Yulia E. Aleshina
D.H.E., Ph.D., Moscow State University (Russia) 1985.
Dr. Aleshina is a graduate of the Baltimore/Washington center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Aleshina has done numerous studies in the areas of couples and family therapy. Her clinical interests include psychoanalysis, working with adults, children and adolescents. Her research interests include work with difficult patients and thre study of psychodynamic technique.
Office Hours: Monday 2:00PM - 3:00PM

Stacey L. Dershewitz
B.A. 1999, Duke University; J.D. 2002, Harvard Law School; Psy.D. 2008, The George Washington University
Dr. Dershewitz’s clinical interests include identity development, trauma recovery, grief and loss, infertility, relationship violence, and the intersection of psychology and law. Her research focuses on the termination of psychotherapy and adoption issues.
Office hours: Monday 2:00PM - 3:00PM

Richard Fritsch
B.A. 1973, Lawrence University; Ph.D. 1986, The George Washington University.
Dr. Fritsch is a graduate of the Child Psychotherapy Program of the Baltimore/DC Institute for Psychoanalysis and a graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Fritsch has held the positions of Director of Psychological Services and Training, Director of the Adolescent and Child Division and Director of Child and Adolescent Research at the Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Fritsch has clinical interests in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, parent guidance, psychological testing, and severely disturbed adolescents. Dr. Fritsch has research interests in treatment outcome and treatment process with disturbed adolescents, and in developmental psychopathology.

Sandra T. Mann
B.A. 2002, The University of Colorado at Boulder; Psy.D. 2009, The George Washington University Dr. Mann's clinical interests include working with children/adolescents and adults in individual, couples, and group modalities. Her therapeutic orientation is grounded in psychodynamic theory, particularly self and relational theories, although she incorporates concepts of cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, mindfulness and meditation into her work. Her clinical work focuses on a range of areas, including but not limited to identity development and relationship struggles. Her research has focused on resilience and child adversity, attachment theory as it relates to college adjustment, referrals to group therapy, the therapeutic alliance during transfer and termination in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and self psychology.
Office hours: Wednesday 12:00PM - 1:00PM


Paul M. Gedo
B.A. 1977, Carleton College; M.A. (History) and M.A.T. 1979, Brown University; Ph.D. 1988, Human Development, University of Chicago. Dr. Gedo’s predoctoral internship (1985-86) was at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, where he currently is an Instructor. He worked in various capacities at Chestnut Lodge Hospital (later CPC Health), eventually serving as Chief Psychologist and Director of Clinical Training in Psychology. His clinical interests include psychoanalysis; child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy; psychological testing, especially Rorschach analysis; issues of technique with dissociative patients; and working with severely disturbed adolescents. He has published papers regarding psychoanalytic process research; single case studies; the meanings, functions, and treatment of dissociative phenomena; and the role of affect and countertransference in analytic and therapeutic technique. He is currently part of a study group exploring psychotherapy process and ways that Fonagy's model of treating borderline personality disorder might fit an adolescent case.
Office Hours: Monday, 9:00AM-10:00AM and Friday, 9:00AM-10:00AM

Joseph Gorin
B.A. 1971, George Washington University; MA (Counseling Psychology) 1979, Antioch University; Psy.D.1984, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Gorin has been the Director of Psychology Training at the Center for Mental Health in Washington D.C. and also at a community mental health center in Northampton, Massachusetts. He provides clinical consultation to inner city agencies, such as La Clinica del Pueblo, Columbia Road Health Services and the House of Ruth. He is interested in intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy, neuropsychological assessment and cross-cultural issues in both treatment and assessment. He provides services in both Spanish and English.

Larney R. Gump
B.S. 1959, West Virginia University, M.Ed. 1961, Temple University, D.Ed. 1969, Pennsylvania State University; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Washington School of Psychiatry. A.B.P.P., American Board of Professional Psychology.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals and groups. Task groups and organization dynamics, issues of work and caree, unconscious organization dynamics, organization consulting in not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00PM - 2:00PM

Sarah L. Hedlund
B.A. 1984, Tufts University; Ph.D. 1994, The George Washington University. Dr. Hedlund practices with Alexander Psychotherapy Associates in Dupont Circle and conducts therapy with children, adolescents, couples and families. She is an expert in psychological assessment. Dr. Hedlund is a consultant at The Lodge School, where she conducts individual and group therapy with emotionally disturbed adolescents. She also consults at The House of Ruth, seeing children who have experienced trauma. Dr. Hedlund is a member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, NTL and the A.K. Rice Institute.

Suzanne Nortier Hollman
Dr. Suzanne Nortier Hollman received her B.A. University of Cape Town; M.A. University of Stellenbosch; Psy.D. The George Washington University. Dr. Nortier Hollman is the Internship Training Director at The Catholic University of America Counseling Center. Her research interests include attachment, termination, ego development and psychotherapy outcome. She is a candidate in psychoanalysis with The New York Freudian Society.
Office hours: Tuesdays, 2:00PM-3:00PM

Loring J. Ingraham B.A. 1974, Yale College; Pre-doctoral internship, Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Harvard Medical School) 1982, Ph.D. 1985, Catholic University of America; Postdoctoral fellowship and Senior Staff Fellow, NIMH Laboratory of Psychology and Psychopathology. Schizophrenia, psychosis and related psychopathology; gene-environment interactions; experimental design and research methods. Office Hours: Thursday 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Thursday 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Ellen Chereskin Klosson
B.A. 1972, Kirkland College; Ph.D. 1976, Princeton University; Post-Doctoral Retraining 1983, The George Washington University.
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy; modes of therapeutic action; the theory of technique; psychopathology; group therapy.

Cheri Marmarosh
B.S. 1990, University of Florida; Ph.D. 1996, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Marmarosh is a graduate of the Advanced Psychotherapy Program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is also currently a faculty member. She is also a graduate of the Couple Psychotherapy Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Her current interests involve the application of psychodynamic theory to individual, couple, and group psychotherapy, integration of social psychology and clinical practice, clinical research aimed at exploring psychodynamic treatment and outcome, and supervision and training. Click for curriculum vitae and a list of selected publications.
Office Hours: Thursday 12:00PM - 2:00PM

Matthew Merced
B.A. The George Washington University; M.A. (Political Science), University of Wyoming; Psy.D. The George Washington University.
Dr. Merced’s clinical interests include issues of anxiety and depression, eating disorders, psychological testing, and group therapy; his research focuses on the psychotherapy process, psychoanalytic developmental psychology, and the intersection of psychology and philosophy.

Richard Ruth
B.A. 1974, New School for Social Research; M.A. 1977, Ph.D., 1986, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. Post-graduate training in psychoanalysis, family therapy, neuropsychology.
Faculty, supervisor, and steering committee, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, Washington School of Psychiatry. Interests include cross-cultural clinical psychology, disability, trauma, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender issues, interface between religion and clinical work. Bilingual in Spanish and bicultural.
Office Hours: Monday 10:00AM - 11:00AM and Tuesday 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Joseph Viola
Dr. Joseph Viola received his B.A. from Georgetown University and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Suffolk University in Boston Massachusetts. He is trained as a clinical psychologist with specific interests in child and adolescent psychopathology and psychotherapy, substance use treatment, and community psychology (specifically schools). Research interests include cognitive development in children, specifically the development of deception, perspective taking, and creativity (problem solving) as well as the teaching of psychology.
Office Hours: Wednesday 8:00AM - 10:00AM, Friday 3:00PM - 4:00PM