Who We Are

BOARD MEMBERS

FOUNDING DIRECTOR:
Arthur Robbins, Ed.D., ATR, NCPsyA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF IEA:
Claudia Bader, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, LP
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION:
Suzanne Bien-Bonet, MPS, NCPsyA, ATR-BC, LP.
DEAN OF TRAINING:
Judith Young, MA, DTP, NCPsyA, LP
RECORDING AND CORR. SECRETARY:
Julie May, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, LP
DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS:
Elizabeth Kleinman, MA, NCPsyA, LP
DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP:
Maggie Brenner, M.ED.,NCPsyA, LP
TREASURER:
Lynn Somerstein, MA, NCPsyA, LP
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS:
Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Susan Harding, MA, ADTR, NCPsyA, LP
BY-LAWS CHAIR:
Janet Sullivan, MA, CMT, LCAT, NCPsyA, LP
DIRECTOR OF CONSULTATION CENTER:
Alana Verber-Fein, LCSW, NCPsyA
MEMBER-AT-LARGE:
Judith Nenner, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP
MEMBER-AT-LARGE:
Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA
PUBLIC ADVOCATE: Sharon Jaycox Daitz, MS, VP Corporate & Foundation Relations, Partnership for a Drug-Free America
PUBLIC ADVOCATE: Robert I. Israel- Fischer, Esq. Rosenman, Colin

FACULTY

Claudia Bader, MPS,ATR-BC, NCPsyA, LP . Private practice, Executive Director, faculty, supervisor, graduate, IEA. Adjunct faculty, Graduate Art Therapy Dept., Pratt Institute of Design, School of Visual Arts Graduate Art Therapy Program. Creative Therapy Program, New School for Social Research. Former dancer and puppeteer.

Suzanne Bien-Bonet, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NCPsyA, LP. Private practice. Faculty, supervisor, former Board member, IEA. Chair, Present-IEA Director of Education.

Arnold Brenner, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Member, faculty, training analyst, NPAP. Faculty, supervisor,New Hope Guild, Child Training Program. Faculty, IEA.

Maggie Brenner, M.ED.,NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Senior member training/control analyst, member of Board of Trustees, NPAP. Faculty and supervisor,New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training. Supervisor, faculty, Board member, IEA Director of Membership. Former actor.

Paul Cooper, M.S., NCPsyA, LP. Private practice. Training and control analyst, supervisor, faculty, NPAP. Published articles and poems on Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Ernest Angel Award recipient. Co-edited Religion and Psychotherapy: Many Paths,One Journey.

Alice Entin,MSW, LCSW. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Faculty, training and control analyst, NPAP. Faculty, supervisor, IEA.

Fred Feirstein, MA, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Faculty, training and control analyst, NPAP.Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry: John Masefield Award in Poetry. Office for Advanced Drama Research Award in Playwriting. City Life, Story Line Press, 1991.“Ending the Twentieth Century”,Quarterly Review of Literature, 1995. Faculty, supervisor, IEA.

Joel R.Gavriele-Gold, Ph.D, Psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice. Faculty, training analyst, and supervisor, former Executive Director, IEA. Senior member, training analyst, and supervisor, NPAP. Consultant and group facilitator, Organizational and Institutional Human Relations Issues. Co-founder of Pet-Talk (Psychoanalytic Issues and the Human-Animal Bond). Author:When Pets come Between Partners. Gradiva Award in Psychoanalysis.Guest lecturer, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Guest presenter,Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, England.

Beth Gonzalez-Dolginko, MPS, ATR-BC. Assistant Professor in the Creative Arts Therapy Program at Hofstra University. Faculty, supervisor, graduate, IEA. Board of Advisors, Children's Museum of the Arts in Soho. Private practice, Northport.

Linda Grunbaum, LCSW, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Graduate,member, NPAP, New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Faculty, supervisor, training analyst, Board member, IEA.

Elizabeth Kleinman, MA, NCPsyA , LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Graduate, IEA,TRISP. Board Member, IEA. Couples Therapy Certificate,Training Institute for Mental Health. Advanced candidate, Post Graduate Center, Group Therapy. Member, NAAP, APSP, IARPP. Graduate, Juilliard School. Performs and teaches the violin.

Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, NCPsyA., LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Fellow, New York State Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists. Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University School of Social Work. Former Co-Chair, Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility. Board member and Director of Public Relations, IEA. Board of Trustees, NAAP. Author of articles on identification, group therapy and adolescense.

Marvin Lifschitz, Ph.D., NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Member, supervisor, Westchester Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and IEA. Author, Freedom From Memory, Desire and Understanding: Integrating Gestalt Therapy with Psychoanalysis, Irvington Publishers, 1995.

Jane Mattes, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice.Member, supervisor, NPAP. Director, Single Mothers By Choice. Author, Single Mothers By Choice: A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering Or Have Chosen Motherhood, Random House, 1994. Former Board member, Former Dean of Students, IEA.

Ilo Milton, MPS,ATR-BC, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Faculty, Graduate Art Therapy Dept. Pratt Institute, William Alanson White Institute. Pres., FamilyWise,Inc. Graduate, faculty, supervisor, former Board member, former Dean of Students, IEA.

Merle Molofsky,MFA, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Senior member, Board member, faculty, Board of Trustees, training/control analyst, NPAP. Faculty, supervisor, IEA.

Judith Nenner, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP. Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Private practice, New York. Former faculty Columbia University, Faculty, supervisor, Board member, IEA.

Aideen M.Nunan, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Faculty, supervisor, and training analyst, NPAP, IEA, PPSC. Former Dean of Training, IEA. Former supervisor, Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy - New Directions Alcoholism Program.

Tamar Turin Opler, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Former Dean of Training, NPAP. Training analyst, faculty, supervisor, NPAP, IEA. Founding Board member, Harlem Family Institute.

Sherman Pheiffer, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Senior member, faculty, training analyst, Board member,Dean of Training, NPAP, Faculty, IEA.

Loveleen Posmentier, MA, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Senior Member, faculty, training/control analyst, NPAP. Supervisor, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Board member, CPP. Faculty, IEA.

Arthur Robbins, Ed.D, ATR, NCPsyA. Professor of Art Therapy, Pratt Institute. Founding Director, Institute for Expressive Analysis. Faculty of National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Author of numerous books and articles.

Sandra Robbins, BA. Early Childhood/ Certified Teacher, Brooklyn College. Advanced study, City College. Instructor, Pratt Institute Creative Arts Therapy Department. Workshops, national and international. Background in dance, theater, and spiritual studies (meditation, spirituality, and the healing arts) Author,“Spiritual Healing” in Therapeutic Presence, A. Robbins, ed., London, Jessica Kinsley, 1998.

Alan Roland, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Member, faculty, training analyst, supervisor, Board member, NPAP. Faculty, training analyst, supervisor, IEA. Author of three books and numerous articles. Exhibiting artist.

Lana Shaw Levine, M.S., NCPsyA, LP. Private practice. Senior member, training analyst and supervisor, NPAP. Former actor, singer.

Roberta Siegel-Lutzker, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Former Board member,Training/control analyst, NPAP. Training/control analyst, faculty, supervisor, former Board member, IEA.

Lynn Somerstein, MA, NCPsyA, LP. Board Member, IEA and NAAP. Former Board Member, NPAP.Training analyst, Supervisor, and Member NPAP and IEA.Senior member, International society for Neuro Psychoanalysis. Bilingual Psychoanalyst (Spanish-English). In private practice with children and adults. Author, "Concrete Tornados", "Mr.Daoudi's Diary:Writings of a Terrorist", and "Love Me". She is also a painter and exhibits her work at the New Rochelle Library and the 92nd St.Y.

Janet Sullivan, MA, CMT, LCAT, NCPsyA, LP. Private practice and work with inpatients as a psychotherapist and an analytic music therapist. Graduate, supervisor, faculty, Board member, IEA. Extensive background in music as a singer and teacher. She has presented at many conferences. Author, Article in Group, The Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society.

Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA. Private practice,Training analyst, supervisor, participant,“Psyched on Film “series, NPAP. Faculty supervisor and Board member, IEA. Contributor to Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburg Univ. Press, Feb ‘05. Former opera singer.

Alana Verber-Fein, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Fellow, Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists. Diplomate, ABECSW. Member, New York Federation of Alcohol Counselors. Director of IEA Consultation Center. Board Member, faculty, training/control analyst, IEA.

Jeffrey Werden, Ph.D.,NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. President, NPAP Membership. Senior member, training/control analyst, NPAP. Board member, CPP, AGPA, AGPS.

Linda Washburn,MSW, LCSW, NCPsyA. Private practice. Senior member, training analyst, faculty, supervisor, NPAP. Faculty supervisor, IEA. Former actor.

Robert I.Wolf, BID, MPS, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst and art therapist in private practice. Former Executive Director, IEA. Professor of Graduate Art and Art therapy, College of New Rochelle. Senior member, faculty, training and control analyst, NPAP. Contributing editor, Art Therapy. Author of numerous articles on art therapy with children and adolescents. Professional sculptor and photographer.

Judith Young, MA, DTP, NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst, dance therapist, group leader in private practice. Leader of NYC Alzheimer Association-sponsored caregiver groups. Board member, Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility. Member, training analyst, supervisor, NPAP. Supervisor, training analyst, faculty,Dean of Training, Board member, IEA.

INSTRUCTORS

Susan Harding,  MA, ADTR, NCPsyA., LP. Psychoanalyst and dance-movement therapist in private practice. Instructor, Program Chair, Board member, graduate, IEA. Adjunct Faculty, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Dance performer, choreographer and teacher. Background in theater, music and comedy.

Dan Heimowitz, LCSW, NCPsyA. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Member, faculty, NPAP, Social Work Supervisor, Veterans affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

Art Pomponio, Ph. D., NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Graduate and member of NPAP. Ph.D. is in Comparative Literature with specialization in literary modernism from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, post modernism, feminism and queer studies. Editorial Director of the Jason Aronson Publishing Company.

Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, MT-BC, FAMI. Jungian analyst in private practice. Fellow and practitioner, Association of Music and Imagery,Teacher of Mandela Assessment, and Education Chairperson, ATMA,INC.

Alexander Stein, MSSc, NCPsyA, LP. Private practice. Graduate, member, training analyst, NPAP. Author of numerous articles and book reviews; published in JAPA, IJP, The Psychoanalytic Review, American Imago, et. al. Recipient, 2004 Gradiva Award for "Music, Mourning and Consolation". Co-Chair, Music Division, APA Committee on the Arts and Psychoanalysis. Board of Directors, Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film. Editorial Board, The Psychoanalytic Review.

Rob Marchesani, M.S.SC., NCPsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst in private practice. Co-Editor with E.Mark Stern of 4 books in The Psychotherapy Patient Series for Haworth Press (1999-2004). Author of “Oedipus
revisited:Depiction of the Mother-Son Relationship”, in Elizabeth Messina’s In Our Own Voices, (2003).