Executive Committee, Faculty and Supervisors
Marty Babits, LCSW, BCD Co-Director
Before becoming a family and couples’ therapist, he worked as a certified reading specialist with dyslexic students and adults in the NYC public school system. He is certified in the practice of EMDR, psychodynamic psychotherapy and hypnotherapy as well as family and couple’s therapy. He has completed the externship and the core-practice requirement in EFT and has been certified at ICP in sex therapy. He is the author of two self-help books on couple therapy as well as many articles on the subject. He graduated the FACTS program in 1995 and has been affiliated with it since then.
Alison Kalfus, LCSW, Co-Director
Alison Kalfus, LCSW, is a FACTS supervisor, instructor, and senior staff member at ICP, in addition to being the co-director of the FACTS division. She is also a former Faculty Advisor at the Fordham School of Social Services, and is in private practice where she sees couples, families, and individuals. Areas of specialization include couples work, pre-marital counseling, parenting, working with addictive tendencies, postpartum depression/anxiety, and women’s mental health throughout the lifecycle.
Ella Lasky, PhD trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at NYU’s PostDoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and she studied couples therapy at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. She has been a member of the FACTS program since 1984 and over the years she has served as a teacher, supervisor and Co-Director of the program. In addition, Dr. Lasky served as a supervisor in the Four Year Psychoanalytic program and the Two Year Psychodynamic program at ICP. Dr. Lasky has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women, has authored 13 articles on various clinical issues and edited a book on gender. She has a special interest in helping couples understand their own and one another’s financial values, attitudes and behavior. Ella has a private practice on the Upper West Side.
Dr. Judith Friedman is the Founding Director of the Training Program of the Family and Couples Division (FACTS) of ICP. She continued to serve as Director for over twenty-five years, training hundreds of psychotherapists during this time. In addition, she formerly became a specialist in the treatment of trauma, supervising and teaching in the ICP Trauma Treatment Program in which she also served as Clinical Coordinator. Judith has an active private practice specializing in family/couples therapy and the treatment of trauma.
Linda Bradley, LCSW is a psychoanalyst. She is also a graduate of the family and couples treatment services two-year training program at ICP, where she is an instructor and a supervisor. She teaches infidelity and parenting to trainees.
LouAnn Smith, LCSW has a psychotherapy and divorce/family mediation practice in Union Square, NYC. Her practice includes working with individuals, couples, and families as well as supervising therapists. LouAnn is on the Executive Committee at FACTS (ICP) where she supervises as well as teaches about Divorce and Trauma. Additionally, she teaches and provides supervision in the Couple Therapy program at the Training Institute for Mental Health Practitioners – teaching “Delving into Sexuality with Couples. LouAnn is a founding member of the Daughter/Mother Clinical Research Team. She has developed curriculum and facilitates workshops for newly married couples in her online Early Marriage Workshops. LouAnn is a graduate of N.Y.U School of Social Work ’80. She has certifications in Clinical Supervision, Group Therapy, Couple and Family Therapy (ICP), EMDR, and Divorce Mediation. She is working toward certification in Sex Therapy.
Fran Hamburg, MS, MSW, LCSW
Fran Hamburg M.S., MSW, LCSW Hunter College, M.S., Dance Movement Therapy Hunter College, Master of Social Work ICP- CSAB and FACTS training programs Certified EMDR Training: Emotionally Focused Therapy Fran has been in private practice working with families, couples and individuals for over thirty five years. A senior supervisor in the FACTS division, she has also been a clinical supervisor at Yeshiva university, Hunter College; instructor at NYU, Hunter College; and former eating disorder specialist at Columbia University. In addition, Fran’s extensive training in nonverbal therapies and experience as professional dancer with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Companies and a Black Belt in Aikido, informs her clinical practice.
Michael Nott, LCSW is a FACTS graduate and currently serves FACTS as a staff member, a supervisor, and as coordinator of the intake team. He is experienced with and has been trained in a number of treatment modalities, including Internal Family Systems and Emotionally Focused Therapy. He has a private practice in which he treats couples, families and individuals, and has also taught courses in couples therapy and trauma on the Master’s Degree level.
Judi Price was trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Mental Health and in Family & Couples Therapy at ICP where she has been affiliated since 1986. In the FACTS program, she has been a staff therapist, Intake therapist, Supervisor, Teacher, member of the Executive Committee, and founding member of the Daughter-Mother Project. She is also an integrative trauma therapist and has been trained in mindfulness, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, AEDP, IFS, and parts work.
Roberta Estar, Ph.D., is a FACTS faculty member and a member of the Board of Directors of ICP. She heads up the Daughter-Mother Project at FACTS which specializes in strengthening and healing the daughter-mother relationship through workshops and individual treatment. She is in private practice in Manhattan and Old Bridge, NJ, and works with couples, families, and individuals. Her specialty is transitions of all kinds with a focus on the quality of relationships: with one’s self, between partners or spouses, friends or workmates, and among family members. She champions women’s development throughout the life cycle and helps others to bring their purpose to light. Her approach is interactive, creative, and supportively challenging.
Publications
Babits, Marty. The Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple’s Guide to Renewing your Relationship. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Publishing Co. (2009).
Babits, Marty. (2001). Using therapeutic metaphor to provide a holding environment: the inner edge of possibility, Clinical Social Work Journal, V29, no. 1:21-33.
Babits, Marty. (2001). The phoenix juncture: exploring the dimension of hope in psychotherapy, Clinical Social Work Journal, V29, no. 4:341-350.
Friedman, Judith and Lasky, Ella. Lost in America: overcoming the isolation of a multiproblem, middle class family: A case study. The Family Therapy Networker, 1995, 77-85.
Getzel, G.S. and Masters, R. (1983). Group work with parents of homicide victims. Social Work with Groups. Vol. 6, No. 2: pp. 81-92.
Lasky, Ella. Psychotherapists’ Ambivalence about Fees: Male-Female Differences. Women & Therapy, (1999) 22, 3, 5-14 and also in For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy, Marcia Hill and Ellyn Kaschak (Eds.) The Haworth Press, 1999.
Lasky, Ella. Psychotherapists’ Ambivalence about Fees. In Lynn Bravo Rosewater, Ph.D. and Lenore E. Walker, Ed.D. (Editors), Handbook of Feminist Therapy. New York: Springer Publishing (1985).
Lasky, Ella. Psychoanalysts’ and Psychotherapists’ conflicts about setting fees. Psychoanalytic Psychology. (1984) p. 289-300.
Lasky, Ella (1982). Self Esteem, achievement, and the female experience. In Janet Muff (Editor), Socialization, Sexism and Stereotyping: Women’s Issues in Nursing. St. Louis: Mosby.
Lasky, Ella. (1978). Physical attractiveness and its relationship to self esteem: some preliminary findings. In Mark Cook and Glenn Wilson (Eds.), Love and Attraction. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press.
Lasky, Ella. (1977). Current psychological perspectives: humanistic, existential, interpersonal and social psychological. Chapter in textbook Abnormal Psychology(CRM/Random House), 2nd Edition.
Lasky, Ella. (Ed.). (1975). Humanness: An Exploration into the Mythologies about Women and Men. New York: MSS Information Co.
Masters, R. (1998). Death on the Doorstep. Family Therapy Networker, June: pp. 38-44.
Masters, R. (1996). Too proud to cry: Clinical work with survivors who employ narcissistic defenses. National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 2: pp. 49-52.
Masters R. (1991). Crime victims. Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable Populations. New York: Columbia University Press: pp. 416-445.
Masters, R. (1989). Attachment, separation and the prospect of death for people with AIDS. Contemporary Psychotherapy Review. Vol. 5, No. 1: pp. 92-112.
Masters, R., Friedman, L.N., and Getzel, G. Helping families of homicide victims: a multidimensional approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 1: pp. 92-112.
Taffel, Ron (2005). Breaking through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence. New York: Guilford Press.
Taffel, Ron (2001). When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It.New York: Guilford Press.
Taffel, Ron (2001). The Second Family: How Adolescent Power is Challenging the American Family. New York: St. Martin Press.
Taffel, Ron (2000). Breaking through to Difficult Kids and Parents: Uncommon Sense for Child Professionals. New York: Guilford Press.
Taffel, Ron (1998). Nurturing Good Children Now. New York: St. Martin Press.
Taffel, Ron (1991). Parenting by Heart. Cambridge: Perseus Books.
