Patricia T. Carter, M.S.W. '96, LICSW

Patty Carter earned her M.S.W. from Smith College in 1996. She began in community mental health as an in-home therapist in Newport News, VA, working with at-risk children and adolescents. She became fascinated by child and adolescent development and pursued advanced training through a one-year Fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. This program included outpatient care, an interdisciplinary team for young children (3-5 years), weekly observations at a daycare center, and school-based therapy students in New Haven Public Schools.

From 2000–2002, Carter was a clinical instructor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. She oversaw behavioral health training for twenty family practice residents, delivered didactic lectures, and rounded in the hospital with the medical team. While teaching, she maintained a small private practice. During this time she was assigned a mentor from the American Psychoanalytic Association and received supervision from Donald Stevenson, M.D., a psychoanalyst in Norfolk, VA.

She has practiced in different parts of the country - from rural towns in Maine to the cities of Virginia Beach and Memphis. From 2013-2025 Carter ran a solo practice in Williamstown, MA and was paneled on three Medicaid-subsidized insurances (MassHealth) to make her services accessible to low-income children. She recently joined a small group practice at 413 Theraworks in North Adams, MA where she is an outpatient therapist and supervises social workers working toward independent licensure.