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Victor Stampley, MSW
Faculty
Victor Stampley is a longtime student of various psychoanalytic schools of thought and practice. He has been a clinician for 40 years. Having had a military upbringing overseas, he has spent most of his adult life in rural Montana...where he is not fond of the political views of most of the people of whom he is fondest.
Looking through the lenses of anthropology and psychoanalysis, he is interested in how society shapes the psyche of its citizens, and is shaped by their collective unconscious. He harbors a compelling interest in exploring what may comprise actual trauma, and how it impacts cultural and political trends.
Lynn Irwin, PsyaD
Faculty
Dr. Irwin has been a life-long educator, having taught everything from physical education to kindergartners to college-level macroeconomics. His career has moved over time in the direction of greater interpersonal involvement with the people he works with, and he is now a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst.
He has studied at the University of Vermont, Plymouth State College, Dartmouth College, The Cyril Z Meadow Institute, and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He was a member of the Board of Allied Mental Health Practitioners, an arm of the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation.
He has volunteered as Boy Scout leader, has coached and umpired both youth and adult sports, participated in local theater, and has served his local government. His most rewarding role is as a husband, father and grandfather.
He and his wife, Dr. Bonnie Irwin, own and operate Vermont Talk Therapy in Bradford, Vermont. You can visit their website: www.vermonttalktherapy.com.
Ioanis Papavassiliu, PsyaD, LMHC
Faculty
Ioanis Papavassiliu, PsyaD, LMHC is a graduate of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a clinical supervisor and has a private practice in New York City. For over thirty years as a clinician he has worked in a variety of settings with diverse populations including people diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness, adolescents facing substance abuse problems, and perpetrators of domestic violence. In his private practice he works with a wide range of people with the aim of creating an environment of openness and emotional safety which makes self-acceptance and growth possible. His ongoing engagement with psychoanalytic theories from different schools of thought inform his clinical approach. He is an active member of the New York Adoption, Research and Psychotherapy group, and has served as a Fellow at the Referral Service at CMPS and was a member of the Planning Committee at the Brooklyn Seminars In Modern Psychoanalysis.
Kathy MacLeay, PhD, NCPsyA
Faculty
Kathy MacLeay, PhD, NCPsyA
is interested in many areas of psychoanalysis. She is writing a book in conjunction with offering a C.E. approved course on the treatment of eating disorders. Dr. MacLeay is researching novel techniques for the residential treatment of troubled children and adolescent. She also works with parents using modern psychoanalytic techniques to help them separate, individuate, and develop healthy and mature relationships with each other. Additionally, she is a pioneer in the use of animal therapy with this population. Kathy is a training analyst at CCMPS.
Robert Brill, MDiv, MSW, NCPsyA
Faculty
Robert Brill, MDiv, MSW, NCPsyA
practices psychoanalysis in Louisville, Kentucky. He works with individuals, couples, children, and groups. He has expertise with adult children of alcoholics (family of origin work) and addictions. He served as a chaplain in the United States Army Reserves for over 30 years. Robert has interests in the history of psychoanalysis and the lives of the founding psychoanalysts. He is also interested in how spirituality and dream work inform our personhood/individuation as part of the therapeutic process.
Board
Victor Stampley
Board Chair
See above bio sketch.
Phyllis Beck, MS, NCPsyA
Board Member
Phyllis Beck, MS, NCPsyA
is a graduate of Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. She has a license to practice psychoanalysis from the State of New York. She came to the practice of psychoanalysis by being a reading specialist, as a school psychoanalyst, grandmother and great grandmother. She has studied with many of the founders of CMPS. Practicing as a psychoanalyst for over 30 years has been an important part of her "being".
Justin Cline
Treasurer
Justin Cline, LCSW has worked in the field of mental health for over 20 years and enjoys the process of talking with people, using psychoanalysis as a method for understanding oneself and the world. He has worked in a variety of settings including residential adolescent treatment, community organizing, trauma treatment, combat veterans, adjunct with the University of Montana, and private practice. He has a special interest in practicing Psychoanalysis in rural areas of Western Montana along with the challenges this brings such as poverty, racism, bigotry, and a cultural environment that can tend towards extreme right-wing ideologies. In particular, Justin is interested in how mental suffering contributes to societal psychopathologies found in today’s American culture, especially in the political realm, and how psychoanalysis may have something to offer in terms of addressing these modern dilemmas.
Art Nevins Jr. Esquire
Board Member
Art is a graduate of Cornell University where he received his Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He received his Juris Doctor from Fordham Law School. He works out of offices in New Jersey and New York City and specializes in Medical Malpractice, Personal and Employment, Civil rights and Criminal Law. He co-host the podcast radio show, “The Human Side” at the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Podcast Radio.
He was born in Brooklyn and grew up on the Queens border. When he was a teenager, his family moved just next to a lake in Waccabuc, New York. He had a wonderful childhood swimming and kayaking and playing with friends on the lake. A few decades ago he purchased an old barn and some farmland in Hunterdon, New Jersey. His wife, Mandy is from Scotland. They have two children and a two year old granddaughter. Also, they have two very old horses, a donkey, several sheep and many cats in their barn. He likes gardening, hanging out with his granddaughter, doing crosswords, playing poker and traveling when he is able.
Helene Stilman, PsyD
Board Member
Helene Stilman, PsyD
Helene Stilman, PsyD is past president of the board and former Clinical Director of CCMPS. She has held several posts on the board over a 31 year period and has been in private practice since 1983 treating children, adults, couples,families and groups. She currently practices in Philadelphia and New Mexico. Helene enjoys using her psychoanalytic training to understand and influence organizational change to resolve impediments to organizational growth and functioning. Amongst the many systems in which she has been a participant, Helene has had leadership roles as President of the iSouthwest Behavioral Health Independent Practice Association, President of the New Mexico Psychoanalytic Society, and as Board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.