Shelley Nathans, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist

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Shelley Nathans is a clinical psychologist with 40 years of experience as an individual and couple psychotherapist.  She is a member of the teaching faculty at the California Pacific Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry, The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, and The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has completed the Tavistock Center for Couple Relations Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is on the International Advisory Board for the journal Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Dr. Nathans is a founder and serves as Past President of The Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group, a non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides education and training in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy for clinicians. She is the director and producer of the film Robert Wallerstein: 65 Years at the Center of Psychoanalysis. She has published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and fort da. She is the co-editor (with Milton Schaefer) of the book, Couples on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy and the Tavistock Model (Routledge, 2017) and editor of More About Couples on the Couch: Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective (Routledge, 2022). Shelley Nathans is a renowned teacher and presenter. She has given numerous presentations and taught courses both nationally and internationally.