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.

Kristen Carey, Psy.D., is in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland, where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. She also teaches at the Access Institute and supervises clinicians in training at the Ann Martin Center in Oakland. She co-founded Kids Connect, a bereavement group therapy program for children who have lost a parent or sibling.

Robert Carrere, Ph.D., ABPP, is board certified in psychoanalytic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is faculty, supervising and personal analyst, and Board director at PINC. Dr. Carrere is in full-time analytic practice in San Francisco specializing in process consultation groups for therapists and analysts.

Stephanie Z. Chen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and faculty at the Wright Institute. As a bicultural psychologist, she addresses race, gender, immigration, acculturation, and the tension of navigating between conflicting worlds. Her interests include ethnic/cultural identity formation and the integration of relational psychodynamic theories with a multicultural, social justice lens.

Lani Chow, Ph.D., has been the Program Chair of the Psychology Doctoral Program since 2017 and she was the program’s Director of Clinical Training from 2014-2017. She has been the Director of the Psychological Services Center since 2008. Dr. Chow is a founding member of Reflective Spaces/Material Places and is a core seminar member of the Community Psychoanalysis Project at PINC. She maintains a practice in San Francisco.

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.

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., is a developmental and clinical psychologist, associate professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, and Director of Mental Health of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. She specializes in research, clinical work, training, and consultation related to gender expansive children, and publishes and lectures both nationally and internationally on this topic.

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.

Brian Kuennemeier, Psy.D., completed his doctorate at the Wright Institute. His training has included work with a variety of populations throughout the Bay Area, but has primarily focused on the LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive communities. He is currently completing his postdoctoral fellowship in an integrated health psychology setting providing brief treatment to underserved communities in Contra Costa County.

Loong Kwok, Psy.D., is the Director of Child Services at Access Institute, where he teaches and supervises school-based therapy. He works with adults, children, and couples at Baywell Psychiatry Group. He also serves on the Editorial Committee of fort da, NCSPP’s journal, and the Neuropsychoanalysis Committee of PINC.

Tara Bredesen, ASW, obtained her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2018. She completed her internship at UCSF’s Infant-Parent Program and currently works as a Birth-to-Five mental health clinician with A Better Way, Inc., in San Francisco. As a Scholar of the Multicultural Concerns Committee, she presented at the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology’s (Division 39) Annual Spring Meeting in 2019.

Julie Leavitt, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in San Francisco. Staff psychiatrist at Access Institute, Dr. Leavitt is Chair of Curriculum, president-elect, and faculty at PINC. Besides robots, her current areas of interest and writing include geographic palimpsests, ghosts, intuition, and rethinking fe/male sexuality.

Scott Lines, Ph.D., is psychoanalyst and forensic psychologist in Berkeley, graduate of PINC and Past President of NCSPP. He is on the clinical faculty at CIIS, and has previously taught at Access Institute, CPMC, The Psychotherapy Institute. Current writing includes malignant narcissism, a memoir of alcoholism in the family, and a musical theater piece on Jim Jones and Jonestown.

Sheila Longerbeam, Psy.D., LMFT, is a psychoanalyst, licensed since 1991. She trained at The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group and The Couples Institute and devotes most of her practice to work with couples. Dr. Longerbeam has taught and supervised couple therapy widely in the community.

Stephen Lugar, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist who works with adults, adolescents, and children in San Francisco. He worked for many years in community mental health at RAMS, Inc. in its outpatient, school-based, and residential programs and has also supervised and taught at both RAMS and Access Institute. Dr. Lugar is currently a candidate in psychoanalytic training at PINC.

Mali A. Mann, M.D., is a child and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who practices in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Dr. Mann is SFCP faculty, training and supervising analyst, and a clinical professor at Stanford, where she teaches medical ethics. She is also the Chair of IPA’s Inter-committee on Child Abuse. Her most recent book, Psychoanalytic Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology, received several awards.

Jimena Martí-Haik, M.A., is a psychoanalyst from Mexico City. She majored in Latin American Literature and Literary Criticism and has a Master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Theory. A trained analyst, she has a private practice and has worked in psychiatric institutions. Her interest is the intersection of cultural productions, social discourses, and subjectivity.

Ann Martini, LCSW, is member and faculty of SFCP and the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program. She works extensively with eating disorders and has conducted two workshops on the subject for NCSPP. She has a private practice in Los Gatos treating children, adolescents, and adults. 

Mary Margaret McClure, DMH, is a psychoanalyst with a practice in Mill Valley. Most recently at SFCP, where she was trained, she has taught the class “Early Childhood Development with Culture in Mind”. She also works as a consultant to Canal Alliance, a non-profit in San Rafael, serving the Latino immigrant population.

Molly Merson, LMFT, is in independent practitioner working with adults and adolescents in psychoanalysis and talk therapy. Whether through writing, presentations, blogging, or in her work with patients, Molly interrogates whiteness and other systems of power and aims to incorporate decolonial approaches to healing. https://www.mollymerson.com/

Ronna Milo Haglili, Psy.D., is a bilingual (English-Hebrew) clinical psychologist working at the the Bay Area Clinical Associates (BACA) mental health clinic and in private practice in San Mateo and virtually. She sees children, adolescents, and adults. She has presented and published on her dissertation research exploring the potential links between trauma and social activism. 

Donna Moriguchi, Ph.D., has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and seniors for over 25 years in community mental health organizations and her private practice. During that time, she has also taught and provided multicultural relational supervision. Trained as a psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychotherapist, Dr. Moriguchi’s philosophy in her collaborations is that all are striving to be their best selves as they navigate their way through familial, societal, cultural, and innate challenges.

Mahima Muralidharan, Psy.D., has extensive experience providing program management, clinical supervision and training, and psychological care for underserved adults, children, and families in the U.S. and India. Dr. Muralidharan coordinated the school-based clinical training program at the Ann Martin Center, served as President of the NCSPP, and is co-founder of Cohear SF, an organizational consulting firm promoting workplace well-being. She teaches throughout in the Bay Area.

Shelley Nathans, Ph.D. is on the faculties of CPMC, PCPG, and PINC. She is the director/producer of the film Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis. Her most recent publication is “Whose Disgust is it Anyway?: Projection and Projective Identification in the Couple Relationship” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2016). She is co-editor (with Milton Schaefer) of Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model (Routledge, 2017). Dr.

D. Steven Nouriani, Ph.D., MFT, is a multicultural Jungian Analyst who has presented at conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He teaches in the analytic training program at the Jung Institute of San Francisco and various universities. Dr. Nouriani is in private practice in San Francisco and San Jose, working with children, adults, couples, and groups: www.jungianpsychoanalysis.com.

Natasha Oxenburgh, M.A., is a clinical psychologist in training with a background in psychodynamic community mental health, working with complex trauma and SMI. Natasha's dissertation research concerns the psychological responses to the climate crisis viewed through a psychoanalytic lens, specifically utilizing Harold Searles' writings on the nonhuman environment in psychic development.

Rachael Peltz, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in Berkeley working with adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She is a faculty member, supervising and personal analyst at PINC and past president of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility — Division 39. Dr.

Karen Peoples, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC. Dr. Peoples has published and presented papers on the uncanny and the relational unconscious, incest trauma, social trauma, traumatic and transcendent forms of emptiness, and sensory communication in analytic work. She has offices in San Francisco and San Rafael.

Ilene Philipson, Ph.D., holds doctorates in sociology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis and has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and NYU. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. In addition to On The Shoulders of Women: The Feminization of Psychotherapy, her books include Married to The Job; Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths; and Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination (Ed.). Dr.

Lee Rather, Ph.D., is a faculty member at SFCP and PINC where he is a personal and supervising analyst. He has published and presented widely, focusing on avoiding orthodoxy in pursuit of creatively integrating diverse clinical approaches. Dr. Rather provides psychoanalysis, individual and couples therapy, and consultation in San Francisco.

Tom Rosbrow, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC ICP. His most recent paper, “Murakami’s After the Quake: The Writer as Waking Dreamer and Trauma Analyst,” was published in the March/April 2012 issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He practices in San Francisco.

Terri Rubinstein, Ph.D., LMFT, is a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice in Berkeley. She supervises and teaches at The Psychotherapy Institute and is on the Supervision Study Program faculty. She has published and taught continuing education courses on relational psychotherapy, clinical supervision, couple therapy, and alienation.

Stanley Ruszczynski, B.Sc., is the former Deputy Director and Clinical Training Coordinator at the Tavistock Center for Couple Relations. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London), a psychoanalyst, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (British Association of Psychotherapists), and a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist (British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counselors).

Susan Sands, Ph.D., is faculty at PINC and is Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley. She has published in the areas of eating disorders, dissociation, female development, unconscious communication, dreams, and aging. Dr. Sands is in private practice in Berkeley.

Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP, is a personal and supervising analyst and member of the faculty at PINC. She co-authored, with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, The Supervisory Relationship (Guilford Press, 2001) and authored Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies (APA, 2016). Dr. Sarnat is in clinical and supervisory practice in Berkeley.

Jed Sekoff, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising psychoanalyst at PINC, and on the faculties of SFCP and the Wright Institute. His writing, teaching, and presentations interweave clinical theory, the arts, social history, and politics. His most recent paper is “Precious Bodily Fluids: The Secretory Imagination from Shakespeare to Strangelove.”

Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., is an author, consultant, and master clinician and teacher. His article “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” won worldwide acclaim for establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment. A leading expert on personality styles and disorders and their treatment, Dr. Shedler leads professional workshops nationally and internationally and consults with clinicians, organizations, and U.S. and international government agencies.

Regina Shields, Ph.D., has a private practice in Oakland, where she works with children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Shields has taught at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, the Access Institute for Psychological Services in San Francisco, and TPI in Berkeley and has supervised at Ann Martin Children’s Center and the Women’s Therapy Center.

Ruth Simon, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, a parenting consultant to parents of multiples, and the Director of Training at Access Institute. She has written and presented nationally on the psychology of twins and recently published an article on parenting twins in the September 2014 issue of Psychology Today online.

Mark Solms, PhD is a psychoanalyst and a lecturer in neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London School of Medicine, Chair of neuropsychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is the Founding Editor of the journal, Neuropsychoanalysis and winner of the Sigourney Award for outstanding achievement in psychoanalysis (ht

Ivria Spieler, Ph.D., Psy.D., MFT, is personal and supervising analyst at PINC. She teaches at CPMC and in Israel, as well as private groups in Cupertino and San Francisco. Dr. Spieler has a private practice in Cupertino.

Beth Steinberg, Ph.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP and is on the faculty at Access Institute and CPMC. She is in private practice in San Francisco.

Barbara Stevens Sullivan, MSW, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley. She is the author of two books on psychotherapy – Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle (Chiron, 1989) and The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion (Routledge, 2010) – as well as two novels.

Annie Sweetnam, Ph.D., is a faculty member at PINC and NCSPP and past editor of fort da. She has published on numerous psychoanalytic topics, including the capacity to experience beauty and how patient and analyst change together. Dr. Sweetnam has a private practice in Berkeley and Oakland, where she facilitates writing groups for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

Neil Talkoff, Ph.D., is a faculty member at SFCP, has taught American Relational Psychoanalysis and currently is teaching a case conference. He’s instructed at CPMC, where he was awarded Outstanding Teacher of the Year three times, and has presented at NCSPP and the IPA’s 2016 convention. Dr. Talkoff’s psychoanalytic private practice includes couples therapy and peer consultation.

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.

Katya Woodmansee, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley who works with children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Woodmansee is a clinical supervisor at the Psychological Services Center at Alliant International University and is a member of the Preschool Consultation Group at SFCP and the Neuropsychoanalysis Planning Committee at PINC.

Enid Young, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and a graduate of PINC and on the faculty. She has written on a psychoanalytic approach to addiction and a neuropsychoanalytic approach to memory. Dr. Young teaches a study group on Bion and Neuropsychoanalysis. She has a private practice in Berkeley.

Daniel Yu, LCSW, is on the faculty for the Coalition for Clinical Social Work at SFCP. A former board and faculty member for the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, he has been adjunct faculty in the MSW Program at SFSU and currently supervises for Access Institute in San Francisco. He is in private practice in San Francisco.

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University; Professor of English at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco; a graduate of SFPI; and a faculty member of SFCP. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berkeley.