Faculty — Psychology, Sociology and Professional Counseling

Neil German started teaching as a graduate assistant in 1985 in the U.S. and moved to Switzerland in 1992 to train as a psychoanalyst at the Jung Institute in Zurich. He has taught at Webster since March 2000 in the Psychology department. He holds a Psychoanalytic Diploma from the Jung Institute in Zurich and a MA in Counseling Psychology from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

 

Email neilgerman86@webster.edu

Milena Claudius, PhD, is a Clinical and Counseling Psychologist and faculty in the Department of Psychology and Professional Counseling. She coordinates the MA program in Counseling as well as the services of the University Counseling Center. She earned a PhD from Boston College and a BA from Boston University. Her clinical experiences range from psychiatric emergency care settings, inpatient and adult outpatient programs, to community psychotherapy clinics. She completed her APA-approved clinical psychology fellowship at Cambridge Hospital/ Harvard Medical School. Her research interests focus on topics at the intersection of psychology, social justice and human rights. She also has a specialization in health psychology. Her most recent published work explored risk and resilience in immigration, as well as cultural idioms of distress related to traumatic experiences. She was previously recognized as an American Psychological Association, Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Scholar, Multicultural Concerns.

 

Email: milenaclaudius@webster.edu

Catherine Butterly, MSc, is an integrative psychotherapist, family and couples therapist and clinical supervisor. She has also trained in a number of trauma methods and has worked in the field of trauma for over 25 years in a variety of settings and locations. She has run mind/body stress management workshops in U.N. organizations and with humanitarians working with refugee communities in Greece. She is a senior advisor and trainer with the Common Threads Project in Bosnia and Eastern Congo and collaborates with a number of organizations working with people in insecure environments resulting from war and displacement. Before moving to Switzerland, Butterly worked in Zimbabwe for eight years. She holds a MA from the Zimbabwe Institute of Systemic Therapy and a MSc from the Metanoia Institute London and Middlesex University.

 

 

Patricia Demierre-Berberat holds a MA from the University of Geneva.

 

Email: patriciad36@webster.edu

Karl Duffy holds a MA from Webster Geneva Campus.

 

Email: duffyka@webster.edu

Dr. Henry Faineteau is a psychotherapist and adjunct faculty in Psychology. He earned a Masters and a PhD in Psychology from Geneva University and obtained a research grant to conduct extensive research at the Harvard Psychology Department. He works currently as a licensed psychotherapist in a private practice, and as an adjunct faculty at both Webster and University of Geneva. He is trained in mindfulness, hypnosis, EMDR, sexology, systemic and family therapy, and over the past 15 years, he has worked in the fields of sexology, perinatal health, couple and family therapy, both at the Psychiatry Department of the Geneva University Hospitals and in a private psychotherapy practice. Faineteau trained in several models of therapy as he believes there is no one-size-fits-all model and he prefers to fit the therapy to the client rather than the client to the therapy. In other words, his integrative approach of psychotherapy and counseling involves the tailoring of his perspective by drawing on his knowledge of different schools of psychotherapy according to what his experience tells him will work best with the client’s personality and situation.

 

Email: henryfaineteau82@webster.edu

 

Carine Karnouk holds a PhD from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

 

Email: carinekarnouk@webster.edu

Erik Mansager holds a PhD from KU Leuven, Belgium.

Publications

Mansager, E., McDonald, B., and Williams, H. M., Sr. (2015). "Internet and faith.” The Journal of Individual Psychology, 71(2), pp. 214-220.

Mansager, E. (2014). “Editors’ Notes: Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy: The Congruence of a Theory.” The Journal of Individual Psychology, 70(4), pp. 269-272.

Mansager, E. (2014). “A narrative survey of classical Adlerian depth psychotherapists." The Journal of Individual Psychology, 70(4), pp. 323-331.

Pfefferlé, J. and Mansager, E. (2014). “Applying the classical Adlerian family diagnostic process.” The Journal of Individual Psychology, 70(4), pp. 332-378.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Borboa, R. and Mansager, E. (2016). “Historical Note: Erik Blumenthal’s Contribution to Individual Psychology in Switzerland” in Prina, C., Shelley, C., K. John K., and Millar A. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book, pp. 180-184 (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology).

Raff, D., Mertz, L., and Mansager, E. (2016). “Historical note: Friedrich Liebling’s Contribution to Individual Psychology in Switzerland” in Prina, P., Shelley, C., John, K. and Millar A. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book, pp. 174-179 (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology).

Mansager, E. (2015). “Constructs or conflicts?” in Prina, P., Shelley, C., John, K. and Millar A. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book, pp. 37-50 (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology).

Mansager, E. and Borboa, R. (2014). “Individual psychology in Switzerland: A brief history and overview” in Prina, P., Shelley, C., John, K. and Millar A. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book, pp. 173-195 (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology).

Mansager, E. (2014). “A biographical sketch of Leo Gold: 1924-2011” in Prina, P., Shelley, C., John, K. and Millar A. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book, pp. 24-33 (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology).

Rosin, M. and Mansager, E. (2012). “Striving to understand religion and spirituality: An Individual Psychology perspective” in Prina, P., Shelley, C., Millar A., and John, K. (Eds.), Adlerian Year Book (London: UK Adlerian Society and Institute for Individual Psychology), pp. 235-258.

Email: erikmansager11@webster.edu

Agnese Mariotti earned a PhD in Genetics from the University of Pavia, Italy. After her postdoctoral research studies at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, she worked as a principal scientist at the University of Lausanne. She is the author of various scientific articles and of two books for the general public on the effects of psychophysical stress on health (Gestire lo stress, Il Punto di Incontro, 2017, and Stress, les solutions sont dans nos mains, Rosso Editions, 2018). She is particularly interested in the biological mechanisms that coordinate the interactions between our physical and psychological responses.

 

Email: agnesemariotti74@webster.edu

Betty Sacco-German hold a MA from University La Spienza, Rome.

Publications

Sacco German B. (2021), Archetypes of the Pandemic The Journal of Analytical Psychology. Volume 66, N°. 3, June 2021, pp. 506-516.

Email: bsaccogerman77@webster.edu

Chitra Subrahmanian holds a PhD from Purdue University.

 

Email: csubrahmanian97@webster.edu

Catalina Woldarsky holds a PhD from York University, Toronto.

Publications

Woldarsky C. (2017). “Emotion-focused couples therapy,” Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, (forthcoming).

Email: catalinaw62@webster.edu