Iraira Butcher, PsyD

Iraira Butcher is an Afro-Panamanian woman who obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Universidad Santa María la Antigua located in the Republic of Panama. As a certified Psychotherapist and a Psychoanalyst in Training, she specializes in working with members of the military community and has a powerful interest in social services and topics of gender, diversity and creativity, particularly fashion and music. Dr. Butcher currently works in private practice in a physical space in Panama for those who prefer in-person therapy and in a virtual space for those who prefer virtual therapy. .

Kelly Bolger, Ph.D.

Kelly completed her doctoral work in clinical psychology at The New School for Social Research and her clinical training at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Her doctoral research and continued interests center around the change process of psychotherapy and she considers her research and training at The Brief Psychotherapy Research Program at Beth Israel Hospital to have significantly shaped her thinking early in her training. She moved back home to her home town of New Orleans for postdoctoral training in 2014 and currently works at a small group practice there. She has an ongoing interest in training and has worked to supervise and clinicians at the graduate and post- graduate levels here in New Orleans.

Rachel Hammer, MD

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Hammer came to New Orleans in 2007 as a public high school teacher after Katrina. She completed a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction during medical school at Mayo Clinic, and completed combined residency training at Tulane in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry in 2020. She joined the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Affairs division of Primary Care and Psychiatry where she seeks to integrate primary care and psychiatry for patients with serious mental illness. Also at VA, she runs a post-ICU syndrome clinic for veterans who survive critical illness. She serves as Psychiatry Clerkship Director for the Tulane School of Medicine. She assists as associate program director for Tulane combined IM/Psych residency program. Her professional interests include narrative medicine, psychosomatic symptoms and illness, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and integrative primary care. She is grateful to be a recent lymphoma survivor.

Evelina Jagminaite, LPC

Over the years, Evelina’s teaching, research, and clinical work have taken her to Lithuania, Uganda, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Guatemala, and the US. Able to communicate in five languages English, Spanish, Lithuanian, Russian, and beginner Portuguese, she gained extensive work experience in culturally and structurally diverse contexts. As a Youth Program Coordinator in Guatemala, she served as a liaison among non for profit organizations, public schools, and community centers. Over the last 5 years as a licensed clinical counsellor and art therapist she has provided counselling to diverse populations in various community mental health settings and schools in greater New Orleans. Currently she works at the Tulane University Counselling Center as a mental health counsellor. Her educational background includes BA in Anthropology, MA in International Policy and Administration from the University of Florida, and MA in Art Therapy and Counselling from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has completed trainings in Theraplay and Trust Based Relational Intervention TBRI.

Jeffrey Sibrack MD

Jeffrey Sibrack moved to New Orleans in 2013 from North Carolina for residency training in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Tulane. Prior to medical training, he studied Spanish at the University of North Carolina. He currently works as faculty with the Tulane Department of Psychiatry, at the New Orleans VA Medical Center and DePaul Community Health Center. He provides mental health, primary care, addiction, and pain management services. He is also involved in medical education and training. Working in diverse clinical settings, his work is rooted in psychoanalytic thinking that explores personal challenges, symptoms, and disease in the context of an individual, their relationships, and their social context. In 2019, he completed a two-year psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellowship through the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center where he is pursuing further psychoanalytic training. He has a small psychotherapy practice.

Kulvadee Thongpibul, PsyD, JD

Dr. Kulvadee “A” Thongpibul is a licensed clinical psychologist in both Thailand and Louisiana. She holds a Doctorate in Psychology from The Wright Institute and a Juris Doctor from Arizona State University. With extensive experience in psychotherapy and psychological assessment across diverse populations, she has worked in hospitals, academic institutions, and private practice settings in both the U.S. and Thailand.
Her clinical interests include child and adolescent development, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, cross-cultural psychology, and trauma-related issues. In addition to her clinical work, she teaches at several Thai universities, where she supervises research and trains future psychologists. Her approach is rooted in scientific rigor and informed by a deep sensitivity to cultural context.