Get to Know Good Havens

Dr. Good is a clinical psychologist who has worked extensively in community mental health in Illinois and Massachusetts. She has more than twenty years of experience in clinical risk management and specializes in assessing risk and threat in community settings. Her risk and threat assessment work has been in mental health clinics, universities, schools and churches as well as with corporate employers. She is a Certified Threat Manager and has been part of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals since 2016.

Dr. Good has been part of churches and religious organizations all of her life. She understands the importance that churches, synagogues and mosques have in providing places for worship, learning, growth and spiritual fulfillment. Thus, it is especially important that these places are safe, and free from violence and abuse. During her career, Dr. Good has served as a consultant and volunteer to churches about safe congregation policy and practice, as well as broader organizational issues. Her Safe Congregation Consultations are based on the belief that it is critical to have houses of worship be safe and welcoming places for all, including those with histories of violence and offenses.

With over two decades of experience in hospitals and community mental health services, Dr. Good has worked with people who have serious mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Personality Disorders and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Good has provided individual, group and family therapy, along with crisis response and case management to people with these disorders. Because of her many years in community-based services, she is expert at helping individuals and their loved ones navigate the mental health system, to help them to choose appropriate mental health services, and to create a service team that meets the unique needs of the person. Dr. Good’s training and perspective focuses on whole person recovery, including health and fitness, symptom management, meaningful roles through education, work and volunteering, and sustaining housing, hygiene and social relationships.