Madelon Sann, LCSW

Madelon Sann is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work.  She is a licensed social worker, a certified supervisor of the psychotheraputic process and a certified group psychoanalyst. She maintains private practices in New York and New Jersey. For the past thirty years she has specialized in the  psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy of gifted children and adults. She  began her career as a child therapist at the Jewish Board of Guardians (currently JBFCS) where she was a senior caseworker, a group therapy coordinator and an assistant director of the Montague School for Girls. She then became the Chief Social Worker at The Center for Marital and Family Therapy.  Her work with children includes extensive experience in parent guidance. For a number of  years she wrote a parent guidance column in the monthly magazine of a local school for gifted children. She has worked in consultation with psychologists, learning specialists, occupational therapists and speech and hearing therapists. She has had special training in the diagnosis and treatment of children on the PDD-autism spectrum.

Currently she is on the teaching faculty of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, Inc. and IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalysis, Training and Research).  Her past teaching experiences include leading a continuous case seminar in the “Treatment of Children “ at the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Program., Group Therapy at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, courses in the graduate Social Work Department at NYU, in “The Treatment of Children” and “Group Work.” She was a field supervisor for the Hunter College School of Social Work, an instructor in the training institute of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and led workshops in ‘Psychodynamic Process Groups’, ‘The Transference Process in Group Psychotherapy’ and ‘Separation-Termination in Group Psychotherapy ‘.

  • Madelon Sann is a fellow in the New York State Society of Clinical Social Workers
  • She Has been a member of NASW for 30 years
  • She is a member of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work