, Judy has been
a regular contributor to the Family Development Journal at University of New Mexico

Sandy Orne Adams LPCC
Sandy has a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a MA in Counseling from Webster University. She is currently certified as an LPCC, National Board Certified Counselor and Level
II K-12 School Counselor. She has worked for ACT since 2004 and also works full
time as an elementary school counselor for the Moriarty Edgewood School District. Through her work at the school district she is a trainer for the Crisis Prevention Institute Non-Violent
Physical Crisis Intervention program utilized to keep staff and students safe in case a student becomes verbally or physically
aggressive. Past experience includes many years of working with people
with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities as well as advocating for their families. Currently she sees a number of different people through ACT including those on the DD Waiver, teenagers
and adults.
During her free
time Sandy enjoys spending time with her two teenage daughters,
hiking, working out and reading.
Richard Vinnay, LISW
Rick
Vinnay earned a Master's degree in social work from the University of Illinois with a Concentration in child and Family
treatment.
Experience
working with:
- Children, Adolescents, Adults
- Families
- Grief and life change issues
- Families in need of assistance regarding material and emotional support
- Life skills for MR/DD and TBI clients
- All diagnosis of childhood and adolescence issues
- Training in diagnoses of childhood and adolescence issues
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Brief solution focused therapy
- Employee assistance
- Substance abuse
Contact Richard Vinnay, LISW
Judy Venczel LPCC
Judy Venczel, LPCC is a Level 2 EMDR clinician with over fifteen years of experience working with
adolescents and adults. Judy has worked at Desert Hills, Hogares, First Nations Community HealthSource and at the Indian Hospital
and on Zia Pueblo. Judy has completed over 20 hours of training in attachment/adoption issues and is also works in several
public and private schools and has a private practice.
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