Faculty
Caleb Demers, LICSW
FACULTY
Caleb Demers, LICSW is a clinical social worker at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma disorders, and addiction. He works as an outpatient therapist in the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Clinic, delivering group and individual therapy. Caleb has been supervised by Bob Drozek, LICSW, and Brandon Unruh, MD, and he has managed admissions for the MBT Clinic since his employment there began. He has been a lead trainer for group facilitators and acts in a supervisory capacity at the Clinic. Additionally, Caleb works as the manager of training and education for the Social Work Department at Mclean Hospital, providing training opportunities for MSW candidates, early career social workers, and continuing education. In addition to MBT, Caleb is trained in ACT, CPT, PET, and psychodynamic psychotherapy, completing a fellowship at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
ROBERT P. DROZEK, LICSW
CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is a staff psychotherapist in the Personality Disorders Service at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma and dissociative disorders, and addictions. He is a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and clinical director of the Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean Hospital. Originally trained in MBT in 2010, he currently serves as faculty in the basic and practitioner level MBT trainings offered annually through the Anna Freud Centre and McLean’s Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute. His psychoanalytic writings examine the interface between psychotherapy and ethics, with an emphasis on the role of ethics in the patient’s therapeutic change. In MBT, he is the lead developer (with Brandon T. Unruh and Anthony W. Bateman) of MBT for Narcissism. He has published on using MBT to address the problem of law enforcement violence, and he has developed the domain-based theory of mentalization, a streamlined heuristic to simplify the teaching and practice of MBT. He is author of Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process and Mentalization: Utilizing Reflection to Heal from Borderline Personality Disorder. He is co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook (2023). He is in private practice in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Edward Patzelt, PhD
FACULTY
Edward Patzelt, PhD, is the founder of Patzelt Psychology, a Boston-based private practice, and co-founder of Mentalizing Minds, advancing mentalization-based treatment (MBT) across the academic, clinical, and business sectors. He completed his original MBT training in 2016 at McLean Hospital, served as supporting faculty for MBT Basic Training at McLean Hospital, and consulted as an MBT supervisor for the University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry. He is an MBT Supervisor through the Anna Freud Centre in London and a certified MBT Practitioner for Adolescents and Families. He specializes in personality disorders and complex comorbidity, with recent work on co-occurring borderline personality disorder and alcohol use disorder, including an invited publication in the American Journal of Psychotherapy and a book chapter in Good Psychiatric Management: Borderline Personality Disorder & Alcohol Use Disorder. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, trained at the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School, and completed his clinical internship at the Minneapolis VA and postdoctoral fellowship at the Chicago DBT Institute™. His wider research spans computational models of decision-making and psychopathology, with peer-reviewed publications in Biological Psychiatry, Personality Neuroscience, and the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Amie Roe, LCSW
FACULTY
Amie Roe, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice, serving clients in New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She provides individual and group mentalization-based treatment (MBT), with a focus on treating borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and binge eating disorder. Amie completed her MBT training through McLean Hospital and the Anna Freud Centre and continues to receive clinical supervision from Brandon Unruh, MD, and Bob Drozek, LICSW. In addition to her MBT expertise, she completed a two-year training program in intersectional feminist psychotherapy at WTCI in New York.
BRANDON T. UNRUH, MD
CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR
Brandon T. Unruh, MD, is the medical director of the Gunderson Residence and founding director of the Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean Hospital. He is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an MBT trainer and supervisor through the Anna Freud Centre in London. His clinical approach is anchored in the practice of evidence-based treatments for personality disorders, including MBT, dialectical behavior therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, and good psychiatric management. His core academic publications and interests are in the areas of personality disorders, suicidality, spirituality, and flourishing. He is co-editor of the book Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case-based Approach (2018), and co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook (2023). He has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.