FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: HSNM member and psychologist Marythelma Ransom will talk about whatever she wants, and you'll be glad she did. She's that smart, interesting and insightful.

Marythelma Brainard Ransom, PhD, has been a practicing therapist since 1978 when she moved home to Albuquerque from California where she had been a high school English teacher and reading specialist, and had been selected as a Title 1 Coordinator dedicated to the intensive teaching of reading and math to children of poverty. It was in this latter position that she learned “to prevent childhood problems one needs first to remediate adults.”

Back in Albuquerque, with a recent masters degree in counseling from the University of Santa Clara, Marythelma worked at Laguna Pueblo as a teacher, therapist, and as a counseling supervisor. At the same time she was completing work for her PhD at The University of New Mexico. From 1987 to 2002 she taught and supervised residents at the UNM School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. She served as well on the faculty of Los Cumbres, New Mexico, Infant Mental Health Commission. During this time, and since, she has maintained a private practice with individuals, couples, and groups, with emphasis on the dynamics of relationship. In 2020, she received a prestigious award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for work with one of her groups known as the True Self Project. It was at this time that she became a member of the Humanist Society of New Mexico.