Ongoing Professional Education:

Adelphi University

• Psychoanalytic Perspective on What is Lost and Not Mourned in our Culure’s Persistent Racism

American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)

• Series on Deconstructing Whiteness Toward an Anti-Rasist Clinical Practice

• Working with Parents: Clinical Challenges and Ethical Concerns

Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society

• Good Trouble: How Psychoanalysts Can Get Out of Their Own Way When it Comes to Race - Dionne R. Powell, M.D.

Hudson Valley Professional Development

• The Primacy of Attachment Wounds in Psychotherapy

• Holidays and Anniversaries: Helping Grievers Get Through Days That Hurt.

Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP):

• Children and Adolescents: Clinical Challenges in the COVID-19 Era

• Exploring and Expanding Relationships with Children, Adolescents and Their Parents Through the Use of Transference and Countertransference

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM)

• Working with the Pain of Abandonment.

  • Working with Hypersensitivity to Rejection

  • Changing Fearful Behavior to Avoid Further Abandonment

  • Developing and Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries to Avoid Being Abandoned

  • Reconditioning a Nervous System Damaged by Abandonment

  • Expanding Tolerance of Rejection

  • Repairing Abandonment Wounds from Early Life Attachment

  • Treating a Fear of Abandonment Linked to Betrayal

  • Skills to Distrupt Rigid Patterns of Abandonment

  • Working Through Shame that Drives a Fear of Rejection

  • Working Through Abandonment and Trauma

New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training (NYIPT)

• Child Therapy in the Pandemic; New Ways of Engaging Tweens and Teens On-Line Whole Working Through Anxiety, Depression and the Lure of Video Games

Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society (PAGPS)

• Putting Your Skin in the Game: Conversations About Race and Internalized Racism

Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI)

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessell Van der Kolk, MD. The Latest Research and Drug-free Treatment Techniques.

  • Neuroscience and Brain Development

  • Early Life Trauma

  • Attachment, Trauma and Psychopathology

  • Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory and the Body

  • The Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma Related Disorders

  • The Latest Research on Trauma-Specific Treatment Interventions

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC)

• Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy: The Dissociated Self-States Model in Clinical Thinking and Treatment. Elizabeth Howell, PHD

Psychoanalytic Society Training Institute for Mental Health

• Mental Pain of Minorities. Salman Akhtar, MD

The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP):

• Applications of Psychodiagnostic Testing in Work with Children, Parents and Educators.

• “Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble:” A Monthly Conversation About Race.

• Adolescent Psychology

• A Shimmering Landscape: The Actual and the Imaginative in Psychic Life. Dodi Goldman, PhD.

• Dr. Andrew Tatarsky, PhD. An Integrative Harm Reduction Approach to Addiction

• The Work Before Us: Whiteness and the Psychoanalytic Institute.

• Developmental Narratives of Gay Men. Jack Drescher, MD

• Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Find a Home: Emotional Phenomenology of Trauma and Loss.

• The Arc of Adoption: Clinical and Personal Perspectives. Billie Pivnick, PhD, and Katie Naftzger, LICSW

• Enriching Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Using New Models and Metaphors.

• A Shimmering Landscape: The Actual and the Imaginative in Psychic Life.

• School Violence and Its Impact on Children, Parents and School Personnel.

• Winnicott’s Sensibility. Dodi Goldman, PhD.

• How to Integrate Sex Therapy into Psychoanalytic Practice.

William Alanson White Institute

• The Embodied Psychoanalyst: Focusing Within. The Analyst’s Body at Work.