Therapy should be accessible and transformative.

We are building a community of practice for therapists, patients, activists, and theorists to develop and apply insights around community psychoanalysis.

We believe depth-oriented psychotherapy provides liberatory benefits to people experiencing mental or emotional challenges

Support Low-Cost Treatment

We help analysts from marginalized communities offer low-cost treatment in the neighborhoods where patients live and work.

Connect to Therapists

We connect individuals who have historically been marginalized from the benefits of psychoanalysis to low-cost, high-quality therapists.

Grow Community

We aim to grow the community of individuals and institutions exploring what community psychoanalysis is and how it can be ethically and effectively practiced.

We hope our programs can illustrate the transformative power of analytic therapies to help people live more balanced, autonomous lives.

While we are not a therapy practice, we support therapists and individuals seeking therapy.

Our Values

  • Our work is based in a long tradition of psychoanalytic therapy, which research shows can have long-lasting and transformative effects.

  • We work with patience, empathy, and curiosity. This is founded in a deep and abiding commitment to listening to the individuals and communities that we serve.

  • We are committed to recognizing that no person, institution, or practice is perfect, and we endeavor to apply insights from the mistakes of the past to improve our work today.

Our Team

Fellowship for Emerging Psychoanalysts, Fellows

  • With over two decades of experience in HIV medicine and community health in New York City, Christina has dedicated her career to serving the needs of diverse individuals and communities.

    Through working at community-focused organizations like Housing Works, The Floating Hospital, and Harlem United, Christina experienced firsthand the intersection of mental and physical health, as well as community engagement through individual care. Drawing from this background, Christina transitioned into psychoanalysis where she integrates a deep understanding of the human experience, trauma, and resilience as it articulates within each individual.

    Christina completed her 4-year psychoanalytical training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She continues to work in HIV research at Weill Cornell Medical College and has a private psychotherapy practice. She is happy to continue her focus on working within communities as a fellow at the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis.

  • Dr. Jose Sanchez-Cruz served in the US Navy for 8 years. He is a two-time recipient of the Navy & Marines Corps Achievement medal for Leadership and Professionalism.

    Following his service, he earned a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego in Microbiology with a minor in Film Studies. He earned his M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During medical school, Dr. Sanchez-Cruz conducted research to assess structural determinants of health in homeless individuals in Los Angeles.

    He also volunteered as a peer counselor in a program to address depression in undergraduate and graduate students, facilitated veteran health panels, organized community health fairs and fundraisers with the Latino Medical Student Association, and worked as an ally to provide training to health workers serving the LGBTQ community.

    Dr. Sanchez-Cruz completed his residency training in Adult Psychiatry at NYU Grossman SoM, where he served as Chief Resident. While in residency, he started the Psychiatry in Film initiative. He was an active member of NYU's House Staff Patient Safety Council, House Staff Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the Physician Well-Being Committee. He is in his second year of training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and a first-year psychoanalytic candidate at Columbia University.

    Dr. Sanchez-Cruz is fluent in Spanish, enjoys analyzing films/media, exercising, hiking, and visiting museums with his fiancé.

  • Lanaya Wade, PsyD, is a Licensed Psychologist in New York. She spends the majority of her professional time in private practice, where she works with adults focused on depth therapy and with adults and children completing psychological assessment.

    Dr. Wade also enjoys her role as an educator and providing support for future clinicians. She is currently a Candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Her training includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship and Internship at the William Alanson White Institute and education at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.

    Dr. Wade intends to use the fellowship to significantly increase the amount of clients she is seeing on a low-fee basis, continue to deepen her understanding of Relational Analytic thought, and, ultimately, contribute new understandings to the knowledge base regarding Community Psychoanalysis in marginalized communities based on her experiences at the FCP.

Staff

  • Jamie began her nonprofit career in 2014 managing volunteers for the AIDS Walks in New York and Los Angeles. Since then she has gone on to build and operationalize volunteer programming for nonprofit organizations across the social impact sector such as the Good+ Foundation (disrupting multi-generational cycles of poverty), and iMentor (increasing access to higher education, career development, and mentorship).

    Jamie received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Connecticut and an M.A. in educational leadership, advocacy, & politics from NYU. Jamie is also on the Board of Directors at First Tech Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders.

    Jamie lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and their dog.

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Board of Directors

  • Chris Hughes is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Economic Security Project and a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School. His research and writing focuses on the history of central banking, economic policymaking and the administrative state, antitrust policy, and guaranteed income studies. Hughes is currently writing a book chronicling the history of the economic policy of the American administrative state. He is enrolled in the PhD program of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn, was published by St Martin’s Press in 2018.

    Hughes has a masters in Economics from The New School of Social Research and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with a bachelors in History and Literature. He was a co-founder of Facebook. A former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Hughes now serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Washington Square Park Conservancy. He chairs the board of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and lives in Greenwich Village with his husband and two children.

BOARD CHAIR

  • Dr. Loren Dent is co-director of the Greene Clinic and co-runs the student training program. Dr. Dent is a psychologist who works with children, adolescents and adults in private practice. He is on the volunteer faculty at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he provides trainees with psychotherapy and psychological evaluation supervision, as well as ongoing didactics pertaining to assessing and treating psychosis.

    Prior to his full-time private practice, he was a psychologist and team leader for Lenox Hill's first-episode psychosis program. Dr. Dent completed his doctoral training at the New School for Social Research, including an internship at Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Dent is the senior editor of DIVISION/Review, a quarterly publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and an instructor for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where he teaches courses on psychoanalytic theory.

  • Ben Kafka is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Greenwich Village. Originally trained as a historian, he was a tenured professor at NYU for many years. He is now affiliated with the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry, an interdisciplinary research unit at Weill Cornell Medical College.

    He is the author of The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012) as well as several dozen articles, essays, and reviews. Kafka received his B.A. from Brown, his Ph.D. in History from Stanford, and his clinical training from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), with additional training through the Melanie Klein Trust.

  • Dr. Cassie Kaufmann is the founder and director of the Greene Clinic. Dr. Kaufmann is a psychoanalyst who completed her doctorate at the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, and her analytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She trained at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University Counseling and Psychological Services.

    Prior to founding Greene Clinic, she was an instructor in psychology at CUMC and an attending psychologist on their adult psychiatric inpatient unit. She has been a fellow of the Melanie Klein Trust and the American Psychoanalytic Association.

    Dr. Kaufmann received a B.A. in comparative literature from Yale University and an M.S.Ed. in special education from City College.

    In addition to practicing, she writes and has presented her research on psychoanalysis, creativity, art, sexuality, social justice, and politics.

  • June Lee Kwon is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. She received her doctoral training in Adelphi University, and she is currently in training to become a psychoanalyst in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She supervises and teaches at Greene Clinic, and supervises advanced doctoral students at Adelphi University.

    She is an avid and experimental writer in the field of psychoanalysis. Some of her recent publications include “Good Night, See You Next Week,” in Reading With Muriel Dimen/Writing With Muriel Dimen (Routledge, 2023) and “2020: The Innocence Is Black and Blue” in Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today (Routledge, 2022).

  • Dr. Kelli Moore is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU whose scholarship examines the role of media and technology in the production of legal and political knowledge within ongoing debates about the subject of trauma and helplessness, facilitated communication, feminist jurisprudence, visual literacy, “post-racial” embodiment and the digital. Her first book, Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence (Duke, 2022), demands we challenge our typical understanding of domestic violence as that between intimate partners, or, “the couple.”

    Recent work on legal consciousness and affective technologies can be found at the psychoanalysis magazine, Parapraxis, and First Monday. Before joining the Media, Culture, and Communication department at NYU, Kelli earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

    She is an alumna of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Rhetoric, Berkeley).

  • Dr. Oyer is co-director of the Greene Clinic and co-runs the student training program. Dr. Oyer is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City College.

    He completed his doctoral training at the City University of New York and his doctoral internship at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) and Mount Sinai Medical Center. With a small group of others, Dr. Oyer created and implemented a program of independent psychoanalytic training, the Group for Independent Formation, through which he continues to pursue lifelong formation.

    He has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, to therapeutic communities, to substance abuse treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Oyer is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

  • Jamieson Webster is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York where she works with children, adolescents, and adults. She teaches at The New School for Social Research and is on the board and faculty of Pulsion Institute for Psychoanalysis, as well as, a founding member of Das Unbehagen, an organization that explores psychoanalysis outside of an institutional or organizational framework.

    She has written for Apology, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, as well as, for many psychoanalytic publications. The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, is published with Routledge (2011). Stay, Illusion!- written with Simon Critchley- is published with Pantheon Books (2013), Conversion Disorder is published with Columbia University Press (2018), and Disorganisation and Sex is published with Divided Press (2022).

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