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Psychology

PsyD in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England

Pre-doctoral internship at UMass Amherst’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Health

Abby Bliss, PsyD, is a postdoctoral Fellow in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies who provides 

Dr. Bliss has provided psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychological testing in a variety of settings including community mental health and college counseling. While on internship, Dr. Bliss also completed a post-graduate fellowship program through the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.

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Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

APA Division 39, Section IX (Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility)

The intersection of religion and spirituality and psychology

Abigail Bliss, PsyD

Fellow in Psychology

Post-doc residency at Berkshire Medical Center

Charles Blomquist, MD, is a Fellow in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center.

Charles Blomquist, MD

Fellow in Psychiatry

Post-baccalaureate in pre-medical studies at Bryn Mawr College

DO and MS in academic medicine at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine

Vivian Chan, DO, MS, is a psychoanalytic Fellow and psychiatrist at the Austen Riggs Center. Given her interest in group dynamics and education, she frequently consults to small groups and mentors residents and students during their psychodynamic psychiatry electives.

Dr. Chan completed her psychiatry residency at the Mount Sinai Morningside West Hospital Centers, where she worked in various clinical settings, including an intensive outpatient psychodynamic program, ACT team, and a child and adult outpatient psychiatric clinic. She complimented her psychotherapy training with further instruction at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.

Chief Resident, Mount Sinai Morningside West

Presented nationally at the American Psychiatric Association on promoting the practice and education of psychodynamic psychotherapy in psychiatric residencies

Completed a yearlong AOA Training in Policy Studies (TIPS) program

Presents at psychoanalytic and psychosocial conferences on psychoanalytic theory and media (films, TV, videogames)

Completed research in residency on developing a predictive model for inpatient psychiatric readmissions utilizing big data

Presented at Grand Rounds on using narrative medicine and existential psychotherapy as frameworks for understanding psychiatry training and treatment

Vivian Chan, MD

Evan Good, PhD, is a postdoctoral Fellow in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic studies who provides psychotherapy and psychological testing at the Austen Riggs Center.

Evan Good, PhD, is a fellow in psychology at the Austen Riggs Center.

Evan Good, PhD

BS in Cellular-Molecular Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

MD from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

General Psychiatry Residency at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

Gabriel Jiménez Ocasio, MD, is a Fellow in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center.

American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

2-year Certification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the Florida Psychoanalytic Center

Served as Academic Chief Resident in final year of residency

Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

Austen Riggs Center 2023 Excellence in Psychotherapy Awardee

Gabriel Jimenez Ocasio, MD

PsyD in clinical psychology from the George Washington University

Predoctoral internship at the Albany Psychology Internship Consortium

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

Dr. river has provided psychological assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in community mental health clinics, academic medical centers, and psychiatric hospital settings.

While pursuing a doctoral degree in Washington DC, they completed a psychoanalytic fellowship with the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. They also served as the event planning assistant for the Contemporary Freudian Society and participated in the CFS psychoanalytic fellowship program for three years.

Through their experiences in psychoanalytic communities both in the United States and in Vienna, Austria, Dr. river has developed an appreciation for the ways in which intrapsychic, familial, institutional, and cultural contexts shape identity and relationships.

madeline river, PsyD, is a fellow in psychology at the Austen Riggs Center.

madeline river, PsyD

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.

Hannah Schmitt, PsyD

Psychology internship at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, BMC, Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology

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

Dr. Young has over ten years of clinical experience in a variety of settings including hospitals, community mental health centers, a VA inpatient program, schools, and private practice. She completed a fellowship at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.

American Psychological Association, Division 39

American Psychological Association, Division 56

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Hannah Young, PsyD

Fellow is Psychology

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Abigail Bliss, PsyD

Charles Blomquist, MD

Vivian Chan, DO, MS

Evan Good, PhD

Gabriel Jiménez Ocasio, MD

madeline river, PsyD

Hannah Schmitt, PsyD

Hannah Young, PsyD

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