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Joseph Scalia III
Clinical Director
Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic StudiesJoseph Scalia III, Psya.D. studied Psychoanalysis, Society, and Culture at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is a practicing psychoanalyst and a social and environmental critic and activist. Dr. Scalia is the author of Intimate Violence: Attacks Upon Psychic Interiority and the editor of the anthology, The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas. Scalia is a former President of Montana Wilderness Association, and of Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance. See scaliapsychoanalysis.com/library for more information on his work, his activism, and his writings.
Lynne Scalia, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Lynne Scalia, Ed.D. is a recently retired educator from Montana. Her undergraduate work in Elementary Education was completed at University of Montana. Her masters and doctorate in educational leadership was at Montana State University. She has served as a school district superintendent and as a high school, middle school, and elementary principal. Her work in education and research has been psychoanalytically informed and she has participated in summer classes at the Ecole freudienne du Quebec. Scalia is committed to building a vibrant, democratic, and diverse psychoanalytic community at CCMPS. Feel free to call on Lynne as your first stop at CCMPS.
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.
Bonnie Irwin, Psya.D.
Faculty
I am a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Bradford, Vermont. I work with individuals and couples. I also have extensive experience with children.
My training began at the Vermont School of Psychoanalysis. When that school closed, I transferred to the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. The loss of the Vermont community convinced me that it is important to create and maintain a professional community to nourish ourselves as we aim to provide the best experience for our
patients.
I was teaching full time when I began my analytic training. I found that the training informed my teaching and enriched my personal life. As a teacher, I had the opportunity to train with the Critical Skills Program at Antioch New England. Later, I was invited to become a trainer in that program. I worked with teachers in the US,
Scotland, England, and Wales. Inevitably, I learned as much from my students as I hoped to help them learn in my classroom.
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.
Travis K. Svensson, MD, PhD
Faculty
Travis K. Svensson, MD, PhD holds a PhD in Healthcare and Philosophy in Bioethics (University of Wales) and an MD (George Washington University), an ALM in Digital Media Design (Harvard), an MPH in Administrative Medicine (George Washington University), an MSc in Nursing Education (Western Governors’ University). He has graduate certificates in Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Univ of Wales College of Medicine) and Learning Design and Technology (Harvard). He has post-doctoral certificates in Family Nursing Practice and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice (University of San Francisco). Travis has been involved in education throughout his 25 year career as a primary care provider, psychiatrist, addiction medicine and pain medicine specialist. He has taught at the community college, undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. Most recently he has been teaching bioethics, psychopharmacology, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for advanced practice nurses. He has been a full-time online instructor at the University of the People as an expert in: Health Psychology, Biostatistics, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Community Public Health.
Board
Travis K. Svensson, MD, PhD
Board President
Travis K. Svensson, MD, PhD holds a PhD in Healthcare and Philosophy in Bioethics (University of Wales) and an MD (George Washington University), an ALM in Digital Media Design (Harvard), an MPH in Administrative Medicine (George Washington University), an MSc in Nursing Education (Western Governors’ University). He has graduate certificates in Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Univ of Wales College of Medicine) and Learning Design and Technology (Harvard). He has post-doctoral certificates in Family Nursing Practice and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice (University of San Francisco). Travis has been involved in education throughout his 25 year career as a primary care provider, psychiatrist, addiction medicine and pain medicine specialist. He has taught at the community college, undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. Most recently he has been teaching bioethics, psychopharmacology, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for advanced practice nurses. He has been a full-time online instructor at the University of the People as an expert in: Health Psychology, Biostatistics, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Community Public Health.
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".
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.
Lynne Scalia, Ed.D.
Board Secretary
See above bio sketch.
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.
Policies and Procedures in Hiring of Faculty
We encourage students and faculty to suggest potential teachers to our Board. The administration also recruits faculty based on reputation as teachers and/or researchers. The Board evaluates teaching candidates based on credentials, including required NAAP registration and current license to practice. New faculty will teach a course and based on student feedback the board will decide whether to add that person to the permanent faculty. The Training Committee will review student evaluations of faculty at each biannual meeting. If there should be a problem, the Board will be informed and will take the issue up at the next meeting. Steps to be taken with the faculty member are exploration of the issue, support and counseling if needed to improve the person’s performance.
The board meets at least twice a year, informal consultations can happen anytime.