Randall O'Toole

School

  • National Catholic School of Social Service
  • Expertise

  • Clinical social work with children and adolescents
  • Clinical social work with families with emphasis on grief; separation; and loss issues
  • Psychodynamically informed practice to include attachment theory and attachment-based interventions
  • Cognitive behavioral theory and interventions with children; adolescents; and families
  • Child welfare and treatment foster care
  • Bio

    Randall C. O’Toole, MSW, LICSW, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the National Catholic
    School of Social Service at The Catholic University of America, where he serves as Chair of the
    MSW Clinical Concentration. He teaches and develops courses focused on clinical theory and
    practice, including psychodynamic theory, family therapy, and cognitive-behavioral approaches.

    He is also Chair of the Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice at the Washington School of
    Psychiatry and serves on the teaching faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
    and Psychoanalysis.

    In addition to his academic work, Professor O’Toole is a practicing psychotherapist and clinical
    supervisor who specializes in attachment, trauma, and family systems with children, adolescents,
    and adults.