Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, and One Year Training Program co-Director
Fed Up, Gurze Books; Two Bodies in the Room: An intersubjective view of female objectification Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, 2007, 12, 124-171
Private practice in Manhattan
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, New York, Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
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 in Manhattan,
Practice includes: general psychotherapy with individuals, couples, groups; supervision and consultation
Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems
Executive Committee of The Women’s Mental Health Consortium

Barbara Buloff, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Chapter in Lesbians and Psychoanalysis, Ed. by Judith Glassgold and Suzanne Iasenza, Free Press, 1995
Private Practice in Manhattan,
Practice includes: individuals, couples and family therapy
Post Graduate Training: Metropolitan Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1978

Joanne Clark, LCSW

Joanne Clark, LCSW is a full time Child & Family Specialist and has a
part time private practice in Manhattan
Graduate of the WTCI 3-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training
Program and the 1-year Eating and Body Image Problems Program.
Former Clinical Director at Identity House and frequent trainer
Practice includes: general psychotherapy with individuals, couples;
specialty working with LGBTQ population.

Luise Eichenbaum, LCSW

Co-founder WTC, London; Co-founder WTCI, New York, Board of Directors
Understanding Women:a feminist psychoanalytic approach, New York Basic Books 1983
What Do Women Want: exploding the myth of dependency, New York Berkley Books 1983
Between Women:love, envy and competition in women's friendships New York, London PenguinBooks 1988
Private Practice in Manhatttan
Practice includes: individuals and couples, clinical supervision

Andrea Gitter, MA, ADTR, LCAT

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
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, "Generation Next", Renfrew Perspectives.
Private practice in Manhattan and Belle Harbor, Queens
Practice includes: 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

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Co-author with A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel, L. Zaphiropoulos of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model (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
Practice includes: 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 of Directors
Co-author with Bloom, C., A. Gitter, S. Gutwill, L. Kogel of Eating Problems; A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model.
Private Practice in Manhattan
Practice includes: individuals, couples, groups.
Specialty: Eating and Body Image Problems, Clinical Supervison, Consultation

Deborah Liner, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Clinical Supervisor at Rutgers University Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology
Post-Doctoral Training: New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Private Practice in 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 Miller, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
Private Practice in Manhattan
Specialties: Couples and Sex Therapy, Eating and Body Image Problems
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Susie Orbach, Ph.D.

Co-founder WTC, London; Co-founder WTCI, New York, Board of Directors
Bodies (2009), On Eating (2002),The Impossibility of Sex (1999) Towards Emotional Literacy (1999), What's Really Going on Here? (1993) Between Women (1988), Hunger Strike (1986), What do Women Want? (1983), Understanding Women (1982), Fat is a Feminist Issue I & II (1978 & 1982)
Private Practice in London & New York (State Licensed Psychoanalyst)
Practice includes: individuals and couples, clinical supervision and lectures all over the world.

Anne L. Wennerstrand, LCSW-R

Teaching Faculty/Supervisor, Board of Directors
Writing: Adios Barbie, 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, New Media activities including maintenance of @wtcinyc Twitter page
Private Practice in general psychotherapy: Katonah, NY
Specializing in Adolescent and Adult Eating and Body Image Problems
Agency practice: Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, Career Transition for Dancers, The Renfrew Center of Southern Connecticut
Graduate of the One-Year Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems
Master of Science, Dance/Movement Therapy
Master of Clinical Social Work

Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

Teaching Faculty, Supervisor, Board of Directors
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 in Manhattan
Practice includes: 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