​Why this matters for patients
Ongoing training isn’t about collecting titles. It’s about staying sharp, staying humble, and staying responsive to real life—so therapy doesn’t get stuck in clichés or ideology. My continuing education is chosen to deepen emotional precision, ethical clarity, and the ability to work with complexity: trauma, desire, identity, relationships, and change.
Across these programs, my focus has included:
926 Beyond the Couch: The Art of Group Process — Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas — 8-week course (Jan 12, 2026)
2025
Clinical Seminar: The Use of Self (I & II) — Tony Bass, Ph.D. / Ferenczi Center — 30 hours (2025–2026)
Field Theory & Systems Psychodynamics — Barron & Christian-Kliger / APsaA — 29.0 CME/CE (Oct–Dec 2025)
Psychoanalysis in Psychedelic Psychotherapy — Charis Cladouhos, MD / BPSI — multi-session (Oct–Nov 2025)
Creativity & Erotic Analytic Field — Dianne Elise, Ph.D. / Austen Riggs — recorded session (Nov 2025)
 Holding and Containing: On Winnicott — Jan Abram, PhD / Chicago Center — lecture (Oct 17, 2025)
2024
Seasoned Clinicians Program — San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis — 52 hours (2024–2025)
Queering Psychoanalysis: Classical Concepts — Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas — 15 hours (2024–2025)
2023
Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis Group — Fischman & Smith / Houston Society — 7.5 CME/CE (Aug–Sept 2023)
2022
The Notion of Character in Psychoanalysis — Institute of Psychoanalysis (London) — multi-session (Nov 2022)
2021
“Curiosity, Observation & Intuition” — Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society — presentation (May 1, 2021)
2020
Fellowship: Contemporary Psychoanalysis — ICP+P (Washington, DC) — 32 hours (2020–2021)
Bion’s Questions: Thinking in Troubled Times — UPMS (Wilfred Bion focus) — 24 hours (July–Dec 2020)
2019
Gender and Sexual Diversity Conference — Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. / ICP+P — 12.0 CE hours (Sept 2019)
Needed Relationships & Traumatized States — Steven Stern, PsyD / ICP+P — 6.0 CE hours (May 4, 2019)
mother! (A Psychoanalytic Discussion of Film) — Simha-Alpern & Zentman — 2.5 hours (May 3, 2019)
2018
Madness and the Social Link — Françoise Davoine, Ph.D. / SEFAPP — 5.0 CE hours (Oct 6, 2018)
 The Analyst’s Self-Disclosure Workshop — Jody Messler Davies / Mitchell Center — 6.0 CE hours (Apr 28, 2018)
Reflections on Psychotherapy with the Elderly — Marshall Fenster, Ph.D. / SEFAPP — 3.0 CE hours (Feb 11, 2018)