The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology
In collaboration with
The Early Career Committee of CSPP
The Cultural Third and the Uneven Gaze:
Supervision Between Non-BIPOC Supervisors and BIPOC Clinicians
Jane Carter, PhD, Mia Wilson, LCSW, Eva Wilson, PhD, Ellen Nasper, PhD
Saturday September 13, 2025
Hybrid Event
In Person & Zoom
Conference Schedule
Coffee hour and in-person check-in 10-11
Zoom check-in 10:45
Presentation 11-1:30
Lunch 1:30-2:30
Location
Albertus Magnus College
Behan Community Room, New Haven, CT
Directions and Photo
Map of Albertus Magnus College
2.5 CECs (Division 39)
2.5 CECs, Social Work, Pending approval LPCs & LMFTs
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.
The Talk
This panel discussion examines the complexities of positionality and power within supervisory relationships, particularly in cross-cultural and racial contexts. Drawing on culturally humble, strengths-based, and psychoanalytic frameworks, participants will explore how supervisory dynamics are shaped by racial identity, power, and the sociohistorical context of clinical training. Readings highlight the importance of self-reflection, humility, and the limitations of inclusion narratives when working with BIPOC supervisees. Participants will be invited to reconsider supervisory norms, engage critically with their own social locations, and consider how to foster accountability and mutuality without reinforcing hierarchical or extractive dynamics in supervision.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
• Identify and articulate their own positionality as supervisors and reflect on how it influences their clinical and supervisory relationships.
• Recognize that the process of engaging with one’s positionality may not be shared or invited by BIPOC supervisees and explore the implications of this asymmetry in supervision.
• Evaluate and apply strategies to address and reduce power differentials in supervision, particularly in cross-racial and cross-cultural supervisory dyads.
Meet the Speakers
Dr. Jane E.M. Carter, PhD is a Trinidadian and British clinical psychologist at Yale Health Center. She earned her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and has worked in diverse settings across the U.S., U.K., and the Caribbean. Her clinical work focuses on serious mental illness, attachment, and identity-related trauma. Jane integrates psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Committed to socially conscious, recovery-oriented practice, she considers sociopolitical context and positionality essential to ethical care. Her presentation style is collaborative and grounded in experience, aiming to deepen understanding and support more effective, humane ways of helping people heal.
Mia Wilson, LCSW, is an embedded mental health counselor at Yale Law School. Mia earned her BSW from Western Connecticut State University and her MSW from NYU’s accelerated program. Her approach integrates clinical and wellness-focused interventions, including ecotherapy, CBT, and trauma-informed care. With a background in nonprofit work supporting high-risk populations, Mia brings expertise in racial trauma, anxiety/OCD, and ADHD. She is passionate about holistic, affirming care that fosters resilience and sustainable well-being.
Dr. Eva Wilson, PhD is a counseling psychologist at Yale Health, serving as the lead embedded clinician for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Eva earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Boston College and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in university and community mental health settings with adolescents and adults from diverse backgrounds. Eva specializes in racial identity development and racial trauma, ADHD and neurodiversity, and identity and relationship concerns. She integrates psychodynamic and relational-cultural approaches, bringing a strong social justice lens and strengths-based advocacy to her work with clients, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds.
Dr. Ellen Nasper, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New Haven and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry where she has taught an elective on the Consequences of Childhood Attachment Trauma since 2002. She received the Distinguished Faculty Award for her teaching for 2008-2009. Ellen worked for 26 years for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, where she provided leadership in the development of trauma focused treatment and led the DMHAS Dialectical Behavior Therapy project from 1995 until 2000. From 2014 to 2022, she served as the Clinical Conference Chair for CSPP (APA Division 39 local chapter). She is now the Coordinator of Educational Programs for CSPP. She is the author of one book and several articles and has lectured at national conferences.
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Participants
The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.
Continuing Education
This conference has been approved for for 2.5 Continuing Education Credits by Div. 39. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Pending approval - 2.5 CECs from NASW-CT.
If continuing education credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page, for our records. In addition,100% attendance and a completed evaluation form is required to receive CEC certificates. The evaluation form will be sent in the form of an online survey to all registrants within a few hours after the event, and if you attend the full conference and return that you will be sent a certificate of attendance.
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Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.
Please address questions or concerns to Ashley Warner, LCSW, BCD.
