Washburn Center for Children’s team is honored to join with the Klibanoff and Pierotti family to award the Patricia L. Klibanoff Fellowship to another leader in our community of social work and therapy innovators at Washburn Center.
School-based therapist Myriam Daumal, MA, has been named the 2025-26 Patricia L. Klibanoff Fellow for her impact as a champion for school-based mental health services.
Myriam is a fierce advocate and collaborator who always goes above and beyond for the students and families she serves at Ridgeview Elementary School in the Bloomington School District.
Her passion to be the most effective therapist possible is a hallmark. Myriam understands a variety of factors can affect a child’s ability to learn at school and takes a holistic approach to improving their mental well-being. Youth facing barriers in language, accessibility or other issues count on Myriam to take the time to understand and establish support helping them move forward. Her focus stretches beyond each youth to their family and school staff. Lastly, Myriam is an ardent participant on Day at the Hill advocacy at the State Capitol as she looks for ways to help people understand kids!
About the Patricia L. Klibanoff Endowment Fund
Established by family and friends of the late Pat Klibanoff in 2010, the Patricia L. Klibanoff Endowment Fund honors the memory of a beloved mom, wife, friend and social worker who dedicated her life to help all who knew her lead successful lives.
Patricia’s life was centered on advocacy for children and families in their homes, schools and at the state policy level. This deep passion permeated her work as a family life educator and school social worker in the public schools of East Greenwich, RI. Patricia’s daughter Kathryn is a trustee for Washburn Center and she and her husband Jeremy Pierotti are long-standing generous supporters of the mission.
The Endowment Fund supports Washburn Center for Children’s school-based program, honoring a clinician each year who exemplifies Patricia’s commitment to the well-being of children and families.
About Myriam Daumal, MA, recipient of the 2025-26 Patricia L. Klibanoff Fellow
Recently, Myriam helped form a support group for parents and caregivers to help one another better understand the needs of their children. If transportation or other issues arise for parents preventing the client’s therapy, she is quick to offer help connect them with resources. The school staff turn to Myriam for collaboration, counsel, and training to help them better understand kids, which enhances the staff’s ability to teach and support the clients she sees and more broadly the students at the school.
Myriam is always a learner. As a multi-lingual therapist, she readily steps into the community she serves to meet the needs of clients who do not speak English – even if they attend a different school. When a client needed Spanish speaking services to process trauma at another Bloomington school, she drove to the school to meet this client weekly.
Myriam earned her master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota and her bachelor’s degree at University of Aix-Marseille. She also holds an associate degree in psychology from University of Toulouse Le Miraiall.