Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT, FABP
Vice President of Education and Outreach
Dr. Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT, FABP, is an associate professor in the School of Professional Psychology & Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he serves as core faculty in the somatic psychology program. A licensed clinical psychologist and board-certified psychoanalyst, he is the research chair & past president of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. Dr. Walling has previously served as executive administrator in the Department of Psychiatry and the Aging and Memory Research Center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and as executive administrator in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He serves as vice president of education & outreach at the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation.
Dr. Walling is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, located at Indiana University, Bloomington, and serves on their International Advisory Council. Dr. Walling has lectured throughout the world on the intersections of somatic psychology and the mind-body connection. Dr. Walling has presented at multiple conferences both nationally and internationally, including chairing the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation’s Brain Health Symposium and the Biennale Congress of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.
Dr. Walling is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis and serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality. His peer-reviewed works are published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychological Association, and the New Center for Psychoanalysis, where he also serves on both the Faculty Committee and the Diversities Committee. His clinical interests survey the fields of relational psychoanalysis, somatic psychotherapies, human sexuality, and trauma psychology. Dr. Walling maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.