Vilinsky, Debra

Debra Vilinsky is a Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst in Los Angeles and on faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine teaching medical, dentistry, and public health students using Reflective Writing. She volunteers with 826la in under-resourced schools using Reflective Writing to help students’ process their immigration, food and housing insecurity, and violence experiences. Her students have taught her about resilience.