Michelle Walsh

Michelle Walsh began teaching as Adjunct Faculty with the BUSSW in Spring 2009 and became Half-Time Faculty in January 2015. She has extensive clinical and administrative experience and training and has worked as a homebase clinician, forensic sexual abuse evaluator, supervisor, and then clinic director for two different clinics before moving into part-time private practice as a holistic wellness clinician in 2013. Rev. Dr. Walsh also is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist community minister and has worked as an activist for many years in urban contexts. She retains strong interests in expressive art modalities, including the use of sandtray/worldplay, as well as theoretical approaches such as relational-cultural therapy, internal family systems, narrative, and liberation health. Her scholarly interests are interdisciplinary in nature, particularly including spirituality and social work; trauma and theology; and lived religion and methodologies of qualitative research.