About Me

Josephine Mansergh-Johnson is a clinician, educator, and researcher specializing in trauma, addiction, and the prevention of these struggles within families: particularly for high-achieving, internationally mobile families navigating these challenges across generations.

Josephine has been recognized for academic excellence, receiving the Slaymaker Scholar's Award at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School for achieving the highest GPA and making significant institutional impact. This distinction led to her appointment as Adjunct Faculty, where she now instructs graduate-level courses in lifespan development and ethics in counseling in early 2026. She has been nationally recognized as a Subject Matter Expert by the American Counseling Association at the intersection of trauma, addiction, and working with children and families, and currently serves on the ACA's Editorial Board reviewing research based practice briefs that shape the field.

With ability to practice in New York, Connecticut, and the United Kingdom, Josephine brings a cross-cultural therapeutic perspective informed by both American and British training traditions. Her clinical work spans Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation's Family Services, where she pioneered the institution's first Child & Family Services internship and became employed after five years of volunteering from the UK, and Resilience Therapy in New York, where she maintains private practice specializing in children, adolescents, and families affected by trauma and substance use disorders.

Josephine's contributions to research include co-authoring a manuscript that is currently under review with a flagship journal.

Josie’s advocacy efforts include being awarded peer-reviewed presentations at national conferences, delivering invited lectures and she continues to provide research-based CEU and professional trainings to counselors, psychologists, counselor educators and addiction, school and mental health professionals across the country, translating complex research and developmental theory into accessible, practical frameworks for clinicians and families alike.

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  • Clinical Education & Experience

    Master of Arts in Counseling,
    Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies
    Center City, Minnesota

    Postgraduate Diploma in Addiction Psychology and Counseling,
    London South Bank University
    London, UK

    Named Subject Matter Expert by the American Counseling Association in trauma, addiction, and working with children and families.

    Level 3 Certificate for working with children in schools
    Place 2 Be
    London, UK
    Followed by 2 years providing psychodynamic art, play, and talk therapy with 6- 12 year olds in a Central London School.

    Eight years of experience across clinical and educational settings in Abstinence, Harm Reduction, public and private sectors in the UK and US, in private practice in the UK since 2021.

    7 years affiliated with Hazelden Betty Ford Child and Family Services from volunteering, to internship to employment in Prevention supporting children impacted by a parents substance use disorders where Josie remains retained in an on call family services professional role, leading and facilitating groups, psycho-education, contributing to program development and other parts of child & family services.

    Adjunct Faculty at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School teaching Life Development and Ethics in 2026 to future counselors.

    Researcher and national presenter on trauma, intergenerational shame, and resilience.

  • Board, Committee and Award Service

    American Counseling Association (2025, March) Editorial Board for Practice Briefs – Subject Matter Expert: Mansergh-Johnson, J. Selected by the Chair of Research and Knowledge to serve on the ACA Editorial Board. Nationally recognized expert in trauma, addiction, working with children and families. Responsible for reviewing ACA Practice Briefs for publication.

    American Counseling Association (2025, September). Advocacy committee for Child & Adolescent Chapter.

    American Counseling Association (2025, September). Awards committee for Child & Adolescent Chapter.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    Registered Psychotherapist, Individual Member of the BACP (UK)

    Mental Health Counselor - Limited Permit (NY)

    Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (CT)

    Level 3 Certificate Counseling skills for working with Children | 2019 Place 2 Be, London, UK Relevant Coursework: Developmental Neuroscience, play therapy, art therapy, systems theories, working in the metaphor, Sand tray work and more. Resulted in being awarded a 2 year placement at Independent Knightsbridge, a Central London School applying psychodynamic, child-led art and play therapy, supervised weekly by a qualified clinician.

  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development

    2024 NScience, Dr Christiane Sanderson, 'Addressing OCD, Trauma, and Neurodivergence in Therapy: Practical skills for client-centered therapy.'

    2024 SACES, Dr Kristie Opiola and Dr Natalie Ricciuti, 'Child Parent Relationship Training (CPRT) with Parents in Recovery from Substance Use Disorders'

    2020 Nscience, Dr Christiane Sanderson, 'Managing Power, Control, Boundary and Attachment Dynamics when working with Survivors of Abuse'

    2020 Nscience, Dr Janina Fisher, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy skills, 'Healing Broken Bonds: the consequences of traumatic attachment'

    2019 Nscience, Dr Christiane Sanderson, Shame resilience tools. 'Numbing the pain: making the link between childhood trauma and addictions.'

    2019 Arise, Dr Judith Landau Interventionist Training: A compassionate family systems approach to interventions and treating the identified patient, learning how to integrate genograms and consider intergenerational trauma in the whole family system.

    2018 CCPE, Foundation Certificate: 1 Year Training Transpersonal Foundations in Psychotherapy and Counseling Skills, Values and Ethics, Psychodynamic: Jung, Freud, Person-Centered, Gestalt Therapy. Visual meditations, Group dynamics (family constellations), family systems, working with the child within, loss and grief, attachment, object relations theory, the role of myths, dreams and symbolism in therapy.

  • Current Roles

    Adjunct Faculty - Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

    Psychotherapist - Resilience Therapy, private practice

    On Call Family Services Professional - Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Child & Family Services

    Consulting - Sundial Advisors

  • Research

    Publications

    Current stage: Under Review with flagship journal.

    Current Stage: Data Collection

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From East to West…

Josie is married to Clinton, CEO of Sundial Advisors. The couple met in London and married at the historic St Mary's Church, The Boltons. They share their lives with two mischievous Bedlington Terriers, Bilbo and Winnie.

Clinton and Josie have traveled extensively together in pursuit of their purpose, including extended seasons in the Middle East. In 2021, they fulfilled a lifelong dream by moving to California, where Josie became more deeply involved in prevention work at Hazelden Betty Ford. In 2025, they relocated to the East Coast so Josie could pursue doctoral studies while Clinton explored new opportunities in New York.

When they're not working, you can find the four of them exploring upstate, Connecticut and Long Island, enjoying coffee, or running along the breezy Hudson River waterfront.

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