Co-founder and Senior Clinical Consultant

Larry Berkowitz, Ed.D. is Co-Founder and directed Riverside Trauma Center for 19 years, where he currently is a Senior Clinical Consultant. He has provided direct therapeutic services for over 30 years and managed mental health services for over 25 years. Clinical areas of expertise include work with children, adolescents, adults, and families who are acute trauma survivors and/or suicide survivors. He coordinates and provides disaster response services and post-suicide intervention for individuals, schools, workplaces, and communities, and conducts trainings on suicide prevention. Dr. Berkowitz holds a doctoral degree in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed Psychologist in Massachusetts. He is on the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention, held an appointment as a Teaching Associate in Psychology, Part Time, at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and is an Adjunct Instructor at William James College in Newton, MA where he teaches a course on understanding suicide to students in a graduate clinical psychology program.

Dr. Berkowitz was a member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s task force on the needs of those bereaved by suicide, supporting the 2012 Surgeon General’s National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. He is a co-author of the Task Force’s report, “Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines, report of Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force,” (2015). Related to crisis response, he helped design and lead three FEMA-funded crisis counseling programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (post- 9/11; flooding in eastern Massachusetts; tornado recovery in western Massachusetts, Covid-19 pandemic response).