Mary Lynn Everson, MS, LCPC

Mary Lynn currently serves as the Senior Director, Marjorie Kovler Center and Refugee Health Programs. Mary Lynn is responsible for the growth and continued development of the programs as well as for the quality management planning for international programming. Clinical services focus on improving access to services and improved outcomes for the target populations of individuals who are torture survivors, and for refugees. The Marjorie Kovler Center and Refugee Health Programs also provide training and consultation on a local, state, national and international level regarding torture treatment services, refugee health education and promotion, and refugee nutrition and are involved in promoting policy and systems change on behalf of the target populations.  Mary Lynn has 15 years of experience managing trauma treatment programs at Heartland Alliance. 

Mary Fabri, PsyD

Dr. Fabri, Senior Director, Torture Treatment Services and International Training, has devoted her career to working in the public sector. Previous positions include serving as staff psychologist at Cook County Hospital and as Program Director for the Bosnian Mental Health Program and the Refugee Mental Health Training Program, both at Heartland Alliance. She provides national and international training and consultation on issues of torture and severe trauma. She is currently working in East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo), training health providers on the long-term consequences of trauma and implications for treatment. Dr. Fabri is also training Kurdish and Arab health care providers at Heartland Alliance's Torture Rehabilitation & Training Center in northern Iraq. She has worked as a consultant and trainer in Guatemala and Haiti. She has published and presented internationally on the psychological consequences of torture, refugee mental health, cross-cultural psychotherapy, and the dilemma of revictimization, among other pertinent topics.  Dr. Fabri served on the Executive Committee for the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs for seven years (2002 – 2009) and five of those seven years as president.

Mary Bunn, LCSW

Mary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and has an M.A in social work from the University of Chicago. She serves as the Associate Director where her responsibilities are split between providing intake evaluations and psychotherapy and management and administrative duties. She has served as Associate Director of Heartland Alliance International Programs. Her work was focused on developing mental health services within the primary healthcare system in the northern Kurdish region and southern region of Iraq. Ms. Bunn has specific expertise developing mental health services for Southeast Asian communities. Ms. Bunn worked with a number of non-government organizations in Cambodia focused on developing mental health care for populations with significant trauma history. Among other activities, she has provided training for local mental health workers, conducted research and developed models of residential care for young women who were formerly sex trafficked. Ms. Bunn also worked in Thailand post—Tsunami to train emergency workers and served as a consultant to the Thai Department of Mental Health.  

Mario Gonzalez

Mario has 24 years of clinical experience working with traumatized populations from over 70 different countries. He has developed skills in different areas, such as diagnosis, therapy, cross-cultural understanding, and legal documentation of traumatic experiences. In addition, he is bilingual and bicultural. Mario is a native from Guatemala, Central America. Mario was both educated and licensed in psychology in Guatemala. Mario has been trained on trauma and evaluation through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also completed a mastery program on trauma and recovery sponsored by the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the Instituto Superiore Di Sanita from Italy. Since 1989, Mario has served as the Clinical Supervisor at the Marjorie Kovler Center. As a psychotherapist, Mario has been treating torture survivors and survivors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder since 1989.   Mario has personally overseen over 1,000 cases.

Marianne Joyce, LCSW

Marianne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and serves as the Social Services Manager, primarily responsible for conducting clinical evaluations, supervising and training graduate student interns, providing psychotherapy for clients, providing consultation for volunteer therapists, writing psychological affidavits and testifying in court to support asylum claims of survivors. Additionally, she provides education about torture treatment in various university and community settings in Chicago. She has been closely involved with survivors bringing lawsuits against perpetrators residing in the U.S. International experience includes Peace Corps/Guatemala as a volunteer and trainer, providing consultation and training in Haiti, Guatemala, Turkey and Sri Lanka for physicians and psychologists working with war trauma, and extensive travel in South and Southeast Asia. She taught a course on Social Work and Human Rights at the University of Chicago for three years. She holds an M.A. from the School of Social Services Administration at the University of Chicago. Ms. Joyce is fluent in Spanish and licensed to provide mental health services in the state of Illinois.

Mary Black, MS, OTR

Mary is a Licensed Occupational Therapist who began as a volunteer working with survivors of torture in 1990. She received an MS in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois in 1995. She is responsible for assessing the functional skills survivors need to perform meaningful work as well as for interventions to enhance these skills. The rooftop apiary, the community garden, and the semi-monthly cooking group are all interventions Mary designed to enhance community connections and find meaning in daily activities. She has also worked internationally in Rwanda with families and children.