Background
In 2015, the ABPIP co-directors launched the Home-Visiting Project in response to requests for high-level clinical interventions for vulnerable parents and infants. A core group of Three-Year Training graduates began to provide weekly home-based dyadic psychotherapy to parents and their infants and children under the age of three living in homeless shelters and to mothers and children at foster-care agencies who were in the process of reunification.
Listen to Co-Directors Rita Reiswig and Sally Moskowitz discuss the Home-Visiting Project on the podcast Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch.
Listen to Co-Directors Rita Reiswig and Sally Moskowitz discuss the Home-Visiting Project on the podcast Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch.
Home-Based
Very few existing New York City programs for infants, toddlers, and their parents offer dyadic psychotherapy, and even fewer are home-based. Home visiting provides a view of the day-to-day relationship and interactions between parent and baby that cannot be seen in an office or at a program site, and provides accessibility for parents and babies who are unable to manage traveling to appointments.
Dyadic
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By supporting existing positive care-giving practices, and helping establish a strong attachment and effective communication between parent and baby, dyadic psychotherapy helps guide a baby’s development and the parent-child relationship in the direction of growth and mutual emotional fulfillment. These are the building blocks for the infant’s emotional, relational and intellectual capacities.
For many mothers and fathers, the significant stressors caused by poverty, the lack of familial and social supports, and personal histories of neglect and abuse can interfere with their capacities to attend to and nurture their infants. Parents suffering from anxiety, depression and trauma struggle to bond with their infants and have few opportunities for resolving these problems. Infants and young children not only experience the direct effects of factors associated with extreme poverty--family violence, hunger, loss of relationship, and neglect--but also experience the effects of these factors through the impact of trauma on the quality of their parental care. |
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Home-Visiting Therapists
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Therapists:
Noya Dekel, Psy.D., is a psychologist and an infant and early childhood mental health specialist. She has supervised an early childhood mental health program in Los Angeles, served as a co-chair of the clinical committee of Project ABC2, aimed to increase integration of services for young children, and supervises evidence based Child Parent Psychotherapy.
Jill Leibowitz, Psy.D., is a psychologist and graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is on the faculty of the Harlem Family Institute, where she helped develop and run parent-toddler groups and trained graduate students in early childhood development and clinical work.
Priscilla Lincoln, Ph.D., PMHNP, is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a graduate of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults, and dyadic psychotherapy to parents and infants in their homes. She is a facilitator of the Infant Leadership Circle Project of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and graduate of NYU’s Post-doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is a Training Analyst, Supervisor, Associate Dean, and on the Faculty at IPTAR. She is a co-director of ABPIP.
Rita Reiswig, M.S., L.P., is a child and adult psychoanalyst and a mother-infant psychotherapist. She is a founder and co-director of ABPIP. She is a Training Analyst and a faculty member of the Child Analytic Training Program at CFS and is on the committee and a faculty member of the Integrated Training Track in child and adult psychoanalysis at IPTAR.
Suzan Sayder, L.P., is a Licensed Psychoanalyst. She works with parents, infants, and children in dyadic and family therapy. She trained at the Tavistock Institute in the UK, and has worked in both London and New York. She teaches courses on early emotional development and infant observation.
Sujatha Subramanian, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is a Training Analyst and on the faculty of IPTAR’s Adult and Child training institutes and also works with adults, children, and adolescents in private practice.
Tuba Tokgoz, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and graduate of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She works in private practice, with parents and infants, and adults. She is on the faculty of IPTAR’s Adult and Child training programs.
Jill Leibowitz, Psy.D., is a psychologist and graduate of the William Alanson White Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is on the faculty of the Harlem Family Institute, where she helped develop and run parent-toddler groups and trained graduate students in early childhood development and clinical work.
Priscilla Lincoln, Ph.D., PMHNP, is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a graduate of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults, and dyadic psychotherapy to parents and infants in their homes. She is a facilitator of the Infant Leadership Circle Project of the New York Zero-to-Three Network.
Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and graduate of NYU’s Post-doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is a Training Analyst, Supervisor, Associate Dean, and on the Faculty at IPTAR. She is a co-director of ABPIP.
Rita Reiswig, M.S., L.P., is a child and adult psychoanalyst and a mother-infant psychotherapist. She is a founder and co-director of ABPIP. She is a Training Analyst and a faculty member of the Child Analytic Training Program at CFS and is on the committee and a faculty member of the Integrated Training Track in child and adult psychoanalysis at IPTAR.
Suzan Sayder, L.P., is a Licensed Psychoanalyst. She works with parents, infants, and children in dyadic and family therapy. She trained at the Tavistock Institute in the UK, and has worked in both London and New York. She teaches courses on early emotional development and infant observation.
Sujatha Subramanian, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She is a Training Analyst and on the faculty of IPTAR’s Adult and Child training institutes and also works with adults, children, and adolescents in private practice.
Tuba Tokgoz, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and graduate of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the ABPIP Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. She works in private practice, with parents and infants, and adults. She is on the faculty of IPTAR’s Adult and Child training programs.
Support for the Home Visiting Project
ABPIP gratefully acknowledges the organizations whose generous contributions make our work possible:
The Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation
Girard Community Trust
New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
The Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation
Girard Community Trust
New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
