Dr. Cassie Kaufmann is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is the founder and director of Greene Clinic, a sliding scale psychoanalytically oriented training clinic in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. There she supervises, teaches, and introduces psychoanalytic theory and practice to students and early career psychologists, social workers, and counselors. She is also a founding board member of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis, a nonprofit whose mission is to make psychoanalysis more accessible to historically marginalized people.
Dr. Kaufmann received her doctorate from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, where she researched and wrote about psychoanalytic theories of visual thought and creativity. She further trained at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University Counseling and Psychological Services. Prior to founding Greene Clinic, she was an instructor in psychology at CUMC and an attending psychologist on their adult psychiatric inpatient unit. She completed her training in adult psychoanalysis at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she is now on faculty. She has been a fellow of the Melanie Klein Trust and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Kaufmann received a B.A. in comparative literature from Yale University and an M.S.Ed. in special education from City College. In addition to practicing, she writes and has presented her research on psychoanalysis, creativity, art, sexuality, social justice, and politics.