Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D., MBA, FIPA, SEP is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Psychology at CIIS, Faculty Chair of Adult Psychoanalytic Training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. His scholarship bridges relational psychoanalysis, trauma science, and human sexuality, anchoring courses on embodied development, intersubjectivity and affect regulation. Dr. Walling is a Clinical Research Fellow and International Advisory Council member at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality, and is past president of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. His work appears in APA’s Journal, Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. Recent honors include the 2026 Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Award and being named the 2024 Gina Ogden Scholarship prize. He maintains a private practice in Brentwood, California.