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PsyD in clinical psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University

Hannah Schmitt, PsyD, is a postdoctoral Fellow in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies who provides psychotherapy and psychological testing at the Austen Riggs Center.

Before starting at Riggs, she trained in university, outpatient community health, and inpatient hospital settings. Her dissertation used a dynamic systems lens to compare rupture and repair in the therapeutic alliance with body movement synchrony during therapy sessions. Her clinical interests include enactive cognition, gender and sexuality, and somatic and contemplative traditions as they relate to psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Fellow in Psychology

BA in history and religious studies from Brown University

Post-baccalaureate in pre-medical studies at Columbia University

DO from New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine

Psychiatry residency at the Institute of Living / Hartford Hospital

Kyle Shepard, DO, is a Fellow in hospital-based psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center.

Before starting at the Austen Riggs Center he worked as an inpatient attending physician at the Institute of Living where he had the pleasure of teaching medical students, psychiatry residents, and psychology trainees.

Professional Affiliations/Organizational Memberships

Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)

Fellow in Psychiatry

Graduate of the William Alanson White Institute

Jennifer Stevens, PhD, ABPP, is a staff psychologist, clinical supervisor, and faculty member at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Stevens is also the former director of training.

Part-time clinical instructor in psychology in the department of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School

Division I faculty at the William Alanson White Institute

Staff Psychologist

BA from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Pre-doctoral internship at the Dartmouth Medical School

Fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center

Graduate of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute

As the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute, Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, works to develop existing and new programs to support psychoanalytic education, training, scholarship, research, interdisciplinary studies, and advocacy that contribute to knowledge about human development across the lifespan and the ways identity is shaped in various sociocultural and historical contexts. Developing Riggs’ institutional archives and specialty library to contribute to scholarly research is also a significant aspect of the Erikson Institute. Applying the clinical learning available at the Austen Riggs Center to larger social contexts and problems in order to contribute to our local community and beyond by improving access to mental health care, addressing issues of stigma, collaborative care, and suicide prevention are all aspects of the Erikson Institute.

As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Tillman treats patients at the Center. And, as a researcher, she is interested in suicide prevention and post-vention.

Dr. Tillman presents her scholarship and research in international forums including seminars, lectures, conferences, and publications.

Prior to entering the field of psychology Dr. Tillman was a flight paramedic for UNC Air Care. She is also an Episcopal priest serving a local congregation. Dr. Tillman notes, “In my work at Riggs I am made mindful of the various traumatic situations that contribute to suffering and the psychological and spiritual questions that arise in relation to suffering and meaning making.”

Outside of Riggs Dr. Tillman serves on several editorial boards for professional journals. She volunteers to present to local organizations and churches on the topic of suicide, trauma, and other organizational issues, and has served as an organizational consultant to several psychoanalytic institutes as they sought to understand institutional challenges.

American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis)

Western Massachusetts Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Psychoanalysis and in Clinical Psychology

Board Certified by the American Board of Psychoanalysis

Assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center

Teaching associate in psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School

The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Hans H. Strupp Award (2021) Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society

Award for Best Poster (2019) American Association of Suicidology

Ernest and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Lecture Prize (2019), American Psychoanalytic Association

Award for Excellence in Leadership (2010), Section for Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, Division 39 of the APA

Dissociation, psychosis, religion, impasses in treatment, embodiment, clinical and professional ethics, research methodology, identifying markers for acute risk of suicide, and the effect of patient suicide on clinicians

Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy at the Austen Riggs Center.

Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy

Jed Yalof, PsyD, is the staff neuropsychologist at Austen Riggs. Dr. Yalof completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology with a special emphasis in traumatic brain injury that emphasized a psychodynamic understanding of patient adjustment and a two-year certificate program in clinical neuropsychology. He is board certified in clinical psychology, assessment psychology, school-neuropsychology, and adult psychoanalysis. He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center in Philadelphia, and has published in the areas of education and training, neuropsychology, learning disabilities, diversity, personality assessment, and psychoanalytic treatment. Dr. Yalof is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Immaculata University where he was formally Chair of the Department of Psychology and Counseling and Director of the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology.

Jed Yalof, PsyD

Staff Neuropsychologist

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Jennifer Stevens, PhD, ABPP

Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP

Jed Yalof, PsyD

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