Date: Wednesday, March, 4th, 2026 7:30pm-9pm

Credits: 1.5 CE 

Speaker: Radhi Dani, MD & Lorie Ammon, LPC-S

Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at: 

The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology

4305 MacArthur Ave. 

Dallas, TX 75209

Beyond Our Circles — Field Report & Next Steps for Community Engagement

How do psychotherapists build real relationships with communities we rarely meet as patients or colleagues? In this 90-minute workshop, the DPC Committee on Diversity & Inclusion (CODI) reports on our “step-outside” efforts—hosting monthly, on-site conversations with Dallas community groups—and translates what we learned into concrete next steps. We’ll spotlight collaborations with Dallas Police Department Community Outreach, El Movimiento’s Proactive Patrols (community safety & ICE-alerts), LGBTQ liaison work around hate incident response, and multicultural initiatives (anti-hate forums, Unity Walk on Oct 11, 2025). Come hear what’s working, where we’ve stumbled, and how you can join by attending and amplifying neighborhood events, offering skills workshops, and forming durable, ethical partnerships.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Recognize the dynamic nature of community disturbance and needs.

Create psychoanalytically informed interventions that serve communities in distress.

Describe a community psychoanalytic model and its value for trust-building and bidirectional learning.

Identify community-level roles for psychoanalysts (education, containment, linkage) that are feasible and ethical—distinct from large-scale low-fee treatment.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY:

Lorie Ammon, LPC-S, MA is a clinician-scholar and a graduate analyst at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, and a Washington–Baltimore New Directions graduate (2024), and presently, a doctoral candidate at Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis where her research dissertation analyzes unconscious defenses, institutional transference, and repair in race conversations to inform training, supervision, and policy; she presents on these themes at the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education Conference November 2025. Lorie co-chairs DPC’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. She serves as Adjunct Faculty Associate Professor in Psychiatry at UT Southwestern, where she supports psychotherapy training.

Radhi Dani, MD is a psychoanalyst with board-certifications in psychiatry and obesity medicine, and has a private practice near Preston and Forest. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern, Teaching Analyst with Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, and co-chair of DPC’s Committees on Diversities & Inclusion and Education Outreach. She completed medical school and psychiatry residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Residency Program Director and Attending Psychiatrist on the Compass Program at The Menninger Clinic, and completed psychoanalytic training at DPC. Radhi finds deep satisfaction in growing relationships that foster healing and development, and is very interested in doing some form of at the community level.

REFERENCES:

Ainslie, R. C. (2013). Intervention strategies for addressing collective trauma: Healing communities ravaged by racial strife. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 18, 140–152.

Bermúdez, G. (2019). Community psychoanalysis: A contribution to an emerging paradigm. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39, 297–304.

Rudden, M. G. & Twemlow, S. W. (2013) A Beginning Theory of Action for Community Analysts based on Group Observation, Theories of the Unconscious, and Evolutionary Psychology. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 10:199-209