About Us
Free Association Clinic for Existential Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Associates
Stephen Mosblech, MA, LMFT
Stephen Mosblech, LMFT works in the Lacanian and Existential psychoanalytic traditions with creatives and innovators throughout California. He holds an MA in Integral Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. He is a Candidate Psychoanalyst at Lacan School of Psychoanalysis and serves as a Mentor for Division 39, the Psychoanalytic Wing, of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. His approach to therapy integrates two decades of meditation practice, including teaching at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and at retreat and recovery centers in India and Thailand. He maintains an active art practice that spans painting, photography and installation. In 2022 he received a Scholar Award from the APA for his research on unconscious processes. He has published extensively in journals including European Journal of Psychoanalysis, DIVSION/Review, Vestigia, and Critica, the journal of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC).
Licensed by State of California – LMFT154069
Licensed by State of Florida (as a telehealth provider) – TPMF1660
Jerzy Kaufmann, PhD
Jerzy is a postdoctoral Psychological Associate in the state of California (Registration #94029045), supervised by Dr. James Norwood (CA License #33379). He completed his graduate training at the New School for Social Research, where he focused on individual psychotherapy with adults across outpatient, community, and university counseling settings. Jerzy’s work is collaborative and interactive, and tailored to each client’s personal challenges and goals. His approach to therapy integrates relational psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and emotion-focused perspectives and principles to help clients to identify words and meaning for their experiences, deepen their self- understanding and -discovery, and feel more authentic and empowered in their relationships – with others, and with themselves. Jerzy offers in-person sessions in Los Angeles and virtual therapy for clients located anywhere in California.
Registered Psychological Associate, California – #94029045
Supervised by Dr. James Norwood– PSYD33379
Alexandra Tsitsiringos, AMFT
Alexandra is an AMFT under #156580, she graduated with an MA in Counseling Psychology from University of San Francisco in May 2025. In the Free Association Clinic for Existential Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis she is supervised by Dr. James Norwood. She completed her psychotherapeutic training working in a clinic focusing on maternal mental health, the mother-infant bond, and child development. During her training Alexandra provided treatment to pregnant women struggling with peripartum and postpartum anxiety, depression, and PTSD and focused on clients with complex trauma histories. Alexandra pulled from a variety of psychotherapeutic methods such as CBT, ACT, IFS, mindfulness, and somatic approaches to enhance mind-body connection. She also heavily relied on attachment theory and how the caregiver-infant relationship influences relationship patterns in adulthood. Alexandra provided client treatment using a humanistic, strengths-based, and trauma-informed approach. When working with children and infants, Alexandra applied child-parent psychotherapy (CPP Principles) and evidence-based techniques relying on research by Alicia Lieberman. Alexandra worked with clients from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, expanding her knowledge and growth in working with a culturally aware and sensitive approach. She also participated in research projects at Stanford focused on children’s emotional development, expanding her skills in the field.
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, California – #156580
Supervised by Dr. James Norwood– PSYD33379
Kathleen Hawkins, PhD
Kathleen is a postdoctoral Psychological Associate in the state of California (Registration #94029353), supervised by Dr. James Norwood (CA License #33379). She completed her graduate training at Palo Alto University, where she provided individual, group, and family therapy to individuals of all ages in outpatient, community, school, and hospital settings. Kathleen integrates psychodynamic, gestalt, and dialectical-behavioral modalities to assist clients in developing a more authentic, holistic understanding and acceptance of themselves alongside a more fulfilling manner of engaging with the world and people around them. Kathleen has particular experience working with individuals with ADHD, autism, psychosis, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and personality disorders.
Registered Psychological Associate, California – #TBD
Supervised by Dr. James Norwood– PSYD3337
Randi Wren, MA, BCC
Randi Wren is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee at the Free Association Clinic for Existential Psychotherapy. Her work is rooted in meaning-making, hope, and the courage to face life’s inevitable transitions. With a background in hospital, hospice, cancer center chaplaincy, and grief counseling, She brings an open, compassionate presence to those navigating grief, illness, caregiving, or a deep search for renewal. She works collaboratively with adults—physicians, caregivers, professionals, and older adults—who seek to understand their emotional worlds and rediscover purpose. Her approach integrates existential, psychodynamic, and narrative orientations, guided by the belief that healing begins in genuine human encounter.
Supervised by Michael Guy Thompson – LMFT21927
Tyler Gamlen, MA, PhD Candidate
Tyler adopts an integrative approach, drawing from existential, psychodynamic, relational, and constructivist methods to assist clients with their personal challenges. He primarily works with adults aged 18-65 dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, existential questions, and identity exploration. Tyler offers in-person and Telehealth sessions throughout California and provides services for individuals, couples, and groups.
Supervised by Dr. James Norwood– PSYD3337
Leah Carranza-Iracleous, PhD
Leah Carranza Iracleous earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a Postdoctoral Psychological Associate (registration # PSB 94028788) supervised by Dr. James Norwood (CA License #33379). Her work is grounded in warmth, presence, and attunement, integrating psychodynamic, ISTDP, CBT, and trauma-informed approaches to help patients explore unconscious patterns, deepen self-understanding, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with their inner world. With a background in social justice and working with marginalized individuals, Dr. Iracleous understands that our emotional lives unfold within broader cultural and systemic forces. She honors each patient’s lived experience and strives to create a space where people feel deeply seen, understood, and safe enough to explore their most tender fears, longings, thoughts, and fantasies.
Her clinical passions include working with couples and infidelity, sexuality, life transitions, trauma, anxiety, and the integration of psychedelic experiences. With an attachment-based and depth psychology-orientation, she supports patients to cultivate a more secure, grounded, and authentic sense of self.
Dr. Carranza-Iracleous currently offers virtual therapy for patients located anywhere in California.
Supervised by Dr. James Norwood– PSYD3337
Jessica Castellanos, AMFT
Jessica Castellanos is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist supervised by Dr. James Norwood CA License #33379, AMFT#94028788. She earned her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Notre Dame de Namur University in December 2025.
Jessica’s clinical experience includes supporting adults navigating anxiety, relational trauma, self-worth challenges, addiction recovery, and codependency. Her work has been shaped by her experience in a residential treatment setting, where she supported clients managing both substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns, often collaborating with families and partners throughout the recovery process.
Her therapeutic approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in each client’s lived experience. Jessica pays close attention to language and presence—the words clients use, those they avoid, and the subtle shifts in emotion that reveal deeper layers of meaning. She works especially well with clients who experience dissociation or emotional disconnection, using mindfulness-based practices to help them move toward grounded awareness and reconnect with emotions that may have long felt inaccessible.
Drawing from psychodynamic, experiential, and family systems perspectives, Jessica integrates Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to foster authenticity, agency, and emotional vitality.
Supervised by Jessica Castellanos – LMFT95991
George Boyar, MA
George is a graduate of the Integral Counseling Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He works with individuals, couples, and groups to help them relate with greater authenticity, confidence, and presence. Often combining individual and group therapy, he gives patients a space to explore themselves intimately and practice new ways of relating in real time. His style is warm, thoughtful, and direct, supporting people to develop clearer boundaries and feel more ease in love, work, and daily living.
Supervised by Michael Guy Thompson– LMFT21927
Alumni
Clinical Supervisors
Stephen Mosblech, MA, LMFT
Stephen Mosblech, LMFT works in the Lacanian and Existential psychoanalytic traditions with creatives and innovators throughout California. He holds an MA in Integral Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. He is a Candidate Psychoanalyst at Lacan School of Psychoanalysis and serves as a Mentor for Division 39, the Psychoanalytic Wing, of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. His approach to therapy integrates two decades of meditation practice, including teaching at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and at retreat and recovery centers in India and Thailand. He maintains an active art practice that spans painting, photography and installation. In 2022 he received a Scholar Award from the APA for his research on unconscious processes. He has published extensively in journals including European Journal of Psychoanalysis, DIVSION/Review, Vestigia, and Critica, the journal of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC).
Michael Guy Thompson, PhD,
received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London, and served as the organization’s administrator from 1973–1980. He is Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, and previously Adjunct Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as six books, The Death of Desire: A Study in Psychopathology (1985), The Truth About Freud’s Technique (1994), The Ethic of Honesty (2004), The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance (Ed., 2015), The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (2017, 2nd edition), an extensively revised and expanded edition of the original, and most recently, Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity (2024), published by Routledge. Michael is founder and director, New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, and founded Free Association, Inc. in 1988 to further the legacy of R. D. Laing. His current project is a book on the relation between love and happiness: The Heart of the Matter: Essays on the Trials and Tribulations of Love Relationships. He lives in Berkeley, California. www.mguythompson.com
James Norwood, PsyD
graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) with a doctorate in clinical psychology. His dissertation focused on psychedelic therapies. James has studied existential philosophy and psychoanalysis with Michael Guy Thompson for the past seven years. He has also been a principal organizer for the Gnosis Retreat Center, a project to open an R.D. Laing style house for people experiencing extreme states in the Bay Area of California. He is currently a psychotherapist at the Berkeley Therapy Institute and the Free Association Clinic and has served as adjunct faculty at CIIS. Thus far, he has presented papers at Esalen Institute, CIIS, and other public forums on: Spirituality and Death: What Carlos Castaneda tells us about how to live with death; The Pursuit of Gnosis Retreat Center: How trying to create a home for extreme states supported authenticity; The Romantic-Tragic Vision of Happiness; Altered States and Extreme States: How psychedelics and psychosis can occasion breakdowns and breakthroughs.
