Maggie Ateia, PsyD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: mateia.rosecity@gmail.com
Dr. Ateia is the clinical director of Rose City Counseling Center and also maintains a private practice in Old Town Pasadena as well as in Brea, California. Dr. Ateia has worked in several college counseling centers including almost 15 years at Caltech while also maintaining a position on the Board of Directors for Rose City Center. She completed her graduate degrees from Alliant International University (previously the California School of Professional Psychology), and her post-doctoral fellowship at the Claremont Colleges while also maintaining a psychological assistantship under the supervision of Dr. Alan Karbelnig.

Barbara Berger, PhD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Email: b.bergerphd@me.com
Barbara Berger, Ph.D. has been in full time private practice in Chicago for almost 40 years. She is faculty emeritus and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago. She is an editor for The Clinical Social Work Journal and The Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal. Dr. Berger has served as President of The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and a Chair of the Social Work Academy in the National Academies of Practice. She was elected as a Distinguished Practitioner in 2002, received the award for Distinguished Service from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in 2012, and The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work in 2013.

Karen Bloomberg, LCSW, PhD
Dean of Students

Karen Bloomberg, LCSW, PhD, is Dean of Students at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and, as faculty, teaches Self Psychology and Couples Therapy. She is a member of the Midwest Regional Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and of the Midwest Self Psychology Study Group.  She is also a faculty member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago and is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work as well as a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers.

Candela Bonaccorso, PsyD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst

Email: Dr.Candela.Bonaccorso@gmail.com
Candela Bonaccorso is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst. She completed the NYU-Bellevue pre-doctoral internship in 2007, where she remained on staff at a dual diagnosis clinic and subsequently at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program. While there, she provided individual and group psychotherapy to Spanish- and English-speaking patients and she supervised psychology interns, externs, social workers, and psychiatry residents until 2012, when she departed from Bellevue and transitioned to private practice. Subsequently, she completed analytic training at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI) in 2019. She is the Past President of the Psychoanalytic Society of WAWI, which is the society of the graduates of the 4-to-6-year Psychoanalytic Training program. As President, she developed a webinar colloquium series entitled “The Embodied Psychoanalyst” for the 2022-2023 academic year. She currently is faculty and supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute, and she provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adult patients in Spanish and English at her office located in Midtown Manhattan.

Stephanie Boone, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Stephanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Orange County, CA. She is passionate about journeying alongside adults and adolescents as they experience the difficulties of life transitions and come into who they truly are. She believes that deeply exploring oneself from a holistic and creative posture is what allows people to authentically live in the freedom of who they are and are becoming. Stephanie fell in love with depth oriented therapy in her graduate studies and pursued psychodynamic training post-graduating. Stephanie utilizes a Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Relational approach in her practice. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Biola University and went on to obtain her Master's Degree from Azusa Pacific University. Stephanie is a third year candidate at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. 

Mac Brachman, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: mbrachman@comcast.net
Mac Brachman is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Illinois. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is active in efforts to improve availability of mental health services to all persons, particularly persons from underserved populations, and particularly advocates broader education about and availability of quality psychotherapy and a healthy skepticism about, and greater efforts to regulate, the increasing medicalization and monopolization of mental health services by special pharmaceutical, medical, and business interests to the detriment of quality, non-medical/non-pharmaceutical mental health care.

Robert D. Campbell, LCSW
Relational Psychoanalyst

Email: robert@rdctherapy.com
Robert D. Campbell, MA, LCSW, is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and relational psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC where he sees both individuals and couples. He received his psychoanalytic training from the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) where he is also on faculty. He is a member of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW) as well as the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). His practice focus is on relational trauma, sexuality, and gender as well as relationships and communication.

Michael Gerard Connolly, LP, MPA, NCPsyA
Licensed Psychoanalyst

Email: michael.connolly@harlemfamilyinstitute.org
Michael is a Licensed Psychoanalyst who has been working with children and families from underserved communities in New York City since 2006. He is president and executive director of the Harlem Family Institute and since 2010 has led the redevelopment of this multicultural psychoanalytic training institute as it seeks to expand its training of aspiring psychoanalysts, especially from underserved communities, to deepen its services to individuals and families in need and to expand its work in its community-based clinical settings where it also offers workshops for parents and for mothers and babies. Since 2014, Michael has also been treasurer of the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis. Michael holds a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Harlem Family Institute, New York, a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard’s J.F. Kennedy School of Government and a yoga-teaching certificate from the World Yoga Center in New York. He has also worked extensively as an editor at major news organizations in the U.S., Australia, Asia and Europe.

Lisa Correale, MSW, LCSW, NCPsyA
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychoanalyst

Email: lisacorreale@psptraining.com
Lisa Correale is Executive Director, and a Supervising and Training Analyst of PSP. She is a Certified Psychoanalyst and Clinical Supervisor in the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She received her degree from Rutgers University, and certification from the Institute for Modern Psychoanalysis, New York, NY. She is currently a faculty member of PSP. She has been a member of PSP’s Board of Directors since 2012.

Mark Dean, MFA, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
Jungian Analyst, Art Therapist, Counselor

Email: markdean2@mac.com
Mark Dean is a Jungian Analyst, Registered Art Therapist, and Licensed Professional Counselor, in private practice in the Philadelphia area. He is Vice President of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, and a member of both the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and the International Association for Analytic Psychology. Mark is a co-founder of The Center for Psyche and the Arts, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of an understanding of art and imagery in psychotherapeutic practice and psychological process.

Brooke Finley, PhD, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, APHN-BC
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Psychoanalyst

Email: brooke@finleypsych.com
Brooke is a triple board-certified psychiatric mental health, holistic, and addiction nurse practitioner and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in New York State. She is affiliated with the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York and is the chair of the Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee at the American Psychoanalytic Association. Brooke privately teaches and supervises psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners how to conduct psychodynamic psychotherapy and is also a doctoral clinical instructor at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, where she teaches psychotherapy. Brooke has four degrees in nursing (BSN, MSN, DNP, and PhD) from the University of Arizona College of Nursing and has been training in psychoanalysis across the United States and England for the past five years. She is the incoming visiting scholar for the 24/25 year at the State University of New York at Buffalo's Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture.

Karen Foley, MBA
President, CEO

Email: kfoley@jpachicago.org
Karen G. Foley serves as the president and CEO of the Juvenile Protective Association (JPA), co-founded by Jane Addams in 1901, whose mission is to improve the social and emotional well-being and functioning of vulnerable children. JPA provides therapeutic counseling services, conducts research, shares knowledge, and provides expert consultation and guidance to others serving these children and families. Previously, she served as the CEO of the Hope Institute and as the president of Chicago Scholars, a premier college-to-career mentoring program reaching high potential students from every public, private and parochial high school in Chicago. Her corporate experience includes serving as the Executive Vice President and head of global marketing for CNA Insurance Companies. Karen earned a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College.

Valerie Frankfeldt, LCSW, PhD
Psychoanalyst

Email: vfrankfeldt1@gmail.com
Valerie Frankfeldt, LCSW, PhD, is a faculty member, supervisor and training analyst at Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center in NYC. She is the former Director of Training at PPSC. She is also a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. Her most recent publication is Digital Communication in Psychoanalysis: An Oxymoron? Dr. Frankfeldt is currently attending the New Directions Psychoanalytic Writing program of the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Center. She is in private practice in Manhattan seeing individuals and couples.

Kathryn Gallagher, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst

Email: kate.gallagher@austenriggs.net
Kathryn (Kate) Gallagher is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and is also in private practice in Stockbridge, MA.  She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University and is a graduate of the Austen Riggs Center Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based Psychotherapy.  Her graduate research primarily focused on understanding and preventing violence against women, a public health crisis rooted in gender inequality and issues of basic human rights.  As a full-time practicing clinician, Dr. Gallagher has shifted her attention to another significant human rights and equity issue – inadequate access to affordable mental health care.  Dr. Gallagher is especially committed to supporting efforts to appeal insurer denials of medically necessary mental health treatment.

Robert Gangi, PhD
Psychologist

Email: rgangi3@gmail.com
Robert Gangi is a clinical psychologist, currently in private practice in New York, who earned his PhD in clinical psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His career, prior to private practice, included service as a psychiatric crisis psychologist for the City of New York, as well as a clinical supervising psychologist for the City University of New York. He is currently a candidate at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Herb Gross, MD
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Email: hgross@herbertgross.com
Herb was a full-time academic professor teaching psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has held numerous positions of leadership with clinical and administrative responsibilities at the University, hospitals, and also was the Director of Mental Health and Addictions at the Anne Arundel County Health Department. He has also served as President of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. For the American Psychoanalytic Association, he chairs the Committee on Government Relations and Insurance and sits on the Advocacy steering committee. Throughout his career, Herb has published a number of articles and book reviews.

Jennifer Harper, MDiv
Psychoanalyst

Email: jrharpertx@gmail.com
Jennifer Harper is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis. She is also the Director of the Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, where she teaches clinical education and pastoral care for clerical and non-clerical care providers. She is a faculty member and supervisor at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and also the Blanton-Peale Institutes for Religion and Health. She has held a number of roles at the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, including past President. She holds an M.Div. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary, in addition to her Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with individuals and couples in New York City and Tenafly, NJ.

Nathan Haskell
Clinical Psychologist

Email: nalexanderhaskell@gmail.com
Nathan is a clinical psychologist practicing in Montpelier, Vermont. He also teaches in the St. Michael's Graduate Psychology program and previously served on the Executive Committee of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies. His primary areas of interest/specialty are psychosis and the integration of psychology with Eastern (especially Zen Buddhist) perspectives and traditions. He is currently working with local community mental health agencies to expand access to psychological resources inspired by the Open Dialogue model.

James Holmes, DrPH, LP, NCPsyA
Psychoanalyst

Email: jholmespsya@gmail.com
James Holmes is a faculty member, supervisor and training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), as well as the Director of Training, faculty member and supervisor at the Blanton-Peale Institute. He also serves in multiple roles on the American Board of Accreditation in Psychoanalysis (ABAP). He has taught at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services, Hunter College School of Health Sciences, CUNY (City University of New York) and Brooklyn College, CUNY, and the New School. He holds a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from Columbia University, and maintains a private practice in New York City.

Cheryl Irmiter, PhD, LCSW
Health Care Consultant, Professor

Email: cirmiter@sbcglobal.net
For nearly 15 years, Cheryl was a mental health clinician and educated physicians, nurses, psychologists, and social workers, as well as students at Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Loyola University. She is currently adjunct faculty at Loyola University’s School of Social Work. Since her post-doctorate as a Health Services and Translational Researcher at the University of Michigan, she has advanced research and policy to practice and advocate for individual mental and health care needs in various capacities at the American Medical Association, Easter Seals Inc., and Home Centered Care Institute. She is honored that her colleagues recognized her scholarly work by awarding her a Research, Policy, and Practice Fellow for the Gerontological Society of America and a Billings Fellow for the Institute of Medicine Chicago.

Elliot Jurist, PhD, PhD
Professor

Email: ejurist5@gmail.com
Elliot Jurist is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York, CUNY. From 2004-2013, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, from Guilford Publications, and author of a recent book in the series, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy, from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian, will be translated into Chinese and Spanish, and was named best theoretical book in 2009 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture and Agency  (MIT Press, 2000) and co-author of Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press, 2002), the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes.  He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008). His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy. His research lab has published a self-report measure, the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS), which has now been translated into eleven languages.  In 2014, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA. 

Elena Mancini, Ph.D., LP
Licensed Psychoanalyst

Email: elena.mancini@gmail.com
Elena is a New York State licensed psychoanalyst and a faculty member at MITPP (Metropolitan Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy). She serves on the Executive Board of Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MSPP) as Vice President and is on the Steering Committee of the PPSC RSP (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center Refugee Support Project) where she is engaged in working with refugees and supporting asylum seekers by providing psychological evaluations. Elena works in a community mental health setting in New York City and treats individuals and couples in her private practice. Prior to transitioning to the mental health field, Elena taught German Language, Literature, and Film at various institutions of higher education including CUNY, and she continues to cultivate a vibrant interest in exploring how culture, language, gender, sexuality, socioeconomics, family history, and intrapsychic structures intersect and inform human experience. 

Aimee Martinez, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist

Email: aimee@draimeemartinez.com
Dr. Martinez works in private practice in West Hollywood, California. She holds a passion for working with older adolescents, emerging adults, supporting post-collegiate anxiety and identity formation, those in creative industries, former college athletes, and only children. She is currently an advanced candidate in process of becoming a certified Psychoanalyst and is the Past President of the Candidate’s Association at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Her press contributions and collaborations can be seen online at Buzz Feed, Psychoanalysis Unplugged for Psychology Today, Forbes, Bustle, Psych Central, Elite Daily, and Huffington Post. Dr. Martinez has co-facilitated multiple corporate presentations utilizing everyday language to develop people’s capacity to understand and use their own experience of the past to work through conflict in the present. She has spoken to members of the Wing in partnership with Dyson, PsyOp in Los Angeles as well as school/parenting workshops. Aimee is also the co-chair for the American Psychoanalytic  Associations Committee on Public Information. 

In addition to her private practice, Dr. Martinez is  Core Faculty member at The Wright Institute Los Angeles, a non-profit psychoanalytic training center and low-fee clinic. On top of being a clinical supervisor, she has co-developed the Therapeutic Identity and Professional Development Track (TIPD). WILA is one of if not the only programs to offer students the space to both deepen their clinical skills and to learn in-vivo how to market their own practice and gain step-by-step guidance in building their confidence in their identity as clinicians. 

Doug Maxwell, LP, NCPsyA, JD
Psychoanalyst

Email: dfmaxwell@mac.com
Douglas F Maxwell, LP, NCPsyA, JD is in private practice in New York City. He is a former President of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP); former President of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE); a senior member, faculty and training analyst at The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP); faculty at the Harlem Family Institute (HFI); faculty at The Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA); Arts Editor of the Psychoanalytic Review and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arts at New York University (NYU).

Bindu Methikalam, PhD
Professor

Email: methikalamb@chc.edu
Dr. Bindu Methikalam is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Director of Clinical Training at Chestnut Hill College in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Pace University in New York City, and then went on to receive her master’s in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University in 2008. She completed her APA Accredited Internship at the Counseling and Psychological Services Center at the Pennsylvania State University and post-doctoral residency in college student mental health at Princeton University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Her clinical interests include working with ethnic identity, grief, adjustment, depression, family and relationship concerns. Her research interests are in perfectionism, family expectations, multicultural issues and South Asian concerns, particularly, immigrant experiences, acculturation, cultural identities, and the psychology of women. She teaches Theories of Psychotherapy, Techniques of Psychotherapy, Culture and Gender of Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, and Clinical Practicum Group Supervision. She is a 2017-2018 APA Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis) Scholar through the Multicultural Concerns Committee and a 2020 Teacher's Academy Fellow through the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Lisa Miller, MD
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Email: rdmlam@aol.com
Lisa Miller graduated from medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, where she also completed a Neurology residency prior to practicing Neurology at St. Luke’s and The Methodist Hospitals.  She returned to Baylor College of Medicine to complete residency training in Adult Psychiatry.  Her avid interest in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis led her to complete training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the Beck Institute, and psychoanalytic training from the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies.  She was certified by, and is currently a member of, the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.  She donates a lot of her time as a faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, where she also serves on the Board as Secretary; and as a psychotherapy supervisor for Baylor Psychiatry residents.  She is in private practice, where she enjoys a multi-faceted practice of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.   

Paula Moreci, LCSW
Psychoanalyst

Paula Moreci is in full-time private practice providing psychoanalysis, individual and couples psychotherapy, supervision and consultation.  Paula is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, President of the Board, Chair of the Training Analyst Committee and Faculty of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  She is also the President of the Board of the Clinic Without Walls ( a low fee clinic providing psychodynamic psychotherapy to the uninsured and providing training/supervision to psychiatric residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy).  She is also involved at the American Psychoanalytic Association as the Board Representative from Pittsburgh, is a liaison for the Institutional Advisory and Consultation Section, and is a member of the Meditation and Psychoanalysis Study Group.  Paula also has been studying meditation and Buddhism for many years

Rebecca Moussa

Email: rmoussa@antioch.edu
Rebecca Moussa is a fourth year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) at Antioch University New England. She is the co-student representative of Antioch’s Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology; a student representative on the Board of Directors of Section I (Psychoanalytic Practitioners) of APA Division 39; and a member of APA Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) Graduate Student Committee. Her interests include understanding different aspects of language, the unconscious activation that occurs through verbal and non-verbal processing, dissociative phenomenon, intersubjective figurative speech, as well as aspects of intersectionality and identity, personality disorders, and the use of defense mechanisms.

Holly Passi, PsyD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Passi is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Transition Care Management Clinic at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, which serves post-9/11 veterans. She is also the program coordinator for the Student Veteran Outreach Program, which aims to provide mental health services and community outreach to veterans transitioning from the military to college campuses. Dr. Passi’s interests include returning veterans, student veterans, and integrative approaches to treating posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury. She is also interested in community-based approaches to foster veteran re-integration to civilian life, as well as cultural and institutional barriers to re-integration.

Kamela Qirjo
Student, Counseling

Kamela Qirjo is an Albanian-American Master's student in Counseling at Northwestern University. Her educational background combines the realms of nutrition and psychology, offering a holistic perspective on health and well-being. She earned a B.Sc. in Nutrition from The University of Texas at Austin and a Post-Baccalaureate degree in Psychology. Before transitioning into the world of psychotherapy, Kamela gained over 8 years of professional experience in the medical field, working alongside scientists, physicians, and executives. Her personal navigation through the challenges of communism, civil war, and being a first-generation immigrant deeply informs her compassionate and insightful counseling identity, enhancing her unwavering commitment to supporting and advocating for others in their individual paths to well-being. 

Penny Rosen, MSW, LCSW, BCD-P
Clinical Social Worker, Psychoanalyst

Email: rosenpmsw@aol.com
Penny is in private practice in New York City, and active in a number of different professional organizations. She is a Board member, Past-President, American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW). For the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), she is a Continuing Education Committee Member, Faculty, and Past Board Member. She is a Board Member and Past President of the NY Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (NYIPSP), as well as a Past Board Trustee of the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education, Inc. (ACPEinc). In addition to being a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice (NAP), she is a Reviewer for the Clinical Social Work Journal (CSWJ).

Melodie R. Schaefer, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: mspsyd@earthlink.net
Melodie Schaefer is a licensed, clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy, consultation, education, and training services for over 30 years.  Dr. Schaefer serves as current Chair of the California Psychology Internship Council, Advisory Board member of Southern California University and member of the Education and Training Board of the California Psychological Association, also serving as the board’s representative to the California Board of Psychology.  She is also the co-founder and clinical director of a private clinic in the Los Angeles county area. She has published and lectured nationally and internationally including on issues pertaining to trauma, substance abuse, the conduct of psychotherapy and professional advocacy for diversity in training and educational opportunities.  She has worked in federal, community and private clinical settings and university appointments.

Kirk Schneider, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: kschneider56@gmail.com
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology, an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and a cofounder and current president of the award-winning Existential-Humanistic Institute. He was also a 2022 candidate for president-elect of the American Psychological Association (APA). 

Dr. Schneider is a Fellow in seven Divisions of the APA, the recipient of the Rollo May Award from Division 32 of the APA for “Outstanding and Independent Pursuit of New Frontiers in Humanistic Psychology,” and the author/editor of 14 books. These include The Paradoxical Self, Horror and the Holy, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, Existential-Humanistic Therapy (with Orah Krug), Awakening to Awe, The Spirituality of Awe, The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America, and his latest book: Life-Enhancing Anxiety:  Key to a Sane World.  Dr. Schneider’s current focus, which draws on the psychology of Otto Rank, is on the existential bases of as well as alternatives to polarized states of being. For more information on Dr. Schneider’s work visit https://kirkjschneider.com as well as his YouTube channel “Corps of Depth Healers,” which serves as a resource for depth psychological approaches to social crises: https://www.youtube.com/@CorpsofDepthHealers-ws9nq

Allan Scholom, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst

Email: ascholom@ccpsa.org
Allan Scholom, PhD is President of the Section of Psychoanalysts of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, on the Core Faculty and Board of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and on the Faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work. He has served as President of the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, First Vice Chairperson of the Chicago Community Mental Health Board, Founder and Chairperson of the Illinois Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, and Mental Health Policy Advisor to Illinois US Senator Adlai Stevenson, Jr. Dr. Scholom has published and presented widely on the interface between psychoanalysis and politics, primarily regarding mental/health care issues. He has taught classes and led workshops on Psychoanalysis and Politics. Dr. Scholom is in the private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. 

Richard Shulman, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: ctvip@hotmail.com
Richard Shulman, Ph.D., was one of the founders, and is the ongoing Director, of Volunteers In Psychotherapy, a nonprofit organization in greater Hartford, CT, that allows anyone to earn strictly private psychotherapy in exchange for volunteer work they provide, independently and privately, to the charity or government agency of their choice. Rich is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who previously worked at Hartford Hospital – Institute of Living, where he had provided psychotherapy and had supervised and trained psychologists and other therapists at the outpatient clinic. That clinic primarily served Hartford’s poor or uninsured population. He also served for 20 years on the Institutional Review Board of those hospitals.

Courtney Slater, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: drcourtneyslater@gmail.com
Dr. Courtney Slater (she, her, hers) is a licensed psychologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University. She teaches in the areas of psychodynamic psychotherapy, multicultural psychology, and social psychology. She also specializes in the integration of religion, spirituality, and clinical psychology.

Isaac Slone, MA
Psychoanalytic Candidate

Email: isaackslone@gmail.com
Isaac Slone is a psychoanalytic candidate at the Contemporary Freudian Society. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he studied the relationship between psychoanalysis, music, and literature. He is the Director of Development for the psychoanalytic online and print magazine, ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. Isaac co-hosts the podcast Voices from ROOM: a Podcast for Analytic Action. He writes and lectures on James Joyce, and rock bands the Grateful Dead and Phish. He is also a student of Zen Buddhism at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

Michael Stadter, PhD
Clinical Psychologist

Michael Stadter, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC. His faculty positions include: Founding Faculty Member of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Faculty at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and Faculty at the Center for Existential Studies and Psychotherapy.  Additionally, he has been frequently invited to teach nationally and internationally. Dr. Stadter has authored a number of publications including 2 books, Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy (2012) and Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Relationship in Short-term Work (1996/ 2009).  He also co-edited (with David Scharff) the book, Dimensions of Psychotherapy/Dimensions of Experience (2005). Formerly, he was Psychologist-in-Residence, Dept. of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC and Director, University Counseling Center, also at American University.

Ryan Stivers, PhD
Marriage and Family Therapist

Email: ryan@summitfamily.net
Dr. Ryan Stivers received his doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2012. Dr. Stivers is an Illinois Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He co-owns Summit Family Therapy in Peoria, Illinois with his spouse Dr. Courtney Stivers. He has a passion for working with trauma survivors and individuals in recovery from addictions. He also has a passion for educating student therapists and advocating for the practice of Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Stivers currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Affiliation of Marriage and Family Therapists (IAMFT) and is active in grassroots advocacy efforts for the practice of mental health.

Kathy Ulman, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Email: kathyulman@verizon.net
Kathleen Hubbs Ulman is a Past President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). She is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry (Psychology) part-time at Harvard Medical School and a Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry (Psychology) at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she is the Director of the Center for Group Psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice in Boston and Boxford, MA, where she sees individuals and couples, and leads open-ended psychotherapy groups.

Jorge Vasco, MEd
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Jorge Vasco, M.Ed (UMcGill, 1985) is a clinical psychologist and Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the present president of RADAR, Psy (Réseau d’Action et de Défense des Approches Relationnelles en Psychothérapie), a Montreal based network of relational psychotherapists he co-founded in 2017. He is the director of the Institut Québécois de Gestalt-thérapie (IQGT) which he co-founded in 2008; he was involved in Gestalt-therapy training programs and continues to offer psychotherapy services to a diverse population. A founding member and administrator of Regroupement Corps et Psychothérapie Quebec, a group of psychotherapists from a diversity of body based psychotherapy approaches, he is also a past administrator, coordinator and president of Association Québécoise de Gestalt (AGA).

Amannda Walworth, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Email: amanndawalworthlcsw@gmail.com
Amannda Walworth is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in New York City. She is employed at an Article 16 Clinic, working with adults with intellectual disabilities since 2009. Additionally, Amannda maintains a private practice. Amannda is a faculty member at Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP). She is a member of MITPP's Program Committee, which works to coordinate presentations on contemporary topics within the psychoanalytic community. She is the President of MITPP's Alumni Association, Metropolitan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (MSPP). 

Bryant Welch, JD, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Attorney

Email: welchfirm@aol.com
Bryant Welch, JD, PhD, author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, has been a nationally prominent clinical psychologist and attorney for almost four decades. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Bryant received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later was a research associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in Washington DC. In addition to his clinical work and teaching, Bryant served as an executive director for the American Psychological Association and led national psychology through its most successful era of advocacy expanding access to psychological services. He has championed numerous social justice issues and was one of the very first and most outspoken advocates for non-discriminatory treatment of gay men and lesbians in the mental health community. Most recently he was a visible critic of the American Psychological Association’s involvement in America’s enhanced interrogation torture program.

Vanessa R. Zito, CMHC
Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Vanessa received her graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is currently licensed and practicing in Draper, Utah where she sees adults, couples and teens. Prior to moving to private practice, Vanessa worked at Volunteers of America, Cornerstone Counseling Center where she focused on patients with substance use disorder and PTSD. Vanessa recently completed the two-year Certificate Program in Object Relations Theory and Practice (CORE program) through the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI.) She is currently a participant of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, Clinical Track through IPI and serves on the organization’s welcoming committee.