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Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, and One Year 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

 

Barbara Buloff, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Chapter in Lesbians and Psychoanalysis, Ed. by Judith Glassgold and Suzanne Iasenza, Free Press, 1995
Private Practice in Manhattan,
Practice includes: individuals, couples and family therapy
Post Graduate Training: Metropolitan Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1978


Luise Eichenbaum, LCSW

Co-founder WTC, London; Co-founder WTCI, New York, Board of Directors
Understanding Women:a feminist psychoanalytic approach, New York  Basic Books 1983
What Do Women Want: exploding the myth of dependency, New York  Berkley Books 1983
Between Women:love, envy and competition in women's friendships New York, London  PenguinBooks 1988
Private Practice in Manhatttan
Practice includes: individuals and couples, clinical supervision


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, 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



Susie Orbach, Ph.D.

Co-founder WTC, London; Co-founder WTCI, New York, Board of Directors
Bodies (2009), On Eating (2002),The Impossibility of Sex (1999) Towards Emotional Literacy (1999), What's Really Going on Here? (1993) Between Women (1988), Hunger Strike (1986), What do Women Want? (1983), Understanding Women (1982), Fat is a Feminist Issue I & II (1978 & 1982)
Private Practice in London & New York (State Licensed Psychoanalyst)
Practice includes: individuals and couples, clinical supervision and lectures all over the world.



Lela Zaphiropoulos, 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 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



Faculty

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


Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, and One Year 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
 


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/ Supervisor/ Board
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 GraduateTraining, The WTCI  three year Psychoanalytic training program, 1995
 

Anne Wennerstrand, MS, DTR, LCSW-R

Teaching Faculty/Supervisor 
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, Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (in press).
Private Practice in Manhattan and Katonah, NY
Specializing in women’s mental health, Agency practice: The Renfrew Center of Southern Connecticut
Graduate of the One-Year Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems
 


Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Training Program co-Director, Board of Directors
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
 



Supervisors

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 Wennerstrand, MS, DTR, LCSW-R

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor 
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, Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (in press).
Private Practice in Manhattan and Katonah, NY
Specializing in women’s mental health, Agency practice: The Renfrew Center of Southern Connecticut
Graduate of the One-Year Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems
 


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


Alumnae and Associates

Linda Arbus, LCSW
Linda Arkin, LCSW
Nuna Alberts, MSW
Ruchi Amin, LCSW, LMSW
Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.
Catherine Balletto, LCSW, LICSW
Judith Bess, LCSW
Carol Bloom, LCSW
Reena Blum, CSW
Aviva Braun, LMSW
*Liza Brown
Barbara Buloff, LCSW
Nancy Callahan, LCSW
*Amy Chase, LCSW
Joanne Clark, LCSW
Kathlyn Conway, LCSW
Suzanne Daly, LMSW
Amy Edminster, LCSW
Luise Eichenbaum, LCSW
Sally Ann Frances Mann MA, LCSW
Kay Gimmestad, CSW
Bonnie Gitlin, LCSW
Andrea Gitter, MA, ADTR, LCAT
Lynn Gold, LCSW
Karen Grant, CSW
Deborah Greenberg, LCSW, Ph.D.
Susan Gutwill, MS, LCSW
Marg Hainer, CSW
Patti Handler, CSW
Karen Herrera, CSW
Joyce Horowitz, LCSW
Linda Illidge, LCSW
Sally James, LCSW
Sara Jamison MA, LCSW
Tulasi Jordan, LCSW
Allison Jupiter, LCSW
Susan Kane, LCSW
Jodi Karp, LCSW
Laura Kogel, LCSW
Sandra Kotzen, LCSW
Leah Kramnick, LCSW
Ginny Laracy, LMSW
Ginny Lehman, LCSW, BCD
Anne Leiner, LCSW
Shira Levin, LMSW
Janet Lewis-Martinez, MSW
Sararivka Liberman, LCSW-R
Debbie Liner, Ph.D.
Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.
Sheilah Mabry, LCSW-R
Aliza Mendel, LCSW
Joanne Messina, LCSW
Wendy Miller, Ph.D.
Julie Nemeth, Ph.D.
Shayna Oppen-Franks, LMSW
Pauline Parkes, LMSW
Jo Oppenheimer, MA
Cheryl Pearlman, LCSW
Beth Peritz. LCSW
*Laurie Phillips, Ph.D.
Linda Plastrik, LCSW
Smadar Prager, CGP
Laura Pressman, CSW
D. Emma Rhoads, MS Ed., LCSW
Tracy Robin-Levine LCSW
Lisa Rubin, Ph.D.
Claudia Samowitz
Lora Sasiela, LCSW, BCD
Alexandra Seletti, CSW
Caren Shapiro, LMSW
*Laura Siegel
Susan Siegel, CSW
Jennifer Silacci, LMSW
Meriann Taylor-Sainvilus, MDIV
Marina Temkina, LCSW
Lisa Thaler, LCSW
Bethany Tronsky, LCSW
Christina VanJura, LMSW
Katherine Webber, CSW
Nicole Wegweiser, LMSW
Tina Weishaus, CSW
Anne Wennerstrand, MS, DTR, LCSW-R
Audrey Wolf, MSW
Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW
Susan Zigouras, MS, RD
Janet Zinn, LCSW


*deceased