FORMATION

Dr. Simon completed her doctoral training at Alliant International University-California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco and doctoral internships at McAuley’s Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit of St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco and at the Karen Horney Clinic in New York. She went on to complete psychoanalytic training at the New York University (NYU) Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

She has held the positions of Executive Co-Director of the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Childhood, Adolescence and Infancy, Clinical Director of the Karen Horney Clinic's September 11th Trauma Program, and Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. She also spent several years working with the Human Rights Clinic of HealthRight International with survivors of torture and persecution. Currently, she is faculty and supervisor at Pulsion: International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics in New York and maintains a private practice with adolescents, adults and couples.

Dr. Simon is on the editorial boards for the journals Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is an active member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), Division 39 of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Div 39), the Institute for Association for Relational Psychoanalysis (IARPP), and the American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsaA). She engages in a variety of teaching, supervisory and theoretical work through writing, publications and lectures on psychoanalysis, maintaining a commitment to furthering the field, sharing its teachings and accompanying candidates through psychoanalytic formation.