Lisa Lyons, Ph. D. is a psychoanalyst and psychologist. She is on the teaching and supervisory faculties of the Stephen Mitchell Center For Relational Studies, where she is Co-Director of the Brief Seminar Series, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Four Year Psychoanalytic Program and Program in Integrative Psychotherapy.
She has published and presented nationally and internationally on the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Dissociation, Dreams and Reverie, Mindfulness and psychotherapy, sexual trauma, cross-cultural psychoanalysis, integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and Dialectical Behavior therapy,and political repression. She also performs trauma-focused psychological evaluations for individuals seeking Asylum and fighting Deportation. She has received awards from the APA Science Directorate and the Psychoanalytic Research Fund. She is in private practice in New York City and Teaneck, New Jersey.