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Voices of BGSP

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BGSP’s students and graduates come from all over the world, with a tremendous diversity of academic backgrounds, life experiences, and cultural heritage. But they all share two things in common: curiosity about the human condition, and the courage to explore it.

They share the stories of their journeys and successes here.

  • Michael Birnkrant, PsyaD, LMHC
    “I look forward to growing a successful independent private practice as a psychoanalyst and to continuing my journey to learn more about the deepest mysteries of the human condition.”
  • Brett Crudgington
    “Over time, I noticed that the modern psychoanalytic approach helped me intervene with my music students and parents in a positive way. I wanted to better understand why and how this was happening.”
  • R. Danielle Egan, PsyaD, PhD
    “As a professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University, I have written about and taught psychoanalytic ideas for a long time.”
  • Tracy D. Galloway, MA, Esq
    “As a divorce litigator, I am continuously immersed in the profound emotions of clients, opposing counsel, court personnel, and judges.”
  • Rana Homayouni, MA
    “BGSP has provided me with a space to better understand myself and by extension, understand my patients better […] I found BGSP’s unique way of immersing students in fieldwork, coupled with valuable supervision to be highly useful in my subsequent work.”
  • Seyed Vahid Hosseini, MA
    “I was trained as an Intensive Short-term Psychodynamic Therapist (ISTDP), but shifted my focus to psychoanalysis to practice long-term therapy with fewer constraints.”
  • Liam Johansson, MA
    “[At BGSP], I really appreciated the diversity of age, life experience, background, and interests of my classmates. I also appreciated that professors had a wealth of clinical experience to share and draw from.”
  • Brian T. Jones, MA
    “I had a fascination with the analytic model and desired to train in an institution where I could apply theory with real-world practice. While searching various psychoanalytic institutes, I found BGSP.”
  • Joon ho Lee, PsyaD, Cert. Psya, NCPsyA
    “I came to Boston from South Korea in February 2005 to enroll in the Master’s program […] BGSP offered just what I was looking for.”
  • Pan Li, MA
    “Through my experiences studying modern psychoanalysis, I have started to understand what a "transformative experience" really means, and I feel it on a daily basis.”
  • Claudia Sheftel Luiz, PsyaD, Cert. Psya, EdM
    “After training at BGSP, while enjoying a successful private practice and raising two daughters with my husband, I started writing an advice column for The Daily News Transcript called 'Claudia Confidentially.'”
  • Mary Massaro, MS, NCPsyA
    “Becoming a part of the BGSP doctoral program has allowed me to continue to contribute to my field. My hope is to develop new skill sets to apply in clinical practice, as well as teaching.”
  • Ranjana Mayar, MA
    “The journey of maturation and self-awareness has taken me to new understanding of my own emotional and mental states, which I am able to take with me into the therapy room to understand my patients.”
  • Daniel Moreno Flórez, MA, LMHC
    “As an immigrant clinician, I also found the BGSP training helpful in approaching the patient population in the US and its particularities regarding mental health treatment.”
  • Chris Panetta, MA
    “I signed up for an introductory course and was fascinated by the unique style of process learning that BGSP implements. The process learning, emotional understanding, and group dynamic that BGSP provides helped carry me.”
  • Minjee Park, MA
    “Many people understand psychoanalysis as having a lot of stigma around it […] but it really teaches us to understand how the unconscious affects us in our everyday lives.”
  • Gabriela Pérez-Gil del Valle, MA
    “In Mexico City, where I am from, I had been trained as a Humanistic Gestalt and Existential therapist and had been working for quite a while as a psychologist.”
  • Silvia Pomares, MA
    “BGSP provides you with a learning experience that, starting with your own personal development, gives you deep understanding of personality theory and its implications for practice.”
  • Robin Rayford, MALLP
    “I have been active on boards and committees that provide opportunities for applied psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic approaches to mental health awareness and wellness needs.”
  • Judith Sanditen, PsyD, PsyaD
    “A colleague directed me to The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis where I discovered supervisors interested in the ability to study and understand the patient’s unconscious motivation and resistances.”
  • Sarah Smith, PsyaD, LMHC
    “I graduated from BGSP's Masters in Psychoanalytic Counseling program in 2010 and went on to earn two years of post-masters experience working as an out-patient clinician for Arbour Counseling and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.”
  • Frederick Stecker, DMin, PsyaD
    “Frederick Stecker received his Doctor of Psychoanalysis in the Study of Violence from the BGSP in 2008, and has served on the board of the BGSP for 15 years concluding his last five years service as chair.”
  • Junichi Torigoe, PsyaD, NCPsyA
    “In every class, I practice the BGSP approach to education. I have my students sit in a circle in which they discuss the theme of the class based on their experience of it.”
  • Damla Tuzcu, MA, LMHC
    “BGSP invited me into a community united by a shared passion and curiosity to understand, engage with, and articulate the "human experience." ”
  • Cyriesse Williams, MA
    “The real benefits of the program manifested once I began working in the field. I noticed I was able to tolerate and manage more difficult emotional experiences with my clients than other practicing clinicians.”
  • Qingshuang Wu, MA
    “When facing the most difficult clinical situations, the theories and techniques of modern psychoanalysis often surprise me by how they resolve my patients’ destructive impulses and leads to constructive progress.”
  • Yi Zhang
    “The most unique aspect of the BGSP education has been the heavy emphasis on training analysis and supervision, as well as process learning. The school offers a unique theory and way of practice.”