Professional Information
I hold an MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work and a Masters in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research. I am licensed to practice psychotherapy for those who reside in the following states: MA (125884), NH (2933), CA (upcoming), VT (793566), ME (LC24623)​. I conduct coaching sessions online for those residing in any state.
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
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Section 9 (Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility), Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology), American Psychological Association
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis (MIP)
Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)
Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN)
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ADDITIONAL TRAININGS:​
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EMBARK Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Facilitation, Cybin, 2025.
Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Clients with Sociopolitical Distress, Sebastian Barr, PhD., 2024.
Expanding Access to Gender Affirming Care, Izzy Lowell, QMed, 2023.
Understanding the Intersections between Autism, Neurodiversity, Gender Diversity, and Mental Health, Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE), NH, 2023.
Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health: A Course for the Whole Care Team, Harvard Medical School/Fenway Institute, MA, 2023.
Adolescent Upheaval: Contemporary Clinical Issues in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Adolescents, William Alanson White Institute, 2022-2023.
Facing Human Wrongs 2.0: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, University of Victoria, Canada, 2022-2023.
Program for Psychotherapy Fellowship Program, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, 2020-2022.
Internal Family Systems Level 1, Internal Family Systems Institute, Cambridge Health Alliance, MA, 2021.
Before We Were White, White Awake (now "Comrade's Education"), 2018.
Beyond Racism, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Kingston, NY, 2015.
Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide Training, The School of Lost Borders, 2003-2006.
Council Facilitator Training, The Ojai Foundation (now "The Topa Instute") and Upaya Zen Center, 2003-2006.
PUBLICATIONS
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​Malamed, C. (2022). “Does your institute have an anti-racism commitment?”: Interrogating anti-racism commitments in psychoanalytic institutes. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
Malamed, C. (2022). A safe space to play dangerously: Contextualizing gender play in therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(2).
Malamed, C. (2021). A White person problem: conducting White/White treatment with a social justice lens. Psychoanalytic Social Work.
PRESENTATIONS & TRAININGS
Inhabiting the systems we create, creating the symptoms we treat. Red Clinic, UK, 5/2025.
Antiracism in college counseling settings- Working with Whiteness. Multicultural forum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2/2020.
“Lift the Mask” panel on stigma & psychiatric illness within the mental health community and profession. Panel Moderator, Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, 2019.
Social Emotional Learning 6-part Workshop for CCUSD teachers. Sandy Segal Youth Health Clinic, Venice Family Clinic, D. Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 2019.
Review of current findings on attachment and relational trauma. Panel Moderator, Sandy Segal Youth Health Clinic, Venice Family Clinic, D. Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 2019.
Experiential training on the intersectionality between queer identity and the experience of having a disability. Pride New Paltz, SUNY New Paltz, NY, 2017.
Illusions of Certainty: Ethical Dilemmas in Writing Qualitative Research. Panel, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, Rutgers University, NJ, 2012.
Troubling Trauma, Troubling Treatment. Panel, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, Rutgers University, NJ, 2012.
Illusion & Disillusion in Graduate Study in Psychology. Panel, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, Rutgers University, NJ, 2012.
Given the Space, Ghosts Emerge: Post-Holocaust Identity and Relations Between Jews & Non-Jewish Germans. International Congress of Psychology: Psychology Serving Humanity, Cape Town, RSA, 2012.
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Experience of Persons with Chronic and Delimiting Psychiatric Disabilities. ISPS-US Twelfth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2011.
Analysis of the relationship between therapist reflective functioning and therapeutic process and outcome. Society for Psychotherapy Research, 41st Annual Meeting, Asilomar, CA, 2010.