Biography
Avron (Avi) M. Kriechman, MD is an Assistant Professor in the UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the School of Medicine. Dr. Kriechman has nearly 40 years of experience providing behavioral health services to children, adolescents, and families in schools, Tribal, urban, and rural communities. He has extensive experience in supervising and training health care, behavioral health care and peer and community support providers, integrative health care, collaborative co-created strength-based psychosocial interventions, suicide prevention, grief and loss-related psychosocial interventions, school mental health, family and systems therapies, medical ethics, and developing and implementing systems of care for underserved and under-resourced communities.
Personal Statement
Richard Rohr: We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I do my best to support possibility, agency, choice, and the instillation of hope in all with whom I've the privilege of working.
Areas of Specialty
Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatry
Suicide and risk prevention
Building capacity in New Mexico for communities of support
Gender
Male
Languages
- English
Courses Taught
Suicide Prevention, Strength-Based Therapies, Family and Systems Therapies, Medical Ethics, Integrative Health Care, Grief and Loss, Suicidality-Specific Therapies,
Seeking Safety and Safety Planning, SBIRT (Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment), School Mental Health