Staff and Faculty


SUSAN YABSLEY, Ph.D. is the Head of the Clinical Infant Mental Health Program at the Gail Appel Institute, The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. She is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and has a Ph.D. from University College, London. Susan has worked in the field of children's mental health as a therapist and teacher for almost ten years. Susan trained and worked at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England. She currently works at The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre as a clinician and team leader with young children and their families.
  ELIZABETH TUTERS:, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists, former Director and present Faculty and Supervisor at the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program, Faculty and Supervisor at the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, Team Leader of one of the Infant-Family Assessment and Treatment Teams at the Hincks-Dellcrest Children’s Centre, and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. Serving her third term on the Board of Directors of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) Ms. Tuters has been an invited presenter at the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Annual Meeting and the Anna Freud Centre Infant-Parent Study Day. She has published articles and presented papers in Infant Psychotherapy, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalysis, Infant Observation, and has chapters on clinical work in the books Mental Illness and the Family (1996, Eds. Abosh & Collins, U of T Press) and WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health (2000, Vol 2, Eds. Osofsky & Fitzgerald, Wiley & Sons).
  SALLY DOULIS, M..S.W., R.S.W., Dip.TCPP, is a Registered Social Worker, has completed post-academic training in intensive child psychotherapy at the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Programme (TCPP), has studied with Dr. Kas Tuters in a three year Marital Therapy Training Seminar, and has further trained with Elizabeth Tuters assessing and treating infants and the under fives. Sally has served as Past-President of the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Programme (TCPP) where she continues to be on Faculty and is a Supervisor. Sally has worked in the field of children's mental health as a therapist, supervisor and teacher for many years. She served as past Head of the Individual Psychotherapy Program at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre and she is currently a member of the Clinical Infant Mental Health Program Steering Committee at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. She is in private practice offering individual (children and adult), and marital therapy, parent counseling, comprehensive assessment, and work with infants and under fives and their families. Sally also provides counseling to divorcing families. In the year 2000, Sally combined her love of cooking with her love of working with children when she published a cookbook, The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera and Sally Doulis. The cookbook was undertaken to raise funds for the training of child psychotherapists.
EDYTHE NERLICH Manager of Programs and Communications