ACE Foundation Leadership

What We Do

The ACE Foundation delivers state-of-the-art programs and adjunct resources that provide mental health professionals with the clinical skills and theoretical knowledge they need to grow.

We are a 501c3 non-profit organization created for and directed by mental health professionals.

Our continuing education programs are approved for New York State LMSWs and LCSWs. We are also approved by the American Social Work Board for continuing education, which includes most other states. Many of our programs are also approved for New York State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, New York State Licensed Mental Health Councilors, New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts and New York State Licensed Psychologists. 

We don’t just provide contact hours for license renewal, we also encourage the lifelong mastery of clinical skills and an enduring curiosity for new trends in the field. This includes introducing our colleagues to opportunities for further comprehensive study outside the Foundation.

With a yearly conference and programs every month, there’s always more to explore at the ACE Foundation.

Board Members & Officers​

Marsha Wineburgh, DSW, LCSW-R

President

Marsha Wineburgh is a practicing psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and has been a legislative advocate for several decades. Doctoral dissertation; Impact of Managed Care on Clinical Social Work Private Practice. Past President of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and the National Federation of Societies for Clinical Social Work. 

Helen Goldberg, LCSW-R

Member-At-Large

Helen Goldberg, LSWC-R has been in full-time private practice in New York City for over 35 years. Throughout her professional career she has been active in professional organizations including the ACE Foundation Board (founding member), the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic training institute. 

Jerry Floersch, PhD, LCSW

Member-at-large

‍Jerry Floersch is an associate professor of social work at Rutgers University. Dr. Floersch is the author of Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness, published by Columbia University Press (2002), where, utilizing ethnographic and socio-historical methods, he examined the rise of community support services, the rise of the case manager and case management. He is a NIMH K08 recipient (2004-2009) for training in and development of qualitative methods to study youth subjective experience of psychotropic treatment. Dr. Floersch conducted a follow-up ethnography to Meds, Money & Manners, which led to a second book, On Having and Being a Case Manager (2010). His research/practice methodology is developed in a book Qualitative Methods for Practice Research (2013), published on Oxford University Press. From 2010 to 2017 he was the director of Rutger’s DSW program, where he developed a case study method and curriculum for advanced clinical training. He is the past co-president (2017-2019) of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. In 2019 he was inducted as a fellow in the Society for Social Work and Research, the flagship society for social work research.
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Dr. Floersch has practiced across many settings: in-patient hospitals, outpatient substance abuse, and community mental health centers and has expertise with adolescents and young adults, especially among those having difficulty making transitions from home to college, home to work, or from home to independent living.

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Jeffrey Longhofer, PhD, LCSW

Member-at-large

Jeffrey Longhofer, Ph.D., LCSW is an associate professor of social work at Rutgers University. Dr. Longhofer holds graduate degrees in anthropology and social work. He did his postgraduate psychotherapy training in child development and psychoanalysis and adult psychoanalysis at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center (Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Hanna Perkins Center. He is the past co-president (2017-2019) of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.

Dr. Longhofer is a clinical social worker, applied anthropologist, and psychoanalyst, whose research focuses on mental health practice, mental health case management, psychiatric medication, and the roles that stigma and shame play in the social and psychological dynamics of practice. He specializes in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He has served as the associate editor for the Society for Applied Anthropology journal, Human Organization, and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and as editor of the American Anthropological Association journal, Culture and Agriculture.

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Arthur A. Gray, PhD, CGP

Treasurer

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Michael Crocker, Ph.D.

Member-at-large

Michael has a doctorate in clinical social work as well as two masters degrees; one in organizational behavior and industrial psychology and the other in socials work. Additionally he has three postgraduate certificates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is the founder of the Sexuality, Attachment & Trauma Project, a group practice of clinicians who treat issues of Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior and other Trauma related disorders. His group practice includes individual, group and couples psychotherapy. 
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Karen E. Baker, MSW

Member-at-large

Karen E. Baker is a clinical social worker-psychoanalyst who maintains a full-time private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Ann Arbor, Michigan with children, adolescents and adults. She is the previous Child Development Director of Allen Creek Preschool, Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is a preschool whose curriculum and philosophy is predicated on psychoanalytic developmental principles. She is on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work (ICSW) currently serving as a clinical consultant and dissertation committee member. Karen is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Social Work. She is the Past- President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW) and continues to serve on this National Board as the co-chair of the Child and Adolescent Committee
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Susan A. Klett, Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW-R

Consultant

Susan A. Klett, Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW-R, is a training and supervising analyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles and a faculty member and supervising and training analyst at various psychoanalytic institutes in New York City. She is a past President of The Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society where she has been a board member. Dr. Klett is the past Co-Director of Washington Square Institute and the founder, director, and supervisor of their DBT Group Training Program. She has received a Humanitarian Award for her work with the victims and families of the World Trade Center Disaster (9/11) and holds a diplomate in Clinical Social Work from NYSSCSW. Dr. Klett has been an invited guest lecturer at various universities in NYC and has presented nationally and internationally on trauma. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan working with individuals, couples, groups and provides supervision to clinicians and consultation to educational organizations. 
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Karen Kaufman, Ph.D., LCSW-R

President, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work

Private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Manhattan and Westchester, since 1986. Adjunct associate professor Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service 1998 – 2014. President, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work; former president Metropolitan Chapter 2011 – 2019; VP, treasurer and newsletter editor, Westchester chapter, 1990 – 2010. 
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Shannon Boyle, LCSW

Past President, New York State Society For Clinical Social Work

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ACE Foundation Welcomes NEW Director of Professional Development Desirée Santos, LCSW-R

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