About SFCP

Officers

Brett Penfil, MFT, MPH, Board Chair
Maria Longuemare, MD, PhD, President
Rui Bao, Treasurer
Douglas Slakey, PhD, Secretary

Administrative Staff

Marcia Hodges, Administrative Director

Talk to Marcia when you need information about:

  • The Board of Trustees
  • Staff responsibilities
  • Decisions about staff tasks that may be different than what is listed here
  • Budget planning and budget status questions
  • Investment accounts
  • Proposal and grant writing
  • Fundraising


Marcia can be reached at marcia.hodges@sfcp.org or 415-563-6065

Nicole Lee, Membership Services Manager / Administrative Manager

Talk to Nicole when you need information about:

  • Membership dues and benefits
  • Donations
  • Reimbursements / Check Requests
  • The facility and alarm
  • Room reservations
  • Newsletter articles
  • Items for calendar and Impulse (NCSPP)
  • Supplies
  • Special event coordination and set up
  • IJP and Psychoanalytic Journal block subscriptions
  • Print and Marketing Materials
  • PEP Web Access


Nicole can be reached at nicole.lee@sfcp.org or 415-563-5815 x103

Tina Phu, Education Program Coordinator

Talk to Tina when you need information about:

  • Adult and Child/Adolescent PED programs and candidates (administrative support)
  • San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Child PPTP programs and trainees (administrative support)
  • Admissions
  • Curriculum and catalog of courses
  • Course attendance and evaluations
  • Syllabi and course readers for PED, SF-PPTP, PAPPTP, CAPPTP and Extension programs
  • Tuition invoices and payments
  • Program fees
  • Faculty aplications
  • Training Analyst and Supervising Analyst applications
  • PEP-Web and EZ-Proxy subscriptions


Tina can be reached at tina.phu@sfcp.org or 415-563-5815 x106

Rashmita Sriram, Librarian (Fridays only)

Talk to Rashmita when you need information about:

  • Library collections and acquisitions
  • Reprints of articles
  • Interlibrary loans
  • Archives
  • Copyrights and permissions
  • Library audiovisual collections
  • Journal subscriptions and access
  • Articles for readers


Rashmita can be reached at rashmita.sriram@sfcp.org or 415-563-5815 x105

Aaron Chow, Communications Manager

Talk to Aaron when you need information about:

  • Membership database
  • Website and eblasts creation
  • Extension and outreach event registration
  • CME/CE credits
  • Webcast and AV set up
  • AirTable creation / maintenance


Aaron can be reached at aaron.chow@sfcp.org or 415-563-5815 x104

Upcoming Events

Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 East Bay Yearlong Program: Tuning into the Unspoken: Navigating the Landmarks of Unconscious Experience
Eric Miller, PhD; Elizabeth Stuart, MD; Graeme Daniels, LMFT; Marty Mulkey, LMFT; Chandra Rai, LMFT; and Luciane De Mello, LCSW
Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 San Francisco Yearlong Program: Putting Psychoanalysis on the Couch
Sydney Tan, PsyD; Joseph Dwaihy, MD; Marcus (Bo) Houston, MD, MPH; Neil Talkoff, PhD; Daniela Carollo, PhD; and Alexandra Farber, PhD (instructors)
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
MOTHER MEDIA: Seeing moms and being moms in the ages of technology
Hannah Zeavin, PhD in Conversation with Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD
Saturday, September 20, 2025
SFCP Annual Meeting
SFCP Annual Meeting
Come hear summaries of last year and learn about the organization’s plans for 2025/26. Meet new and long-time friends, plus enjoy a cocktail reception after. Maybe even invite some friends to dinner in the City after? We look forward to seeing you in-person or on Zoom.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Dehumanization
Paul Williams, PhD, and Jyoti Rao, LMFT (panelists); Laura Farha, LCSW (moderator)
Fridays, September 26, 2025 to May 8, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 San Francisco Yearlong Program: Continuous Case Conference
J. Marc Wallis, LCSW; Paul Alexander, PhD; Genie Dvorak, PsyD; Bronwen Lemmon, LMFT; and Walt Beckman, PhD (case conference group leaders)
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Psychoanalytic Transformation in the Clinical Setting: Case Presentations from a Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspective
Henry Markman, MD; and Sandy Pepper, MD (speakers)
Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy
Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Scientific Meetings
THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN
Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (presenter); Charles Fisher, MD (moderator)
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Special Programs
Visiting Professor Revisited — On Arrogance
Peter Goldberg, PhD (interviewee); Renu Maria Cappelli, PhD, MFT (interviewer)
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