Commonwealth-Parkville School has a full-time licensed Clinical Psychologist who is located at the Parkville Campus’ main office.  She graduated from University of Georgia with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Master’s and Doctorate’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Caribbean Center for Advanced Studies. Dr. Maria Mercedes Morris has been part of our staff since 1993.

Dr. Morris is a trained professional who works with children from all ages, along with their teachers and families. She is an integral part of each Child Study Team. The School Psychologist’s duties include testing and evaluation, teacher consultation, crisis intervention, teacher/parents conferences, conducting individual and group counseling, and referring students and their families to appropriate community agencies for medical, vocational, or psychological services.

Dr. Morris maintains and respects confidentiality of student and school personnel information, while maintaining the safety and welfare for all students and staff members. She attends workshops, seminars, and professional meetings to remain informed of new developments and literature in school psychology.

Carlos Barsy, CHS School Psychologist

Carlos has a BA in Social Psychology and an MA in Counseling Psychology.  Since 2005 he has been working with children, adolescents, adults and families in his private practice.  In his first years, he worked in an interdisciplinary mental health clinic, providing psychotherapy to psychiatric patients with severe mental health illnesses.  Eventually he worked for a nonprofit organization, Familias Capaces Inc., providing community based psychological services inside public housing projects. 

Since 2006, he provides services to Puerto Rico Youth at Risk, Inc., another nonprofit organization that develops programs designed to prevent school desertion and drug abuse in adolescents from low income communities. 

A meditation practitioner, he promotes the therapeutic value of contemplation, the internal resolve or willingness to rest the mind from the process of thinking.  His favorite way of doing it is by means of communion with nature.  Carlos plays a wide variety of ethic flutes from around the world and a selection of instruments that assist the process of relaxation.  He specializes in music therapy relaxation techniques.