Curriculum Vitae

Licensed Psychologist in the State of Michigan

Education & Training

2020
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
Certificate in Adult Psychoanalysis

2010
University of Detroit Mercy
PhD in Clinical Psychology

2007
University of Detroit Mercy
MA in Clinical Psychology

Presentations

Discussant | Psychoanalysts Unable to Listen to Each Other by Stanley Coen, MD
Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, Farmington Hills, MI
February 15, 2025

Invited Panelist | Psychoanalysts Talk Back: Breaking the Silence around Palestine
July 14, 2024

Discussant | Oedipus in Contemporary Psychoanalysis by Nancy Kulish
Presentation for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, Farmington Hills, MI
January 13, 2024

Host and Moderator | Our Meanings of “Othering” In a World of Historical, Social, Cultural and Race-based Stress, Trauma, Inequity a Self Study with Paula Kliger, PhD ABPP as Presenter
Mel Bornstein Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
March 21 and April 11, 2021

Panel Member | Whiteness, White Fragility and Racialized Enactments in Psychotherapy
Kristen Beesley, PhD, Robin Rayford, MA and Jane Hassinger, LCSW
Presentation for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society
November 28, 2020

Publications

Psychology Today, Who Me? Worried I’ll Get the Virus?

Psychology Today, The Coronavirus Pandemic Can Evoke Memories From Our Past

Beesley, K. (forthcoming, 2025). Dear Parent (chapter). In Cohen, A. (Ed.), Parenting Psychoanalyzed: Letters to a Parent. Routledge.

Beesley, K. (2024). Review of the book: Boundaries, Boundary Crossings, and Boundary Violations, edited by Howard Levine. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

(MPI) Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute

(MPS) Michigan Psychoanalytic Society
MPS Psychoanalytic Collective (a group dedicated to dismantling systemic racism in psychoanalytic institutions and in the practice of psychoanalysis

(APA) American Psychological Association
APA Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Chair of the Continuing Education Committee, Div39