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Norka T. Malberg, Psy.D.


Norka T. Malberg, Psy.D., is a certified child and adolescent psychoanalyst.  She graduated from the Anna Freud Centre in London and holds a clinical doctorate from University College London in the UK, as well as master level degrees in clinical and developmental psychology from Harvard University and Florida International University.

She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, where she conducts an early childhood seminar for child psychiatric residents.  She is a member of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society and the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City.

Dr. Malberg is co-editor of The Anna Freudian Tradition, the first book in the Lines of Development book series.  She is on the editorial board for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.  Dr. Malberg is also co-editor of the child and adolescent sections of the upcoming PDM-2 (Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual.).  She is one of five authors of the book Time-Limited MBT-C, published by the American Psychological Association Press in 2017, and recently featured as a guest master clinician in the APA video series Illustrating MBT Techniques, She presented in a series of videos on working with emotions in psychotherapy alongside Les Greenberg (EFT) and Micahel Tompkuins (CBT).  Her latest book, Working with Parents From a Mentalization-Based Perspective, will be published by APA in February 2023.

In addition to her publishing, Dr. Malberg teaches and lectures regularly in the areas of attachment, play, developmental psychoanalysis, and child trauma in the context of school, hospitals and legal proceedings.

She is currently in private practice in Barcelona, Spain, and provides teletherapy to clients in Connecticut.