Announcing the PCC's

2024 Fall Courses

Registration for most courses closes on August 5th

Some classes limit the number of students, and matriculated students have priority in all cases. Check the syllabi for required texts/readings and assignments for the first class.

PCC Awards Five Byck Scholarships for 2024-2025

Please join us in congratulating these deserving recipients of the Judy Byck Scholarship!

Tanashati Nyanda Akambi, LCSW-A, is a MSSW graduate of Columbia University offering embodied and dynamic healing partnership to adult individuals and intimate partners through Anyanwu’s Garden, PLLC. She specializes in trauma, consensual non-monogamous relationships, sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ experiences. Anyanwu's Garden is named after Octavia Butler's 'Wild Seed', a novel that, for her, intersects with art and healing.

Heather Branham, LCSW, is a private practice therapist specializing in trauma and attachment wounding. In her clinical work, she acknowledges the impact of systemic oppression, marginalization and neurodivergence on clients’ mental health and on the therapeutic relationship. Heather has extensive experience working with survivors of sexual violence and members of the LGBTQ+ community and provides training and clinical supervision around these areas of specialization.

Erin Katz, MSW, (she/her), is a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Through practicums at UNC’s Department of Psychiatry and the Autism Support & Advocacy Center, she developed interests in psychodynamic theory and neurodiversity-affirming care for adolescents and adults. Erin is currently working at Markovits Counseling in Durham as a LCSW-A. Outside of her work, Erin enjoys playing pickleball and cooking. 

Jennifer Hardison Walters, MSW, LCSW-A, obtained her BSW from Appalachian State University (1997) and MSW at UNC-Chapel Hill (2000). Her enthusiasm for policy and systems change led her to spend over 20 years conducting research studies to improve supportive services for survivors of human trafficking, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence, and services offered by specialized courts and reentry programs. In 2021, she took a career detour and is excited to be on a new path of continuous learning as a psychotherapist at Markovits Counseling in Durham. 

Asaf Zemah, MSW, graduated from Appalachian State University in 2021 after moving to NC from Israel in 2019. Since receiving his MSW, he has worked as a family therapist for Carolina Outreach in Durham. He is currently working on starting his private practice and is excited to take his first formal steps in the world of psychoanalysis.

Congratulations to PCC Award Winners

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Grant

Molly Sweetser, MSW, LCSW, Spring 2024 recipient

David Raft Fellowship for Psychoanalytic Education

Marvice Marcus, PhD, HSP-P, 2024 recipient

Photographing What You Know: How a Psychoanalyst Became a Photographer

Presented by Jon K. Meyer, MD

September 14, 2024

10 am to 12 pm ET

via Zoom

Registration closes September 11th

Welcome New Faculty

Kris Evans, MSSW, LICSW, is the Executive Director of the Schacht Center for Health and Wellness at Smith College. Her clinical interests include working with adolescents and young adults to address sexual abuse and developmental and relational trauma. She has held several teaching appointments at graduate schools and psychoanalytic institutes emphasizing psychodynamic approaches to clinical work, human development, and clinical supervision. Contemporary psychodynamic, trauma theories, and critical psychology inform her clinical and educational work. Kris will facilitate the Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis from the Individual to Society for the second time this fall. 

Kate Leslie, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, originally from Atlanta, GA. She received her Honors BA in Modern Culture and Media (Semiotics) from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 2001, where she focused on post-colonial literature and politics. Kate received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, MA. She received a post-masters training fellowship at the McAuley Institute at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, a psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents, staffed with training analysts from the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, with Terrence Owens, PhD, Paul Williams, PhD and with training from Mary Target, PhD. After moving to North Carolina with her family, she became affiliated with PCC through Smith Alumni. She is a member of the AAPCSW and is the Smith School for Social Work regional alumni representative for Colorado. She currently is in private practice in Boulder, CO. Kate led the teaching team for the PCC course, Race in the Psychoanalytic Classroom, and will teach Developmental Crises 3: Adolescence with Peter Buonaccorsi this fall.