Eileen Dacey
Associate Professor of Practice and Director of Online BSW Practicum Education
Eileen Dacey is an independently licensed (LICSW) clinical social worker and holds an additional clinical certification in providing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She is versed in the treatment of OCD related disorders. She also specializes in the treatment of hoarding disorder with experience providing psychotherapy, facilitating support groups for individuals and family members affected by hoarding, and providing crisis management for individuals facing outside pressure, such as evictions and condemnations. Dacey is one of the few clinicians in Massachusetts specializing in animal hoarding behavior and is often called on regionally and nationally to provide expertise consultation, development of uniform procedures and best practices related to hoarding cases, and training to varied service professionals.
Dacey is a PhD Candidate at Simmons University School of Social Work. She is a licensed clinician with over a decade of clinical and policy experience, and field supervisory experience. As a PhD candidate, she is interested in examining the intersection of OCD and suicide in order to generate better assessment and intervention methods in the near future.
Education
- PhD Candidate, Simmons University School of Social Work
- MSW, Simmons College School of Social Work
- BS, University of North Florida
Area of Expertise
- Clinical Social Work
- Hoarding Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Suicide
- Psychiatric Evaluations
- Mixed Methods
Courses
- SWO-424 Advanced Clinical Practice
- SW/SWO-464 Understanding Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
- SW 354 Social Work Practice IV: Macro Social Work
Licenses/Certifications
LICSW, Massachusetts
Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions from Boston University, 2018
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
NASW
Publications
Sellers, C. M., Gavis-Hughson, S., Díaz-Valdés Iriarte, A., Dacey, E., & Collin, C. R. (2025). Online Patient Simulation for Suicide Risk Assessment: Assessing Skills and Confidence in MSW stu dents. Social Work Education
Dacey, E. (2020). Reclaim Your Life From Hoarding: Practical Strategies for Decluttering Your Home, Organizing Your Space, and Freeing Yourself. Rockridge Press
Toglia, M., Baker, C., Leedy, A., Wilde, A., & Dacey, E. (2013) Survivability and remembering; What is adaptive about adaptive memory? Oxford University Press
Presentations
Chou, C. Y., Rodriguez, C., Yap, K., Dacey, E., (July, 2023) Hoarding Disorder in a Wider Context. Panel Presentation presented at the 28th IOCDF Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Awards
Simmons Doctoral Merit Scholarship (2019–2025)
Simmons MSW Merit Scholarship (2015–2017)
Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative Fellowship recipient-Simmons College (2016–2017)
Outstanding Competence in Multicultural Practice Award recipient-Simmons College (2017)
Community Service Award Recipient – Clinicians for Diversity-Simmons College (2016 and 2017)
Media Coverage
Conklin, L. M. (2022) ‘31 Expert Spring-Cleaning Tips for Your Cleanest Home Ever’. https://www.rd.com/list/spring-cleaning-tips/
Interviewed by Reader’s Digest
Jasinki, P. (2019) ‘A Growing Problem: Hoarding in Fall River’ https://www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2019/03/21/a-growing-problem-hoarding-in/5654686007/
Interviewed by The Herald News
Ratigan, D. (2017) ‘Uncovering the Dangers of Hoarding Disorder’.https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2017/12/01/uncovering-dangers-hoarding-disorder/EwhQavgz6hFAzgwHFiqfbM/story.html
Interviewed by Boston Globe