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Upcoming Courses & Events

Mar
04
2025
Course

Launching Your Private Practice: Developmental and Frame Considerations
Dr. Brandt's Office, East Bay

The transition into private practice involves many subtle shifts in one’s orientation to clinical work. There are many decisions to make, and these decisions hinge on one’s personal needs, preferences, and interests in ways that are not yet familiar. The frame becomes newly personal. This is a time of considerable change, self-discovery, and development.

Mar
29
2025
Workshop

READING GROUP:
Hating Homelessness: How to Survive When Clients and Communities Resist Change

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

In an era of managed care, how can psychoanalytic principles be woven into a community mental health system? By exploring hateful countertransference reactions - both his own and those of members of the community in which he practiced - Brian Ngo-Smith will examine professional tensions that arose in his work with an unhoused client.

Jun
07
2025
Salon | Social Event

Community Mental Health Spring Hike

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Bothin Marsh and Sausalito-Mill Valley Path, North Bay

Calling all Community Mental Health clinicians and staff! Looking for a space to connect with others who work in community settings while enjoying the outdoors? Join us for the Spring CMH hike, where you will have the opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of the Bay Area while meeting others.

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Community Service Award

The NCSPP Community Service Award is an annual award presented for outstanding community service by an individual or a mental health organization in the field of psychoanalytic psychology.

We are committed to the study of psychoanalytic psychology and to encourage its interest in Northern California's professional and general communities.

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Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.

Our psychoanalytic journal that provides a forum for local professionals as well as national and international thinkers and clinicians.

Impulse Online
Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month.

Bringing the Bay Area’s psychoanalytic scene to your inbox the first of each month.

NCSPP’s Impulse is looking for writers for our Potential Space column. Potential Space encourages writers to explore their experiences, wonderings, and vulnerabilities as they encounter the world through a psychoanalytic lens. Email Luba Palter, ImpulseEditor-in-Chief, at lpalter@ncspp.org and she will be happy to tell you more.

Who Is NCSPP?

This new column is a space for our members to share themselves with the community and for each of us to get to know our peers. Whether you're new to psychoanalysis or a seasoned clinician, we'd love to hear from you about your passion and interest in this work. Contact our Impulse Editor, Luba Palter, MFT, at lpalter@ncspp.org.
Theresa Tan, Psy.D.

My name is Theresa Tan, and I am an early career psychologist, working both in-person in Oakland and virtually. In my short time in private practice, I am discovering new ways of being with child and adult patients that I couldn’t quite do in training. I’m also confirming my passions that were previously ignited.
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