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Linda Arbus, LCSW

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor
Private Practice in Manhattan
Eating and body image problems, lesbian/gay issues,
substance abuse, sexual abuse, general psychotherapy


Linda Arkin, LCSW

Supervisor
Director of Connect And Change Project
Faculty, Supervisor Trauma Studies Center of the Institute For Contemporary Psychotherapy
Post Graduate Training, WTCI Three Year Psychoanalytic Program 1995
Private Practice Manhattan
Eating and Body Image issues, trauma, EMDR trained
Specialty: Lesbian, Gay,Transgendered issues
 

Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, and Training Program co-Director
Fed Up, Gurze Books; Two Bodies in the Room: An intersubjective view of female objectification  Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, 2007, 12, 124-171
Private practice in Manhattan 
Four-year WTCI training; Clinical Fellow at Philadelphia Center of Psychoanalysis, Founding Member, NEDA; Editorial Board Member, Eating Disorders Journal
 

Carol Bloom, LCSW

Co-founder WTCI, New York, Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Co-author with A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel, L. Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (1994), "The Truth about Dieting", Oryx Press, "Cultural Countertransference, in Women and Therapy"
Private Practice in Manhattan,
Practice includes: general psychotherapy with individuals, couples, groups; supervision and consultation
Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems
Executive Committee of The Women’s Mental Health Consortium 


Bonnie Gitlin, LCSW

Supervisor
Gitlin, Martin, Shear, Frances et al. "Behavior Therapy for Panic Disorder." JNervMentDis v.173,no.5,1985. (among others)
Gitlin, B. and Zaphiropoulos, L. "Gaining Perspective: Transference and Countertransference, Eating Problems in Middle Age."  In Renfrew Perspective, Summer 2004.
Private practice in Manhattan                                   
Individual and Couple therapy
Specialties: eating and body image issues, anxiety disorders (integration of CBT and psychoanalytic work for anxiety disorders).
Post Graduate Training - Post Master's Fellowship in Clinical Social Work, The Menninger Foundation, 1980
 

Andrea Gitter, MA, ADTR, LCAT

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Co-author with A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel, L. Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (1994), "The Truth about Dieting", Oryx Press, "Generation Next", Renfrew Perspectives.
Private practice in Manhattan and Belle Harbor, Queens
Practice includes: individuals, groups, couples, supervision and consultation.
Specialties: eating and body image problems, issues surrounding adoption, somatopsychic issues, and mother daughter "couple" counseling.


Susan Gutwill, MS, LCSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Co-author with A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel, L. Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (1994), and contributor and coeditor with Lynne Layton and Nancy Hollander of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: encounters in the clinical setting, Routeledge, 2004, NY,
Private Practice in Highland Park, NJ
Practice includes: individuals and groups, adults and adolescents, suffering with depression and anxiety as well as eating problems and trauma. 
Consulation, supervision and teaching in these areas.
 

Laura Kogel, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Co-author with Bloom, C., A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel of Eating Problems; A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model.
Private Practice in Manhattan
Practice includes: individuals, couples, groups.
Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems, Clinical Supervison, Consultation


Deborah Liner, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Clinical Supervisor at Rutgers University Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology
Post-Doctoral Training: New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Private Practice in Manhattan and Summit, New Jersey
Practice includes: individuals, couples and adolescents and clinical supervision.
Specialties in anxiety and mood disorders, childhood and adult trauma, early adulthood adjustment.
 

Wendy Miller, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor, Board of Directors
Private Practice in Manhattan
Specialties: Couples and Sex Therapy, Eating and Body Image Problems
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis


Lisa Thaler, LCSW

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor, One Year Training Program
Private Practice, Manhattan
Individuals, Couples, Families and Groups
Specialization in eating disorders and working with musical bands
Post Graduate Training, The WTCI three year Psychoanalytic Training Program, 1995


Anne L. Wennerstrand, LCSW-R 

Teaching Faculty/Supervisor, Board of Directors  
Writing: Adios Barbie, Dance Magazine, The Dance Insider, Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment & Prevention, Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association, The Mind-Body Encyclopedia, Play In Context: Meanings and Perspectives, New Media activities including maintenance of @wtcinyc Twitter page
Private Practice in general psychotherapy: Katonah, NY
Specializing in Adolescent and Adult Eating and Body Image Problems 
Agency practice: Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Career Transition for Dancers, The Renfrew Center of Southern Connecticut 
Graduate of the One-Year Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems 
Master of Science, Dance/Movement Therapy
Master of Clinical Social Work

 
Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, and Training Program co-Director
Co-author with Bloom, C., A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel of Eating Problems; A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model and with Jane R. Hirschmann of Preventing Childhood Eating Problems
Private Practice in Manhattan
Practice includes: general psychotherapy with individuals, couples, groups; supervision and consultation
Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems
Post Graduate Degree: Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy 1978 


Janet Zinn, LCSW

Supervisor
"From on the Couch to Online: "Evaluating Internet Support Groups" in New Technology in the Human Services
Recipient of the 1997 Excellence in Research Award, NYU, School of Social Work
Articles for Online e-zines
Private Practice in Manhattan. 
Practice includes: individuals (adults and adolescents), couples and groups
Post Graduate Training: One Year Training Program: Eating and The Body: A Cultural, Relational Framework, WTCI, 1999;  Mentoring Supervisor Program, Fordham University, 2000