Denise Crooks, MPH, LICSW, is a social worker with Brown University Health’s outpatient psychiatry and behavioral health services and sees patients in East Greenwich. She specializes in working with members of the LGBTQ, kink, and consensually non-monogamous communities.
Prior to her current position, Crooks was a clinical therapist with the Adult Gender and Sexuality Behavioral Health Program of Brown Health Medical Group and a behavioral health clinician at Thundermist Health Center in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
Crooks is a teaching associate and co-director of the LGBTQ Scholarly Concentration at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a founding member of LGBTQ Action RI and Rhode Islanders for Parentage Equality.
Her extensive research experience includes studies in mindfulness-based stress reduction and substance use disorders. She is a frequent guest speaker, presenter, and co-author on LGBTQ topics related to health and advocacy.
She has master’s degrees in social work from Boston College and in public health from Boston University.