Manuel Munoz, LCSW, is a certified social worker with almost 20 years of post-master’s experience in working with children, adolescents and adults in a variety of community-based mental health and educational settings. A graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work with a post graduate certificate in family therapy from The State University of New York Health Science Center, he has extensive experience in supervision, teaching, program planning and administration, as well as direct practice.

Mr. Munoz’ affiliation with the Ackerman Institute began in 1992 as a member of the “Making Families Safe for Children” Project. He also worked in the Family-Schools Collaboration Program and presently is a faculty member teaching a live clinical course.

Currently, Mr. Munoz is the Clinic Director of the Children’s Aid Society’s East Harlem Counseling Center, a community based mental health clinic program. In addition, he supervises the Society’s Families Affected by Alcohol and Substance Abuse Initiative and is a clinical consultant to its Preventive Services Program. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work at New York University and has taught and supervised in the family therapy training programs of the Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center and the Institute of Family and Community Care.

Mr. Munoz has presented on topics related to working with poor, ethnic-minority families, school issues, and working within larger systems. In 1997, he co-authored a chapter with Carol P. Kaplan, Ph.D., “Working with Poor Ethnic Minority Adolescents and their Families: An Ecosystemic Approach” in Multicultural Perspectives in Working with Families, Springer Publishing Company.

Mr. Munoz maintains a part-time private practice in individual, couple and family therapy.

mmunoz@ackerman.org

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