Diane Ehrensaft, PhD

Faculty

Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CA

A13 BUILDING LASTING RELATIONSHIPS FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE

D13 GENDER VARIANT CHILDREN: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay area with an area of specialty in child development, parenting, and gender studies.  She has served on the faculty of The Wright Institute, Berkeley, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Access Institute, and University of California, Berkeley, and for twenty-seven years has had a private practice in Oakland, California where she sees children and adults, does parenting consultations, and provides supervision, teaching, and training to individuals, local and national agencies. 

She is a founding member, senior clinician, and vice-president of the board of directors of A Home Within, a nonprofit national organization addressing the emotional needs of foster children and youth.  She has lectured and published nationally and internationally on the topics of parenting and child development and is the author of Parenting Together: Men and Women Sharing the Care of Their Children; Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Children Too Much But Not What They Need; Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates: Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families, and Building A Home Within:  Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children in Foster Care, co-edited with Toni Heineman, and Raising Girlyboys: A Parent’s Perspective (Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2007).