Courses and Presentations

current:

Private consultation group, January 2025- ongoing. (Please inquire for available openings). Case presentations, readings, discussions focusing on psychoanalysis, culture, climate, society, politics, and livability in a hostile and burning world.

upcoming:


Early Career Case Conference, PINC, October 2024- April 2025: Facilitator

SPPP/Division 39 Spring Meeting, Bodies in Praxis, held online April 3-6 2025: Co-Chair

previous:


Saturday, September 14, 2024: Facilitator/Instructor for TPI Supervision Study Program: Decentering Whiteness in Supervision. Berkeley.
Thursday April 4, 2024: Disciplining the Out of Control Body, SPPP Spring Conference, Washington D.C.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023: Working with Whiteness in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic spaces, SPPP Spring Conference Preconference Workshop, New York.
September 2022-June 2023: Clinical Issues in the Sociocultural Context. Clinical consultation group for The Psychotherapy Institute.
Friday April 1, 2022: Found At Sea: Depth Psychotherapy for Unfathomed Times, RECAMFT
Saturday April 9, 2022: De-centering Whiteness in Clinical Supervision, The Psychotherapy Institute Supervision Study Program
January 2022, Discussant for The Distance Cure with Hannah Zeavin

September 2021-January 2022, Instructor for NCSPP Intensive Study Group year-long program “Rupture and Repair”: Titled, “Centering Lived Experience as a Site of Transformation: A Decolonial Take on Psychoanalysis”
August 2021, Presenter at APsaA: Candidates Session: Physical Separation In Control Analyses And Supervision: “Are We Disembodied?”
June-July 2021, Faculty Instructor at Smith College School for Social Work, Theories for Clinical Social Work Practice
April-June 2021, Instructor at Access Institute, “Centering Lived Experience as a Site of Transformation”
March 2021, Presenter at Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology spring meeting: “Disrupting Whiteness in Pursuit of Reparations” and “Reckoning with Psychoanalytic Training’s Relationship with Human Diversity”
September-October 2020, Co-instructor at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, “Working While White”
April-June 2020, Instructor at Access Institute, “Investigating the Social through Clinical Case Presentation”
April 2019, Presenter at Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology spring meeting: “The Whiteness Taboo: Interrogating Whiteness in Psychoanalysis”

Writing and Publications

Books & Book Chapters:

Freud Would Not Be Queer Without Us: An Autotheory on Psychoanalysis as Queer Praxis. (2024) From: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud To Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond. Edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi, and Myriam Sauer. Routledge.

Psychoanalytic Journal Articles:

This is not about Nex Benedict. Studies in Gender and Sexuality. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2024.2346459

A psychoanalytic pedagogy for apocalyptic times. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1880

When did we forget we were playing? Failure, play, and possibility in sport & clinical life. Psychoanal Cult Soc (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00434-8

Finding Intimacy, the Unconscious, and Embodied Place in the “Limbo-Space” of Telepsychoanalysis (2023) Division/Review, https://issuu.com/divisionreview/docs/dr_29_pages_7_17_23/s/28507030

Purposive Encounters with “Lack” in Strength Sports and Diet Culture. Psychoanal Cult Soc 26, 378–387 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-021-00227-3

The Whiteness Taboo: Interrogating Whiteness in Psychoanalysis (2021) Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31:1, 13-27, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1863092

Psyched in San Francisco:
'The Mourning After, Part II: Grieving A Disturbed Or Absent Mother's Death'
'The Mourning After, Part I: Grief After Mother's Day''
'Connecting The Dots: On Ladybugs, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, And The Universe'
'Getting Comfortable With Boundaries: How And Why To Say No'
'Getting Comfortable With Discomfort, Part II: Relationship Triggers'
'Uh, That Was Racist: Getting Comfortable With Discomfort'

The Huffington Post:
'Resurrecting Our Dead Mothers'
'David Bowie and Embracing Our Weirdness'

Medium:
'So You're Doing A Nutrition Challenge'
'Toward A Social Justice Therapy'
'Finding My Mother's Letters'