Andrew Harlem

Dr. Andrew Harlem received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development (2002) and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1990, summa cum laude). His educational background is interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of clinical psychology, cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, and life course development studies.

Dr. Harlem completed his pre- and postdoctoral clinical training at Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  There, as a Fellow in the Program for Psychotherapy, he completed two years of postdoctoral training in psychodynamic psychotherapy.  His clinical specialties include depression, anxiety, relationship issues, gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, cultural adjustment, adolescence, and adolescent development, parenting, clinical supervision, learning disabilities, and psychoeducational assessment.

Dr. Harlem has been the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Psychology (1994-1998) and the National Institute of Mental Health's National Research Service Award (1998-2000).  He has presented and published papers on the topics of culture, immigration, psychoanalysis, clinical pedagogy and supervision, and mental illness in Sri Lanka, where he served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer (1992-1994).  Dr. Harlem has presented his work at meetings of the American Psychological Association, International Society for Psychotherapy Research, the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Mid-Atlantic Society for Asian Studies, and Harvard University's Continuing Education Series. 

Dr. Harlem serves on the Board of Directors and is currently President-Elect of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP).  He is a member of the Section IV Senate and Multicultural Concerns Committee of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association.  Dr. Harlem is also a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis (IARPP).

Dr. Harlem is a licensed psychologist in the State of California.  He maintains an active psychotherapy, assessment and consultation practice in Rockridge (Oakland) and Corte Madera (Marin County).