Anne-Terese van der Burg

How I got here

I studied psychology at UMass Amherst, and after graduating I spent time working within the public school system and psychiatric hospital setting. Those early experiences shaped how I think about care — meeting people where they are, across the different systems and communities they move through.

From there, I went back to school at Yale School of Nursing, where I earned my Master of Science in Nursing with a specialization in Psychiatric and Mental Health. During that time, I also worked as a Registered Nurse on an inpatient psychiatric unit — an experience that gave me a grounded appreciation for acute care and how much it matters what happens after someone leaves.

For a decade, I worked within a federally qualified health center. A significant part of that time was spent in school-based health centers, which reinforced how much collaborative care matters — working alongside school communities, families, and primary care teams to support kids and adolescents in a way no single provider can do alone. Alongside my clinical work, I took on increasing responsibility over time, eventually serving as Director of Psychopharmacology and building out psychiatric training programs. Supervising and teaching providers at every stage of their training has become a meaningful thread running through my career alongside my clinical work — I’ve come to believe that good clinical training ripples outward in ways that reach far more people than any one clinician can.