Fellowship for Emerging Psychoanalysts

Cohort Two (2025 - 2027)

Jason Holloway, PsyD is a psychologist in private practice in New York, and an incoming analytic candidate at Pulsion Institute.
Jason received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania and his bachelor’s in English from Haverford College.
Over the course of his career, Jason has worked with people living with HIV and the LGBT community, with an additional emphasis on people of trans experience. He completed his postdoctoral residency at AIDS Care Group in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania where he was first trained in the psychodynamic treatment of HIV.
Before starting his private practice in 2024, he worked at the Peter Krueger Clinic at Mount Sinai-Beth Israel’s Institute for Advanced Medicine, and before that he did substance use work at The Center for Optimal Living. He is on faculty at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine where he supervises and teaches psychology doctoral students about psychodynamic psychotherapy for people living with HIV and people of trans experience.
Jason will use the foundation’s support to develop a psychodynamic group psychotherapy program and to expand his individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy to underserved populations in his private practice.

Leonie Luxama, LCSW-R has extensive experience working within community agencies. She understands the demands of working in the community, undertaking home visits, and working as a psychotherapist and supervisor in an Article 31 mental health clinic, where she supervised and supported other clinicians, as a Senior Clinician. Leonie is well-versed in working with diverse groups and cultures.
In her private practice, Leonie works with adults, seniors, mothers and babies. She is a graduate of the Anni-Bergman Parent-Infant Program, where she helps mothers understand the early stages of bonding with their babies. Leonie is also a candidate at Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research using a psychodynamic-psychoanalytic approach that informs her work. She earned her Master of Social Work degree from Fordham University.
Leonie is joining The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis to work with individuals, groups, and the community, aiming to raise awareness of the impact of psychoanalysis on personal transformation.

Inaugural Cohort (2024 - 2026)

Christina completed her 4 year psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. She also completed further training in sex therapy and couples therapy.
She is also a research therapist for international psychedelic clinical trials working towards FDA approval for psilocybin and LSD for therapeutic use in people with treatment resistant depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
Prior to her training in psychoanalysis she worked in HIV and Community Medicine. This work spanned more than 20 years with Housing Works, The Floating Hospital, Harlem United and Weill Cornell Medical College’s HIV Clinical Trials Unit focusing in HIV medicine, education, and research. She continues her work at Weill Cornell on a limited basis. She is happy to continue her focus on working within communities as a fellow at the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Jose Sanchez-Cruz served in the US Navy for 8 years. Following his service, he earned a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego in Microbiology with a minor in Film Studies. He earned his M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During medical school, Dr. Sanchez-Cruz conducted research to assess structural determinants of health in homeless individuals in Los Angeles.
He volunteered his time as a peer counselor in a program to address depression in undergraduate and graduate students, facilitated veteran health panels, organized community health fairs and fundraisers with the Latino Medical Student Association, and worked as an ally to provide training to health workers serving the LGBTQ community.
Dr. Sanchez-Cruz completed his residency training in Adult Psychiatry at NYU Grossman SoM, where he served as Chief Resident. While in residency, he started the Psychiatry in Film initiative. He was an active member of NYU's House Staff Patient Safety Council, House Staff Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the Physician Well-Being Committee. He completed training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and is a psychoanalytic candidate at Columbia University.
Dr. Sanchez-Cruz is in private practice in NY and NJ where he provides medical management and psychoanalytic informed psychotherapy to diverse populations across cultures, socio-economic status, race, gender, and mental health ailments.

Lanaya Wade, PsyD, is a Licensed Psychologist in New York. She spends the majority of her professional time in private practice, where she works with adults focused on depth therapy and with adults and children completing psychological assessment.
Dr. Wade also enjoys her role as an educator in her position on the core faculty for a Masters of Counseling. She is currently a Candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Her training includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship and Internship at the William Alanson White Institute and education at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.
Dr. Wade intends to use the fellowship to significantly increase the amount of clients she is seeing on a low-fee basis, continue to deepen her understanding of Relational Analytic thought, and, ultimately, contribute new understandings to the knowledge base regarding Community Psychoanalysis in marginalized communities based on her experiences at the FCP.

Community Psychoanalysis Grant Recipients

Founded in 1999 by four psychoanalysts, The Fostering Connection offers long-term, psychodynamic psychotherapy to foster-affected children, young adults, and families across New York City. TFC recruits experienced clinicians to see one patient, pro bono in their private practice.
With support from The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, TFC will deliver over 9,000 hours of high quality therapy—valued at $3.1 million—at no cost to our clients, ensuring that those most impacted by systemic barriers have access to consistent clinical care.

In her three decades of working with small businesses, including many psychology practices, Jodi Carter of Financial Insight Training, has developed guiding principles that are a pivotal component to creating a model for success.
Spring Up is a collective of care coaches, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and consultants practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy. They cultivate a culture of consent and liberty for all through storytelling and popular education.
Financial Insight Training, Spring Up, and Greene Clinic are collaborating to design a manual for building an accessible practice. The manual will be a guide for independent clinics, each with their own ethos and style but joined by dual commitments to creating accessible, equitable treatment, and the transmission of psychoanalytic practice. With strategies for launching and growing a financially viable clinic, the possibility of a network for accessible care becomes a reality.

Gabrielle Jensen is a psychotherapist working with children, adolescents, and adults in New York, where she is also a psychoanalytic candidate at the Pulsion Institute for Psychoanalysis.
She directs the child and adolescent psychotherapy program at Rose Hill Psychological Services, a psychoanalytic group practice with offices in Manhattan and the Bronx. After a previous career as a writer and curator of visual art, Gabrielle earned her MSW at Hunter College, where she also completed a specialized program in child trauma.
Gabrielle researches links between the climate crisis and somatic clinical presentations, especially in young people and children.
With the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, Gabrielle is developing a free drop-in center for children ages 0-4 and their caregivers, including expectant parents. This environment is neither a clinic, school, or nursery, but is a place to be welcomed and heard in a psychoanalytic manner. Designed to gently assist in the socialization of children before they go to school and to strengthen the bond between caregivers and children, the center will be modeled after the Maison Verte in Paris, which was originally conceptualized by French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto. There are over 2,000 such centers around France and other parts of the world, but this project will be the first of its kind in the United States.

Community Psychoanalysis Speaker Series Led by Roula Hajjar and Saman Kamgar-Parsi
The Greene Clinic's Speaker Series on Community Psychoanalysis is a free, public program of talks on psychoanalysis and politics that has featured over two dozen speakers in the past four years, including Jared Sexton, Fred Moten, David Eng, Patricia Gherovici, Camille Robcis, Elizabeth Danto, and many others. With FCP's support, the 2025-2026 series centers on a new theme of groups and community involvement, bringing in collectives and individuals to lead group processes and share their thinking about group formation and dynamics, with all events held in person at FCP's space in Brooklyn.counselors.

Psychoanalytic Process Groups for Activist Burnout Jordan Dunn, Aaina Lakha, and Jeremy Graves

Activist work asks people to carry more than they can handle alone, and yet psychoanalysis has remained largely distant from community organizing. This project, led by three psychoanalytic therapists affiliated with the Greene Clinic, offers weekly in-person process groups for activists and community organizers in Brooklyn and New York City, creating a rare space to step out of crisis mode, examine the often-unspoken personal and interpersonal dynamics behind organizing, and explore what drives burnout, conflict, and exhaustion at a depth that typical self-care approaches rarely reach. Groups are offered on a sliding scale and run in 12-week sessions, with a pilot launching in Spring 2026.

Mae Monga is a cultural organizer, artist, and founder of Divine Times Collective, dedicated to creating transformative spaces for black individuals across the African diaspora. Mae’s work is rooted in inner-child healing, community storytelling, and cultural reconnection, blending research and art to foster liberation and joy. Through events and partnerships with local and global organizations, Mae cultivates spaces that honor ancestral wisdom while addressing contemporary challenges.
Mae’s latest project is a multi-layered initiative exploring inner-child healing through a psychoanalysis-informed lens, integrating insights from therapists and social workers. The project examines the underutilization of mental health resources by immigrant and displaced Black communities. It includes a magazine featuring research, artist submissions, and reflections; a film screening and panel discussion on racial trauma and healing; and the Pan-Afro Wisdom Fest (P.O.W. Fest), an outdoor celebration of diasporic traditions through music, dance, and interactive workshops. By centering African diasporic narratives and prioritizing holistic healing, Mae envisions culture as a bridge to self-discovery, connection, and collective transformation.

Christopher Landry is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalytic candidate at Columbia University. He is the Associate Medical Director at Fountain House, a therapeutic community supporting recovery for people with Serious Mental Illness, and co-founder of the Constellation Program, a psychoanalytically-informed treatment program for young adults experiencing psychosis and extreme states.
With the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis Chris is working on three interrelated endeavors. The Foundation supports the Constellation Program as a space for 1:1 therapy as well as group work facilitated by Isaiah Madison. Chris also organizes the Working Group for Community Mental Health Workers and he leads the speaker series Psychosis in the City, produced in collaboration with the Greene Clinic Speaker Series, hosted at the Foundation space.

Marina Weiss, PhD, MFA is a clinical psychologist. In her clinical work, she uses relational, interpersonal psychodynamic and integrative approaches, and specializes in supporting recovery from trauma, particularly the recovery of emerging adults at the intersections of acculturative and traumatic stressors. Marina is a postdoctoral fellow, supervisor and therapist in the Brooklyn College Counseling Center, where she is also a clinical instructor in the Mental Health Counseling Masters program. Her research describes and addresses mental health disparities in trauma-exposed populations, specifically through community-based, participatory research (CBPR) methods and the design, implementation, and evaluation of community-centered interventions.
From 2022-2024, Marina served as a postdoctoral fellow in implementation science in the Center for Innovation in Mental Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. In this role, Marina co-led design, implementation, and evaluation of three community mental health programs using task-sharing to increase access to mental healthcare for low-income New Yorkers in partnerships with community, city, and federal agencies. Marina was instrumental in establishing trauma-informed, culturally attuned practices in this role. Marina also has extensive experience with intervention design for and clinical research with Spanish- and English-speaking survivors of intimate partner violence and sex trafficking, including coordinating clinical care, program evaluation, and expansion of a pilot psychiatric care model within the NYC Family Justice Center system from 2014-2017, as well as developing community-based, participatory programming with and for this population as part of the Economic and Social Empowerment project at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work in 2013, and within a collaboration between the Bronx Family Justice Center, the Columbia University Presidential Scholars Program and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) Department of Narrative Medicine from 2019-2021.
Marina earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Adelphi University, and completed her internship at CUIMC/New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed her clinical training in English and Spanish, and was certified as a bilingual clinical provider by CUIMC, and has also served as an anti-racist educator for mental health professionals throughout her doctoral training.
With the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, and in partnership with the Brooklyn College Immigrant Student Success Office, Marina is co-developing a bilingual Spanish- and English-based arts therapy group intervention for acculturating emerging adults in collaboration with the group’s participants. This community-based, participatory program will respond to calls for therapies designed by and for Latine American emerging adults, as well as for therapies using culturally congruent methods such as cuento, or storytelling. This group arts-based intervention, supplemented by individual psychotherapy, will support young adults’ framing of themselves as agents and creators; reduce the stigma of psychotherapy in the eyes of their peers, families, and communities; and reinforce participants’ ego strengths, insight, relational skills, social support, and belonging.

The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis is excited to partner with Harlem Family Services to launch The Happiness Project, an innovative program designed to expand access to mental health care for historically marginalized communities. With support from a $10,000 grant, this 8-week initiative will provide psychoanalytic workshops, group therapy sessions, and creative arts programming to help participants explore emotional well-being, build resilience, and foster deeper connections. The project also aims to address systemic barriers to mental health care by empowering early-career clinicians with hands-on training and creating meaningful collaborations with local organizations.
Together, the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and Harlem Family Services are working to reimagine mental health care as a vital, accessible resource for all while strengthening the bonds of community and collective healing.

Parapraxis is a magazine and collective committed to bringing psychoanalysis into the twenty-first century by engaging the psychosocial dimensions of our lives—violence and conflict, race and diaspora, gender and sexuality, care and welfare. Through essays, reviews, clinical writing, and cultural criticism, Parapraxis seeks to open psychoanalysis to a broader public, providing a home for critical, creative, and accessible psychoanalytic thought beyond the academy and clinic.
FCP and Parapraxis are beginning a long-term partnership to extend this mission through public programs and collaborative events. Our work together will include the Parapraxis Film Festival, which explores the intertwined histories of psychoanalysis and cinema across the globe, as well as a series of dialogues between our organizations in New York, Oakland, and online. Together, we aim to create spaces where psychoanalysis can be debated, reimagined, and connected to urgent social and political questions today.nds of community and collective healing.

Siena Froment is a Greene Clinic Community Psychoanalysis Project Manager and Constellation Program Liaison. Siena studied at the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Techno-Isolation, Social Suffering and Well-Being.
Isaiah Madison is a peer specialist and liaison for the Constellation Program, as well as an LP candidate at Pulsion. Siena and Isaiah have worked together on questions of psychoanalysis and psychosis since 2023.
The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis will support Siena and Isaiah to develop the Constellations Open Group and the Constellations Workshop Series. The Constellations Open Group is a free weekly group in downtown Brooklyn for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). Inspired by the charter of the Hearing Voices Network, the group works to address psychic and social alienation; an opening for a discussion of what exists between the two, and how experience moves between the hospital, the clinic, and public life.
The Constellations Workshop Series will bring theoretical perspectives, abstracted process, and facilitator experience to reconfigure transference and authority in the encounter with psychosis. While Siena and Isaiah are each on a path of formation in psychoanalysis, the group facilitation is distinctly outside the model of psychotherapy. The series will consider the particularities and illumination of such work while providing an educational and exploratory opportunity for clinicians and members of the Brooklyn community.
Over the grant period, Siena and Isaiah will reflect on the integration of peer specialists and psychoanalysis, specifically in the treatment of SMI. Both the Constellations Open Group and Constellations Workshop Series are intended to be a contribution to re-envision the approach of support beyond the typical frame of psychotherapy and psychiatry and within the context of New York City—in centering the many forms of how sense is made, from symptoms as they emerge and interact.

With the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis Vaia Tsolas and Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse are launching the Rose Hill Psychoanalytic Pain Center, a unique psychoanalytically oriented project in the Bronx, explicitly targeting the treatment of pain (adults, adolescents, and children).
As the number of drug-addicted and chronic pain patients skyrockets astronomically nationwide in the post-COVID-19 era, this epidemic afflicts more and more communities in NYC. The community psychoanalytic/psychosomatic approach aims to help patients reclaim a sense of self, articulate a narrative of their deepest existential anxieties associated with chronic pain and progressively begin to reduce addictive and disabling pain medication, regain their humanity and desire for living, and begin to re-invest in their lives, relationships and histories.

Michael Ferrara, PhD, is a clinical psychologist working with children, adolescents and adults as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the group practice Soho Psychoanalytic. In his clinical work, he uses a psychodynamic approach and applies a developmental perspective to patients across the lifespan, using D.W. Winnicott, Erik Erikson and Freud as theoretical guideposts to his clinical technique. Michael researches and writes about the dynamics of termination and the applications of play therapy to the treatment with adults and adolescents.

With the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, Michael is developing relationships with local high schools in the downtown Brooklyn area to expand access to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for teens. By creating and distributing materials aimed at both parents and adolescents, and facilitating referrals between struggling students and psychoanalytic clinicians, this program can help address the adolescent mental health crisis.

The Action Lab is a strategy center for social movements that sparks political and personal liberation. We provide rigorous and joyful spaces for organizers, leaders, and artists to learn, to create, and to strengthen our capacity to win. We strive to build a powerful culture that lifts us out of the immediate and enables us to envision and realize a just future.
The Art of Purpose, The Action Lab’s four-month fellowship program that is offered twice a year, blends somatics and political analysis to help organizers navigate the intersections of fighting for justice and personal healing and to organize their attention and relationships for collective action. Through retreats, political education convenings, practice circles, and one on one coaching, fellows develop leadership skills, deepen community connections, and cultivate a culture of trust, mutual accountability, and principled engagement. The program equips participants with the tools to organize more deeply and effectively, fostering a movement that is both strategic and meaningful.

We are excited to partner with the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis to deepen the integration of psychoanalytic and somatic practices within our movement-building work. FCP is generously providing access to their Downtown Brooklyn space for Practice Circles and trainings. We plan to bridge our communities of learning and experimentation through engaging FCP's psychoanalysts in Art of Purpose's curriculum on somatics and dialectics, and to our trainings, and practitioners. This partnership will enhance the capacity of our Fellows to navigate the contradictory intersection of organizing, healing, and political action—offering sustained, nuanced approaches to movement work, especially in times of crisis. We also hope to enhance the work of psychoanalysts through the dialogue and interplay of these adjacent, sometimes overlapping and sometimes contradictory, modes of healing, action and inquiry.

The Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program (ABPIP) Home-Visiting Project began in 2015 in response to the imperative need for experienced clinicians to work with underserved, high-risk parents and infants in New York City.
Home visiting allows for a view of the day-to-day relationship and interactions between parent and baby that cannot be seen in an office or at a program site, and provides accessibility for parents and babies who are unable to manage traveling to appointments.
For vulnerable parents, the stressors caused by housing insecurity, poverty, the lack of familial and social supports, and personal histories of neglect and abuse often interfere with capacities to attend to and nurture their infants. Infants and very young children are especially vulnerable to the impact of parental stressors. The effects of extreme poverty are amplified for infants and young children who directly experience family violence, hunger, loss of relationship, and neglect, and also indirectly experience the effects of these through the impact of trauma on the quality of parental care.
Our psychoanalytically-informed model helps establish a strong attachment, positive emotional connections, and effective communication between parent and baby, and helps set a baby’s development and the parent-child relationship in the direction of growth and mutual emotional fulfillment. These improvements are foundational to the child’s capacity for self-regulation, learning, and positive relationships.
Our psychotherapy services are unique in that:
● The psychotherapy we provide is dyadic
● Therapists provide weekly psychotherapy wherever the parents and infants reside
● Our therapists are highly trained, experienced and skilled all having Masters or Doctoral level degrees in psychology, social work, psychoanalysis, or nursing, in addition to having completed the three-year post-degree Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program training.
● Each therapist is committed to working with the families for as long as is needed
The grant from the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis will help to fund the Anni Bergman Home-Visiting Project work with Brooklyn parents and babies.