Member Bio
Concetta Alfano, Ph.D., LCSW
Concetta F. Alfano, Ph.D., LCSW is training and supervising anaylst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Alfano developed and co- teaches the Contemplative Relational Psychotherapy certificate program at CMP with Dr. Marjorie Schuman. She has taught seminars, and at conferences on the interplay of Buddhist psychology and psychotherapy. Focusing on the indwelling nature of a contemplative attitude and its transcendent function, she is the author of an article on Traversing the Caesura: Transcendent Attunement in Buddhist Meditation and Psychoanalysis (Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2005). Prior to analytic training she trained extensively in family systems therapy.
Since 1972, Concetta has practiced in the Vipassana, Tibetan and Zen traditions in both Asia and the United States. She is a member of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and is in private practice in Santa Monica, CA.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY - Relational Psychotherapy
- Buddhist Meditation and Psychoanalysis
- Family Therapy and Psychoanalysis
EDUCATION
License # LCS 8549
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