Instructor
          Amelio A. D'Onofrio, PhD, is former clinical professor and director of the Psychological Services Institute in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University. He served on Fordham's faculty from 1994-2019 and, for the last 15 years of that tenure, served as Coordinator of Training in the Doctoral Program in Counseling Psychology.
          His approach to psychotherapy and supervision is informed by psychoanalytic theory and his deep-rootedness in the existential philosophical tradition with its insights into the triumph and tragedy of the human condition. He holds degrees from Georgetown University, Fordham University, and The University of Chicago.
            Clinically, Dr. D'Onofrio is interested in the processes by which our originary traumatic wounds inscribe themselves onto and colonize the unconscious; how they fragment meaning and establish ontological insecurity; how guilt subsumes the psyche and potently drives repetition; and how the ensuing dynamics amputate the possibilities for the emergence of subjectivity. Most of all, however, Dr. D’Onofrio’s supervision and teaching interests center on how the therapist’s own psychology—with its attendant capacities for listening and containing—allows or inhibits the unconscious to speak, healing to ensue, and transformation to take root.
          As a teacher, Dr. D'Onofrio is passionate about his students’ learning and continuously seeks to provide them an experience ‘of’  the therapeutic rather than simply a conceptual understanding ‘about’ the therapeutic.
         Dr. D'Onofrio has served as Chief of the Residential Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program for dual-diagnosed homeless veterans and Chief of Education Service at New York area U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. He currently maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and clinical supervision in New York City and is a consultant to schools and mental health agencies. He is author of Adolescent Self-injury: A Comprehensive Guide for Counselors and Health Care Professionals (Springer, 2007).            

Dr. D’Onofrio is Founding Director of the Florence Seminars and Derivative Communications, LLC.
“Presentation style was POETIC! Your soulful demeanor kept me engaged.”
                                                                                                 ​~Past Seminar Participant