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Headway’s clinical leadership team, in partnership with our provider network

Our clinical leadership team is made up of practicing clinicians who relate to our provider network first-hand. These individuals are intimately familiar with both the clinical and administrative sides of running a practice, from accepting insurance, to managing clients and cases, and everything in between, making it possible to best advocate for our provider community.

In service of our mission to increase access to quality in-network mental health care, our clinical team helps to build systems and processes that empower clinicians and their practices while offering high-quality clinical guidance.

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Meet the team

Jeff Gould (he/him), M.D.

Sr. Medical Director, Head of Clinical

Dr. Gould is a board-certified adult and forensic psychiatrist. In his role as Medical Director at Headway, he works with the clinical team to ensure that the clinical care delivered at Headway is of the highest evidence-based standards. Prior to joining Headway, he managed clinical care and quality standards across hundreds of programs in a variety of settings including as Chief Physician of a large multi-state psychiatric hospital network and Department Chair at a Sutter hospital in the Bay Area. He also worked as the Behavioral Health Medical Director at Wheel and the Chief Medical Officer at Aware Healthcare. Dr. Gould is an Assistant Clinical Professor UCSF where he teaches and provides consultation to the courts on a wide variety of topics involving the interface between psychiatry and the law.

Practice specialties: Psychotic and mood disorders, psychopharmacology, civil and criminal litigation assessments

Practice status: Not currently accepting new patients

Dr. Cary Crall (he/him), M.D.

Medical Director

Dr. Cary Crall is a board-certified adult psychiatrist. In his role as Medical Director at Headway, he works with the clinical team to ensure clinical care delivered through Headway is held to the highest evidence-based standard. In addition to his work at Headway, Dr. Crall is the Associate Medical Director at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry. In addition, as faculty at Harvard Medical School, he enjoys mentoring and supervising trainees in specialty areas including management of OCD, minority stress, and LGBTQIA+ mental health. His research interests include psychosocial well-being of medically frail adolescents and the intersection of minority stress with emotional well-being and social functioning.

Practice specialties: LGBTQIA+ mental health, transitional age youth and college mental health, telepsychiatry, psychopharm for OCD, integrated care models

Practice status: Actively accepting patients age 18+ in Massachusetts

Michael Heckendorn (he/him), LPC, NCC

Clinical Lead, Clinician Education

Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor and active Headway provider. In his role as the Clinical Lead for Clinician Education, he develops educational frameworks and structures to assist clinicians throughout their journey with Headway. This includes onboarding new providers, offering continuous practice guidance, and delving into the realm of clinical best practices. As a therapist, Michael has worked in a variety of settings, including: private practice, k-12 schools, universities, and community mental health. Prior to joining Headway, he led clinical education at a teletherapy start-up focusing his efforts on best practices in remote clinical care.

Practice specialties: Adolescent and young adult mental health, anxiety, anger management, parenting adolescents, new paternal support, teletherapy

Practice status: Currently maintains a waitlist and a reduced caseload

Mike Arevalo (he/him), Psy.D. 

Clinical Lead, Product

Dr. Mike Arevalo is a clinical psychologist who has experience providing evidenced-based treatments for a broad spectrum of mental health conditions. He has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings including: university counseling centers, community mental health clinics, group and individual private practice, and hospitals such as the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Arevalo has a profound commitment to utilizing digital health tools to expand access to care. Prior to joining Headway, he worked in clinical product developing digital therapeutic treatments for depression and anxiety.

Practice specialities: Mood and anxiety related disorders, trauma, grief, ADHD, relationship issues, life transitions, anger management

Practice status: Currently maintains a waitlist and reduced caseload

Julia Jarrold (she/her), LCSW

Clinical Lead, Patient & Provider Experience

Julia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with training in trauma modalities, specifically, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). As the Clinical Lead for Patient and Provider Experience, she’ll work to improve and maintain the experience of patients and providers on our platform. As a trauma therapist, Julia embraces paradigm shifts in care modalities and formats and holds a deep commitment to expanding mental health care access, community care and equity. She has worked in both traditional settings, like clinics and outpatient programs, and nontraditional settings, like clubhouses. Prior to joining Headway, Julia led clinical safety efforts and created clinical content for a digital mental health start up while maintaining a private practice. While working at Headway, she maintains her private practice and is a proud active Headway provider.

Practice specialties: Anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, life transitions, relationship issues

Practice status: Currently maintains a waitlist and reduced caseload

Amanda Reagan (she/her), LISW-S, LCSW-S

Clinical Quality Lead

Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has experience in working with women and their partners experiencing reproductive and parenthood challenges. Amanda has clinical training in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) and practices from a trauma informed lens. As the Clinical Quality Lead, she works to oversee the delivery of high-quality patient care and implement best practices and guidelines to ensure that clinical quality standards are adhered to and maintained. Prior to joining Headway, Amanda led clinical operations in the health tech space where she focused on leading strategy on clinical quality and safety. She also worked in several different clinical practice capacities such as outpatient community health, health insurance program design, and school based therapy. While working at Headway, she maintains her private practice and is a proud active Headway provider.

Practice specialties: Perinatal mental health, birth trauma, infertility, anxiety, grief, childhood trauma, depression

Practice status: Currently maintains a waitlist and reduced caseload

LCSW Maddie Tong

Maddie Tong (she/her), LCSW

Senior Associate, Clinical Education 

Maddie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose practice draws from training in several modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Psychodynamic Therapy, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Maddie has clinical training as an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and operates from a trauma-informed lens. She has worked in both traditional settings, such as community mental health programs, as well as in the digital mental health tech space. Prior to joining Headway, Maddie was a Therapist and Clinical Content Manager at a digital start up, managing and creating clinical content in the form of courses, videos, webinars, and groups. While working at Headway, she maintains her private practice virtually. As a Senior Associate of Clinical Education at Headway, Maddie focuses her efforts on building out educational experiences to support Headway providers throughout their journey with Headway.

Practice specialities: Sex therapy, anxiety, codependency, trauma, relationship issues, life transitions

Practice status: Currently maintains a waitlist and reduced caseload

LPC Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson (she/her), LPC

Senior Associate, Clinical Quality Education

Anne Jackson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of clinical care and quality improvement experience in a variety of treatment settings including community mental health, private practice and telehealth, as well as led youth suicide prevention programming at the Pediatric Mental Health Institute, Children's Hospital of Colorado. As a provider, she recognized early in her career the need to create better quality systems that support mental health therapists in not just sustaining in this incredibly important work, but thriving. As the Senior associate of clinical quality education at Headway, Anne works to implement quality improvement interventions and educational resourcing aimed at enhancing provider efficacy, improving patient outcomes,  ensuring client safety and empowering private practice therapists to have autonomy, without isolation, in their clinical work.

Practice specialties: Depression, treatment of suicidality (including chronic suicidal ideation), crisis response

Practice status: Not currently accepting new patients

LPC Anne Jackson

R. Andrew "Andy" Cruz

Medical Director

Andrew  "Andy" Cruz is a Harvard-trained adult psychiatrist executive with an interest in increasing behavioral healthcare access and equity. He served as an associate medical director for Massachusetts General Hospital's low-barrier substance clinic and has a passion for caring for people who use substances. He is currently a Medical Director at Headway and is the Chief Medical Officer at Guidelight Health. He continues to see patients in the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department. 

Practice specialties: Substance use, intermediate levels of care, emergency psychiatry

Practice status: Actively seeing patients in Massachusetts. Not currently accepting new patients.

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