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Family and Couples Treatment Services (FACTS) Program 

Michael Nott, LCSW, assumes the role of FACTS Program Director beginning with the 2025-26 academic year. He also coordinates the FACTS intake team, serves as group supervisor for first-year FACTS candidates, and teaches didactic modules in both the 1st and 2nd years of the program. He has received training in a range of treatment modalities, including Internal Family Systems and Emotionally Focused Therapy. He has a private practice in which he treats couples, families and individuals. He has previously taught courses in couples therapy and trauma on the Master’s Degree level and served as FACTS Coordinator of Clinical Interns.

Alissa Davis, LCSW, is a graduate of ICP’s FACTS and Psychoanalytic programs, with additional training from the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is also certified in Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy (RLT). A member of ICP since 2011, Alissa has served on the intake and management committees and co-directed the Adult Treatment division. With decades of clinical experience, she supervises and teaches at ICP, bringing a wide range of therapeutic approaches to her work. She has a private practice in NYC, working with individuals, couples, and families.

Roberta Estar, PhD, 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 work mates, 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.

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.

Carrie Jabinsky, LCSW, JD, is a graduate of the FACTS Program, where she currently supervises candidates and is part of the intake and curriculum committees. Carrie has additional training in Internal Family Systems from the IFS Institute and in divorce mediation from the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She has a private practice in NYC where she specializes in working with individuals and couples navigating relationship challenges such as the impact of developmental trauma, addiction, transitions to parenthood, and decisions around consensual nonmonogamy. Carrie has a prior career as a litigator and legal writer.

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.

Jeff Levin, LCSW, a graduate of Columbia School of Social Work in, 2012. Jeff worked on the clinical staff of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center before opening a private practice in 2018 where he offers relationship therapy for couples and individuals. He graduated ICP's FACTS program in 2020, has remained a staff member of FACTS, and is currently continuing his clinical education at ICP in the Trauma program. Prior to his career as a therapist, Jeff worked in the advertising business. Jeff and his partner have two teenage sons.

Michelle Mintz, LCSW, M.A., is a graduate of the FACTS Program, where she currently supervises candidates and teaches parenting with a focus on children with learning differences and other special needs. Michelle has extensive experience working with families that have a child on the autism spectrum or, who have other neurodivergence. She has a private practice in NYC, working with couples, individuals, and families. She did analytic coursework and training at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and was a psychotherapist in the Trauma Treatment Program at the Karen Horney Clinic. She also holds a certificate in Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions from the William Alanson White Institute.

Marty Babits has published two books on couple work, numerous academic articles and contributed over 70 pieces to the Psychology Today Website. He has taught in graduate programs at Columbia University, Hunter College and Long Island University. He is a graduate of the FACTS program and has been affiliated with ICP since 1995.

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.

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 supervision to 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.