Board of Directors
President
Rikki Ricard MFA, MA, FIPA / Term of Office 2023-2025
Rikki Ricard is an IPA certified psychoanalyst working with adults, couples, and adolescents. She is a Washington State certified supervisor offering supervision toward licensure as well as consultation for clinicians interested in a British object relations perspective. Rikki regularly teaches for NPSI, SPSI, and COR. She was past president of COR and has served on the Board for NPSI in the past as well. Rikki was the Chair of EBOR 2016, "The Feeling Mind and Lived Experience," having both chaired and been on the committee for numerous EBOR's in the past.
Director of Training
Dana Blue LICSW, BCPsa, FIPA / Term of Office 2023-25
Dana Blue is a board-certified psychoanalyst (BCD-Psychoanalyst) and clinical social worker licensed in the State of Washington (LICSW); a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA); and a training and supervising analyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Over the last twenty years Dana has filled many NPSI positions in the Institute, on the faculty and on the Board, and also performed other tasks including Chair of the NPSI Self Study group, Co-chair EBOR 2014 and 2022. She is also a past-president of Washington chapter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
Secretary/Treasurer
Ken Cunningham / Term of Office 2023-2025
After graduating with a BA in Economics, Ken began working in banking and finance with a long focus on international banking based in London. In the late 1990s after returning to the US, Ken began working in companies that use customer data and data science to help insurance companies and, most recently, healthcare providers to receive timely payment for their services. Ken’s wife Lynn, is a senior candidate at NPSI.
Director
Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA / Term of Office 2023-2025
Maxine has been studying psychiatry and psychoanalysis for over 5 decades. She has lived in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Montreal, Cincinnati, and London before finally calling Seattle home in 1992. Maxine has wide-ranging psychoanalytic interests, with a recent focus on aspects of Mourning.
Director
Don Ross, MD, FIPA / Term of Office 2024-2026
More information coming soon!
Candidate Representative
Dina Maugeri, MA, LMHC / Term of Office 2021-2024
Recording Secretary
Carol Bolt