Note from the Director and Co-Director
Elizabeth Carr & Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

October proved to be a month of great tumult in the financial markets which has been accompanied by a general economic downturn. These are uncertain times and how our clinical practices will be affected will play out in the coming months. Many of our patients are expressing worries about their current financial situations as well as their prospects for the future. In speaking with ICP&P members, some are reporting a reduction in the number of referrals. This, of course, also creates worry. We mention this as we hope that belonging to and participating in ICP&P activities can provide support and a shared sense that we are all in this together. We believe that involvement in the ICP&P community can help to sustain us.

As has been mentioned in previous Newsletter notes, ICP&P is reviewing our Continuing Education efforts. We are in the process of completing the application to become a provider of CME credit for physicians. We are optimistic that we will be successful in this endeavor and be able to provide CE credit to physicians in addition to the CE credit we provide psychologists, social workers, and nurses. We believe that ICP&P's ability to offer educational programs and conferences which provide CE credit to mental health professionals is of the highest priority to our members. Meeting the standards set by the various credentialing bodies requires considerable planning and review. In order to meet these standards, Maxine and Brad Brenner our developing a member survey to identify member training needs. We will continue to keep you informed in our efforts.

We hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and we look forward to seeing you on December 6 when our own Joe Lichtenberg will be presenting Sexuality and Sensuality Across the Divide of Shame. More information and registration material can be found on the Programs Page.

Note from the Secretary
Janice Sanchez

In an effort to keep the membership informed about issues that are being discussed by the ICP&P Board, a brief summary of each meeting is published in the Newsletter. If there are items about which you have questions, opinions or concerns, please feel free to contact a Board member. We welcome your input. All Board members are listed in the front of the ICP&P Directory and on the website. Here are some highlights from the October 16th meeting:

1. Board members shared tributes to Bruce Wine.
2. Some ideas were shared about ways we may be able to honor Bruce in coming months.
3. Flyers and brochures are being prepared for upcoming conferences.
4. Efforts are being made to have publicity for ICP&P at every conference, including the International Self Psychology Conference in Baltimore.
5. Brad Brenner is working on our web page again (from Colorado). With his help we hope to have online registration in place for our spring conference.

Note from the Program Co-Chairs
Sharon Ballard and Tripp Reed

Our group conference, Collaboration and Integration: Principles and Practices for Working with Groups, held on October 4th, was a truly enriching experience, both personally and professionally. The faculty from the National Group Psychotherapy Institute of the Washington School of Psychiatry offered their hundreds of combined years of group experience in a full day workshop that focused on the theoretical, practical and experiential aspects of group work. The experiential aspect of the program provided a powerful growth and learning opportunity for all participants and the day stimulated an interest for more experiential ICP&P programs in the future.

We want to thank the National Group Psychotherapy Faculty for their participation and helping make this a truly collaborative endeavor.

Please register and mark your calendars ASAP for the following ICP&P programs and once again, please note the new locations. We are very excited about our diverse and stimulating line up of events.

December 6, 2008
Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame
Joseph Lichtenberg, MD
National 4-H Conference Center - Chevy Chase, MD

March 7, 2009
Facing the Inevitable: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Mortality
Gary Rodin, MD
National 4-H Conference Center - Chevy Chase, MD

May 2, 2009 - 15th Annual Conference
Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Johns Hopkins University Center - Rockville, MD

Note From the Chair, Psychotherapy Training Program
Roger Segalla

I am happy to introduce this year's class of 2011 Members-In-Training. I hope all ICP&P members will take a moment to reach out to these new MIT's and warmly welcome them to ICP&P.

Kavita Avula, PsyD

Kavita is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and obtained her Master's degree in 1999 and doctorate (PsyD) in 2003 from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She is a Staff Psychologist at the Catholic University Counseling Center and teaches as an adjunct faculty in the graduate counseling program at Trinity Washington University. She is also a guest lecturer on suicide at the George Washington University PsyD program.

Kavita has a private practice in Dupont Circle. She conducts individual psychotherapy with mostly adolescents and adults and co-leads 3 therapy groups each year. Her areas of special interest include cross-cultural and international psychology, suicidology, and study abroad consultation. As an Indian-American psychologist, she is drawn to the study of the complex yet subtle cultural nuances that underlie every interaction in the therapy dyad. Additionally, she speaks Spanish fluently and conducts therapy in Spanish and has an ongoing relationship to provide wellness programming at a Peruvian orphanage. As part of her expanding international humanitarian efforts, this year, she will be collaborating with a psychologist at a hospital for HIV and Tuberculosis in Guatemala.

Sophia Coudenhove-Kalergi; LCSW

Sophia completed her MSW at Howard University this spring and is currently at the Montgomery County Women's Commission, Counseling and Career Center. A former journalist, Sophia speaks several languages and is particularly interested in working with immigrants and refugees.

Susan Howells, LCSW

Susan graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 2007. Prior to social work school, she worked for 15 years in non-profit management and advocacy/public policy, primarily on reproductive health and rights issues. Susan has a master's degree in public administration. Her two internships while at Smith were at The Center: Posttraumatic Disorders Program at Psychiatric Institute of Washington and at the Meyer Treatment Center at the Washington School of Psychiatry. She is currently working part-time at The Center in the outpatient day treatment program.

Matthew V. Johnson, PhD

Matthew is Pastor of The Church of the Good Shepherd in Atlanta and National Executive Director of Every Church a Peace Church. He earned a B.A. degree from Morehouse College with a double major in Philosophy and History, an M.A. degree in Religious Studies and a Ph.D. degree in Philosophical Theology from The Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He also completed two years of post doctorate work in Psychoanalytic Training with the Psychoanalytic Institute of North Carolina. His article entitled "The Middle Passage, Trauma and the Tragic Reimagination of African American Theology" is published in The Journal of Pastoral Psychology and the definitive article "Black Theology" was published in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion in the 2004 Second Edition. He is co-editor of the book The Passion of the Lord: African America Reflections, author of the recently published novel The Cicada's Song, and co-editor of the upcoming book Onesimus Our Brother scheduled for publication by Fortress Press. Dr. Johnson enjoys golfing, reading and hunting. He has been married to Arnetta Nicholson Johnson for twenty five years. They are the proud parents of five children: Muriel (2006 graduate of North Carolina Central University), Nile (2008 graduate of Spelman College), Selah (Junior at Spelman College), Matthew, Jr. (Sophomore at Morehouse College), Danube (High School Junior), and the grandparents of one: Moriah (born Sept. 2007)

John Mendez, D.Min

John is native of New York City. He received his BA from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina; his M. Div. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, his D. Min. from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Pastoral Counseling Program at the Post Graduate Center of Mental Health. Presently, John is the Senior Pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He is presently working with the Daryl Hunt Innocence/Re-entry Program, where he provides counseling for returning ex-offenders to society. He also provides counseling for his church members and community. He previously served on the North Carolina Psychology Board, and served as a consultant for multi-cultural program of "Bridging the Gap" for the Urban League.

Snezana Sonje, MD

Snezana has her roots in Montenegro and Bosnia. She was born in Kosovo and mostly lived in Belgrade and Serbia. She married a man from Croatia, became a Canadian citizen in 1996, and immigrated to USA in 2000. She is a Certified Internal Medicine Physician and worked many years in geriatrics with a subspecialty in immunology and noninvasive cardiology. She finished a Research Fellowship in noninvasive cardiology at Harvard Medical School; a Psychiatry Residency Training at St. Elizabeth's Hospital; and a Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is presently working as a Psychiatrist in a non-profit organization in DC: Pathways to Housing. She completed a one year fellowship in introductory psychotherapy at the Baltimore-Washington Psychiatric Institute, two years of psychotherapy classes at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and is a student associate of the American Psychoanalytic Society. She has joined ICP&P in search of her self and to develop connections with others.

Note on Short Courses
Marilyn Fuchs

ICP&P will offer Short course: An Introduction to Mind-Body Principles and Practices to Facilitate Clinical Practice on Friday, December 12. Stephen Stein, PhD and Karen Schachter, MSW will present information about the principles of treatment with mind-body approaches, discuss the neuroscience that applies to these approaches, identify the presenting problems and concerns that are most amenable to mind-body treatment, and discuss transference and counter-transference issues when mind-body technique are used. Because the short course will have an experiential component, the number of participants will be limited to seven.

Dr. Stein and Ms. Schachter are well experienced in using mind-body techniques and value their inclusion in treatment plans. The short course promises to be comprehensive and very interesting. A registration form can be found on the Short Courses Page.

Note on IAPSP Conference
Joseph Lichtenberg

I want to personally thank all of the members of ICP&P who helped to make the Baltimore meeting of IAPSP a success. We can all be exceedingly proud of Elizabeth Carr for her excellent case presentation. Many of our members attended and participated as moderators, discussants, and post-panel discussion group leaders. Rosemary Segalla helped to arrange all of the pre-conference seminars. Rosemary, Sandy Hershberg, Susan Lazar and I are all in the Council that governs IAPSP. We all urge the members of ICP&P to join this international organization that carries the therapeutic message of self psychology and intersubjectivity throughout the world.

Upcoming Events

Friday, November 14, 2008 The New York Freudian Society, Washington Program presents Culture and Construction of Conflict, Defense and Comprise of the Female Psyche with Paula Ellman and Nancy Goodman at the Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD. For more information, contact Joseph Collins at collinsjpju@aol.com or call 301-984-8413.

Saturday, December 6, 2008 ICP&P presents Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame with Joseph Lichtenberg at the National 4-H Center in Chevy Chase, MD.

Friday, December 12, 2008 ICP&P presents Short Course - An Introduction to Mind-Body Principles and Practices to Facilitate Clinical Practice at Stephen Stein's office, 3000 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 327, NW, Washington, DC.

Bulletin Board

The Policy for Bulletin Board items is: Members can place items three months a year. Items can be up to eight lines in length. Longer items or additional months are available for a fee. Please contact the administrator for the fee schedule. For non-members, the rates are $25 for up to 5 lines, $50 for 6 to 10 lines, $75 for 1/4 page, and $100 for a full page ad.

• Office Space Available - starting Dec. 1, 2008 for full-time use in a friendly suite with 2 other therapists in a beautifully maintained building in Silver Spring, MD (3 blocks to Metro). The suite has a waiting room, full kitchen, and bathroom and the office has a wall of windows and is partially furnished (optional). $565/month plus $100/month for parking in building garage (optional). Public parking also available. Contact Liz Nicholas at 301-495-9523 or email liznicholas@earthlink.net
• Sublet Available - furnished office at Dupont Circle to share with other clinicians beginning mi-October or November 1st. Contact Kathy Beck at 202-462-0404 or kathy.beck@rcn.com
• Office Space Available - Bright office available for 2 - 3 days a week in downtown Bethesda. Two blocks from Metro. Contact Anne Cosimano at 301-656-9252 or email at cosimanoa@trinitydc.edu
• Sublet Available - Sunny, large office at Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues (Chevy Chase/Washington, DC) with parking for clinician; plenty of street parking for clients. Kitchen, two bathrooms, spacious waiting room and full-time concierge. Many hours and days available. Call Deborah Shulman at 301- 986-0099.
• Professional Consultation Group - for the first time Jeffrey Jay is joining with Christine Courtois to offer a Professional Consultation Group on the Treatment of Psychological Trauma for psychotherapists who work with psychological trauma. Christine Courtois is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of the sequalae of early childhood traumas, especially incest/child sexual abuse and attachment trauma. Jeffery Jay is a senior clinician in the treatment of adult, civilian and war-related traumas. Beginning in December, the group will meet on the first Wednesday of the month at noon for ninety minutes and will have no more than 10 members. The fee is $100 per session. Contact Jeffrey Jay at jeffjayphd@aol.com or Christine Courtois at ccourtois@aol.com for further information.
• Peer Supervision Group - If you would be interested in forming an ongoing (bi-weekly) peer supervision group meeting in Maryland, please contact David Wyner at 718-884-9574.
• Psychotherapy Group - beginning this fall for women age 35 and older who are struggling with eating, body-image, and/or weight issues. Members may have a history of eating disorders or may have developed problematic symptoms in midlife. Group will explore psychological and emotional underpinnings of these issues via interpersonal process and psychodrama-based experiential methods. Concomitant individual therapy is recommended. Group will meet Thursday early evenings in Bethesda. For information, contact Monica Callahan at 301-587-6211 or callahanml@erols.com

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The deadline for submitting items for the December Newsletter is November 26, 2008

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