Dr. Stacy Berlin is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified psychoanalyst. She has a private practice and is a faculty member at ICP, where she conducts advanced graduate seminars in Relational Theory. With her extensive and broad education, and experience in psychoanalysis, she brings exceptional awareness to her private practice.
Dr. Berlin is integrative and works from within a safe relational framework. She works in a collaborative and interactive manner and is egalitarian and contextualist in her approach to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Dr. Berlin emphasizes developmental relational traumatic self-states, creative openings, play and humor.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (1995 to present)
Private Practice
Teaching and Supervision (1996 to present)
Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles: Conduct post-graduate seminars on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for licensed clinicians-
Adjunct Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles: Conduct graduate seminars on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for graduate students-
Adjunct Professor at Los Angeles Valley College: Conduct seminars on statistics for undergraduate social science majors-
Assistant Teacher at the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles: Statistics seminar for clinical psychology graduate students-
Clinical Supervisor at the Southern California Counseling Center and private practice: Provide clinical supervision to psychologist in training-
Clinical Supervisor at my Private Practice: Provide clinical supervision to licensed psychologists and psychologists in training-
Courses taught: Relational Theory Core Course, Sexuality and Gender in Psychoanalysis, The Gender Agenda: Binaries, Variability, and Sexuality, and Statistics for Social Science Majors-
Psy.D. Doctorate in Psychoanalysis
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles (2022)
Accredited by the Council for Psychoanalytic Education, Inc. (ACPEinc)
Psy.D. Doctorate in Psychology
California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles (1998)
Accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)
M.A. in Clinical Psychology
California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles (1996)
Accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)
B.A. in Psychology
California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles (1994)
Accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)
Specialty Education
Certified in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Infancy and Childhood
Los Angeles Institute and Society of Psychoanalytic Studies
Relational Gestalt Therapy
Pacific Gestalt Institute
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Professional: relational trauma, primitive self-states, and group collaboration.
Personal: creativity: painting, creative writing, brick laying, clock design, repairing things, brick laying, cooking-baking, jewelry making, humor, stand-up, outdoors, organizing, meditation and Buddhist philosophy.