— LISTEE'S SPOTLIGHT —

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founding the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 1991. For 33 years, she has served as its executive director and an active faculty member, senior supervisor and training analyst. In private practice for over 40 years, working with clients online, via phone and in her Manhattan office, she has helped clients transform pain, loss and rage into creative self-expression, employing Guided Meditative Visualization and her in-depth attunement to verbal and nonverbal self-expression. She has published over 70 articles and seven books, including “Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change,” for which she earned the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, among 16 other awards for her writing. Lecturing across the globe, she also disseminates her knowledge through free YouTube videos and online workshops. She earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the Gordon F. Derner Institute at Adelphi University and an honorary doctorate in literature from Ignatius University. After graduating from comprehensive psychotherapy training, she became a fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis and a national NAAP psychoanalyst. She maintains three monthly online groups in writing, role-play supervision, and mourning trauma and loss within psychotherapy. Visit www.kavaleradler.com and drkavaleradler@gmail.com.