Silvia B. Birklein, Ph.D., MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, CMA, KMP is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and Dance Movement Therapist in Private Practice in New York City. She’s the founder and director of SYNC Psychological Services, PLLC, and SYNC Somatics™, a New York City group practice and training facility. She’s a clinical supervisor and faculty at SYNC; NYU Postdoc/Relational Track; Pace University; the New School University; the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), and the Sino/American Mother-Infant Mental Health Program and at Apollo Institute in Beijing, China. She graduated from NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology/MA in General Psychology from the New School for Social Research in NYC. In addition, she holds an M.A. in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Psychology from Antioch University (1997), a B.A. in Psychology/Philosophy from the Freie University in Berlin (1990), and a B.A. in Social Work/Pedagogics from Berlin. Further, she holds certificates/degrees in Dance and Performance Arts, Dance Education, Laban Movement Analysis, and Kestenberg Movement Analysis (KMP), (a psychoanalytically and developmentally/intersubjectively informed movement analysis system), as well as training in Integrative Gestalt Therapy and many somatic/body approaches to psychotherapy. Her interests and research are about intergenerational transmission of affect, trauma, nonverbal behavior, the body, and movement in psychoanalysis, using the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP; Kestenberg; 1985), a psychoanalytically-based movement observation tool for object relations, and other somatic and movement approaches in her psychoanalytic practice; she is working with a variety of clients, integrating somatic approaches when appropriate. She continues to teach and present nationally and internationally, especially teaching psychoanalytic theories and interpersonal/relational theories. Currently, she is offering groups focusing on the somatic impact of trauma caused by individual and systemic social-political influences and conditions- bridging individual healing into collective social transformation.