https://www.riapp.org/events daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://www.riapp.org/events/riapp-winter-social monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1759939188441-AYKN5KVBFGH1WHGODL2Q/Winter+Social.jpg Events - RIAPP Winter Social - Join us as we gather in-person for an informal evening of conversation and community. Enjoy light bites, connect with colleagues old and new, and get to know more about our organization. This is a social event and all are welcome. https://www.riapp.org/events/dhwani-shah-md monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1755285401018-DEX3YHXE9FOI9HF3SZY0/shah.jpeg Events - When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting the 'Blood of Recognition' in Racial Melancholia and Mixed Race Identities by Dhwani Shah, MD (Virtual Event) - Dhwani Shah, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in Princeton, NJ. He is a clinical associate faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored articles on topics ranging from neuroscience, mood disorders, and psychoanalysis. Dr Shah’s book entitled The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference was recently published by Phoenix Publishing House and was featured in Brett Kahr’s “Top Ten Books of 2022.” https://www.riapp.org/events/toward-secure-attachment-interrupting-transmission-of-anxious-attachment-patterns-in-young-families-by-jane-hesser-licsw monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1755285047317-1F4FXP033T5RSIJEOL65/hesser.webp Events - Toward Secure Attachment: Interrupting Transmission of Anxious Attachment Patterns in Young Families by Jane Hesser, LICSW - Jane Hesser, MFA, LICSW, is an expert in perinatal mental health, as well as perinatal sleep. Between 2011 and 2018, she worked exclusively with pregnant and postpartum women, in the Department of Women’s Behavioral Health, at Women & Infants Hospital, in Providence. Jane is a psychotherapist, in private practice, in Providence, where she specializes in work with perinatal women and physicians. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she has been a psychotherapy supervisor, for psychiatry residents, since 2017. She is faculty in the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship at Brown, and has spoken regionally and nationally on the subjects of perinatal mental health and sleep. Along with Katherine Sharkey, MD, she is currently co-investigator on The Dream Team research study, which is working to build an effective tool for maternal community home workers to facilitate optimal maternal sleep. https://www.riapp.org/events/lynne-layton-phd-beth-kita-phdd-lcsw monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/a0a854ce-3c36-4291-bc5b-c183164aff6d/kita+layton+vertical.jpg Events - The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Neoliberal Subjects, Institutional Enactments and Resisting the Resistance to Radical Change, Beth Kita, PhD LCSW & Lynne Layton, PhD (Virtual) - Elizabeth (Beth) Kita is a clinical social worker who lives and works in San Francisco, California. She obtained her MSW from UC Berkeley and PhD from Smith College, and became interested in psychoanalysis when its ideas helped her to better understand her work in a state prison. In her private practice, Beth works with people contending with complex trauma. Her practice in a public clinic has also focused on treating complex trauma, but with people who are incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, particularly those who’ve returned home after serving life sentences. Lynne Layton is the daughter of lower middle-class Jewish parents who grew up in an antisemitic small town where they barely passed for white. Seeking to pass better and escape antisemitism, they chose to raise their children in an exclusively Jewish, segregated neighborhood. Socialized to be a nurse or teacher who would marry and be subordinate to a nice Jewish doctor, she turned to psychoanalysis to heal from wounds of sexism. Lynne writes about how the hierarchical norms of systemic racism, heterosexism and classism become rooted in a relational unconscious and enacted in both clinic and culture. She is the author of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis. Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (2020). https://www.riapp.org/events/genuineness-through-the-lens-of-critical-liberation-psychotherapy-by-zenobia-morrill-phd monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1755285280049-HUHOVIVNNWEZ3FEAICYQ/morrill.jpeg Events - Psychotherapy as a Genuine Encounter: Cultivating Real Relationships and Liberatory Possibilities amid Institutional Constraints by Zenobia Morrill, PhD (Virtual Event) - Zenobia Morrill, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Department and the Associate Director of the Center for Psychological Science at William James College. Her research areas include psychotherapy process, critical and liberation psychology, and qualitative inquiry. She has served as a Research Officer of the United Nations, under the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and was a fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Sigmund Koch award for early career contributions to psychology by Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (APA). Zenobia is also a licensed practicing psychologist and the Senior Research Associate of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College. https://www.riapp.org/events/gender-euphoria-by-denise-crooks-mph-licsw-alliie-sheer-licsw monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/16e9eace-ea34-4516-927a-b74e7fde6dd2/Screenshot+2025-08-21+at+12.28.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Gender Euphoria by Denise Crooks, MPH, LICSW & Allie Scheer, LICSW - Denise Crooks, MPH, LICSW (she/her/hers) is a therapist within Lifespan's Psychiatry department with a focus on providing care to members of the LGBTQ+, kink, and consensually non-monogamous communities. She is also Co-Director of the LGBTQ+ Health and Advocacy Scholarly Concentration at Alpert Medical School. In addition, Denise enjoys advocating for legislative change to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ Rhode Islanders. Allie Scheer, LICSW (they/them) is a clinical social worker with strong interests in gender care, trauma, and social justice. They began their career in NY but have been living and working in RI for the past 6 years. They started with Thundermist as a clinician on the Trans Health Team and currently oversee the Behavioral Health department at the West Warwick location. https://www.riapp.org/events/from-interpretation-to-making-room-a-patient-centered-pathway-for-psychodynamic-practice-by-paul-wachtel-phd monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1755284771435-8FF1Y7JEJ834MQ4UP7VF/Wachtel+image.jpg Events - From Interpretation to Making Room: A Patient-Centered Pathway for Psychodynamic Practice by Paul Wachtel, PhD (Virtual Event) - Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of psychology in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City College of New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia, his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale, and his psychoanalytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was a cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and is a past president of that organization. Among his books are Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy; Race in the Mind of America; Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy; Therapeutic Communication; Inside the Session; The Poverty of Affluence; and Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society. His most recent book is Making Room for the Disavowed: Reclaiming the Self in Psychotherapy. He was awarded the Hans H. Strupp Award for Psychoanalytic Writing, Teaching, and Research; the Distinguished Psychologist Award by Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA; the Scholarship and Research Award by Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA; and the Sidney J. Blatt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychotherapy, Scholarship, Education and Practice. https://www.riapp.org/events/sebastian-barr-phd monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1755284567770-RWHUIYZ9YDEOHC3TVWS1/Barr%2Bheadshot.webp Events - Working with Trans and Nonbinary Clients Amidst Sociopolitical Hostility by Sebastian Barr, PhD (Virtual Event) - Sebastian Barr, PhD is a licensed counseling psychologist whose clinical and scholarly work centers on trauma recovery, transgender mental health, the intersections of gender diversity and traumatic stress, and living meaningfully through times of oppression. He provides psychotherapy to adolescents and adults in Massachusetts and Kansas through his independent practice and offers training for clinicians, educators, and healthcare professionals on effective and affirming care for transgender communities. In the past year, Dr. Barr has trained thousands of therapists on how to work with trans and nonbinary clients experiencing sociopolitical distress. Dr. Barr is also engaged in multiple grant-supported research initiatives. His work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals and has been cited hundreds of times, and he is a contributing author to several clinical texts on transgender mental health and psychotherapy. His contributions have been recognized with several honors, including the Transgender Research Award from APA Division 44. He has held a scholar-in-residence position at the Faber-Llull Institute in Olot, Catalonia, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity and Psychotherapy. https://www.riapp.org/events/riapp-end-of-season-party monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3096af5ab99f2d43a408bc/1744810238869-TYC2GLLZKHHP270K0SA7/Party.jpg Events - RIAPP End of Season Party Please join us as we close the 2024-2025 RIAPP season with a spring party on Saturday, May 17, 2-5pm. This will be a casual gathering and an opportunity to connect with the RIAPP community and enjoy some food and drink. 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