Judy Florio, M.S.W., Ph.D. ‘25, LICSW

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact

Email: jflorio@smith.edu
Pronouns: she/her

Judy Florio headshot outside with building behind
Education

Ph.D., Smith College School for Social Work
Stechler Child and Adolescent Therapy Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
M.S.W., Boston College School of Social Work
B.A., Muhlenberg College
Certificate: Development and Globalization, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
 

Biography

Judy Florio is a licensed independent clinical social worker that practices with children and adults in settings that center access to care. She is a 2025 graduate of Smith SSW's doctoral program. Her dissertation, “Adolescent Experience of Electronic Ankle Monitoring in Juvenile Court: a Theoretical and Thematic Analysis,” was nominated for the SSWR Best Dissertation award.

Florio worked for 10 years at a therapeutic day school in Boston, providing trauma-informed individual clinical work, and developing school-based community enhancing programs developed through a trauma-informed and psychodynamic lens. She has recently moved to New York, and is practicing through a blend of clinic work through the Karen Horney Clinic, and school-based work though Hunter College Campus Schools. In addition, Florio operates a small insurance-based private practice. She is looking forward to returning to Smith in this new role.