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Starting April 4, 2026

The Elephant in the Room: Working Psychoanalytically in Community Mental Health

Course description

Clinical work in Community Mental Health (CMH) setting is often associated with the high demand, low support, with clinicians finding themselves at the edge of burn-out.  This often leads to a decreased capacity or willingness to listen or think with our patients. This 8-week course will focus on thinking about the specific population in CMH settings with an equal focus on what may be evoked within the clinician’s internal landscape. 


Topics include tuning our ears towards unspoken communication, thinking clinically about case management, exploring specific transference and countertransference in these settings, as well as clinical factors that are prevalent in CMH populations, such as immigration and intergenerational transmission of trauma.  


The instructors of this course have many years of experience working at RAMS, a private, non-profit mental health agency founded in 1974, committed to advocating for and providing community based, culturally-competent, and consumer-guided comprehensive services, with an emphasis on serving Asian & Pacific Islander Americans.  RAMS is also the site of the National Asian American Psychology Training Center.

Who is this course for?

  • This course is open to Asian / Asian American graduate students, pre-licensed and licensed clinicians
  • No prior experience of community mental health settting is neeed

Details

  • Starts on 4/4 through 5/30, skip 4/25
  • Saturdays 9:30am-11am PST /  12:30pm-2 pm EST 
  • 8 sessions
  • 6 - 10 participants
  • Fees: $500 - $700
  • Virtual. On Zoom
  • Please read participant's expectations and FAQs before registering


To Register

Instructors

Flora Chan (she/her) is currently a licensed clinical psychologist at Northeast Medical Services, where she works primarily with immigrant adults in a primary care setting. Previously, she worked for 16 years at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) in various roles including licensed psychologist in the adult and child, youth, and family clinics, clinical supervisor, and most recently as co-director of training for the clinical outpatient practicum and internship programs.  

 Andrea Chan, PsyD (she/her), is a California-licensed psychologist. She spent about a decade working as a staff and supervising psychologist at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS), a community-based mental health clinic in San Francisco, CA. She is particularly interested in working with complex and intergenerational trauma, identity and immigration, and folks struggling with psychotic processes. She is a beginner in fishing, foraging, and wood-working.  

Expectations of Participants

Barring extenuating circumstances, participants in TAACP’s courses agree to attend all sessions, arriving on time for the entire duration of class. 


As classes are online, ensure that you are in a quiet and private space that allows for both audio and video to be on. 


Classes are small to encourage dialogue. We encourage you to “take” your share of talking time and listening time. 

Keep other participants’ experience and clinical information confidential. 

All involved with TAACP (staff, volunteers, faculty, participants, guests) are expected to interact with each other with respect.


Issues that arise will be first discussed / addressed with the immediate folks involved and can be progressed to include faculty and/or TAACP’s administration.   

Frequently Asked Questions

Not at this time. 

Course fees are split between instructors and the Center. We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors.  The fees to Center support operating costs for current and future programming.  

Due to the size of the courses (6-10 participants), your presence is important so we hope that you make every effort to attend class. And, life happens. 


However, there will be no recordings of sessions. We want to encourage participants to feel at ease to share personal and/or clinical material. 

We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another.  And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.


Our one time events are open to all.  And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians. 

Full refund will be given up to 15 days prior to class start minus a processing fee of $50. If less than 15 days, $100 processing fee would be charged.


No refunds once classes begin or for missed classes. 


In the event that the Center has to cancel a course, full refund will be provided. 

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