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

March 21 and April 11, 2021
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

November 28, 2020
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

Publications

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

Psychology Today
The Coronavirus Pandemic Can Evoke Memories From Our Past

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

(APsaA) American Psychoanalytic Association
APsaA Committee for Public Information

(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)

Skills

Psychoanalysis

Psychotherapy

Women’s Issues

Emerging Adults

Mother and Daughter Relationships

Pregnancy and Postpartum

Fertility

Social Justice