About Psychoanalyst and Parenting Expert Dr. Annie Abram

Annie Abram, PhD, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst with a practice in Norwalk, Connecticut. She has over twenty five years of clinical experience.

Dr. Abram’s passionate interest in all aspects of parenting has its roots in her own experience as a mother, dating from the birth of her first child. Through academic/clinical study and/or original research, she has explored:

• The mother/infant relationship
• The role of brain development in contributing to who we are
• The possibility of motherhood as transformational for the first-time mother (the subject of her doctoral thesis)
• The intergenerational nature of parenting
• The need to understand what we have inherited from our parent’s way of parenting so we can create a relationship that best suits us and our children.
• Grandparenting & in-law relationships
• Adoption & surrogacy

As an advocate for families, children and parents, over the past 10 years Dr. Abram has developed and led groups and workshops in New York and Connecticut to address the many stages of parenting:

• First-time mothers from pregnancy through infancy
• Parenting young children, adolescents and older teens
• Empty-nesters
• Grandparents

Dr. Annie Abram earned her bachelors degree from Boston University, Boston, Mass; her masters degree in social service from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service and Administration, Chicago, Il; and her doctorate from New York University’s School of Social Work, New York, N.Y. She received her psychoanalytic certification from and has taught at the National Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis, in New York, N.Y.

Dr. Abram is a member of the Inaugural Class of the Jewish Board and Family Service’s (JBFCS) Institute for Infants, Children and Families. She was a founding member of the Institute’s Leadership Council She has also taught Attachment Theory at the Institute.

She is an inaugural member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS), reflecting her interest in keeping up to date with the latest brain research — and then integrating the findings into her work. She is also engaged in becoming certified in Internal Family Systems, an advanced method of family therapy.

Dr. Annie Abram is currently writing a book about the transformative possibilities becoming a mother can present. She also hosts “Ask Dr. Annie Abram” a weekly show about mindful parenting on BlogTalk Radio.