Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe, Ph.D.

Board Member, 7/09-6/12
Committee Chair, Cultural and Economic Diversity

Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, Ph.D. is associate professor, and clinical community program and internship coordinator at Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy, and a consultant and trainer for the Institute for Family Services (NJ). In addition, she serves as president of the Maryland Association for Counseling and Development and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy. Her current scholastic research examines applications of contextually responsive models to clinical practice, consultation and supervision; domestic violence; and, vicarious resilience and traumatic stress. She offers trainings in the areas of traumatic stress and resilience, post colonial approaches to healing and the Cultural Context Model, and clinical supervision. Dr. Hernández-Wolfe worked at the Massachusetts Society Prevention of Cruelty to Children Family Counseling Center in the field of family violence with low income and ethnically diverse populations. She also worked with refugee and survivors of torture in San Diego and displaced populations in Colombia, her native country. She completed her post-graduate training in clinical supervision at the Institute for Family Services in New Jersey. Dr. Hernández-Wolfe is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy .  She co-chairs the academic policy committee at Johns Hopkins University’s school of education.