Dialogue with Gaea Logan: “The Whole World Needs to Hear These Stories”

British-American psychoanalytic psychotherapist and the Clinical Director of the International Center for Mental Health and Human Rights and its project, the Support Ukraine Initiative. She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and an alumna of the Harvard Refugee Trauma Program. Her evidence-based protocol, Contemplative Based Trauma and Resiliency Training, has been adapted for utilization in UN Peace-Keeping Missions throughout the Middle East, Lebanon, Turkey, Africa, the US as well as Ukraine. In recognition of clinical excellence and humanitarian outreach, Gaea is a recipient of the Social Responsibility Award of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is also a fourth year candidate at ICP. Gaea has offered contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and groups as well as clinical consultation and supervision for over forty years.

Psychoanalyst practicing in west Los Angeles. He specializes in treating childhood trauma, addiction, and anxiety/depression. His book, Circles Without a Center: Addiction, Accommodation and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis was published in July 2022 by Routledge. He is the winner of several analytic writing awards, and has been published online at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon/Psyche, Psychology Today, GoodTherapy.org, and the APA blog site. He has appeared numerous times in the journals Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His website is