Andrea Harris Alpert, PhD, ndrea Harris Alpert maintains a full-time private practice where she works with individuals and couples and provides clinical consultation. Dr. Alpert is a faculty member at ICSW. She is an adviser, provides clinical consultation and is a reader on dissertation committees in the on-site and distance programs. She is also the Vice Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee.

AREAS OF INTEREST & APPROACHES TO PRACTICE

Psychotherapist’s subjectivity; Clinical process; Transference/Countertransference, Adults; Adolescence; Attachment, Trauma.

Professional Memberships and Affiliations: 

• American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)

• The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) 

EDUCATION

• BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

• MS., Columbia University, New York, NY

• PhD, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago, IL

LICENSES

• L.C.S.W., Illinois

ADDITIONAL FACULTY ROLES

• Consulting

• Admissions Chair

• Marcia Adler Fund Committee

Dissertation: Vicissitudes of Hope in the Psychoanalytic Clinician: An Exploratory Study (2013)

EMAIL: aalpert@icsw.edu

PHONE: (312) 409-7272