PsiAN Speaks: Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams

Editor’s note: The Forum will periodically post video interviews of authors, researchers, academics, and policymakers under the heading PsiAN Speaks. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect PsiAN’s official positions.

In this video, Bevin Campbell, Psy.D. has a conversation with Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D. who is a steering committee member at PsiAN and a Licensed Professional Counselor — Supervisor with a doctoral degree in Clinical Counseling. In this episode of PsiAN Speaks, Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams discusses discovering Freud in 6th grade, how working in community mental health led to her interest in therapies of depth, insight, and relationship, the importance of play in therapy for children, her experience working as a psychoanalyst in Texas, and her new role as the Chair of the Diversities Section of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Powell-Williams is a Child & Adolescent and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas, where she also holds the positions of President of Board of Directors and faculty member in the Child and Adult Training Programs. Dr. Powell-Williams provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board, as well as supervision as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy. Along with maintaining a private practice, Dr. Powell-Williams teaches on a collegiate level and provides clinical consultation and professional training with many local, state and national organizations on recognizing the need of mental health services for children & adolescents, adults, and families.

Bevin Campbell PsyD is a psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.