PRESIDENT / PROGRAM CO-CHAIR

Camay Woodall, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice for more than thirty years in Towson, Maryland. Her first graduate work was in genetics and cell biology at Columbia University in the City of New York. She worked in biochemistry research for ten years at the Roche Institute for Molecular Biology while doing graduate work in psychology. She was given a post-doctoral position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine, then a faculty position a year later. Dr Woodall was a faculty member at Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for over seven years, publishing in the areas of Eating Disorders and Sexuality, and contributing research papers at conferences on Eating Disorders and Women's Issues. During that time, she wrote and taught a course on "Psychology of Women" at the University of Baltimore.

Dr Woodall is the author of the book "Exploring the Essentials of Healthy Personality" based on her many years of providing therapy to individuals and couples. For the past six years she has been President and Program Chair for the Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

TREASURER

A psychodynamic psychotherapist, Carolyn Nelson earned her Bachelor of Arts in both Psychology and German from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. She earned her first Master of Arts in School Psychology from Towson University in Maryland. She worked for the first 10 years of her career as a Psychology Associate at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore Maryland where she performed neuropsychological testing of individuals from birth through young adulthood. Carolyn received her second Masters of Social Work from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She has spent the last 25 years working in a variety of clinic settings practicing psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults. Over the last four years, Carolyn has worked more specifically with the geriatric population. She integrates strengths-based, psychodynamic, attachment, client-centered, and emotion-focused concepts in her therapeutic practice. She views the therapeutic relationship itself as paramount in providing a space for exploration, change, and healing. She is most passionate about psychoanalytic practices and learning how to apply new techniques that will foster growth in the lives of individuals and their families.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIR

Louis Rothschild, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland. Specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, he also provides supervision, writes, and occasionally reviews manuscripts. His publications have ranged from quantitative to qualitative, social-cognitive to psychoanalysis, and clinical to philosophical. Most recently, he completed the book Rapprochement between fathers and sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities in addition to penning an epilogue for Salman Akhtar’s edited book Truth: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms, and co-editing the 2023 Gradiva nominated Precarities of 21st-Century Childhoods: Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities with Michael O’Loughlin and Carol Owens. Outside of his professional life, Louis has a fondness for tennis, triathlon, and kitchen based culinary play.

MEMBER-AT-LARGE

Christy Bergland LCPAT, LCPC is an art therapist/ in private practice as well as a practicing exhibiting artist.

She furthered her interest and belief in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Sheppard Pratt Hospital when inpatients were able to be treated there over time.

It was during that time that she joined BSPS as a member.

Her last assignment at Sheppard was at The Retreat where she was its founding art therapist.

Christy bergland’s education includes an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MCAT in Creative Arts in Therapy from Drexel University.

MEMBER-AT-LARGE

David J. Miranda, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist licensed in Maryland since 1993 and practicing at the MindWork Group in Cross Keys. His specialty is adult and adolescent intensive psychotherapy, focusing on building long-term resilience, and he enjoys working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams of mental health professionals. He conducts individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy. With degrees from Harvard and UCLA, he took a postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and is currently in training at the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.

MEMBER-AT-LARGE

Dr. William T. Kirwan received his PhD from St. Louis University, and a certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He also has a D.Min degree from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.

For many years, he has been a Fellow at the International Psychotherapy Institute, and is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. For 15 years, he was the supervising psychologist at Psychiatric Associates, a major group of psychiatrists who practiced at the Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

His primary interest is in the integration of theology and psychology, especially as they are viewed through the lens of Object Relations theory and practice.

Currently, he is the Program Director of a doctoral program in Southeast Asia, which emphasizes training students in Clinical Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as Director of The Psychodynamic Center, Asia, based in Singapore. He also practices psychodynamic psychotherapy part time in the U.S.