In October 2025, Shannon McIntyre, Core Faculty in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University’s New England Campus, presented at the New England Psychological Association’s Annual Conference on “The Empathic Dialectic: A Contemporary Framework for Therapeutic Empathy.” The talk led to an invitation to teach Ukrainian clinicians and educators through the VeLa Well-being program, focusing on therapeutic empathy as a dialectical process and the therapist’s emotional resonance and differentiation amid collective trauma.
McIntyre is also advancing new scholarship for the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 Conference in April 2026. With Rachel Chickerella, core faculty in Clinical Psychology, McIntyre is developing a conference submission and accompanying manuscript on relational pluralism and queer-affirming psychoanalysis, with attention to institutional harm and the role of bias-conscious therapeutic empathy. McIntyre is also developing a systematic literature review with doctoral student Justin Sandler on psychoanalytic factors in the workplace, examining applications to organizational consulting and leadership dynamics.
Looking ahead, McIntyre plans to continue refining and empirically testing two therapeutic empathy trainings: the Empathy Circle Metacommunication Practice (ECMP) and an AI-based Empathy Training. Both trainings were piloted and presented at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Conference in Denver in 2025.
To read more about McIntyre’s practice across psychoanalysis, organizational contexts, and social justice, click here.
