The Bowen Center Faculty

Anne S. McKnight, LCSW, EdD

The Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Anne S. McKnight to be the next Director of the Bowen Center. She will assume the position on January 1, 2011. Dr. Kerr will work closely with Dr. McKnight during the next year to aid in the transition.

Anne McKnight was awarded a BA from Brown University in 1966, an MSW from the University of Michigan in 1968, and an EdD from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 2001. She has been a member of the Bowen Center faculty since 1992. Dr. McKnight has had considerable family therapy experience and has had a special interest in families with substance abuse. Over the past l8 years she has assumed increasing responsibilities at the Center. Her activities have included teaching and supervising in the postgraduate training programs, leading the internship program, organizing and presenting conferences sponsored by the Bowen Center and presenting at other organizations around the country. In recent years she has directed the Postgraduate Program.

Dr. Anne McKnight is a family therapist in private practice in Arlington, VA. She developed a special interest in families with addiction from working, teaching, and supervising students for many years in a child and family substance abuse program in Virginia.

Dr. McKnight was appointed to the faculty of the Bowen Center in 1992. Over the years she has organized conferences on family systems therapy and addiction, death, differentiation, health, cutoff, and triangles. She has presented regularly at the Annual Family Symposium and Spring Conference. Her most recent presentation was "Leadership in a Family Business," presented in November 2008. Each year, she presents at the Bowen Clinical Conference Series, focusing in recent years on the emotional process in the family systems of young adults as they establish lives independent from their families.

Contact Information: amcknight@thebowencenter.org, 703-241-9172 or 202-965-4400