Erich Engelhardt moved to Boston in 2007 to study at Boston University. He is currently working on his EdD in Human Development and Education. He is focusing on the intersection of neuroscience, human development, and education. Simultaneously, he has been working at "The CASTLE", a High Point treatment facility. He works 1:1 with teenagers to help them to improve their lives. He continues researching the motivations of change, while locating mediators of success in development.
Prior to moving to Boston, Erich re-designed and managed The Hickory House, a rehabilitative house for recovering alcoholic men in California. He worked to help the men re-mediate as productive and responsible members of society. Concurrently, he taught as a writing Instructor/ tutor while doing his masters studies in language and cognition. He explored the work of Lev Vygotsky, becoming fascinated with the utilization of language with society for restoring damaged or traumatized lives.
Since coming to Boston he has studied at Boston University under the tutelage of Dr. Tom Cottle, a psychologist /sociologist, who specializes in adolescence and the neuroscience of the developing brain. He also completed the alcohol and chemical dependency program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He continues to study emotional regulation, intelligence, motivation,and the developing brain, intersecting counseling methods with neuroscience findings.
He has worked closely with the Learning and the Brain Conference since 2007, worked as a counselor/mentor at Westbridge Community services with dual diagnosed mentally ill clients, worked as a counselor at the Center for Addictive Behaviors with homeless clients, and currently is bringing the science of the developing brain to clinical practice with adolescents' under Dr. Joseph Shrand as a clinician/ researcher at High Point’s CASTLE.
Erich is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. He also gives numerous presentations on the risks, perils, and opportunities that protracted brain development produces; he talks about development and re-mediating addiction, and is currently a member of the Learning and the Brain Society, the Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts, and the National Scholars Honor Society.
CBIS License # 10567
LADAC II License # 10040
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