Co-Directors

Nancy Blieden, Ph.D. has an M.A. in Speech Pathology and Audiology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.  She is both a child and adult psychoanalyst, a faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and is a clinical adjunct faculty member at Wayne State School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Neurosciences. Dr. Blieden’s professional experience regarding preschool children include:  Faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s training program in Early Childhood Development, Director of Even Start, a comprehensive program for preschoolers and parents, consultant to Oakland County preschools, Wayne County RESA's program for Early Childhood, and professional consultant for preschool teachers.  She is in private practice in Southfield where she sees children, adolescents, and adults with a special focus on families with preschool children with self-regulatory disorders.

Don Spivak, M.D. is a board certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and a certified child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. He is a faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and has served on the Institute’s Educator Programs and the Early Child Development Center. He was the Director of the Children’s Service of the Detroit Psychiatric Institute and was the child/adolescent psychiatric consultant to Oakland Schools. Currently he is the child/adolescent psychiatric consultant for the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency. His private practice is in Birmingham. Dr. Spivak has provided professional consultation to agencies throughout the metropolitan area including schools and mental health clinics in many communities

Educational Director/Lead Teacher

Cathy R. Rozenberg, M.S. earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and her M.S. in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College in Boston. She has taught and directed programs for young children and their families in Massachusetts, Ohio and Michigan and is a certified teacher, K-8. She was an instructor at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio during the 1980’s and developed a course in Creativity:  Art, Music and Movement. She was the founding director of The Open Road Children’s Center from 1984-1993. She has taught children, toddlers through adolescents, with and without learning differences and emotional impairments. 

Family Consultants

Marcy Palmer Broder, L.M.S.W., F.I.P.A. earned her bachelor of philosophy degree and her master’s degree in clinical social work from Wayne State University. She graduated from training programs in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. In her private practice in Bloomfield Hills Marcy focuses on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and consultation with adults, adolescents and children along with their parents. She is a clinical supervisor at Henry Ford Hospital Department of Psychiatry. Marcy is an associate faculty member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she is active on committees that foster her interest in creating bridges to the community, particularly with regard to the mental health needs of children and their parents.

Marc Hirsch, Ph.D.  is an adult psychoanalyst and child and adult psychologist who has received his psychoanalytic training in the adult and child and adolescent programs of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.  He received his doctorate from the University of Detroit and has trained at Children’s Center of Wayne County and the child psychiatry department of Mount Carmel Medical Center.  He was previously the Director of Behavioral Science for Graduate Medical Education at Botsford General Hospital where he focused on teaching Family Practice Residents psychological issues involved in patients seeking medical treatment.  Dr. Hirsch is in private practice in Farmington Hills where he consults with children, adolescents, adults, and couples.

Lakshmi Kaza, M.D. is a board certified Pediatrician in private practice in Farmington Hills.  She received her medical degree from Andhra University, India in 1972. After obtaining a diploma in Child Health from Andhra University in 1975, she immigrated to the United States and pursued further training in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr.Kaza is a graduate of the Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Educational program of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.  Dr.Kaza has strong interest in parent guidance work and the parent child relationship.  

Victoria Schreiber, M.A. is a child and adolescent psychoanalyst and adult psychotherapist.  She has been in private practice for over 28 years in Farmington Hills. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development in Cleveland, Ohio and received her psychoanalytic psychotherapy education at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.  Mrs. Schreiber is an active member and is the past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought.  She is a member of the National Day Care Consultation Alliance and is a consultant to pre-schools and day care centers in the Farmington Hills area, the Utica school system’s early childhood intervention program and is currently a family consultant for the Allen Creek Pre-school in Ann Arbor. 

Deborah N. Tucker, M.A., L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W. is a fourth-year psychoanalytic candidate at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Ms. Tucker is working toward certification as a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. She holds a Master of Arts degree in teaching from Oakland University. She worked for twenty years as a Teacher Consultant for the Oakland Schools Intermediate School District. She provided individual academic instruction to hospitalized children and created support groups for physically, emotionally, and visually challenged children. Ms. Tucker holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan. She has maintained a private psychotherapy practice for twenty years, specializing in treatment for children, adolescents, and their parents.  Ms. Tucker has a particular interest in psychoanalytically- oriented play therapy. 

Stacey Block, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W. is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has specialized in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychotherapy and Child Development since 1996.  Ms. Block is on the faculty of Wayne State University Graduate School of Social Work, and has had previous faculty assignments at The University of Michigan Graduate School of Social Work. She was the Co-Clinical Director of The Village Educational Center, and has over 12 years post-graduate, advanced training by local, national and global experts and pioneers in the field of Psychotherapy and Child Development.  Ms. Block has a private practice in Bingham Farms, and has spent the last 7 years of her practice sub-specializing in Developmental Delay and Disorders of Emotional and Physical Regulation.