Silvio Machado, Ph.D., CCTP
Associate Professor
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Dr. Sil Machado (he/his/him) joined the faculty in 2017 with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saybrook University, where he specialized in LGBTQ+ mental health, depth and psychodynamic psychotherapies, and qualitative research methods. He holds three separate M.A. degrees in counseling, general psychology, and Jungian psychology. He is a licensed psychologist with experience providing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, trainee supervision, and neurofeedback in primary care, non-profit, public health, juvenile justice, and private practice settings. As a depth psychologist, Dr. Machado is committed to a holistic understanding of the psyche, including its conscious, unconscious, developmental, somatic, cultural, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions. His current clinical work integrates neurofeedback, biofeedback, and integrative depth psychotherapy to address the unresolved emotional pain and nervous system dysregulation that drive his clients’ symptoms. He has advanced training in psychodynamic, Jungian, Existential-Humanistic, experiential-dynamic, expressive arts, and sandplay approaches, as well as evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, and EMDR. Dr. Machado’s teaching interests include counseling theory, assessment and diagnosis, counselor supervision and identity development, trauma therapy, and theories of depth/psychodynamic psychotherapy, and he has taught in undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level programs. His primary areas of scholarship interest include Jungian psychotherapy, trauma therapy, queer experience (e.g., homonegativity, HIV, queer spirituality, identity development), dreams and dreamwork, and the transformation of shame in psychotherapy. In his research Dr. Machado utilizes qualitative approaches rooted in an emancipatory framework, such as poetic inquiry, autoethnography, autobiography, and narrative research, all with the intention to illuminate lived experience. He has presented his work nationally and has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals.
For more information about Dr. Machado, please visit his faculty website.