SATT Teachers and Practicum Collaborators

At-risk Action: Working with Youth and Adults

Andrew Schuch, MS

Andrew Schuch is a staff clinician at Yale University’s Child Study Center. Andrew works in the Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) - an outpatient model treating children with severe psychiatric disorders. This model recently won the American Psychological Association's Most Innovative Treatment Model for 2007. Andrew also works for the Adolescent Clinical Team (ACT), which uses the IICAPS model to treat teens currently involved with the judicial system, having been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.

Andrew provides individual psychotherapy, family counseling and parent skills training to his caseload of the highest risk population in the metropolitan New Haven area.

As a practioner of both yoga and meditation, Andrew seeks to create a symbiotic relationship between yoga and meditation and psychotherapy to address the needs of at-risk and psychiatrically disordered youth.

Dr. Fran Clemente

Fran Clemente is the principal at Newmark High School in Central New Jersey. Newmark is a State approved private high school that serves students with emotional and social disabilities. Her research in the field of resiliency informs her work with students, staff and families. Fran is a graduate of the Vajra Yoga Social Action Teacher Training and teaches yoga and meditation at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. She has been a volunteer teacher for the Lineage Project, teaching awareness-based practices such as yoga and meditation to at risk and incarcerated New York City youth. Currently she serves on the Board for the Lineage Project.

We are proud to be collaborating with Bent on Learning (www.bentonlearning.org)

Since 2001, Bent on Learning has been bringing yoga to inner city students in grades pre-K through 12 in public schools and at-risk youth centers throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Through yoga, Bent On Learning strives to give children the tools with which they can begin to make healthy choices about their physical and mental health, and encourage them towards academic success.

Mind/Body Action: Working with Those with Chronic Pain and Illness:

Jill Satterfield, founder of VY&M and SATT

Jill Satterfield has been practicing yoga for 30 years and teaching for 20. She has been a Buddhist practioner for 20 years, and was one of the first teachers to blend yoga and Buddhism. VY&M organically arose from Jill's resolve to heal herself after 12 years of chronic dibilitating pain, countless exploratory surgeries, 2 major surgeries and a trip to Yale Pain Clinic with devestating results.

Through the study of asanas and their physiological aspects, the study of the mind and it's impact on the body, nutrition, acuptuncture and dogged persistence, Jill healed herself beyond any physican's expectations. She has been working with people with chronic pain and illnesses for 20 years.

This track is a very special mentorship opportunity with Jill.

Wendy Barron, Phd.

Dr. Barron is a clinical psychologist at Gouverneur Healthcare
Services, part of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.  For
the past 15 years she has focused on working with adults who have a
combination of medical and psychiatric problems and has developed a
specialty in working with patients with chronic pain.  She has worked
with trauma populations including veterans, domestic violence and abuse
survivors, and patients impacted by the events of 911.   Dr. Barron
works with a combination of interpersonal/dynamic psychotherapy and
training patients in 'mind/body' techniques including hypnosis,
meditation, muscle relaxation, and yogic breathing.  As part of her
work, she also strives to understand and integrate the cultural and
spiritual traditions and beliefs of her patients with their therapy.  

Addiction Action: Working with People in Recovery

To be Announced