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Mary McLaughlin, PhD
Dr. Mary McLaughlin realized that she had a talent for working with troubled individuals and their families when she took her first summer job as a lifeguard at a community pool frequented by a number of at-risk youth, a position she held each summer during her four years of college.
After earning her Bachelor's degree in English at Emmanuel College in Boston, she continued her work with disadvantaged teenagers and their parents teaching middle school and high school English to at-risk students in her hometown of Woburn, Massachusetts.
Dr. McLaughlin went on to earn a Master's degree at Syracuse University and resumed her career in education as a middle school and high school guidance counselor in Central New York.
Later, she ran an agency that provided career counseling and life planning services to adults.
Returning again to graduate school, she earned her PhD degree at Syracuse University in 1995, focusing her studies in the field of rehabilitation psychology. Her area of specialty is psychiatric rehabilitation.
Her initial interest in rehabilitation evolved towards a broader interest in the prevention of psychiatric disabilities and addictions and in the promotion of good and sound mental health. Upon graduation, Dr. McLaughlin founded Emotional Education Services, LLC in 1996 in order to teach people how to obtain robust and resilient mental health and how to maintain emotional fitness.
Since that time, Dr. McLaughlin has become a leading advocate for disenfranchised individuals and their families in our ongoing national discussion about mental health promotion, the prevention of psychiatric disabilities, addictions, veterans issues, human rights and homelessness.
She serves as a consultant in lawsuits involving psychiatric malpractice and discrimination towards individuals with psychiatric disabilities
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