SFCP Community Members Mentoring Program

Community Members Mentoring Program

Would you like to meet with an analyst to discuss your questions about psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work? We’d love to meet with you! The Mentoring Program at SFCP matches participants with analyst mentors to discuss the mentee’s interest in psychoanalytic work.

The Mentoring Program is open to mental health clinicians at all levels of training and experience, who are SFCP Community Members, an easy and fun community to join! Mentors meet once a month with mentees for the academic year.

Examples of Topics to Discuss:

  • Information, resources and literature to help a mentee explore particular areas of interest. For example: work with particular populations such as trauma survivors; current thinking about LGBTQ issues; the impact of race, class and culture on psychological life; child work; mindfulness; research about psychoanalytic process; and psychoanalytic interfaces with other fields such as poetry, literature, neurosciences
  • How to choose among current activities, programs, courses, and services offered by SFCP that are relevant to the mentee’s interests and stage of training
  • Questions about developing as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and about psychoanalytic training
  • Connecting the mentee with colleagues who the mentor thinks might be a valuable resource based on the mentee’s interest in a particular subject

“I’m new to private practice and was looking to get mentoring and support from someone with a deep knowledge of psychotherapy. During our initial meetings I was able to get several very practical and pressing questions answered and feel more confident about seeing clients in my new private practice setting. We discussed psychoanalytic approaches to working with parents and children, which helped me to move forward with my cases and also to consider aspects that I had not previously considered. I have a particular interest in mindfulness and my mentor put me in touch with a therapist who incorporates mindfulness into a psychodynamic therapy practice. In addition, I work with children and my mentor referred me to the Child Colloquium, where I met other clinicians and heard a very helpful presentation. I feel very fortunate to meet with my mentor as needs arise.”

Matt Higgins LCSW, Community Members Mentoring Program

COST: FREE to SFCP Community Members.

QUESTIONS: If you have questions about the program, please contact:

Holly Gordon, DMH  hollygordon4@gmail.com

*The Mentorship Program is not a recruitment program. The mentor-mentee relationship is confidential and the mentor does not inform or influence the admission process should the mentee apply to the Center for training.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, February 22, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Film Screening and Discussion: After Sun
Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW (discussant)
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Community Building Event
Legacy Giving Info Event
Alma Soongi Beck and Sara Hire (presenters)
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPPTP) Open House
Meet with faculty, current students and other prospective applicants!
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Scientific Meetings
Love it, Hate it, Treat it: What every therapist needs to know about borderline personality
Jonathan Shedler, PhD (presenter)
Monday, March 3, 2025
Psychoanalytic Education Division
Psychoanalytic Training Informational Evening
Please join SFCP Faculty and Candidates for Dinner, Drinks, and a Discussion of Psychoanalytic Training at SFCP.
Wednesdays, March 5, 2025 to March 26, 2025
Psychoanalytic Student Seminars
Neurodivergent Psychoanalysis
Mayumi Pierce, MD (instructor)
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (SF-PPTP) Informational Open House
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
A felt-self: aspects of symbolizing through psychotherapy of an autistic boy.
Jeffrey Eaton, MA, FIPA (presenter); Lilly Hanson, MFT (moderator)
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPPTP) Open House
Meet with faculty, current students and other prospective applicants!
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The James Grotstein Memorial Lectures in Comparative Psychoanlaysis
Part 3: Winnicott in Topeka: Ego Psychology, American Culture, and Object Relations – Style and Substance in the ‘Stage of Concern’
Stephen Seligman, DMH (presenter); Joseph Aguayo, PhD; Peter Goldberg, PhD; and Stephen Seligman, DMH (panelists)
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