"A Contemporary Approach to Therapeutic Impasse," Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work, January 29, 2012

"Psychologists, the American Psychoogical Association, and Illegal Detention Centers" Chicago School of Professional Psychlogy, February 5, 2012

Discussant, panel "The Cultural Origins of Relational Analysis," Steyphen Seligman and Adrienne Harris, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York, NY, March 4, 2012

"Therapeutic Impasses and their Resolution,"  Champaign-Urbana Psychoanalytic Society, Urbana, IL, March 31, 2012

"Creating a Life Between Two Cultures,"  Panel on Gender, Culture, and Self Realization, Annual Division 39 Spring Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 21, 2011

"Therapeutic Action as the Art of Creativity,"  Panel, Building a New Foundation, Annual Division 39 Spring Conference, April 20, 2012

"Discussion of Usha Tummala's 'Cross Cultural Psychotherapy," Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, May 22, 2012

"Object Relations and Therapeutic Action," Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis, September 28, 2012