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 three divisions – The Society, a member organization of clinicians and professionals interested in psychoanalytic principles, The Institute, which provides psychoanalytic training and  Minnesota Psychotherapy Center (MPC), a low fee clinic provided by MPSI.

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.

Minnesota Psychotherapy Center (MPC)  

The MPSI Psychotherapy Center offers an alternative to other community psychological services because of its freedom from the constraints of insurance requirements and its commitment to providing intensive services that bring long-term results.  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: Open

President of the Society:  Hal Steiger

Executive Director of MPSI:  Heidi Holste

MPSI Psychotherapy Center, Directors:  Bev Caruso and Hal Steiger

Committees that make up all of MPSI

MPSI Board of Directors 

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

President: Bryan Plucar

President Elect:  OPEN

Secretary: Michelle Meehan

Treasurer: Richard Burns

Programs and Events Committee: Julian Ernst

PPTP Chair:  OPEN

At-Large:  Anna Weiland

At-Large: Tamison Dyas

MPSI Psychotherapy Center Representative: Hal Steiger

MPSI Institute Commitee: OPEN

MPS Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Committee

Rafael Cohen, Co-Chair

Michelle Meehan

Allison Ward Lambert

Rah Bridwell

MPS Program and Events Committee

Julian Ernst - Chair

Nadia Kolesski

Rah Bridwell

Erin Trapp

Comfort Belbas

Psychotherapy Center Board Advisory Committee

Bev Caruso, Clinical Director

Hal Steiger, Executive Director

Bridget Bender

Patricia Holdahl

Kate McRaith

Corbin Quinn

Anna Weiland

MPSI Institute Progression Committee

Helen Anthony, Chair

Elizabeth Wittenberg

Sean Hearn

Svetlana Simovic

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

Deb Boughton, Chair

Bev Caruso

Sean Hearn

Hal Steiger

Svetlana Simovic

Bryan Plucar

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.