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Biljana Bujko
In my practice I see individuals and couples with many ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. I have experience working with cultural diversity, identity crisis, personal and trans-generational trauma while embedding the cultural milieu as part of the therapeutic work. Treatment is offered in English, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Italian. Read more on Psychology Today.

Leslie Burkes
Leslie Burkes is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with over 12 years of clinical experience. She has a wide range of experiences working in private practice and day treatment centers with children and adolescents. She has additional expertise in working with individuals with complex mental health issues. Leslie has a Certificate in Child/Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from NCP. In addition to her clinical practice, she is currently enrolled in a training program to become a Child Custody Evaluator. 

Chiaku Hanson
I'm Dr. Chiaku Hanson and I'm a doctor of clinical psychology. My dissertation focused on ego transcendence in psychotherapy, so as a therapist I focus on bringing awareness to the unconscious, as it relates to decisions and patterns, repetition compulsion and unresolved conflict, so that one is able to transcend beyond ego to higher self.

Attending New Center was a splendid experience. The environment was friendly, positive and the staff, chair, mentors and professors were supportive. New Center especially had a diverse body of students of different backgrounds and ethnicities, in particular, my cohort and I appreciated that, because culture components must be tailored alongside theories. I was able to learn more about psychoanalytic concepts at New Center and apply them in my own psychoanalytic psychotherapy work with clients. I feel that I have grown and have a greater understanding of psychoanalysis.

Gaetano Scognamillo
Gaetano Scognamillo completed the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program in June 2020. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MSW from Hunter College, City University of New York. Gaetano has a private practice in Larchmont Village and is a staff therapist at the Los Angeles LGBT Center in Hollywood.