Bonnie Buchele, PhD

American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., is the current president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She lives and practices in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Her experience in leadership includes having been a president of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and Director of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. Publications and presentations she has given are based on her interest in treatment of trauma, group dynamics and processes and governance.

Caroline Sehon, MD

American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

Caroline W. Sehon, MD, FRCP(C), FABP, Canadian- and US-trained, is President-Elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Executive Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI), a supervising child and adult psychoanalyst, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University. Her writing addresses psychoanalysis, teleanalysis, and group intervention during wartime, and she is the editor of Echoes of Childhood (Karnac, 2026). Dr. Sehon maintains a private practice in Bethesda, Maryland.

Irwin Kleinman, MDCM, FRCPC

Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS)

Mary Kay O’Neil, PhD, CPsych, FIPA

Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS)

Gloria Demby, LCSW, FIPA, BCPsa

Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)

Gloria is the President of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies and NA Chair of the IPA Committee on Couple & Family Psychoanalysis (COFAP). She is a training and supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society (NYC) where she is also Chairs the Training Analyst Committee. She lives and practices in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn in NYC.

Michael L. Krass, PhD

Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)

Steven J. Ellman, PhD

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)

Randi Wirth, PhD, FIPA, BCPsa

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)

Randi Wirth, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City where she also serves on the Board of Directors. She is currently one of seven North America Representatives on the IPA Board of Directors where she also serves on the IPA Appointments Committee.

She is a Director and Past-President of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Institutes (CIPS) and currently serves on the Board of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). She served as the first Chair of the NAPsaC Program Committee organizing numerous Regional and Tri-Regional seminars and panels.

She was the North American Representative of the IPA’s International New Groups Sponsoring Committee in Seoul, Korea and served on the Program Committee of the first Asia-Pacific Conference in Taipei.

Randi is in private practice in Manhattan working with adolescents, adults and couples. She has consulted on group dynamics and conflict resolution in schools and organizations. She has a special interest in ADHD, executive functioning in children and adults, as well as psychosomatic disorders. She has over three decades of experience in the field of eating disorders having served as chief psychologist at the Renfrew Center and as executive director of the American Anorexia and Bulimia Association (AABA).

Takashi Okudera

Japanese Psychoanalytic Society

Sun Ju Chung, MD

Korean Institute for Psychoanalysis (KIPSA)

Beth I. Kalish, PhD, FIPA

Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Study (LAISPS)

Janelle Eckhardt

Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI)

Janelle Eckhardt, PhD, MIPA is an adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Bellingham, Washington. She serves on the faculty of the Northwest Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and teaches at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her interests include but are not limited to: psychoanalysis and its connection to the natural world, and psychoanalysis in rural communities.

Carolyn Steinberg MD, FRCPC

Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI)

Carolyn is President of North Western Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Seattle, and a member of Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She has been on the NAPsaC Board serving as Secretary since 2020. She is currently a Facilitator of Group 1 for the IPA’s Presidents Meeting Program. She lives in Vancouver BC.

Lee Herzog, PsyD

Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC)

Lee Herzog is a Child and Adult Analyst at LAISPS and PCC in Los Angeles. He sees children, teens, adults, and couples in his private practice in Brentwood. He is also a member of the VAC (Vista Autistic Center) under the direction of Joshua Durban.

Maureen Murphy PhD, BCPsa

Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA

Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)

Professor Yu-hua Clare Lin

Taiwan Study Group
non-voting

Alberto Fergusson, MD

Vermont Study Group
non-voting

Alberto Fergusson, M.D. is President of the Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group, where he serves as a Supervising and Training Analyst. For many years, he has led a group that accompanies people experiencing homelessness who are diagnosed with severe mental illness, working within a psychoanalytic framework.