Nancy Ulmer LCSW, maintains a private practice in Albany, California and is a core faculty member at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She is a founding member of the California Neuropsychoanalysis Research Group. In addition to her work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, she is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and EMDR practioner. She has been studying the clinical applications of recent neuroscience findings for the past ten years. She has taught this subject at the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley,the Society for Clinical Social Work, and the Wright Institute. She has written on such subjects as the neurobiology of attachment, psychodynamic psychotherapy in the brain, and the treatment of addictions. She is currently writing a paper on the application of neuroscience and clinical supervision, to be presented at the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley California in 2011.
PRIVATE PRACTICE 1984-Present
Albany, California
Psychotherapist (LCSW) Provide long-term, and brief therapy to a variety of adult clients. Specialties include, anxiety/depression, trauma resolution, couples work, employment, life transition issues, alcoholic families, and alcoholic interventions. Certified in hypnosis and EMDR.
WRIGHT INSTITUTE 2007–present
Berkeley, California
Masters Program Core Faculty Instructor for the Addictions and Human Development curriculum. Academic advisor to ten students. As a member of a faculty team involved in curriculum development, student evaluation, and maintaining academic program in adherence to the latest evidence-based treatments and California Board of Behavioral Sciences requirements and regulations.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION EVALUATION 1988-2002
Berkeley, California
Psychiatric Social Worker Conducted in-depth psychosocial interviews and provided formal written evaluations of injured workers. As a member of an interdisciplinary team, formulated psychiatric diagnoses, evaluated work injury, and recommended treatment plan when necessary. Interfaced with a broad range of cultures, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.
THE PSYCHOTHERAPY INSTITUTE 1984-1986
Berkeley, California
Staff Therapist In two-year training program served as primary therapist for adult clients in the training clinic. Core curriculum included intensive clinical supervision, depth-oriented psychotherapy, differential diagnoses, and treatment evaluation.
WOMEN’S ALCOHOLISM CENTER 1982-1984
San Francisco, California
Outpatient Therapist Provided clinical and educational treatment to a largely lesbian and transgender population of adult women. Worked in individual, group, and family modalities. Designed and taught family issues class. As a member of a collective staff, made decisions about program design, implementation, staffing, and personnel. Participated in peer consultation and review.
MILWAUKEE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL 1980-1982
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Inpatient/Outpatient Therapist Member of multidisciplinary team on the chemical dependency unit and primary outpatient therapist in the psychiatric clinic. Provided brief family therapy for inpatients, co-facilitated inpatient groups, coordinated aftercare, and carried out Johnson-style interventions. Assessed chemical dependency and made differential diagnoses. Provided long- and short-term individual, group, and family outpatient treatment. Created and implemented group for Adult Children of Alcoholics. Actively involved in peer case review and presentation of current literature.
UNDERGRADUATE AND Before 1980
GRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE
Student MSW internships in Alameda County Outpatient Mental Health and at the San Francisco Veterans’ Administration Hospital Drug and Alcohol Unit. Prior to graduate school worked as psychiatric assistant in inpatient adolescent treatment, and as assistant group supervisor for group of 20 developmentally disabled girls, Capitol Hill intern policy researcher/writer on de-institutionalization of the mentally ill for National Institute of Mental Health.
EDUCATION
B.A., Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara 1977
B.A., Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara 1977
M.S.W., University of California at Berkeley 1980
CERTIFICATIONS
Clinical Hypnosis Certification 1995 \
EMDR Clinical Certification 1999
PAPERS
“Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and the Brain” presented at the Making Connections Case Conference at the Psychotherapy Institute December 1999.
“Alcohol Diagnosis and Treatment” presented to the supervisors of The Psychotherapy Institute, June 2003.
“Psychodynamic Psychotherapy “On the Brain,” published in the November 2003 Viewpoint, newsletter of The Psychotherapy Institute.
“Early Attachment Trauma; Implications for Clinical Work from the New Neuroscience, or How Pinocchio Became a Real Boy,” presented at The Psychotherapy Institute Friday Case Conference, February 2004, and at the California Society for Clinical Social Work in Monterey, CA. 2007.
“Gilligan, Freud, and Girls,” published in the February 2010 Viewpoint, newsletter of The Psychotherapy Institute.
“The Transformation of a Traumatic Brain Injury: The Development of Self-Regulation and Mentalizing Through the Analytic Relationship,” co-authored with Enid Young PhD; Joy Ragon, MA, JD; and Thomasine McFarlin, MSW, LCSW – to be presented at the July 2010 conference of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association.
AFFILIATIONS
Graduate, The Psychotherapy Institute Supervisor Training Program
Clinical, Supervisor Women’s Therapy Center El Cerrito, CA
Member, California Society of Clinical Social Work
The Psychotherapy Institute:
• Staff therapist
• Coordinating Council
• Faculty
• Clinical Services Committee Chair
Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Neuroscience and
Psychoanalysis Education Committee