Alisa Hathaway, EdD, LCSW-R

Alisa Hathaway, EdD, LCSW-R
Project Director: STRONGER
alisa.hathaway@rochester.edu
(585) 275-2991

Dr. Alisa Hathaway is the Principal Investigator and Senior Clinical Trainer for two national grants funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, entitled Supporting Trauma Recovery Opportunities and Nurturing Growing Emotional Resilience (STRONGER), and Sustaining Change, at Mt. Hope Family Center, in Rochester, NY. These grants position Mt. Hope Family Center as a continued member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Alisa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. She is also a member of the New York State Association for Infant Mental Health, Boston Children’s Hospital Implementation Science and Practice Advisory Board, and Rochester International Academy board. She serves on Mt. Hope Family Center’s Diversity Committee, Collection of Voices, and NCTSN’s Implementation and Transformation Change Community team. She has twenty-eight years of experience in partnering with children and families in trauma-informed and responsive clinical services. Alisa has been honored to serve as a supervisor for trauma service professionals and trainees for over twenty years, with an emphasis on reflective supervision. She is an approved national Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) trainer and conducts local and national CPP Learning Collaboratives. Additionally, she is a certified therapist, supervisor and internal trainer in the Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma or Conduct Problems (MATCH-ADTC). Alisa practices and supervises in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) as well. She is also an approved Core Concepts in Childhood Trauma facilitator, and trained in the evidence-based models of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI), Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), and Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP). Alisa is committed to knowledge dissemination and co-creation through teaching, supervision, and training, and regularly presents on topics such as trauma and trauma-informed and responsive care, clinical practice, clinical practice for specialized populations, supervision, infant and early childhood mental health, evidence-based practices, and cultural awareness and considerations, locally, regionally, and nationally.