Mary Behling

Board Member

Mary Behling is a physician who practiced psychiatry starting in 1982 and returned to her childhood interest in art upon retiring in 2017. At that time she relocated from the Stony Brook area, where she was Psychiatric Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Stony Brook University to North Hills. Her husband, Jay Bock, was a professor of Pathology at Stony Brook and retired at the same time. Mary’s business experience included running a private practice in addition to heading the campus psychiatry services at Stony Brook for 27,000 students. She served for 22 years on the Board of Directors of the Heritage Square Condominium Association in East Setauket. In addition to providing services on the SBU campus, she was involved with the training and mentoring new physicians from the hospital residency program and coordinating with the campus health services. Currently she rents studio space and is active in many of the day to day activities at the Art Guild.