Faculty

Lynn Alexander, Psy.D., MFT, is faculty, and a personal and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She teaches courses on trauma, primitive mental states, and analytic theory and technique. She has a private practice in Palo Alto.

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.

Andrew Balfour, M.Sc., is a clinical psychologist, adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a couple psychotherapist. He is Clinical Director and longtime staff member of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. Previously, Dr. Balfour trained and worked in the adult department of the Tavistock Clinic, London, where he developed a special interest in the area of old age. He is currently researching ways of working with couples when one partner has dementia.

Robert Bartner, Ph.D., MFT, is faculty and a personal and supervising psychoanalyst at PINC and adjunct faculty at CIIS. Dr. Bartner has a private practice in Oakland where he practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with individuals 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.

Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., is past president of PINC and on the faculty at PINC and Lutecium. She is a contributing editor to Psychoanalytic Dialogues and on the editorial board of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bernstein maintains a private practice in Berkeley.

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.

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.

Jane Burka, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and faculty member at PINC and has taught previously for the ISG. Dr. Burka has published papers on group dynamics in teaching and on ethical violations. She is in private practice in Oakland.

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.

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.
 

Candis Cousins, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytic psychologist who has published articles on clinical work with parents and lectured on the impact of parents’ relationship on child development. Dr. Cousins recently completed the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group three-year training program and is on the editorial board of fort da. She is in private practice in Oakland.

David Cushman, Psy.D., completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute and has worked in multiple community mental health settings. His clinical interests include integrating sociocultural issues with psychoanalytic psychotherapy, community mental health, severe mental illness, and play therapy. He is a staff psychologist at RAMS, Inc., in San Francisco.

Daphne de Marneffe, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Corte Madera, where she treats couples, adults, and adolescents. Her scholarly work has been published in psychoanalytic and feminist journals, and she is the author of the book Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. She currently teaches a monthly class at CPMC on couple wellbeing to prospective parents.

Gregory Desierto, Psy.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at Psychological Services Center in Oakland and City & Arts Technology High School in San Francisco. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Access Institute for Psychological Services. He has strong interests in the intersection of psychoanalysis, multiculturalism, social justice, and trauma.

Robin A. Deutsch, Ph.D., maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and consultation in Oakland and is on the faculty at Access Institute, CPMC, and SFCP, where she serves as President. Dr. Deutsch has written and presented on the development of analytic identity, termination of treatment, and the analyst’s death. 

Dori Dubin, Psy.D., LCSW, BCD-P, is a graduate, faculty member, and training and supervising analyst at PINC. She is a faculty member and supervisor at The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI). Dr. Dubin teaches object relations theory, mind-body issues, trauma and primitive mental states throughout the Bay Area. She consults and maintains a private practice in Oakland.

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.

Dianne Elise, Ph.D., is a personal and supervising analyst and on the faculty of PINC. She is an Associate Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and past Editorial Board Member of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Elise has published numerous psychoanalytic papers on gender and sexuality and is in private practice in Oakland.
 

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.

Kristin Fiorella, M.S., is a psychology intern in Access Institute’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy training program. She has worked with adults, couples, and children at Berkeley Mental Health, SFSU Psychology Clinic, Headstart, New York Foundling Hospital's Child Crisis Center, and Cabrini Hospice. She maintains a private practice under supervision with Renée Spencer, MFT.

Julie Friend, LCSW, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a private practice including individuals, couples, and consultation in Berkeley. She is a member of the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, and is program chair and faculty of their intensive study program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples. She supervises at CPMC, Access Institute, and The Psychotherapy Institute (TPI).

Julie Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a graduate of and faculty member at PINC. Dr. Gerhardt has taught widely and publishes in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She maintains a private practice in Palo Alto.
 

Kelley Bryan Gin, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Berkeley. He has worked in child, adolescent, and family community mental health; juvenile justice; and residential treatment for adolescents. He is the Director of Clinical Services at WestCoast Children’s Clinic in Oakland.

­Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., is on the faculty at SFCP and of the Wright Institute, Berkeley, and is a Personal and Training Analyst at PINC. Dr. Goldberg has a private practice in Albany.

Laurie Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP, where she is a co-chair of the Child Psychotherapy Seminars. Dr. Goldsmith is an instructor and supervisor at the Ann Martin Children’s Center in Piedmont and has a private practice in Oakland, where she sees children, adults, and couples.

Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., MS, is a psychoanalytic psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculty of Access Institute, the McAuley Institute, and UCSF Medical School and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. She is the author of The Psychological Impact of Acute and Chronic Illness (2007).
 

Hugh Grubb, Psy.D., MFT, is a graduate and personal and supervising analyst at PINC. His classes and presentations on supervision, mentoring. and psychoanalytic work in Silicon Valley focus on the transformative journey of becoming a therapist. He has a private practice in Los Gatos, where he offers individual and group consultations.

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.

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.

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.

Israel Katz, M.D., is a member and faculty at SFCP. He practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adults in San Francisco

L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D., is on the faculty of SFCP and has a long-term interest in collateral work with parents. Dr. Keller is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland. For her publications on topics ranging from addiction to mourning and applied psychoanalysis, visit her website: www.kellerphd.com.

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. 

Julie Leavitt, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. Dr. Leavitt is an advanced candidate at PINC and Medical Director for Psychological Services at Access Institute, where she uses creative exercises to teach how to work psychoanalytically in a collaborative treatment milieu.

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. 

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

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.

Dorian Newton, Ph.D., is the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Mills College. A member of SFCP and NCSPP, Dr. Newton’s clinical and teaching interests include the dynamics and treatment of self-injurious behavior. She maintains a private practice in adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland.

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.

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.

Megan Rundel, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and a graduate of PINC. Dr. Rundel has written and taught classes on Winnicott, the unconscious, sexuality, and the interpenetrations of spirituality and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in Oakland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D., is personal and supervising analyst and faculty at PINC, and former president of NCSPP. He is on the adjunct faculties of CSPP and CIIS and has lectured in numerous countries. Dr. Thompson has written articles, books, and book reviews on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and schizophrenia. He practices existential psychoanalysis in San Francisco.

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.

Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., provides psychotherapy and marriage counseling, consults on mental health related matters, and writes on political and psychological issues. His first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, was published in 2008. He currently blogs for The Huffington Post. Dr. Welch practices in San Francisco.

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.

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.