Brett Clarke, M.S.W.

Office address: 3001 Highland Avenue, Suite D, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45219

Office phone: 513-961-8830

Areas of expertise in your practice, supervision, and teaching:

I provide psychoanalysis for adults and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for both adults 
and children/adolescents. This entails working with a wide spectrum of presenting issues, 
including anxiety, depression, sexual abuse and trauma, sexual and other compulsive 
behaviors, and complex, characterologically based conflicts and relational patterns. Given 
my psychoanalytic orientation, I generally try to work with most clinical issues in the context 
and particular “language” of the analytic or therapeutic relationship. I also work with parents 
(in helping them understand and better relate to and facilitate development of their children) 
and with couples. I provide psychoanalytically oriented clinical supervision/ consultation for 
mental health clinicians from various disciplines. As a faculty member of CPI’s Adult Analytic 
Training Program (ATP), and as Co-Chair of the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program 
(CAPP), I teach classes and provide clinical consultation for both analytic candidates and 
psychotherapy students. 

As volunteer faculty for the University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry, I have for many 
years provided psychotherapy supervision for adult psychiatry residents and child psychiatry 
fellows. I have also been a longstanding member of multiple committees at CPI, including the 
Education Committee, Curriculum Committee, Outreach Committee, and Progression Committee. 
I have served as Dean of the ATP and Chair of the Progression Committee, and between 2012 and 2019 served as Co-Director of CPI

In my published writing, I have been interested in psychoanalysis’ relationship with science and 
scientific forms of knowledge, the inherent complexities and dangers in such alliances, and the more 
salutary possibilities for psychoanalysis in ideas about knowledge adapted from Continental 
philosophy and philosophical hermeneutics.

Education and training:

CPI, Adult Training & Supervising Analyst

CPI, Graduate, Adult Analytic Training Program, 2009

University of Chicago, MSW, 1989

University of Virginia, MA, English & Comparative Literature, 1983

Duke University, BA, 1977

Affiliations:

American Psychoanalytic Association