I am a graduate, board certified psychoanalyst. I teach and supervise psychotherapists at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and the China America Psychoanalytic Alliance.

I am an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University teaching and supervising Psychiatry residents.

I got my MD, Psychiatry Residency, MSc, and PhD at UNAM, a postdoctorate at Emory, I was visiting scholar at the Torrance Center for Creative Studies at the University of Georgia, and I have taught at Johns Hopkins and at George Washington University.

My practice is highly multicultural, offering you a deeper understanding of cross cultural, multiethnic and immigration challenges. I am also an expert on creativity, gifted children and adults.

I have 18 years of clinical experience first working as a psychiatrist (in/outpatient), later as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice.

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Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, PhD is the founder and director of the Washington International Center for Creativity. Her research about Creativity has contributed significantly to the field and has been published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Sleep Medicine, Neuroimage, Creativity Research Journal, Salud Mental, Horizons for Learning Johns Hopkins University, Publications of the European Union, Human Biology, Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, Psiquiatria, and Teachers College Record, among others.  And has been favorably reviewed at Lancet and the Washington Post.

Dr. Chavez has presented her work at numerous forums such as the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, the American Psychiatric Association, the Executive Branch of the European Union, the University of Georgia, the University of Maine, at BIBUSE in Lund, Sweden, at the National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico, at the Society of Neuroscience, at the Institute of Neuroesthetics at U.C. Berklee, and at the University of Liege, Belgium among others.