MPSI is a Community for Education and Professional Membership

MPSI is a vibrant and growing community for psychoanalysis in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.  MPSI is a nonprofit educational organization, providing a variety of training and educational opportunities in the field of psychoanalysis for members, professionals as well as the interested general public.

MPSI is comprised of two divisions – The Society, a member organization of clinicians and professionals interested in psychoanalytic principles, and The Institute, which provides psychoanalytic training.

The Society (MPS)

The Society is a constituent society of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Members of MPS are clinicians and professionals who share a common enthusiasm for furthering the understanding and application of psychoanalytic concepts to the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and, as it applies, to related professions that enrich lives across culture and society. *

The Institute (MPI)

An institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the MPI is dedicated to training future psychoanalysts. It offers an opportunity for clinicians to expand and deepen their professional skills based on psychoanalytic perspectives.

*MPSI also offers a low-fee clinic, called the Minnesota Psychotherapy Center (MPC).  More information can be found on their website www.mpsi-pc.org

Learn more about MPSI Membership

Learn more about MPSI Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP)

Lean more about MPI Psychoanalysis Training

Learn more about the Minnesota Psychotherapy Center

Leadership of MPSI

Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute, Director: Hal Steiger

President of the Society:  Bridget Bender

Executive Director of MPSI:  Heidi Holste

MPSI Psychotherapy Center, Clinical Director:  Bev Caruso

Committees that make up all of MPSI

MPS Executive Committee 

(Along with the Education Committee, makes up the MPSI Board of Directors)

President: Bridget Bender

Past President: Elizabeth Bohun

Secretary: Leah Jacob

Treasurer: Josh Meendering

Programs and Events Committee: Molly Nicholson, Bennett Jones, and Josh Mendeering

PPTP Chair:  Kim Rorie

Membership Chair:  Open

Outreach Co-Chairs: Juliann Miller and Nick Flier

MPI Representative: Hal Steiger

MPSI Psychotherapy Center Representative: Hal Steiger

Members-at-Large:  Bennett Jones and Kaycie Dale

MPS Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Committee

Kim Rorie, Chair

Rafael Cohen

Patricia Holdahl

Tamesin Dyas

Angela Porter

MPS Program and Events Committee

Molly Nicholson, Chair

Bennett Jones

Joshua Meendering

Kylie Gamm

MPS Outreach Committee

Juliann Miller, Chair

Nick Flier

Joshua Meendering

Karen Deane Johnson

Psychotherapy Center Board Advisory Committee

Bev Caruso, Clinical Director

Hal Steiger, Executive Director

Kari Fletcher

Kim Rorie

Bridget Bender

Patty Hohldahl

Kate McRaith

Mary Morris

Angela Porter

MPI Education Committee

(Along with the Executive Committee, makes up the MPSI Board of Directors)

Chair: Hal Steiger

Secretary: Bev Caruso

Treasurer: open

Progression Chairs: Juliann Miller and Helen Anthony

Curriculum Chair: Elizabeth Wittenberg

Candidate Representative:  Shawn Hofer

MPS Representative:  Bridget Bender

Members at Large: Joan Lentz, Deb Boughton, Jeanne Bailey, Virginia McDermott, Peter Grant

MPI Education Committee Progression Committee

Helen Anthony, Co-Chair

Juliann Miller, Co-Chair

MPI Education Committee Curriculum Committee

Elizabeth Wittenberg, Chair

Robert Guibord

Valerie Penner

Jan Search

J.J. Rasimus

MPSI also offers a Colleagues Assistance Committee (CAC)  For more information, contact admin@mpsi.info.  

Deb Boughton, Chair

Helen Anthony

Bev Caruso

Sean Hearn

David Stagner

Hal Steiger

Svetlana Simovic

MPSI does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or creed,  gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.