Austen Riggs Center
Andre Zandona is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Austen Riggs Center since February 2019, specializing in clinical social work with individuals and families. Prior to this role, Zandona served as a Psychotherapist at Addiction Campuses, focusing on individual and group treatment for adults with substance use disorders. Experience also includes working as an Outpatient Therapist at Clinical & Support Options, Inc., and various photojournalism roles at San Francisco Chronicle and Embarcadero Media. Early career includes internships and research associate positions, providing a foundation in mental health services for severely mentally ill adults and conducting research in biomedical fields. Zandona holds a Master's degree in Clinical/Medical Social Work from Smith College and a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology from UC San Diego.
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Austen Riggs Center
The Austen Riggs Center is known for its internationally-recognized tradition of providing intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy in a voluntary, open, and non-coercive community. Patients not helped in other settings can often benefit from deeper, more thorough psychodynamic evaluation and treatment. For over 100 years, the Riggs has offered long-term residential and hospital-level psychiatric treatment based on intensive, four-times-weekly individual psychotherapy, provided by psychiatrists. From hospital to residential to supervised and unsupervised apartment living, Riggs provides continuity of care with the same interdisciplinary team throughout a patient's stay. Treating an average of 60 patients, Riggs remains one of the few psychiatric treatment centers in the United States committed to the intensive work necessary to help patients take charge of their lives. Erikson Institute for Education and Research Erik H. Erikson, renowned humanist psychoanalyst and former Riggs staff member, recognized that individuals could not be understood apart from their psychosocial and historical contexts. Riggs' Erikson Institute develops this connection by promoting education and research in psychodynamic thought and treatment and by applying the clinical learning to the problems of the larger society. The Erikson Institute aims to bring the work of Riggs into dialogue with other mental health professionals, human service institutions, and scholars from a range of disciplines. The Erikson Institute includes: A Research Department and internships A Fellowship program in psychiatry and clinical psychology The Erikson Scholar program Lectures and workshops for mental health professionals An organizational consultation service, especially for human service institutions