Monica Blauner

Monica Blauner is Lecturer of Social Welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. She maintains a private clinical practice in Los Angeles with expertise across all levels of mental health and substance abuse treatment. Her academic background includes an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work (1979) and psychoanalytic certification from New York Freudian Society.

Her pedagogical focus centers on:

• Foundational clinical skill development
• Unconscious process analysis
• Therapeutic relationship dynamics

She has led integrative seminars for Smith College students and taught at multiple psychoanalytic training institutes. Her approach bridges theoretical psychoanalysis with practical clinical applications.