PHYLLIS COHEN, Ph.D., Brief Bio Dr. Phyllis Cohen is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She works with children, adolescents and adults, as well as mothers and infants, couples and families. She is a Clinical Supervisor at the NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has taught courses in child, marital, and family therapy in many professional institutes, and she is on the faculty of the Trauma Institute at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Cohen is the Founder and Director of the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence (NYIPT). together with Dr. Beatrice Beebe, she co-directed the World Trade Center Project for women who were pregnant and lost their husbands in the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. This program has focused on the impact of trauma and loss on families. Dr. Cohen has co-authored with Beebe and Lachman, The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment (Norton, 2016). She has also co-edited: Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11th: A Primary Prevention Project, (Beebe, Cohen, Sossin & Markese, Routledge, 2012), and Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, (Cohen, Sossin & Ruth, Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Dr. Cohen has published numerous professional papers and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. In 2019 Dr. Cohen received the award for Outstanding Service in the Field of Trauma Psychology from APA Division 56, Trauma Psychology. She is certified in EMDR, and works in areas of trauma, foster care, and immigration. In 2012 she developed the Building Blocks Program at a foster care agency where she trains therapists in trauma work and supervises clinicians who work dyadically with birth mothers and young children in care; and since 2018 she has been mentoring and doing assessments and affidavits for asylum seekers in the Human Rights, Immigration and Asylum Seeker Project at NYU Post Doc.