Dr. Siobhan O’Neill is a part-time Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she serves on the Steering Committee for the Center for Group Psychotherapy, and previously served on the Physician Wellness Committee. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University and graduated Harvard Medical School’s residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, at one time serving as Chief Resident of MGH. 

For nearly twenty years Dr. O’Neill has served as a consultant for physicians and other healthcare practitioners navigating adverse events, malpractice litigation, and associated psychological distress. In her Peer Resource and Mindfulness-Based Groups she draws on her advanced training in psychoanalytic and group psychotherapies, and psychosynthesis, all undertaken as part of her medical training.

For a thorough characterization of the distressing experiences of defendants undergoing malpractice litigation, as well as how peer resource groups help physicians meet the burnout, moral distress, and potential professional crises such litigation can create, read Dr. O'Neill’s Foreword to Dr. James L. Frank’s recently published memoir Just Business: A Medical Malpractice Odyssey.

Dr. O'Neill is also a long-time yoga and meditation practitioner and teacher who has been endorsed to teach Insight Yoga, an integrated practice of yoga, meditation, and psychological work, through the Insight Yoga Institute. She continues learning and practicing through meditation retreats with this global community, as well as with her Massachusetts-based “home sangha” in the Plum Village Tradition, and teachers such as Philip Moffitt, whose Nine Bodies teachings provide a way to investigate layers of human consciousness.

Dr. O’Neill brings mindfulness-based approaches and natural compassion to her work and life, and is passionate about providing the instruction and space for others to do so as well.