Silvia B. Birklein, PhD, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, CMA, KMP is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Dance Movement Therapist, and Movement Analyst in Private Practice in New York. She’s the founder and director of SYNC™ Psychological Services™, PLLC, SYNC Somatics™. She’s a clinical supervisor and faculty at Pace University, The New School University, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP). Her interests and research are in the intergenerational transmission of affect, the body and movement in psychoanalytic contexts, e.g. trauma in the body, PTSD, attachment patterns in the body, and movement, dyadic infant/parent observations using the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP), sensory awareness, and other body psychotherapy techniques.
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Silvia received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, an MA in General Psychology from the New School for Social Research in NYC (Graduate Faculty). In addition, she holds an  MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Psychology from Antioch University (1997), a BA in Psychology/Philosophy from the Freie University in Berlin (1990), and a  BSW in Social Work/ Pedagogics from the Alice Solomon University in Berlin, Germany. She further holds a Degree in Dance/Performance Arts/Dance Pedagogics from Berlin, Germany,
Dr. Birklein is a licensed psychologist (NY), a licensed creative arts therapist (NY), a certified psychoanalyst (NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy);  she holds certificates in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA; CMA) and in Kestenberg Movement Analysis (KMP) for which she is also a certified KMP analyst/trainer. Further, she received training in Integrative Body/Gestalt Therapy (Fritz-Perls Institute, Germany with Hilarion Petzold), and in Body-Mind Centering (BMC).
Her interests and research (intergenerational transmission of affect) are about the body and movement in psychoanalysis, and in her practice she’s working with clients integrating verbal and nonverbal modalities.
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She continues to teach and present nationally and internationally (Europe, China) on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy theories and techniques, and on linking nonverbal behavior and psychoanalysis, currently as faculty in the Sino-American Movement Analysis Center, Bejing, China: Maternal and Infant Interactive Observational Learning Program (Supervisor of Faculty and Professor for Non-verbal interaction in parent/child dyads and interpersonal- and attachment theories). She continues to teach and dance, especially improvisation and authentic movement.