ANNE J. ADELMAN, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society. She is the co-author of Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011) and co-editor, The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby (2013), both with Columbia University Press. She is a faculty member of the New Directions Writing Program and maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

I grew up in Rosedale, Queens, NYC, and later Roslyn, Nassau County, NY. During high school, I studied for a summer in Quito, Ecuador at the Universidad Central. At Cornell Univ, School of Arts and Sciences (Ithaca, NY), I majored in English, minored in Chemistry, and studied Spanish, French, and Attic Greek. After three years, I was accepted at Tulane Medical School. I spent the next 19+ years in New Orleans, finishing medical school, internship, psychiatry residency, and psychoanalytic training. I practiced in New Orleans for about 10 years, and became involved with Child Protection Agencies and a variety of charitable organizations whose purpose was to protect children from physical and sexual abuse. I also taught at Tulane Social Work School and Tulane Medical School.

After marrying Susan Roussel in 1986, we moved to Virginia Beach, VA, where I was appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A few months later, I began teaching at Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth as well. In 1995, Susan began her (now) 20 years of employment law defense and business immigration law practice with Willcox & Savage, PC, and I became a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Freudian Society in Washington, DC.

Our son, Ted, went to MIT, majored in physics, and now works with 3-Scan, a tech startup in San Francisco. Susan became a partner at W&S, and is the upcoming Chair of the Hampton Roads Regional Chamber of Commerce. I had the good fortune, through volunteering with the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, to meet many colleagues in different cities in China, and although I no longer am connected with CAPA, I continue teaching and supervising professionals there. Two of my books have been translated into Chinese.

Currently, I practice psychoanalysis in Virginia Beach, do psychiatric evaluations, and continue writing and teaching.

With over twenty years of experience and many years of post-graduate training, I bring a wealth of experience and expertise to my work. My style is flexible, interactive and engaged; and, I tailor my work to the individual needs of each person.
We decide on the frequency and duration of a therapy. A short-term therapy might be preferable to manage a life transition or crisis whereas a longer-term therapy could address longstanding emotional pain or patterns of unsatisfactory relationships.

Training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and the IPA; Vice President of the CFS Board, and past institute director of the Washington Program of CFS; Member of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the IPA (COWAP) and a Board Member of the North America Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC) representing CFS; Visiting Professor at the Sino-American Continuing Training Project at Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan China; written and presented in the areas of femininity and female psychology, listening, enactment, terror, sadomasochism, and unconscious fantasy.

Dr. Fritsch earned her B.A. in Psychology, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from George Washington University. She is trained to work with children, adolescents and adults. She has an expertise in couples psychotherapy. She has practiced as a licensed clinical psychologist in northern Virginia for thirty years. She has presented and written in the areas of supervision, female psychology, and the deepening process in analytic treatment. She has a long-standing interest in organizational dynamics. She is a training and supervising analyst of the Contemporary Freudian Society's Training Institute and past president of the Society.

Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D., ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Virginia Beach, VA. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at both the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She is a member of the Analytic Process Scales Group, a research group that develops instruments to study psychotherapeutic process and outcome led by Sherwood Waldron, MD, and is on the Board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium and Section I, Division 39, American Psychological Association.

Marie A. Murphy MSW, BCD is a supervising and training psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, DC specializing in the treatment of adults, older adolescents, and couples. She has a particular interest in early trauma and psychosomatic states and regularly works in those areas. She is an active member of the Contemporary Freudian Society, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a faculty member of the Institute and the Contemporary Trends in Psychoanalytic Practice of CFS. She is also a faculty member and supervisor at the Washington School of Psychiatry.