Staff

Gina M. Fusco, Psy.D
Clinical Consultant

Dr. Fusco lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the height of the Irish conflict from 1988 to 1994. Her experiences during those seven years profoundly shaped her life and the course of her career. She received her masters at Chestnut Hill College, and her doctorate in clinical psychology at PCOM. She is currently a licensed psychologist with additional training in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, DBT, and volunteers for the Red Cross.

Now an executive clinical director for Alternative Behavioral Services, a nationwide behavioral health care system that provides evaluation, treatment and residential foster care placement services, Dr. Fusco is dedicated to helping high-risk children and adolescents living in very adverse circumstances to find their full potential in life, despite the trauma they have experienced. She currently manages and directs the Blackwell Center for Adolescent Treatment in Philadelphia, PA, and assists in the designing and implementing of programs targeted to high risk adolescents throughout a nationwide network of residential care facilities.

In addition to consulting for Village Counseling Services, Dr. Fusco is a clinical associate professor of psychology at PCOM and co-author of two books, Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Taking Control and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Patient's Guide to Taking Control, and numerous chapters on crisis intervention, personality disorders, and CBT.