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Maxine Anderson, MD, PsyA-FIPA trained as adult and child psychiatrist prior to training as a psychoanalyst first in Seattle and then in London.  She is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Member and Training Analyst in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the NorthwesternPsychoanalytic Society.  She currently considers her approach closer to Bionion than Kleinian. Her professional interests include the origins of violence within the personality and the fate of our internal authority in the face of the splitting mechanisms.

Mirta Berman-Oelsner, PsyA-FIPA is a training and supervising analyst at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society, and faculty at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society as well as COR Northwest Family Development Center. Mirta is an IPA certified child and adolescent psychoanalyst and is in private practice with children, adolescents and adults.

Stan Case, LICWA, PhD is a psychoanalyst who treats adults, children, and adolescents in his private practice in Edmonds, WA. He is on the faculty of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where he teaches in the core training program and in the advanced psychotherapy program.

Jeanne Castle, MA, LMHC, ADTR maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in Seattle with individuals and groups. After graduation from Antioch University in 1986, Jeanne continued her professional studies include training and supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as advanced registry in the field of dance/movement therapy. Jeanne has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch University, has offered courses in the community education department at COR Northwest Family Development Center, and teaches dance/movement therapy nationally and internationally.

Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, PsyA-FIPA is a licensed psychologist and internationally certified psychoanalyst–Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA, where she also teaches, writes, and consults. As a faculty member of COR Northwest Family Development Center, she facilitates Infant Observation Groups, co-facilitates a child clinical case seminar, teaches in the Secure Beginnings Parent Infant program and work with parents and infants. She is also adjunct faculty at Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society, where she teaches, facilitates clinical case seminars, and is a mentor for several candidates.

She is adjunct faculty at the University of Washington Departments of Behavioral Sciences, and a clinical supervisor for the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study’s low-fee psychotherapy clinic.

Ann Glasser, PhD received her degree in clinical psychology from the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is currently in private practice in Seattle, and serves on the faculty of COR Northwest Family Development Center as well as the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis.

Caron E. Harrang, LICSW is a clinical social worker in private practice in Seattle.  She is Director of the Secure Beginnings parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at COR Northwest Family Development Center, and on the Board of Directors. She has worked to develop innovative programs at COR Northwest Family Development Center, including “Frontiers of Practice II: The New Dialogue between Attachment theory and British Object Relations” (2002) and the Secure Beginnings film series “Emotional Life--From the Beginning” (2003-04). Caron is also a candidate at Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society.

Virginia Harstad Glawe, PhD is a licensed psychologist in private practice.  She is a certified Secure Beginnings therapist.  She was co-developer of the “Working Psychoanalytically with Parents and Infants” course for COR Northwest Family Development Center and has taught it since its inception.  She is the President of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, and co-editor of the FORUM.  She works with adults and with parents and infants.

Adrian Jarreau, MA, PsyA - FIPA is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle's Pioneer Square working with adolescents, adults and couples. He is on the faculty of COR NWFDC teaching psychotherapists object relations theory and practice. More details, www.adrianjarreau.com.

Mel Knight, PhD received his doctorate in Psychology from USC.  He has been in practice for over twenty years, treating adolescents and adults. He has been the President of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, COR Northwest Family Development Center, and presently serves as the Director of Training for COR Northwest Family Development Center where he is also a member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program faculty.

Stanley S. Mandell, PhD received his doctorate from Adelphi University in 1977, then went on to a 2-year NIH post-doc position at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, ABPP, and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington.  He has a private practice in Bellevue providing psychotherapy to adults and couples.  He has been teaching for BORG and COR Northwest Family Development Center for 16+ years.  He is also a supervisor, ACPC.

Sue Neell, MA, LMHC, FIPA is in private practice in Fremont working with adults in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  She is an instractor in psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at COR Northwest Family Development Center and the psychoanalytic training program with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society.

Shierry Weber Nicholsen, PhD received her doctorate in comparative literature from Cornell University and an M.A. in counseling from California State University in Northridge. Beginning private practice in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s with a background in family systems, she also taught for many years, primarily at Antioch University. She has been studying the Object Relations approach since the early 1990s and is now a third year candidate in the adult psychoanalytic training program at NPS. Currently in full-time private practice, she has a special interest in patients’ problems relating to artistic and intellectual work and vocation.

Robert Oelsner, MD, PsyA-FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society in Seattle, as well as in the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association.  He is also on the faculty and is a corresponding member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Robert is an IPA certified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst and a Clinical Associate Professor at the UW Department of Child Psychiatry. He is in private practice in Seattle with children, adolescents and adults.

Rikki Ricard, PsyA-FIPA is an internationally certified psychoanalyst–Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association and graduate of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society. She has a private practice working with adults, couples, adolescents and children. She facilitates Infant Observation Groups, teaches in the Adult Psychotherapy Program at COR Northwest Family Development Center of which she is currently President. Rikki was a professional actress for many years and ia on honorary withdrawal from Equity, Aftra and SAG.

Marianne Robinson, MSW, LICSW, PhD has been a COR Northwest Family Development Center member since its inception. She has thirty years of clinical experience, also in a teaching and supervising capacity. Past COR Northwest Family Development Center Board member. Founding Board member and training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society. Full member of Psychoanalytic Center of California. Certified Group Psychotherapist.

Thomas C. Saunders, MSW, LICSW Faculty Coordinator of Infant Observation,ongoing involvement in Infant Observation for approximately 12 years. Former Candidate, Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis, Center for Object Relations;Psychodaynamic Psychotherapy Program, Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society; Post-Master's Fellowship in Advanced Clinical Social Work at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco; Master's of Clinical Social Work, University of Maryland. Private practice seeing infants and parents, children, adolescents,and adults, with a special interest in work with severely disturbed children.

Kris Wheeler, MA practices psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.  She has been in private practice since 1986. Formerly the co-director of COR Northwest Family Development Center’s certificate program in British Object Relations Psychotherapy, Kris has taught at the Center since 1999, and at Antioch University Seattle since 1989.