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Rev. Michelle Walsh, MSW, LICSWRev. Michelle Walsh is the Affiliate Community Minister at United First Parish Church. She has had a passionate commitment to urban ministry over the past two decades, 17 years of which were spent developing and directing a weekend youth program, Stand High/Stand United, at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry.
Most recently Rev. Walsh has developed a relationship with the
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Dorchester, an organization that provides crisis services for
families of homicide victims, as well as public policy advocacy on state and national levels. Rev. Walsh is also a licensed independent clinical social
worker with nearly two decades of work experience as a clinician, supervisor, and mental health clinic director.
Within UFPC, Rev. Walsh is covenanted to work part-time providing adult education, preaching and worship assistance, as well as other forms of membership support and development. Rev. Walsh is also studying in a doctoral program in practical theology at Boston University. She maintains a private pastoral psychotherapy and spiritual direction practice using expressive arts, including sandplay, called Sacred Play Explorations, as well as a private urban consulting practice called Tuckerman Creative Ministries for Justice. She is also an adjunct clinical faculty member of Boston University’s School of Social Work.
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