Faculty

Salman Akhtar, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. His 67 books include 15 solo-authored, as well as 40 edited books in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

Gene Alexander, MFT, has been practicing psychotherapy in San Francisco since 1976. He trained at the Family Therapy Center, where he taught couple and family therapy for over 18 years, and has offered courses in local colleges and universities. In addition to his work in psychotherapy, he has written poetry and plays for the past 15 years.

Ann Alvarez, Ph.D., M.A.C.P., is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, London). She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with

Peter August, MFT, has worked with children, adolescents, and adults for the last 25 years. Along with his private practice in Oakland, he facilitates case consultation at WestCoast Children’s Clinic, where he has also conducted post-doctoral seminars. For 12 years, he was the Director of Intern and Training Programs at Youth and Family Services, a community mental-health organization in Solano County.

Carolina Bacchi, Psy.D., is an analyst at PINC and in private practice in Oakland, working with children and adults, as well as offering consultation for early career clinicians. Originally from Brazil, she is interested in issues of immigration and the interface between cultural dislocation, inner creativity, and psychoanalytic technique.

Beth Barmack, LCSW, is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she teaches infant observation and supervises. She co-authored an article in the Journal of Analytic Psychology (June 2010) on infant observation and the transcendent function. She practices in San Francisco and sees adolescents, adults, and couples.

John Beebe, M.D., is a Jungian analyst and past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is currently on the teaching faculty. Dr. Beebe received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago, completed his psychiatric residency at Stanford University Medical School, and has maintained his San Francisco private practice since 1971.

Leora Benioff, Ph.D., is a member of PCPG, a graduate of the SFCP, and has completed the Tavistock Center’s Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy. She has taught and supervised at numerous Bay Area training institutions and currently teaches in the PCPG Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy training program. Dr. Benioff has a private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco, where she see individuals and couples.

Raquel Bennett, Psy.D., is a ketamine specialist in Berkeley. She primarily works with people who are living with severe depression, bipolar disorder, and/or suicidal ideation. Founder of KRIYA Institute, focused on ketamine research, Dr. Bennett has a long-standing interest in the psychedelic and mystical properties of ketamine. 

Adam Beyda, Psy.D., works with adult individuals and focuses on developing creative modes of living. Formerly the Director of Counseling Services at Holy Names University and clinical faculty at the Wright Institute, Dr. Beyda has supervised and taught widely in the community and co-facilitates an ongoing case conference centered on deepening clinical practice. Dr. Beyda, an advanced candidate at PINC, maintains a general practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation in Oakland.

Barbara Blasdel, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and a faculty member at PINC. In addition, she is a past-president of NCSPP, a founder of Access Institute, and has taught extensively in Bay Area postgraduate psychoanalytic programs. Dr. Blasdel is in private practice in San Francisco seeing individuals and couples

Diane Borden, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Film, Literature, and Psychoanalysis at the University of the Pacific. She has published books, chapters, and journal articles on cinema and psychoanalysis and conducts a study group on film and psychoanalysis in San Francisco. Dr. Borden has been guest faculty at SFCP/SFPI, formerly chaired the Board of Trustees at SFCP, and currently sits on the NCSPP faculty. She has a special interest in trauma, perversion, and group process.

Mary Brady, Ph.D., is an adult and child psychoanalyst and faculty at SFCP. Her interests include eating disorders and other somatic expressions of psychic pain. Her paper "Invisibility and insubstantiality in an anorexic adolescent: phenomenology and dynamics" was published in the 2011 Journal of Child Psychotherapy.

Clara Brandt, Psy.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Oakland, where she works with adult individuals and couples. She teaches and supervises at Access Institute and is the former chair of the Education Committee at NCSPP.

Lisa Buchberg, DMH, is a supervising analyst at SFCP and PINC. She has taught courses on gender, the psychology of women, the British Independent School, and theoretical pluralism. She authored a paper exploring the TV show Girls through the lens of Freud’s “Femininity” and “Mourning and Melancholia.” Dr. Buchberg has a private practice in San Francisco.

Daniel G. Butler, MFTi, is a second-year intern at Access Institute. Before graduating from Santa Clara University’s School of Counseling Psychology, he concentrated in continental philosophy and cultural studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Forthcoming publications include a book chapter on the first American-born psychoanalyst, Trigant Burrow, and a chapter on Ferenczi’s radical reconceptualization of the child in psychoanalytic theory.

Tessamarie Capitolo, MFT, CST-T, is an analytic psychotherapist and a Teaching Member of Sandplay Therapists of America with a private practice in the Bay Area. Trained in Switzerland and California in Jungian and Sandplay therapy for the past 30 years, she co-founded the Child Therapy Institute of Marin, a non-profit training agency serving diverse populations. She has taught nationally and internationally and has published several articles in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. 

Peter Carnochan, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty for PINC. He has written a book — Looking for Ground: Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis (2001) — and numerous papers on analytic theory and technique. A senior consultant to early childhood mental health in Richmond, Dr. Carnochan has a private practice in San Francisco.

Margo Chapin, MFT, is a faculty member and a supervising and training analyst at SFCP. Ms. Chapin has a private practice in Oakland, and she leads several ongoing study groups for clinicians in the Bay Area.

German Cheung, Psy.D., is a bilingual and bicultural psychologist and works psychoanalytically with children and adults in private practice. He trained at Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), where for eight years he supervised trainees, post-doctoral candidates, and staff. Dr. Cheung also provides clinical consultation for therapists and organizations in the Bay Area and Hong Kong.

Trinidad-born, Brooklyn-raised, California-dreamin'! Dr. Annette V. Clarke is a licensed clinical psychologist with specializations in serious mental illness, diversity and community mental health, immigration and acculturation, mindfulness and meditation, and body positivity. Dr. Clarke earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University. She holds an M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Mental Health and Substance Use Counseling from The New School for Social Research and a B.A.

John Conger, Ph.D., is an international trainer in bioenergetic analysis and a psychoanalyst. The author of Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow (1988) and The Body in Recovery: Somatic Psychotherapy and The Self (1994), Dr. Conger teaches locally and maintains a private practice in Berkeley.
 

Cate Corcoran, Psy.D., has a private practice serving adults in downtown San Francisco. She has a focus on psychoanalytic psychotherapy addressing patient’s work lives and health-related issues, as well as maintaining a specialty of working with the elderly.

Reyna Cowan, Psy.D., LCSW, is a psychoanalyst, a personal and supervising analyst at PINC, and is on faculty at both PINC and SFCP. She teaches widely throughout the Bay Area and has a private practice in Oakland, where she works with adults, couples, adolescents, and children.

Shawnee Cuzzillo, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytically oriented psychologist, seeing individuals and couples in private practice. A graduate of UC Berkeley, MIT, The Wright Institute, and the PCPG training program, Dr. Cuzzillo teaches and supervises at the graduate level, and maintains an active art practice in her time outside the consulting room.

Daphne de Marneffe, Ph.D., sees couples and individuals in her private practice in Marin. She has published in JAPA, Signs, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and is the author of Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. Her forthcoming book on marriage and midlife will be published by Scribner.

Vivian Dent, Ph.D., began working psychoanalytically years ago, with a particular interest in object relational and attachment-based perspectives. She later studied trauma therapies, becoming an EMDR Approved Consultant and training in Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and MDMA- and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Dent has taught in analytic institutes and many training programs. She practices in Oakland.

Alyce Desrosiers, MSW, LCSW is the founder/owner of Chirp: Connecting Families and Nannies, helping parents through the process of choosing nannies for their children, and the author of two books on finding nannies. From 1992 to 2001 she provided individual psychotherapy in private practice to adults, families, and children. 

Charles Dithrich, Ph.D., is a faculty member and personal and supervising analyst at PINC. His writing, teaching, and consulting draws extensively on Bion and Winnicott, especially with regard to early states of being. He works with adults and children in North Oakland.

Michael Donner, Ph.D., is the President of SFCP and was co-chair of the faculty and member of their Ethics and Impairment Committee. He was also Chair of the California Psychological Association Ethics Committee. He teaches Law and Ethics in California and across the country.

Audrey Dunn, LCSW, is program coordinator, clinical supervisor, and faculty for CPMC's School-Based Psychotherapy Project, part of their doctoral psychology training. She also runs an independent psychoanalytically oriented school-based psychotherapy program at Francisco Middle School. Ms. Dunn also has a private practice in San Francisco, supervises for Access Institute, and consults with other Bay Area school-based programs.

Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW, is Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is co-chair of the Inter-Institute Task Force for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in psychoanalytic training. She has led reading groups and is on faculty at two institutes in New York.

Esther Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is in private practice in San Francisco and has particular expertise in the area of adoption and interfaith and transracial couples therapy. She has taught and presented on the psychology of adoption locally and abroad and created the mandatory adoption preparation workshops for local and international organizations. 

Dianne Elise, Ph.D., personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC, has served on the editorial boards of Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. She has elaborated her 2018 fort da essay on a Winnicottian field theory into a book of her papers, Creativity and the Erotic dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019).

Eric Essman, MA, is Co-Chair of the NCSPP Intensive Study Group Committee, a board member of PINC, and has frequently contributed film and book reviews to fort da.

Dennis Facchino, Ph.D., is a graduate and faculty member of PINC and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF. Dr. Facchino is also a group process consultant at both schools. He has eight years experience in the Tavistock Model Infant Observation group and serves on NCSPP’s Peninsula|South Bay Education group. Dr. Facchino in private practice in Los Altos and Palo Alto.

Benjamin Fife, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Francisco where he works with children, adults, couples. and families. He has also worked as a clinical supervisor at CPMC, the UCSF Infant-Parent Program, and supervised trainee therapists in community mental health settings. Dr. Fife has a strong interest in the interplay between social structures and mental health outcomes. 

Maureen Franey, Ph.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst at PINC. She has also taught at PINC and various Bay Area graduate schools and currently teaches an ongoing case conference seminar. Dr. Franey has published papers and book reviews in fort da, and lectured on the impact of the pregnant therapist. She has a private practice in Albany.
 

Julie Friend, LCSW, is the Program Chair and a faculty member of PCPG’s Intensive Study Program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples. She has served on the teaching and/or supervisory faculty at Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy of New York, CPMC, Access Institute, TPI, and SFCP’s yearlong extension program. Her most recent paper, “Love as Creative Illusion and Its Place in Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy,” was published in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis in 2013.

Sandy Frucht, Ph.D., has supervised and taught widely on clinical practice, ethics, supervision, and more, in the U.S. and abroad. She has provided individual and group supervision for community mental health agencies and is dedicated to mentoring clinicians in their professional development in both university and community settings. Dr. Frucht maintains a private practice in the East Bay where she works with adolescents, couples, and adults.

Sam Gerson, Ph.D., is a founder and past president of NCSPP and PINC, where he is faculty and a personal and supervising analyst. Dr. Gerson is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and an editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

Eric Glassgold, M.D., is a supervising psychoanalyst at SFCP and in private practice in San Francisco. He works with adults and couples.

Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., is the founding editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is on the faculty of the NYU post-doctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and the doctoral program in clinical psychology at CUNY. Dr. Goldner practices in New York City and teaches and supervises internationally.

Francisco J. González, M.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. He has published articles on film, sexualities, and socio-cultural process, and sits on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Oakland.

Gary Grossman, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst with over 35 years experience working with gay men. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and training/supervising analyst at SFCP. Dr. Grossman is in private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation in San Francisco.

Rose Gupta, Psy.D., LCSW, is a psychoanalyst, clinical social worker, instructor, international speaker and consultant in private practice in San Francisco. Her papers—“Left Too Long: The Disappearing Analyst”; “When the Mind Does Not Arrive; Thinking About Trauma”; “Finding Frankenstein; Estranged from Oneself; and The Frankenstein Metaphor”—focus on negation trauma, intersubjectivity, and unrepresented states. 

Forrest Hamer Ph.D., is a graduate and faculty member at SFCP.  He is the author of three collections of poems, most recently Rift (Four Way Books), and he is in private practice in Oakland.

Andrew Harlem, Ph.D., is past-president of NCSPP and associate professor of clinical psychology at CIIS. Dr. Harlem is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is ad hoc reviewer for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Harlem is a member of the California Board of Psychology. He is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland.
 

Toni Heineman, D.M.H., is Founder and Executive Director of A Home Within and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSF. Dr. Heineman has a private practice treating children, adults, and families in San Francisco.

David Hewison, D.Cpl.Psych.Psych., holds a doctorate in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Tavistock Relationships, where he is a Consultant Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Head of Research. He is a training analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology and an associate member of the APA’s Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29). Dr. Hewison has published extensively and teaches internationally.

Melissa Holub, Ph.D., is a past-president of NCSPP, faculty at Access Institute, and adjunct faculty at the CIIS, the Wright Institute, and the Women's Center. Dr. Holub specializes in psychoanalytic understanding of adoption, supervising and speaking on the topic throughout the Bay Area. She has a private practice in Berkeley.

Gillian Isaacs Russell, Ph.D., NCPsyA, a UK-trained psychoanalyst, is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the British Psychoanalytic Council. Her book, Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, was published by Karnac Books in 2015. Dr. Russell writes, speaks, and teaches internationally on technology and its impact on intimate human relationships, particularly in psychoanalytic treatment.

Kadija Johnston, Ph.D., is the Director of the Infant-Parent Program at UCSF. For over two decades, she supervised and trained the mental health professionals who provide services to children and their caregivers.

Sharon Karp-Lewis, Psy.D., LCSW, is a personal and supervising analyst at PINC, on the faculty of the Berkeley-based Women’s Therapy Center, and a consultation group leader for A Home Within clinicians. Dr. Karp-Lewis has been in private practice over 30 years. Her office is in Oakland.

Betsy Kassoff, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco. She provides services and teaches at a number of community mental health sites and graduate programs. Dr. Kassoff sees individuals and couples in her private practice, provides consultation, supervises, teaches, and writes on the intersection of relational psychoanalysis and the sociopolitical.

Ralph Kaywin, DMH, is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC, where he has taught Middle School, Case Conference and Integrative Seminar. Dr. Kaywin, who has published on the works of Hans Loewald and Joyce Slochower, practices psychoanalysis and consultation in Oakland.

Starr Kelton-Locke, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and psychoanalyst who has been in practice in Marin for 27 years. She specializes in the treatment of individuals, families, and couples. Dr. Kelton-Locke trained in Mentalization with its founders, Fonagy and Bateman, and UCLA’s Semel Institute. 

Stephanie King, Psy.D., is a cis, white psychologist working in private practice in Marin County, California.  She is a gender specialist, a sex and couples therapist and also works with adult daughters of narcissistic mothers.  Stephanie is the Past President of NCSPP and member of UCSF’s Mind the Gap.

Ortal Kirson-Trilling, Psy.D., is a psychologist who specializes in working with couples and individual adults. She is a graduate of the PCPG training and a post seminar candidate at PINC. She is a member of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counselors, as well as on the board of Section VIII (Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy) Division 39, of the APA. She has a private practice in Oakland.

Adam Kremen, Ph.D., practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic couples therapy in Oakland. For many years he was a psychotherapist at the Boyer House Foundation, where he worked analytically with psychotic and personality disordered patients. 

Terry A. Kupers, M.D., MSP, is a distinguished life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He provides expert testimony in class action litigation regarding the psychological effects of prison conditions. Dr. Kupers is author of Prison Madness (1999), co-editor of Prison Masculinities (2002), and Contributing Editor of Correctional Mental Health Report.

Peter Langman, Ph.D., is a known expert in the psychology of school shooters. His trainings identify warning signs of potential perpetrators of violence before it occurs and how school leadership can effectively utilize threat assessment across their communities. This includes analyzing homework assignments, understanding motivations and justifications for violence, and exploring pathways to violence.

Lynne Layton, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She teaches and supervises at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. Dr. Layton is the author of numerous works exploring psychoanalysis, gender, and class, and is the editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.

Carla Leone, Ph.D., is the director of North Suburban Family Psychologists, in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and is on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago. She is an elected member of the governing council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), Co-Chair of IAPSP’s Membership Committee, and Chair and Co-founder of that organization’s Couples Therapy Interest Group.

Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst and a training and supervising analyst at SFCP. Era is on the faculty of SFCP, NCSPP, and Access Institute. Her most recent article, “Dystopian Narratives: Encounters with the Perverse Sadomasochistic Universe,” was published in The Psychoanalytic Inquiry in 2017. 

Molly Ludlam, M.A., recently retired as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with couples, individuals, and parents. She now focuses on teaching, writing, and editing Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Other publications include Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies (2007), co-edited with Viveca Nyberg; and, more recently, “Failure in Couple Relationships and in Couple Psychotherapy,” in Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2014); “Sitting with 

Paula Mandel, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst at PINC, where she is on the teaching faculty and is co-chair of the Visiting Scholars committee. She has supervised and taught at numerous Bay Area locations. Her discussion of Jonathon Sklar’s “Violence, Destruction and Survival; Regression at the Level of the Basic Fault” is currently in press.

Patricia Marra, MFT, is a member and faculty at SFCP; Chair, SFCP Visiting Professor program. She is also the Book & Film Review Editor, fort da, in which she has published several reviews and interviews. She teaches a variety of courses for SFCP and NCSPP. She maintains a private practice in San Francisco.

Audrey Martin, MFT, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, where she sees adults and adolescents. Audrey has been involved as a preschool mental health consultant, and served as the former Training Director of the Master’s Level Intern Program at the McAuley Institute, Adolescent Inpatient and Outpatient units. 

Mia Maturen, MA, is a graduate of CIIS currently training at Access Institute, where she works with adults, children, adolescents, and couples.

Deborah Melman, Ph.D., is on the faculty at the Wright Institute, PINC, and SFCP. 
She has a private practice in Berkeley.

Larry Miller, Ph.D., developed and leads the Child Haven Internship and Practicum training program in Fairfield, treating trauma in families and children since 2003. He has also worked with Bosnian refugees through Survivors International, as well as Death Row inmates in appellate processes. Dr. Miller has taught courses on trauma and dehumanization for several years at The Wright Institute. He has a practice in Berkeley. 

Mary Morgan is a psychoanalyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. At Tavistock Relationships, she is Reader in Couple Psychoanalysis. She has published many papers on psychoanalytic work with couples and is currently completing a book entitled, A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples – The Tavistock Relationships Model.

Benjamin Morsa, Psy.D., is the founder of Tide Pools, a group practice and training program for Psy.D. students, which offers psychoanalytic therapy and assessment. His interests include psychoeducational assessment with bilingual children, queer and transgender theory and experience, neuro-affirming approaches to assessment and psychoanalysis, constructions of masculinity, and critical autism studies.

Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC and on the clinical faculty at CPMC and Access Institute. She was founding president of PINC, past president of NCSPP and Division 39, and serves as 
publication chair for the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Murphy maintains a private practice in San Francisco.

Rachel Newcombe, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and supervisor on Orcas Island, WA. She co-leads a writing collective of fellow therapists who share an interest in exploring ways creative non-fiction can be an aspect of professional writing. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, Fort/Da, Rumpus, 7X7LA, and elsewhere.

Brian Ngo-Smith is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver, CO. He is on faculty at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis at the University of Colorado and the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in the mental health field for 20+ years. 

Mary Jane Otte, Ph.D., is a training analyst at SFCP and a personal and supervising analyst PINC. She is certified by APA in child and adult analysis and is a member of the adjunct clinical faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Dr. Otte has a private practice in Palo Alto.

Willow Pearson Trimbach, Psy.D., LMFT, MT-BC, is Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Psychology Department, CIIS. A licensed clinical psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and nationally board certified music therapist, Dr. Pearson has a private practice in Oakland, where she sees adults and provides supervision. Dr.

Carla Penna, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and group analyst in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she is the former president of the Brazilian Association of Group Psychotherapy and Society of Group Analytic Psychotherapy.

Harvey Peskin, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University, former president of PINC, and recipient of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s 2013 Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults. Dr. Peskin has taught courses on trauma and dehumanization for several years at The Wright Institute. He has a practice in Berkeley.

Jyoti M. Rao, LMFT, is associate faculty and a psychoanalytic candidate at SFCP. She is in private practice in San Francisco and virtually.

Tim Renner has used and taught digital tools of creative collaboration since 1993 and is currently Manager of Administrative Systems at PINC. Informed by cybernetics, philosophy of science, futurist film, sputnik-era fiction, and post-punk aesthetics, he invites this class to re-imagine our mastery of and enslavement to information technology.

Jonathan H. Rousell, Psy.D., completed his doctorate at the Wright Institute. Over the course of his training, he has worked in various settings with a diverse range of individuals, couples, and groups. He has a psychological assistantship in San Francisco and is completing his postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF.

Megan Rundel, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and on the faculty of PINC. A graduate of the Center for Psychedelic Therapy and Research at CIIS, Dr. Rundel’s Oakland-based psychoanalytic practice combines her interest in depth psychology, spirituality, and psychedelic integration. 

Laurel Samuels, Ph.D., is a member and faculty at PINC and studied at the Tavistock Clinic. She has taught courses on Winnicott for PINC and NCSPP. Dr. Samuels is in private practice in San Francisco.

Sue Saperstein, MFT, Psy.D., has been a psychoanalyst, educator, and community activist for 45 years in San Francisco. She is faculty and supervisor at SFCP, NCSPP, CPMC, and CAPA and has focused on the evolving psychoanalytic treatment of trauma, sexualities, culture, immigration, and now elder development. In 2006, she published “Psychoanalytic Justice: An Ethical Inquiry“ in The Psychoanalytic Review.

John Schlapobersky, BA Msc CGP, is a training analyst, supervisor, and teacher in the Institute of Group Analysis, London, and research fellow, Birbeck, University of London. He is in private practice at the Bloomsbury Psychotherapy Practice and works with individuals, couples, and groups. He has trained generations of group analysts, teaches internationally, and has published widely.

Priscille Schwarcz-Besson, Ph.D., works in private practice in San Francisco and San Rafael. In addition to her work as a clinical psychologist, she has experience in specialized education and small business administration. Dr. Schwarcz-Besson currently serves on the Board of NCSPP and is the past chair of the board of CAPIC.

Stephen Seligman, D.M.H., is clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF; Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; training and supervising analyst at SFCP and PINC, and Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Seligman has recently authored Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment (Routledge, 2017) and is co-editor of the American Psychiatric Press’ Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice.

Nicole Hsiang, is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, a member of NCSPP, and graduate of Access Institute. She currently has a private practice internship in San Francisco, working under the supervision of Fernando Castrillon. 

Monica Sicilia, Ph.D., has worked at the Masonic Center for Youth and Families, Bay Area Clinical Associates, and Oakes Children's Center, where she was the Assistant Clinical Training Director. Dr. Sicilia co-authored a book chapter, "The self in post-traumatic stress disorder," in 2016 (Cambridge University Press). She works with youth, parents, and families.

Lee Slome, Ph.D., is a graduate of PINC. She supervises and teaches at Bay Area training programs including PINC, NCSPP, and Access Institute. Dr. Slome has a private practice in Oakland, where she treats adults, adolescents, and couples, and offers individual and group consultation.

Angela Sowa, Psy.D., MFT, is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC and an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Francisco. Dr. Sowa supervises Tavistock Model Infant Observation groups and is a consultant to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto related to perinatal loss, pregnancy, and early parenting.

Maria Seymour St. John, Ph.D., MFT is Director of Training at the UCSF Infant-Parent Program.  Recent articles have appeared in Zero to Three and the Handbook of Infant Mental Health and she has chapters in the forthcoming Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychopathology (Guilford) and Women, Mothers, Subjects: New Explorations in the Maternal (Routledge).

Mark Sullivan, Ph.D., MFT, is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a member of TPI in Berkeley. Dr. Sullivan teaches in the analytic training program of the Jung Institute, in their professional programs, and for the larger public. He practices in Oakland and San Francisco seeing adults, adolescents, couples, and clinical consultees.

Kylie Svenson, ACSW, a conservatory-trained musician, is interested in creativity as an important aspect of the patient's process of dreaming the self into being. She often works with artists and finds their gifts can be both a window to their trauma and a form of integration and elaboration of the traumatized self. She is also interested in dissociative disorders and specializes in working with patients with DID and OSDD. 
Her background includes training in specialized treatment for these patients, 

Diane Swirsky, Ph.D., is in private practice in Berkeley, where she sees adults and couples and provides consultation. She has taught, presented, and written on the topic of trauma, relational theory, and psychoanalysis and race. She is a past president of NCSPP and an alumni of New Directions in Psychoanalytic Writing at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.

Sydney Tan is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She teaches seminars on Lacan and Freud and is a member and faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Her film review, "The Films of Our Lives," was published in fort da, and several of her Latin translations can be found in Impulse. She maintains a private practice in San Francisco.

Mary Tennes, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice in Berkeley.  Dr. Tennes is a faculty member at PINC and has taught at The Wright Institute, CSPP, CIIS, and other graduate and training programs. She has written and presented on the topic of psychoanalysis and the uncanny and has a particular interest in the intersection of psychoanalytic practice, poetry, and contemporary science.

Drew Tillotson, Psy.D., FIPA, is a fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), past president of PINC and NCSPP, vice president of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC), board director of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS), and sits on the IPA’s Psychoanalytic Education Committee. He is co-editor and chapter author of “Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond,” for Routledge Press.

Sharon Tyson, Ph.D., has been the Chief Psychologist and Director of the Psychology Internship Program at CPMC for seven years. Previously, she was the Director of Psychology Training at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Dr. Tyson has had a private practice in San Francisco for the past 22 years.

Monica Vorchheimer, M.A., an experienced psychoanalyst and couple and family therapist, is a training and supervising analyst from the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APdeBA) in Argentina. She is a full member of the IPA, a member of the IPA Committee on Psychoanlysis with Families and Couples, a member of the European Federation of Psychotherapy (FEAP), and honorary member of AAPPIPNA (Spain). A professor at the University Institute of Mental Health in Argentina, Dr.

Andrea Walt, Ph.D., is a faculty member and personal and supervisory analyst at PINC. She teaches theory and clinical practice in a variety of training settings. Dr. Walt has a private practice in Oakland, offering psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, and couples, as well as clinical consultation.

Haim Weinberg, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, group analyst, and certified group psychotherapist in private practice in Sacramento. He has authored a book on online groups, and co-authored and co-edited books on fairy tales and the social unconscious. His latest book, co-written with Arnon Rolnick, is Theory and Practice of Online Therapy (Routledge, 2019).

Bruce Weitzman, MFT, is a graduate member of PINC, serves on PINC’s Board, and supervises clinicians-in-training at CIIS and Access Institute. His theoretical orientation interweaves Lacanian and Relational perspectives. He has a private practice in San Francisco, where he provides psychoanalytic treatment and consultation.

Amy Weston, Ph.D., has been a practicing psychologist for over 30 years. She participates in the training of interns and candidates at TPI, and is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Dr. Weston has interests in archetypal defenses to trauma and issues of gender and sexual identity within a Jungian context.

Susana Winkel, Ph.D., received her psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and taught at the University of California at Berkeley, and Tsing-Hua University, in Beijing. A classically trained musician, she is interested in applying psychoanalysis to the study of music. Her private practice is in San Francisco and Oakland.

Tom Wooldridge, Psy.D., ABPP, is a psychoanalyst, board-certified clinical psychologist, and associate professor at Golden Gate University. He has published two books: Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males and Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders (Relational Perspectives Book Series), in addition to numerous articles on a wide range of topics. He is in private practice in Berkeley.

Nikkia Young, Ph.D., is a psychologist and former classroom teacher and instructor at CSPP. Her areas of clinical focus include trauma, parenting, adolescence, and early childhood. In addition to running the Counseling Department at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, Dr. Young provides trainings and consultation on equity, literacy, classroom management, and mental health.

Nicolle Zapien, MFT, M.A., Ed.M., Ph.D., is the Dean of the School of Professional Psychology and Health, a licensed MFT, and certified sex therapist. Her recent book, Ethical Experience: A Phenomenology, is rooted in a phenomenological exploration of infidelity from the perspective of the person who begins an affair. The findings have been used to inform new treatment directions for clinicians. She practices in San Francisco.

Alexander Zinchenko, Ph.D., has over 30 years’ experience  treating  severely disturbed, fragile, and traumatized patients in various settings,  including  community mental health, state hospitals, and his private practice in San Francisco. He is also extensively involved in teaching and clinical training  as  both  a supervising psychologist at the National Asian American Psychology Training Center of RAMS, Inc., and as a supervisor of doctoral psychology interns at Napa State Hospital and CPMC.