Celia Brickman received her Ph.D. in Religion and Psychology from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. She has been practicing psychotherapy for over fifteen years, dealing with the challenges of anxiety, depression, loss, and grief and with issues of identity, gender, vocation, and spirituality. She is a faculty member of CRPC’s Education Program and the author of Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis, as well as numerous other articles. Celia is also a member of the American Counseling Association, Division 39 (division of psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, the Illinois Mental Health Counselors’ Association, and the American Academy of Religion.