Faculty, Supervisors

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor

Private Practice: Manhattan

Eating and body image problems, lesbian/gay issues,

substance abuse, sexual abuse, general psychotherapy

Catherine Baker-Pitts Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty and Supervisor

Fed Up, Gurze Books; Two Bodies in the Room: An intersubjective view of female objectification Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, 2007, 12, 124-171

Private practice, Philadelphia, PA

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 /Teaching Faculty/Supervisor/Board
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: Manhattan,

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

Bonnie E. Gitlin, LCSW

Supervisor, One Year Training Program

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, 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

Andrea Gitter MA,ADTR,LCAT

Teaching Faculty/Supervisor/Board

Co-author with C.Bloom, S. Gutwill, L.Kogel and L.Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (1994), "The Truth About Dieting,"Oryx Press, "Generation Next," Renfrew Perspectives.

Private practice, Manhattan and Belle Harbor, Queens

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, CGP

WTCI teaching faculty and supervisor

Co-author with Carol Bloom, Andrea Gitter, Laura Kogel and Lela Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model, Basic Books, 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.

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

Co-author with Bloom, C., A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel of Eating Problems; A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model.

Private Practice: Manhattan

Individuals, Couples, Groups.

Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems, Clinical Supervison, Consultation

Deborah Liner, Ph.D.

WTCI: Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board.

Clinical Supervisor at Rutgers University Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology

Post-Doctoral Training: New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Private Practice: 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 E. Miller PhD

Teaching Faculty/ Supervisor/ Board

Private Practice, 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

Anne L. 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, 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/Board

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: Manhattan

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, One Year Training Program, and on the Connect and Change Committee

"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 (get names)

Private Practice, Manhattan.

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

One Year Post Graduate Training Program Eating and the Body: A Cultural, Relational Psychoanalytic Framework