Monica has over 20 years of experience working in the related fields of crisis intervention, trauma, and grief and loss. Dr. Indart earned her doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, where she is currently a visiting faculty member. She worked as a field operations supervisor and clinical supervisor for Project Phoenix, New Jersey’s federally-funded 9/11 response program, for three-and-a-half years, overseeing community-based programs.  She remains active in the field of disaster mental health as an Emergency Response Coordinator with the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services, Disaster and Terrorism Branch, focusing on workforce development and community disaster preparedness projects.  For the past two-and-a-half years, she has provided consultation and training to the United Nations on issues related to crisis intervention, trauma, grief and loss, and development of psychosocial support programs for staff. In March 2005, she traveled to Bangkok to provide training to UN and NGO offices in the region that were providing relief services for the December 2004 tsunami that devasted southeast Asia. Dr. Indart also serves as a consultant to the International Institute of New Jersey, assisting in developing psychosocial programs for survivors of torture seeing political asylum. She maintains a private practice in Maplewood, NJ.  Much of her current interests focus on understanding resiliency, and the importance of cultural, religious and spiritual beliefs in trauma recovery within individuals, families and communities.

Clinical Work and Applied Research Interests

Trauma assessment and intervention
Cultural and spiritual aspects of traumatic experience and recovery
Crisis intervention
Disaster mental health services
Grief, loss and mourning
Training, program development and evaluation related to psychosocial-humanitarian relief projects, particularly those focusing on crisis intervention, HIV-AIDS, trauma and post-civil conflict societies in developing nations

Instructor for the following courses:

Observation and Interview

Email:  mjindart@aol.com