Shannon L. McIntyre, PhD

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McIntyre currently serves as Core Faculty and Director of Internship in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University New England. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Program for Psychotherapy at Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, where she provided psychodynamic treatment to adult patients. She previously interned at Pennsylvania Hospital, offering individual therapy in both a community-based clinic and a palliative care setting. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University in Brooklyn and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

McIntyre’s scholarly interests center on adult development from attachment-based and psychodynamic perspectives, as well as the relational and common factors that contribute to effective psychotherapy. Her early research examined how stigmatization impacts identity formation in adults. More recently, her work has focused on the role of the therapist—particularly personality factors and training experiences—in facilitating therapeutic change. Her current scholarship specifically examines therapeutic empathy as a relational and developmental process, including the roles of intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics in therapists' clinical practice.

In addition to her academic role, McIntyre is a licensed psychologist in New Hampshire and Vermont and maintains a small private practice working with adult patients. Her clinical orientation integrates developmental and humanistic principles, with a foundation in psychodynamic case conceptualization. In line with this approach, she has served since 2020 as Early Career Representative and Head Secretary on the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Council. She continues to support the integration of psychodynamic, developmental, and relational perspectives across research, clinical training, and practice.

Shannon McIntyre PhD

Core Faculty and Director of Internship

Clinical Psychology

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  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, Cambridge Health Alliance (2017 –2019)
  • Pre-doctoral Internship, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine (2016 – 2017)
  • PhD, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn (2010 – 2017)
  • BA, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (2002 – 2006)

Additional Training:

  • Reflective Function Training, New York, NY (2011)
    Participated in a weeklong course on how to identify/code Reflective Function (RF) on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI).
    Trainer: Howard Steele, Ph.D.
  • AAI Advanced Training, Hollywood, CA (2010)
    Participated in a three-day advanced course on the clinical applications of the AAI.
    Trainers: Mary Main Ph.D., and Erik Hesse Ph.D.
  • AAI Course & Certification, Wassenaar, The Netherlands (2008)
    Participated in a two-week course on the AAI, passed reliability checks, and subsequently earned certification in coding attachment status.
    Trainers: Deanne Pederson, Ph.D., David Pederson, Ph.D., and Mary Main Ph.D.
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2026, August). When love hurts: Acute and post-traumatic attachment activation. Psychotherapy Bulletin 61(4).
  • Dauphin, B, Ellenhorn, T., Watkins, J., Burke, N., Butaney, B, & McIntyre, S.L. (2026). Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychology: Contemporary modalities, populations, and settings. Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, 2nd Ed.
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2023). The role of empathic listening in rupture-repair training. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 58(1), 810. Retrieved from http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/the-role-of-empathic-listening-in-rupture-repairtraining
  • McIntyre, S.L., & Samstag, L.W. (2022). Promoting an empathic dialectic for therapeutic change: An integrative review. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy: On the Cutting Edge of Modern Developments in Psychotherapy, 52(2), 127- 136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-021-09516-5
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2020). Navigating the empathic process during a global pandemic. [Web article]. Retrieved from http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/navigating-the-empathic-process-during-a-global-pandemic
  • McIntyre, S.L., & Samstag, L.W. (2020). An integrative review of therapeutic empathy. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 55(1).
  • McIntyre, S.L., Samstag, L.W., Haden, S. C., & Duncan, J.W. (2019). Therapist experience, personal therapy, and distressing states of mind: Regulation and resonance as dialectics of therapeutic empathy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy: On the Cutting Edge of Modern Developments in Psychotherapy, 49(4), 213221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-019-09431-w
  • Drill, R., Drinkwater, R., Ernst, J., Gill, A., Hunnicutt, P., McIntyre, S.L., Potter, C.M., Richardson, H., Beinashowitz, J. (2018). The vicissitudes of conducting psychodynamic research in a naturalistic setting. Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.), 56(1), 126–133.
  • Derobertis, E., & McIntyre, S.L. (2016). The process of becoming: Development through a humanistic lens. In R. Bargdill & R. Broome (Eds.), Humanistic Contributions for Psychology 101: Growth, Choice, and Responsibility. Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press.
  • McIntyre, S.L., Antonucci, E.A., & Haden, S.C. (2014). Being white helps: intersections of self-concealment, stigmatization, identity formation, and psychological distress in racial and sexual minority women. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 18(2), 158-173.
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2026). Training therapeutic empathy – A vital form of muscle memory in clinical practice. Invited training for Ukrainian clinicians through the VELA Foundation.
  • McIntyre, S.L., & Chickerella, R. (2026). Relational pluralism and queer affirming psychoanalysis. Manifesto presented at the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) of the Annual Conference. New York, NY.
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2026). Therapeutic empathy as a dialectical process: Resonance, differentiation, and the clinical self. Invited training for Ukrainian clinicians through the VELA Foundation.
  • McIntyre, S.L. (2025). Presenting the empathic dialectic: A contemporary framework for therapeutic empathy. Talk presented at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) 2025 Conference. Newton, MA.
  • McIntyre, S.L. & Pearce, J. (2025). Therapeutic empathy: Could generative AI be an effective training tool? Poster presented at the virtual poster hall for Division 29 - Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. American Psychological Association 2025 Conference. Denver, CO.
  • Pearce, J. & McIntyre, S.L. (2025). Screen Time and Neurodevelopmental Attention and Emotion Dysregulation. Poster presented at the virtual poster hall for Division 33 - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorder. American Psychological Association 2025 Conference. Denver, CO.
  • Turner, B. & McIntyre, S.L. (2023). Impact of telehealth on the formation of the Working Alliance. Poster will be presented at the New England Psychological Association. Worcester, MA.
  • Stephenson, K., & McIntyre, S.L. (2022). What therapist disengagement tells us about patient personality and interpersonal style. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association’s 2022 Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN.
  • Stephenson, K., & McIntyre, S.L. (2022). Therapist disengagement, patient personality, and interpersonal style. Will be presented at the 41st Annual Spring Meeting: Trauma and Transcendence. Society for Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the APA. Chicago, IL.
  • McIntyre, S.L., & Samstag, L.W. (2018). When self-oriented states serve as a mechanism of change: The impact of therapist experience and personal therapy on preoccupied attachment, shame, fear, and personal distress empathy. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association’s Division 32 Hospitality Suite. San Francisco, CA.
  • Drinkwater, R., McIntyre, S.L., Coyne, A., Ernst, J., Berlin, J., Drill, R., & Beinashowitz, J. (February, 2019). The five-factor model of personality and divergence in the working alliance between therapists and patients. Poster presented at the 106th Annual Meeting for the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, NY.
  • McIntyre, S.L., Ortega, S.O., Beinashowitz, J., & Drill, R. (June 2018). Paranoid, according to who? An investigation of therapists’ countertransference responses to patient paranoia. Poster presented at Society for Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. New York, NY.
  • McIntyre, S.L., Samstag, L.W., Haden, S.C., & Duncan, J.W. (June 2018). Personal distress empathy: The key to an integrated and trans-theoretical definition of empathy. Poster presented at Society for Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. New York, NY.
  • Drinkwater, R., Berlin, J., Ernst, J., McIntyre, S.L., Drill, R., & Beinashowitz, J. (April, 2018). Patient personality factors and convergence/divergence in the working alliance. Poster presented at Cambridge Health Alliance Academic Poster Session. Cambridge, MA.
  • Drinkwater, R., Westerling, T., Potter, C., McIntyre, S.L., Beinashowitz, J., & Drill, R. (April 2018). Countertransference and attachment style: A concurrent analysis. Poster presented at Harvard Psychiatry Research Day. Cambridge, MA.
  • Bargdill, et al. (March, 2016). Humanistic Contribution to Psychology 101: A new collaborative book. Chapter presented at the APA Division 32 Conference. San Francisco, CA.
  • 2020-2022: Contributed to the Psychoanalytic Psychology Specialty Petition for the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Subspecialties in Professional Psychology (CRSSPP)
  • 2020-Present: Served as Director of Internship at Antioch University New England
  • 2020-Present: Served as Early Career Representative for the Psychoanalytic Specialty Council
  • 2018-2019: Served as a Member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee at CHA/Harvard Medical School
  • Internship
  • Dissertation Seminar
  • Psychological Development
  • Psychopathology and Behavioral Disorders
  • Therapeutic Empathy: Contemporary Theories and Clinical Applications
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