Fran Dillon, LMSW, CSW is a graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work and of The Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology (TRISP), where she is a training analyst. She has worked with sexual abuse survivors since 2004 and has worked and supervised students in hospital and mental health settings. She is a member of the Sexual Abuse Study Group and LGBTQ Study Group at the William Alanson White Institute, where she is also Co-Director of the Artist Study Group and Psychotherapy Service for People in the Arts. She facilitates a weekly sexual abuse survivor support group for women. She coordinated A Night of Healing in 2019 for male and female survivors at Columbia University and is currently planning a follow-up in 2025. Fran Dillon has written and presented papers nationally and internationally on the topics of sexual abuse, living with medical conditions and the use of creativity in the healing process. She is interested in the functionality of case assessment and intervention. She has integrated her extensive years of training, practice, and diverse cultural experience overseas in the Philippines, Japan, Spain and England to create a full-time psychotherapy/psychoanalytic private practice with men, women, and couples on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.